wxWidgets Examples

Starting off with a GUI library can be quite daunting. Lots of new code and classes need to be written to get even the most basic program working. I have found that the best way to get started with wxWidgets is to look at its examples. Pick the example that implements most of what you need and start off from there.

Doing this is easy:

• Install the wxWidgets examples:

$ sudo apt-get install wx3.0-examples

• The examples are zipped up and need to be uncompressed before using them:

$ cd /usr/share/doc/wx3.0-examples/examples
$ ./unpack_examples.sh ~/wx-examples

• You can build all the examples in one command:

$ cd ~/wx-examples/samples
$ make

• Or you can go to a specific directory and build a specific example:

$ cd ~/wx-examples/samples/opengl/penguin
$ make

Tried with: wxWidgets 3.0 and Ubuntu 14.04