Tutorials

For a more extensive list of tutorials, please see the Guides & Tutorials page on the community wiki.

Getting Started

'Hello world' in wxWidgets: A Very Short Tutorial

A tiny tutorial with code, by Robert Roebling.

What Do These Sizer Things Do?

One of the most intimidating parts of wxWidgets is figuring out how sizers work. They are quite powerful, but sometimes unintuitive. This is intended as a guide to aid in understanding what all those parameters do. By Brian Victor.

Intermediate wxWidgets Tutorial

A more in-depth tutorial covering menus, toolbars, layout, events, standard and custom dialogs, common and custom controls, drag & drop, and drawing with device contexts, written by Jan Bodnar.

IDE Setup/Configuration

Programming C++ GUIs with the wxWidgets Library

The wxWidgets library makes programming GUIs incredibly easy, far easier than with most platform APIs. Jeff Cogswell shows how this handy C++ library can shorten your programming time with powerful classes that are simple to use. Written by Jeff Cogswell.

Intellisense and wxWidgets

How to get MS Visual Studio Intellisense working with wxWidgets.

Contributing

How to Submit Patches

A description of how to write and submit patches to wxWidgets.

Adding wxWidgets Class Documentation

This note is aimed at people wishing to add documentation for a class to either the main wxWidgets manual

wxWidgets and Others

Using wxWidgets with OpenCV

Shows how to write a simple application displaying the video stream from a camera obtained using OpenCV in a wxWindow.