wxWidgets tutorial

last modified October 18, 2023

This is wxWidgets tutorial for the C++ programming language. wxWidgets is a cross platform toolkit or framework for creating C++ GUI applications. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to program non trivial wxWidgets applications.

Table of contents

• Introduction

• Helper classes

• First programs

• Menus and toolbars

• Layout management

• Events

• Dialogs

• Widgets I

• Widgets II

• Drag & drop

• Device contexts

• Custom widgets

• Tetris

wxWidgets

wxWidgets is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit for creating C++ applications. It is an open source, mature and cross-platform toolkit. wxWidgets applications run on all major OS platforms, Windows, Unix, and Mac OS.

Related tutorials

wxPython tutorial covers the binding of the Python language to the wxWidgets library. The Qt5 tutorial presents the Qt5 library.

Author

My name is Jan Bodnar, and I am a passionate programmer with extensive programming experience. I have been writing programming articles since 2007. To date, I have authored over 1,400 articles and 8 e-books. I possess more than ten years of experience in teaching programming.