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DialogBlocks received a Performance Award in the August 2005
issue of the UK magazine, PC Plus.
New! DialogBlocks is now Eee PC-friendly. DialogBlocks' own windows and dialogs have been adjusted to fit the screen on Windows and Linux, and dialogs you create (apart from wizards) will be previewed with scrollbars when necessary. To use scrolling dialogs in your own applications, download wxScrollingDialog. Plus, full-screen mode (F11) gives you more space to work with.
New! DialogBlocks now has an analysis tool for highlighting common problems in your projects, including empty sizers, obsolete styles, and identifier value clashes.
New! We've added a tabbed palette, with elements grouped by category. This visual tool makes it much easier to choose appropriate controls and sizers.
New! We've added a Getting Started guide to the web site to help you set up DialogBlocks and wxWidgets.
New! DialogBlocks Developer Bundle is now available for Windows, conveniently bundling DialogBlocks with wxWidgets 2.8.3 and the MinGW 5.1.3 installer, so you can quickly start developing applications.
New! Version 4 is now available, with a host of new features including wxAUI support, picker controls and other new wxWidgets 2.8 classes, an improved property editor, a new Element Catalogue, and a setup wizard to speed up framework and compiler configuration.
Benefits
- spend minutes on your dialog UI, not hours;
- no more writing complex sizer-based layouts by hand;
- the chore of adding event handlers becomes effortless;
- it's like having your own programming assistant updating your UI code.
Features
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wxAUI support - New! Now DialogBlocks
supports wxAUI - any dialog, frame or panel can be a wxAUI manager,
handling sizing and positioning of its child windows.
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wxGridBagSizer support - DialogBlocks handles wxGridBagSizer, with drag and drop positioning of
controls in a grid.
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wxPropertySheetDialog, for settings dialogs - DialogBlocks directly supports wxPropertySheetDialog, for easy editing of
your application's settings pages.
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Conditional user interfaces - DialogBlocks supports the ability to adapt the user interface to the UI
guidelines of different platform. Just mark elements as
for one platform (or several), and preview the look for
any given platform.
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wxFrame, wxMenuBar, wxToolBar and wxStatusBar editing - DialogBlocks handles frames, complete with wxMenuBar, wxToolBar and wxStatusBar.
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Validators - DialogBlocks now supports validators and custom variables. Just add a variable,
select the variable and a validator, and the data transfer
between variable and control is done for you.
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wxWizard editing - DialogBlocks is the only wxWidgets dialog editor to
support in-situ wxWizard editing. You add pages and change
the wizard bitmap while viewing the wizard as it will appear to the user.
Just add data transfer, validation and page route logic to the
generated C++ code.
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C++ and XRC output - DialogBlocks exports C++ and XRC (the wxWidgets resource format).
You can optionally generate the C++ to reflect the use of an XRC file; or
you can leave it to generate explicit control creation calls.
The generated C++ needs very few additional changes to get it compiling
with your project.