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Take a look at "minimal" sample (or anyother more complex sample), provided with your wxWidgets sources.
You'll see "makefile.xxx" files used for different compilers. Learn from them.

new whatever[10] This is bad. You're trying to create an array of "whatever" objects, but you don't give a name to that array. How would you delete that array? The best you can hope is that the compiler will dismiss that try. But it's also the worst, because you don't know if the compiler did it or...

My advise: Use wxWidgets as shown at any of its examples, like "minimal". This will call (internally) the required init-function (similar to main() for a console, WinMain() for GUI at MSWindow, etc). So, the app will start in its own thread, the main thread. Any GUI-call must be done in this main th...

You don't really need Freeglut. Mixing its events&windows handling with the wxWidgets handling is tricky. If you want to use predefined shapes (cylinder, sphere, etc) take a look at "glu" https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl2.1/xhtml/#glu (no glut, without events/windows handling). Bu...

OpenGL does not provide any control (button, text, whatever). It just draws. wxWidgets asks the OS to draw the controls, and to receive the events they fire (mouse, keyboard, sizing, etc). The OS may draw on top of what OpenGL draws, but that's not a good approach. Some GUI libraries specialized in ...

Single window with several areas...
What if you put each area in a wxPanel, layout with sizers, and set a tooltip for each panel?

A tool-tip can be only used in a window.
Once wxwidgets sets it, by calling an OS function, its behaviour is that of the OS.

To disable the tool-tip (not showing when mouse hovers on) just call w->SetToolTip(wxEmptyString);

I understand (because I suffered it) that many of the problems come from the fact that there are a lot of concepts to be well understood before starting with wxWIdgets. Normally you learn those concepts in your education. But may many times you are self-tought, the hard way, and miss lots of things....

When you change the compiler in most cases you must not only recompile your code, but the wx sources too.

Take a look at the keyboard sample provided with the wx sources.
Pay attention to differences beetween Key events and Char events. See how modifiers and final-composed-char are handled.

wxFormatvalidator https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxcode ... Validator/ does everything you need.

It's C++. So, to use it in wxPython you need to compile it into a library and call it from python.

The three windows you added to column1 sizer have proportion=0. That's OK, specially with collasible panes. When the frame is created you call frame->Layout . OK. Now the frame knows the size required for its children and the frame is shown right. When you want to expand a collapsile pane, the curre...

Yours is a question better asked at http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php

I'm surprised that a custom box for ip addresses, allowing only legal addresses has not been developed before. There is a proposal, wxMaskedEdit , at http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14535 that never become accepted. A matter of more people testing it. While it's quite old, you may try it. Perhaps ...

Nick, I know how you feel because I've felt the same. Let me share my experience here. I'm not educated in programming, apart from a brief curse. I'm an engineer in a different branch. Despite of it, I always liked to code, and I did. Many years ago I developed in Basic on DOS system. Everything was...