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Sizers Tutorial by David Silvia

This is a wxWidgets sizers tutorial that uses a simple editor as an example. It covers design and coding of sizers for total application layout. It is built with DialogBlocks, but applies to any method of creating a wxWidgets application; IDE/RAD or hand coding in an editor.

wxMS_developers

A group for discussion of wxWidgets/DialogBlocks on Windows including tutorials.

Insight 5

Windows version of the GUI debugger for Cygwin and MinGW.

Vista SDK

The Windows Vista SDK comes with VC++ built in, and can be used on XP, so this is an alternative way to get a free compiler without requiring two separate downloads.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express

How to download the free edition of Visual C++ 2008 and the required Platform SDK, which can be used with DialogBlocks. Then set the MSVCDIR and PLATFORM paths in DialogBlocks' Settings/Paths page.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express

How to download the free edition of Visual C++ and the required Platform SDK, which can be used with DialogBlocks. Then set the MSVCDIR and PLATFORM paths in DialogBlocks' Settings/Paths page.

MinGW downloads

Download MinGW, a free compiler supported by DialogBlocks. Then set the MINGW path in DialogBlocks' Settings/Paths page.

OpenWatcom C++ downloads

Download OpenWatcom C++, a free compiler supported by DialogBlocks. Then set the WATCOM path in DialogBlocks' Settings/Paths page.

Digital Mars C++ downloads

Download Digital Mars C++, a free compiler supported by DialogBlocks. Then set the DMCDIR path in DialogBlocks' Settings/Paths page.

Library of icons by Ximian

1200 L-GPL'ed icons for your application. Very cool!

wxVisualSetup

Provides wxWidgets integration features for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net: a project wizard, Intellisense, online help, dynamic help (browse help while you are typing), and tips and tricks. wxVisualSetup is a commercial product by Hajo Kirchhoff.

wxWinWiz for VC++

A VC++ project wizard to create skeleton wxWidgets application files. This is a VC++ wizard rather than a standalone application. Updated by Marco Cavallini based on versions by Bill Nalen and Gregory Silber. Now works with wxWidgets 2.3.3 and above. For a version that works with wxWidgets 2.2.x, the original version is here.

wxWidgets

wxWidgets is a well-known open source GUI toolkit.

HelpBlocks

HelpBlocks is an HTML help editor for wxWidgets applications, the perfect companion to DialogBlocks.

wxDesigner

wxDesigner is a dialog editor and RAD tool for Mac, Linux and Windows.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Essential reading for designing interfaces on Mac OS X.

Windows Visual Design Guidelines

Guidelines for laying out dialogs and other elements in Windows, including spacing issues, design of graphic images, and so on.

GUI Bloopers

GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers, by Jeff Johnson.

User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers, by Joel Spolsky

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