wxDesigner
Dialog editor and RAD tool for wxWidgets
wxDesigner is a visual development tool for the free cross-platform GUI library wxWidgets - supporting C++, Python, Perl, C# and XML output.
Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS X.
- October 20th, 2008: New test release for upcoming wxWidgets 2.9 here.
- October 17th, 2008: Added introduction to wxWidgets 3.0 here.
- December 10th, 2007: Updates for wxDesigner 2.14 Linux and OS X released. See news.
- November 4th, 2007: Looking forward to wxWidegts 3.0 (blog). See wxwidgets.blogspot.com
- More news...
Q: What is wxDesigner?
A: A dialog editor and RAD tool for wxWidgets and its language bindings. Written by the author of the GTK+ port of wxWidgets.
Q: What is wxWidgets (formerly called wxWindows)?
A: A free C++ cross-platform GUI library supporting Windows, Linux (GTK+ with GNOME), MacOS X and mobile platforms (e.g. WindowsCE, PocketPC) with bindings for Python, Perl, C# and other languages.
Q: What is a dialog editor and RAD tool?
A: A dialog editor allows you to create or edit dialog boxes and other windows. In the dialog editor, you can add controls to a dialog box and define the layout of the dialog by defining the size and alignment of the controls. An RAD tool writes out ready-to-use code for GUI classes, event handlers, getters and application skeletons.
Q: What kind of output does wxDesigner produce?
A: wxDesigner can write C++, Python, Perl and C# code directly.
Q: Isn't there an XML based resource format for wxWidgets?
A: wxDesigner supports importing and writing XML resources.