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wxWidgets is crap

Started by DaBookshah Dec 27, 2006 at 3:53 AM 15 replies 6.4k views

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Dec 27, 2006 at 3:53 AM

I feel like I am about to strangle someone! I need to use a GUI library with C++, windows. At the moment I am trying wxWidgets but am not too happy. I have an irritating stack-overflow exception which seems to be related to wxGLCanvas, and which is present in all 3 of the wxGLCanvas-related sample programs, too. Can someone suggest a fix, or better yet, a better GUI library to use? I've never done any c++ graphics programming before(I mean buttons, user interface, etc. I know a fair amount of opengl though), so I don't really know what's recommended. I am using Visual studio 2005, unmanaged C++. I'm not really too keen on using windows forms, because that would mean using managed C++, but if that's the best option then so be it. Thanks

daviangel

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:05 AM

Ever tried QT that's supposed to have the best cross-platform widgets?

DaBookshah

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:16 AM

I'll look into it, but bear in mind that I wasn't using wxWidgets for its cross-platform nature - I'm coding for windows only.

manuelb

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:17 AM

Is it UI for a game or for a "normal" application ?

manuelb

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:18 AM

You could try GTK

DaBookshah

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:38 AM

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Original post by manuelb
Is it UI for a game or for a "normal" application ?

Guess I should have said - Umm.....Game, I suppose. Basically I'm envisaging a side-panel of normal buttons,text, etc, and a 3-d view covering the rest of the window. By normal, I mean......nothing fancy, just like in a normal application.

Kazade

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:46 AM

I've used wxWidgets with wxGLCanvas alot, and i've never had any problems with it. It may be a driver issue, can you give us any more information? Have you debugged to find where the overflow is occuring? If so posting your code around where the exception occurs may be helpful.

Luke.

manuelb

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:54 AM

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Original post by DaBookshah
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Original post by manuelb
Is it UI for a game or for a "normal" application ?

Guess I should have said - Umm.....Game, I suppose. Basically I'm envisaging a side-panel of normal buttons,text, etc, and a 3-d view covering the rest of the window. By normal, I mean......nothing fancy, just like in a normal application.

You could try GTK, QT or WinAPI (WinAPI is a pain but you will learn a lot about windows).
If you don't mind about the language, you could also try Lazarus. It uses object pascal and GUI creation is easy an confortable. But if don't want managed C++, I think you mind :)

manuelb

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:56 AM

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Original post by Kazade
I've used wxWidgets with wxGLCanvas alot, and i've never had any problems with it. It may be a driver issue, can you give us any more information? Have you debugged to find where the overflow is occuring? If so posting your code around where the exception occurs may be helpful.

Luke.

Yes, wxWidgets is not crap. You should also try to solve the problem with wxWidget. Could you give more information?

Someone13

Dec 27, 2006 at 6:11 AM

Why not use SDL just to do OpenGL/Direct3D graphics? I find it nice and easy to use.

I've used wxWidgets dozens of times, and I liked it. Thats just me though.

christopherstott

Dec 27, 2006 at 7:09 AM

If I'm going to do any exclusively-Windows GUI programming now, I'll use Windows Forms with C#. It depends on what you plan on doing, but it's easy to call unmanaged c++ code from inside c# (search for pinvoke). The time you'll save building the GUI will be more than enough to pick up the basics of C#. It really is a breeze to pick up.

If you want to stick with straight C++, then QT definitely gets my vote. It's a really nice class library to work with. Its support for non-GUI things is excellent too.

let_bound

Dec 27, 2006 at 7:18 AM

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I personally never had your specific problem of crashing with wxWidgets, but I would not be surprised if it did have windows specific bugs like all other portable linux-dominant projects.

If there is a dominant platform in the design and implementation of wxWidgets, it's Windows. [grin]

If stuck with C++, I'd personally go with Qt, but the GPL is probably a turn off for most people here, just like the pricing of the non-GPL licences. Other options include Ultimate++, FLTK and FOX. I'm sure there are more out there.

Hope this helps.

gumpy

Dec 27, 2006 at 7:32 AM

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wxWidgets is crap

you don't know the meaning of crap until you wrestle with awt.

if you're using opengl then how about cegui?

DaBookshah

Dec 27, 2006 at 7:40 AM

Thanks for the responses guys. Definetly some stuff to think about there.

Thevenin

Dec 27, 2006 at 2:43 PM

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Original post by manuelb
You could try GTK

GTK + UltraMon = Timebomb

If I leave OpenOffice or GIMP running for longer than a day or two, Windows will cease creating new controls. The second I close either OpenOffice of GIMP, everything returns to normal.

DaBookshah

Dec 28, 2006 at 3:44 AM

I have decided not to use a gui library and to just rely on the win32 api. wish me luck, i might need it.

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