Topic Overviews

This chapter contains a selection of topic overviews. The following is a basic categorization of them:

• Starting with wxWidgets
• Programming with wxWidgets
• Non-GUI Classes
• Drawing Related Classes
• GUI Classes
• Individual Controls

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Starting with wxWidgets

• Notes on Using the Reference
• A Quick Guide to Writing Applications
• Hello World Example
• wxPython Overview

Programming with wxWidgets

• Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8
• Backwards Compatibility
• Runtime Type Information (RTTI)
• Reference Counting
• wxApp Overview
• Unicode Support in wxWidgets
• wxMBConv Overview
• Internationalization
• Writing Non-English Applications
• Debugging
• wxLog Classes Overview
• Event Handling
• C++ Exceptions
• Window Styles
• Window Deletion
• Window IDs
• Environment Variables

Non-GUI Classes

• wxString Overview
• Buffer Classes
• Date and Time
• Container Classes
• File Classes and Functions
• wxStreams Overview
• Multithreading
• wxConfig Overview
• wxFileSystem Overview
• Regular Expressions
• Archive Formats
• Interprocess Communication

Drawing Related Classes

• Device Contexts
• Bitmaps and Icons
• wxFont Overview
• Font Encodings
• Printing Framework Overview
• Printing Under Unix (GTK+)

GUI Classes

• Sizers Overview
• XML Based Resource System (XRC)
• Window Sizing Overview
• Scrolled Windows
• wxDialog Overview
• wxValidator Overview
• wxDataObject Overview
• Drag and Drop Overview

Individual Controls

• wxHTML Overview
• wxRichTextCtrl Overview
• wxAUI Overview
• Common Dialogs
• Toolbar Overview
• wxGrid Overview
• wxTreeCtrl Overview
• wxListCtrl Overview
• wxSplitterWindow Overview
• wxBookCtrl Overview
• wxTipProvider Overview
• Document/View Framework