Still relevant? - Cross-Platform GUI Programming with WxWidgets

[John Ratliff]

moschops wrote:
> Hiya chaps,
> 
> Having slogged my way through making my first serious GUI using MFC 
> (original spec wanted Windows Forms, but I negotiated it to MFC) I'm now 
> looking around at alternatives such that when I am next tasked to write 
> a GUI I can make a case for letting me choose the tool myself.
> 
> WxWidgets certainly looks like it's worth investigating. I note that the 
> only big chunky paper reference manual I can find, "Cross-Platform GUI 
> Programming with WxWidgets", was written for v2.6.something, and the 
> current version is 2.8.0
> 
> Is the book still worth getting, or should I just hack around with it 
> and look to online references?

The book taught me many things I never knew about wxWidgets from just 
hacking around, so I would definitely recommend it.

Isn't it available as a PDF for free? Look around for this and then 
decide if you want to buy the paperback.

--John Ratliff