Is WxWidgets for me?

[Timothy Warren]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:24 AM, <scholz.lothar at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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?

Unicode support is a configuration option for the current release, the next
version will be pure unicode.
For any string a '_("")' or '_T("")' or 'wxT("")' converts a string to
unicode.

>
>
> 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.

wxWidgets has sizers. As far as I am aware, these use the native toolkit to
determine how things are sized.

>
>
> 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.

Webkit is not in the main wxWidgets code base, and I really can not say how
stable it is.

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

I've not had too much luck with the Cocoa port, but the Carbon port is very
stable, and
full-featured from what I've seen.

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