Is WxWidgets for me?

scholz.lothar at gmail.com scholz.lothar at gmail.com
Sun May 4 06:24:52 PDT 2008



Hello,

Lets say i'm thinking about a port for my current software
(using FOX Toolkit) how easy is it in WxWidgets:

a) To handle a system that uses a lot of text and is pure UTF-8
internally.
    How is Unicode handled at the moment?

b) Writing layout managers. Some would come from FOX some from TK
    some very unique self written.
    Does WxWidgets support the idea that "packers", "matrix" and
other
    layout elements are not widgets itself and layout information is
not
    stored in the widgets itself.

c) Support for client drawn list, tree items, multicolumn list items.

d) Does anybody know how speed is compared to FOX? Especially
    when you have an app that needs to build lists/trees with lots of
    items?

e) How stable is the Webkit port? This is the number one reason
    why i want to move away from FOX.

f)  How stable and well is the MacOSX Cocoa port. How active is
    development. This is reason number two to move away from FOX.


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