What's the best way to expand ${MyPath}/filename.txt to /home/user/filename.txt or %MyPath%/filename.txt to c:\Documents and settings\user\filename.txt without traversing the path string looking ...

A quick Google search of this issue shows it's common, I just can't for the life of me figure out the solution in my case. I have a straight forward install of wxWidgets 2.8.8 for Windows straight...

I've never used wxWidgets before, and I'd love to try it out, but I've run into a million problems getting started. I am using wxWidgets 2.9.1 on Visual Studio 2010. I've gone through the batch bu...

Can anyone suggest a tutorial or getting started guide to CLion and wxWdgets? I have searched around but am unable to find anything.

I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 64-bit and trying to get Erlang's 18.1 'debugger' or 'observer' to run (EDIT: from within the shell): observer:start(). debugger:start(). I get the following error: {e...

My girlfriend asked me if there was a tool (actually, an IDE) that would let her create her GUI visually and edit functions associated with GUI-related events with little effort. For example, she ...

I'm trying to use the Python GUI wx (installable via pip install wxPython) in the following minimal app: import wx app = wx.App() Running this snippet returns the following: This program needs ...

I've been trying to figure out for about 20 hours how to setup wxWidgets in Microsoft visual studio 2017. I've followed: https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide https://raw.gith...

Im creating my first program with C++ and wxwidgets. When I try to compile the project I get errors. LNK2019 unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function "int __cdecl invoke_main(void...

With wxWidgets I use the following code: HWND main_window = ... ... wxWindow *w = new wxWindow(); wxWindow *window = w->CreateWindowFromHWND(0, (WXHWND) main_window); How do I do the same thing ...

I have a wx.Dialog subclass that needs to perform a couple of cleanup operations when the user clicks the OK button. The wx.Dialog documentation says that clicking OK or Cancel should emit an EVT_C...

I have the following situation: I'm working on an application that depends on a number of third party libs, among them wxwidgets I build the application for multiple target configurations (x86, a...

I'm trying to make a GUI-Project with wxWidgets. Instead of using Visual Studio I want to use VSCode with the GCC (MinGW). I'm facing the following problem: I can't compile or run any code which ha...

I am trying to use gdb to debug mingw-w64 compiled 32 bit binary. However, gdb gives many warning and does not show any stack trace. How can i debug this process normally ? Here are some relevant ...

Is is possible to make a wxFrame object behave like a modal dialog box in that the window creating the wxFrame object stops execution until the wxFrame object exits? I'm working on a small game an...

In the docs for wx.Slider (wxPython for py2, wxPython for py3, wxWidgets), there is listed a widget control named wx.SL_SELRANGE, defined to allow "the user to select a range on the slider (MSW onl...

I'm trying to create a slider with option for range selection using wxSlider in Python. It has an optional range parameter but the problem is: SL_SELRANGE: Allows the user to select a range on the...

I'm using wxPython to build a GUI and I'm trying to align some text but it's not working at all. I'm trying align three different static text items in three places (right aligned, center aligned, a...

I am currently trying to build wxWidgets-3.1.0 on a CLion 1.3 project. I use Ubuntu 16.04 (64 bit). Basically, I edited the CMakeLists.txt file like this: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5) proje...

I have a problem at start the program: Fatal Error: Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected. The library used 3.0 (wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1010,wx containers,compati...

I'm trying to learn C++ programming with wxWidgets and CodeBlocks (with MinGW) and earlier today I succeeded in installing the software (after some trouble) to my Windows 7 computer with the guidan...

I could not find any pointers on how to create a menubar icon on OSX using wx. I originally thought that the wxTaskBarIcon class would do, but it actually creates an icon on the Dock. On Windows, w...

I'm trying to port a small app to windows (I made it for ubuntu initally), it's written on python + gtk3... I know that gtk3 is hard to make it work on windows (even on c++), but is it possible to ...

I'm trying to build this wxWidgets sample program using Code::Blocks 12.11 but the build fails no matter what I try. For example, the build log shows the following (the project is under X:\program...

I have a (single line) TextCtrl. The user types data into this. When they press enter, the contents of the box need to be extracted so they can be processed. I can't figure out how to catch enter b...