[wx-discuss] Hoyle reviews wxWidgets

[Hisham Abboud]

Hi Julian,

>Now, maybe we could attract even more people if we had an unambiguous,
>free RAD tool that made the others redundant.

IMHO, the biggest single stumbling block for new users considering 
wxWidgets is the lack of ready-to-run binary demo that can be 
downloaded.  In Summer of 2004, I spent two weeks full time comparing Qt to 
wxWidgets.  Qt had a nice demo that could be downloaded and ran 
immediately.  On the other hand, consider what someone has to do to 
evaluate wxWidgets:

- Download it

- Try to build it.  Wish that prospect a lot of luck and stamina, 
especially if he happens to be one of the majority of Visual Studio users 
who have stopped using version 6.0 -- the prospect will now have to convert 
the project files

- Add the 'wxwin' environment variable

If the prospect has made it so far, he/she still has to compile every 
single demo and run it.  Is this for real?!

I know, in the end I selected wxWidgets and I'm happy with it overall, but 
at the time this was mainly a rejection of Qt as opposed to a "wow" factor 
for wxWidgets.

To summarize: a RAD would be great, but a compiled, SINGLE demo (per 
platform) that can downloaded and ran immediately will get more wxWidgets 
users and will take a lot less time to do than a RAD.

Just my two dineros worth...

                                                              Hisham.


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Hisham A. Abboud
Cedrus Corporation,  http://www.cedrus.com



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