WxWidgets 3.0: First Major Release in Several Years

First time accepted submitter VZ writes "The first new stable wxWidgets release in years and the first new major release since 1998 has just been announced. wxWidgets 3.0 now includes official support for Cocoa-based 32 and 64 bit applications under OS X, GTK+ 3 under Unix and has thousands of other improvements." Update: 11/12 01:00 GMT by U L : Clarification: it's been several years since the 2.8 release series, and fifteen years since wxWidgets 2.0.

Comments

Re:But what does it really mean in practice?

[osu-neko]

Admittedly, I haven't tried porting graphical apps across platforms before, so for all I know, getting the UI widgetry right could very well be 90% of the work.

Yeah, writing the UI code is 90% of the work. Debugging it to work consistently across all platforms is the other 90%...

Re:A suggestion...

[savuporo]

And Qt is not really C++ as it relies on MOC.

Its about time for a GUI toolkit that actually fully leverages what C++11 has to offer.

Re:Seven Years

[gmhowell]

The irony is that while the readership complains about the lack of editing of submissions, as your story and others illustrate, those editors do far more harm than good when they bother to read/alter submissions.