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wxEmbedded Beta Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looks-like-gtk-but-smaller dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Robert Roebling has announced the first beta release of wxEmbedded, a new open source graphical windowing environment for small devices. Here is a brief overview from Roebling about wxEmbedded, along with some background on the wxWindows project from which wxEmbedded is derived."

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  1. Re:WxWindows by bcrowell · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I agree that wxWindows is great, and I'm a happy user of Audacity, which uses wxWindows.

    But...

    And I really don't care about recompilation, machines compile code, not me.
    The problem is that almost any time you compile something from source, you end up with hassles. Very seldom does ./configure, make, make install work without any fiddling around.

    Their main public relations problem seems to be the use of an adult language, C++
    wxWindows has interfaces to a lot of other languages, including Perl and Python.

    IMHO, the real problems with Java are not even the ones you're referring to:

    • Java is too big. wxWindows is less bloated.
    • Java is not just a library but a language. The wxWindows approach seems more sensible: here's a library, which you can call from whichever language you prefer.
    • Java and its libraries keep churning through versions, and implementations haven't kept up with all the changes.
    • In practice, Java isn't as portable as it was supposed to be (write once, debug everywhere).
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  2. Screenshots by Grip3n · · Score: 3, Interesting

    More screenshots of wxEmbedded (and specifically wxDesigner) are available here:

    http://www.roebling.de/sshots.html

    There are images from it running under MacOS X, MacOS 9 as well as X11.

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  3. Re:Maybe refine your definitions a bit. by lpontiac · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm more motivated to work within a language like C# or Java [...] higher level constructs take away my micromanaging of bits of the machine

    Please don't take this as a troll, I'm genuinely curious .. what higher level constructs do you have in C# and Java that aren't there in C++? (C# in particular, since I intend to sink my teeth into it soon :)