Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets (Bruce Perens Open Source) - Softcover

Smart, Julian; Hock, Kevin; Csomor, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131473816 ISBN 13: 9780131473812

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005

Synopsis

"This book is the best way for beginning developers to learn wxWidgets programming in C++. It is a must-have for programmers thinking of using wxWidgets and those already using it."

–Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software and the Open Source Applications Foundation

• Build advanced cross-platform applications that support native look-and-feel on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and even Pocket PC

• Master wxWidgets from start to finish–even if you've never built GUI applications before

• Leverage advanced wxWidgets capabilities: networking, multithreading, streaming, and more

• CD-ROM: library of development tools, source code, and sample applications

• Foreword by Mitch Kapor, founder, Lotus Development and Open Source Application Foundation

wxWidgets is an easy-to-use, open source C++ API for writing GUI applications that run on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and even Pocket PC–supporting each platform's native look and feel with virtually no additional coding. Now, its creator and two leading developers teach you all you need to know to write robust cross-platform software with wxWidgets. This book covers everything from dialog boxes to drag-and-drop, from networking to multithreading. It includes all the tools and code you need to get great results, fast. From AMD to AOL, Lockheed Martin to Xerox, world-class developers are using wxWidgets to save money, increase efficiency, and reach new markets. With this book, you can, too.

• wxWidgets quickstart: event/input handling, window layouts, drawing, printing, dialogs, and more

• Working with window classes, from simple to advanced

• Memory management, debugging, error checking, internationalization, and other advanced topics

• Includes extensive code samples for Windows, Linux (GTK+), and Mac OS X

About the CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains all of the source code from the book; wxWidgets distributions for Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and other platforms; the wxWidgets reference guide; and development tools including the OpenWatcom C++ compiler, the poEdit translation helper, and the DialogBlocks user interface builder.

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About the Author

Julian Smart has degrees from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Dundee. After working on model-based reasoning at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, he moved to the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University of Edinburgh, where he founded the wxWidgets project in 1992. Since starting Anthemion Software in 1996, Julian has been helping other companies deploy wxWidgets, and he sells tools for programmers, including DialogBlocks and HelpBlocks. He has worked as a consultant for various companies including Borland and was a member of Red Hat's eCos team, writing GUI tools to support the embedded operating system. In 2004, Julian and his wife Harriet launched a consumer product for fiction writers called Writer's Café, written with wxWidgets. Julian and Harriet live in Edinburgh with their daughter Toni.

Kevin Hock has degrees from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in Computer Science and Accounting and has taught courses at Miami in both Java and client-server systems. In 2002, he started work on an instant messaging system and founded BitWise Communications, LLC, in 2003, offering both professional and personal instant messaging. During the course of developing BitWise using wxWidgets, Kevin became a wxWidgets developer and has provided enhancements to all platforms. Kevin lives in Oxford, Ohio.

Stefan Csomor is director and owner of Advanced Concepts AG, a company that specializes in cross-platform development and consulting. In addition to being a qualified medical doctor, he has more than 15 years of experience in object-oriented programming and has been writing software for 25 years. Stefan is the main author of the Mac OS port of wxWidgets.

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Synopsis

Unlike other cross-platform GUI toolkits (Tcl/Tk, Qt, AWT) wxWidgets supports the native look-and-feel of the local OS. And unlike Qt, wxWidgets is truly Open Source. It also works with virtually every standard C++ compiler. It is a perfect solution for organizations interested in porting Windows applications to Linux and other platforms. And with Mac OS X and Linux gaining marketshare daily, many organizations -- including Xerox, Advanced Micro Devices, AOL, Lockheed Martin, NASA--have adopted wxWidgets in order to support Windows, Linux, OS X, and Unix for their applications. See http://www.wxwidgets.org/ And wxWidgets is HOT. Mitch Kapor's OSAF is using wxWidgets for its Chandler PIM. Bram Cohen uses wxWidgets for BitTorrent. Borland has added enormous credibility to wxWidgets by incorporating it into its newest C++ IDE: C++ BuilderX. wxWidgets is Borland's cross-platform development solution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131473816
• ISBN 13: 9780131473812
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 744