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Using Code:Blocks to Compile zedcode’s wxwidget tutorial in Ubuntu Linux

Here are steps on how run the zedcode wxwidget tutorials in Code::Blocks without using a wizard. In this instance, I want to get the tutorial titled “A simple button” working. Step 1) Start the Code::block IDE Step 2) Select File=>New=>Project … Continue reading

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Getting started guide for code::blocks

I’ve been playing around with code blocks, but there so much in there it’s sort of hard to know where to get started.  I was looking for a way to create a project from existing source files and somehow stumbled … Continue reading

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wxobject hierarchry

I have no time this morning. I want to take a study the object hierarchy today. Here’s a link: http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/hierarchy_stable_image.htm [Update: Unfortunately, the links in this page are not current] I need to find something more current]

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Update Generate inherited classes Wxformbuilder

I sort of understand the design of wxformbuilder and the base class you don’t mess with. I like the utility Generate Inherited Classes, but according to this tutorial : wxFormBuilder can even do a one-time generation of a bare-bones inherited … Continue reading

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Moving beyond the tutorials in Code::blocks and wxformbuilder

Ok…. I got up real early on Sunday to play and my body needed to catch up on Monday morning, so I don’t have much time here before I need to get off to work.  Apologies in advance for bad … Continue reading

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More on starting with code::blocks wxformbuilder in linux

Yesterday, I was playing with code::blocks on a xp machine with a gnu compiler (at my mothers house on my sister computer).  Today I’m trying it on my Linux box.  My Linux box has  a older process with a sucky … Continue reading

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Code::Blocks Wxwidgets and XP

Ok… So it’s the day after Thanksgiving… My family went to the Strongbow Inn in Indiana, and are jaws dropped when we got the bill. It was one of those situations where the food was nice, but it wasn’t that … Continue reading

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Playing around with wxwidgets, wkformbuilder Code::blocks

I was just reflecting with on the long line of stuff that I’ve looked at prior to getting to this spot. I’ve looked at QT, gtk, gtkmm and finally wxwidgets.  I’ve glanced at glade and wxwidgets. I’ve played a little … Continue reading

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Vb6 Gui Programmer at heart working towards cross platform: Wxwidgets

Ok… So I manage to get to Technique 2 in Matthew Telles’s C++ Timesaving Techniques for Dummies. My Linux GNU compiler is yapping about this and that, sending out warnings about the “gets” that are in the source… (Some details … Continue reading

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Working through code and things to avoid.

I’ve been starting to work my way through C++ Timesaving Techniques for Dummies. I’m a little reluctant to post publically out of respect of copyright. I’m digesting Technique 2 Using Abrstraction to Extend Functionality and I start getting compiler warnings … Continue reading

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