[wx-discuss] Hoyle reviews wxWidgets

[Julian Smart]

At 20:49 06/03/2006, you wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:06:27 +0000 Julian Smart <julian at anthemion.co.uk> 
>wrote:
>
>JS> Do you think any of the existing samples or demos are adequate,
>JS> or do we need a new one similar to the wxPython demo?
>
>  I think wxPython demo is great. It shows everything wx can do and does it
>wonderfully well.

I agree, I was so envious when I saw it first :-)

>  I won't be at all surprized that relatively higher
>popularity of wx among Python programmers compared to C++ ones is entirely
>due to the demo existence. I'd love to have something like this for C++
>library but, of course it would be quite an effort to reproduce it in C++.

Yep. I feel another bounty coming on...

>  These 3 would be a nice start. I'd also add at least one HTML sample.
>Unfortunately this still leaves out wxList/TreeCtrl, wxCalendarCtrl,
>wxGrid, wxMediaCtrl, wxRichEditCtrl, ... which are pretty important. But,
>still, having few precompiled samples is much better than having none at
>all.

Yes; we can do the basics and them come back and package up
some more. But really we do need the single wxPython-like demo
since with separate samples it takes a lot of bandwidth for just
a few seconds of "click, click, OK, I see".

>  OTOH, to be completely honest I don't think proposing complete
>applications (be it DialogBlocks, wxDesigner or BitWise) is a good idea: it
>distracts from the real purpose of the demo which is, well, to demonstrate
>the library. And the objectives of a real app and a demo one are rarely
>aligned so this would create unnecessary conflicts.

I can see that angle but I can also see that people will want to
see what wxWidgets is _really_ capable of in a real app. But we'll
offer demos and pointers to real apps so people can choose to
try what they want.

Regards,

Julian




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