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I started developing wxWidgets based applications with wxDev many years ago and it was realy the best IDE for such purpose, but unfortunatelly DevCpp died, so I had to change to CodeBlocks. CodeBlocks is defenetly not as easy to use as wxDev, specially at he begining, where you have to build wxWidgets on your own and then do all that manual configurations for CodeBlocks. However even with all that small disadvantages CodeBlocks was still the best posible solution, but since 2 years there are no CodeBlocks releases, which means at least for me it´s dead. So I am searching for some new IDE with suport for developing wxWidgets based applications. I don´t care much if it´s worcking on diferent OS, it should just worck on Windows. VS wouldn´t be a solution, since the only way to get it is iligal.

Hi,

wxWiki has lists of available IDEs and RADs.

FWIW I use CodeLite, which is still actively developed.

Regards,

David

VS wouldn´t be a solution, since the only way to get it is iligal.

VS Community is free, even for commercial use, it just requires you to register it. The only limitation of the licence is that you're not allowed to link the CRTs statically.

If you don't need a graphical GUI designer and can live with a Windows only solution, i think VS is still be best choice. In terms of compilation speed (clean wxWidgets build takes 60secs on SSD with an i7 CPU) and the quality of the debugger, nothing else comes even close.

Hi,

gtafan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:08 pm However even with all that small disadvantages CodeBlocks was still the best posible solution, but since 2 years there are no CodeBlocks releases, which means at least for me it´s dead.

This is not entirely true. C::B Nighly are constantly being built. See this forum link. Dunno why they do not do a General release which gives them bad PR.

gtafan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:08 pm So I am searching for some new IDE with suport for developing wxWidgets based applications. I don´t care much if it´s worcking on diferent OS, it should just worck on Windows. VS wouldn´t be a solution, since the only way to get it is iligal.

I never loved Visual Studio, but it was long ago and I read a lot have changed for good since then and as DM wrote MS have changed a lot for good. So check it out. Personally I use CodeLite and it is serving me very well. Only caveat is they no longer build Mac bundles for pre 10.14. Since you want Windows only that does not apply to you!

I also use VS Community. Unfortunately all known alternatives are significantly inferior in convenience.

doublemax wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:49 pm

VS wouldn´t be a solution, since the only way to get it is iligal.

VS Community is free, even for commercial use, it just requires you to register it. The only limitation of the licence is that you're not allowed to link the CRTs statically.

If you don't need a graphical GUI designer and can live with a Windows only solution, i think VS is still be best choice. In terms of compilation speed (clean wxWidgets build takes 60secs on SSD with an i7 CPU) and the quality of the debugger, nothing else comes even close.

I defenetly don´t want to register, since I am worcking ofline. Also not a fan of free versions of comercial software, since they can´t be good. I mean if the free version would be good who the f*** would waste money for comercial one? Also since a graphical GUI designer is the most important part, VS is defenetlly of no use for me.

evstevemd wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:23 pm Hi,

gtafan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:08 pm However even with all that small disadvantages CodeBlocks was still the best posible solution, but since 2 years there are no CodeBlocks releases, which means at least for me it´s dead.

This is not entirely true. C::B Nighly are constantly being built. See this forum link. Dunno why they do not do a General release which gives them bad PR.

Already had this discusion on C::B forum, but I never use beta versions, and Nighly builds are just beta versions.

Hi,

gtafan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:05 pm

doublemax wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:49 pm

VS wouldn´t be a solution, since the only way to get it is iligal.

VS Community is free, even for commercial use, it just requires you to register it. The only limitation of the licence is that you're not allowed to link the CRTs statically.

If you don't need a graphical GUI designer and can live with a Windows only solution, i think VS is still be best choice. In terms of compilation speed (clean wxWidgets build takes 60secs on SSD with an i7 CPU) and the quality of the debugger, nothing else comes even close.

I defenetly don´t want to register, since I am worcking ofline. Also not a fan of free versions of comercial software, since they can´t be good. I mean if the free version would be good who the f*** would waste money for comercial one? Also since a graphical GUI designer is the most important part, VS is defenetlly of no use for me.

With MSVC the difference is inside the licensing. Community edition of MSVC vs Pro has different licensing terms - what you can and can't link.
In terms of the compiler and the code produced - it is all the same.

And why the heck do you need a GUI designer for? Sizer code is simple enough to code by hand.

Thank you.

ONEEYEMAN wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 3:50 pm Hi,

gtafan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:05 pm

doublemax wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:49 pm VS Community is free, even for commercial use, it just requires you to register it. The only limitation of the licence is that you're not allowed to link the CRTs statically.

If you don't need a graphical GUI designer and can live with a Windows only solution, i think VS is still be best choice. In terms of compilation speed (clean wxWidgets build takes 60secs on SSD with an i7 CPU) and the quality of the debugger, nothing else comes even close.

I defenetly don´t want to register, since I am worcking ofline. Also not a fan of free versions of comercial software, since they can´t be good. I mean if the free version would be good who the f*** would waste money for comercial one? Also since a graphical GUI designer is the most important part, VS is defenetlly of no use for me.

With MSVC the difference is inside the licensing. Community edition of MSVC vs Pro has different licensing terms - what you can and can't link.
In terms of the compiler and the code produced - it is all the same.

And why the heck do you need a GUI designer for? Sizer code is simple enough to code by hand.

Thank you.

Sory, but looks like you have no idea what the word simple means.

Hi,
Could you please enlighten me?

Thank you.

ONEEYEMAN wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:58 pm Hi,
Could you please enlighten me?

Thank you.

Sizers is something that is not realyy worcking good in wxWidgets. There is only 1 real sizer type in some diferent combinations. It is really complicated or sometimes imposible to place the compenents the way you want, using sizers. I mean it´s defenetlly not simple.

Hi,
If you know basic XML or tree structure than it is definitely very simple.
Also curious - why do you say "There is only 1 real sizer type".

I did use many different sizers and they all work fine.

Thank you.

gtafan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:05 pm Also since a graphical GUI designer is the most important part, VS is defenetlly of no use for me.

You always can use external RAD tool, for example wxFormBuilder - https://github.com/wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder with any IDE.

Kvaz1r wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:48 pm

gtafan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:05 pm Also since a graphical GUI designer is the most important part, VS is defenetlly of no use for me.

You always can use external RAD tool, for example wxFormBuilder - https://github.com/wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder with any IDE.

Even doing everithing manually is still simpler then using that external sh*t.

Not for the beginner.
I started working with wx around 2005 and picked wxGlade. Used it for maybe 1.5 years.
After that - unless its a very complicated layout, that I need to visualize constantly - I'm doing it by hand.

Thank you.