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wxRuby has been resurrected as wxRuby3, see https://mcorino.github.io/wxRuby3/ Among actively developed bindings, there is also wxRust at https://crates.io/crates/wxdragon

> wxWidgets is oldschool It's a bit sad that a GUI library absolutely needs to be new and shining to be even considered nowadays, it looks like the whole programming world got infe…

You definitely should have been able to link statically, but my point was that these DLLs are already available on the wxWidgets site, you didn't need to upload them yourself...

Interesting that you've decided to provide your own wxWidgets DLLs instead of using the official ones (see https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ ). Is there some reason for this or …

Well, there is only so much latitude for naming the event (or message, callback, whatever) sent when a window needs to repaint itself. Qt has `paintEvent()` too and nobody calls it…

This was indeed the case. In 1995. Since then just about everything has changed, but the idea that wxWidgets is MFC-like still refuses to die... Another common related opinion is t…

This is very similar to my memories of Sven too, except that I didn't even manage to buy him a beer remotely. Good for you to have done it!

> Still, they looked unusable. This shouldn't be the case. If you use wx 3.0, it's too old to support the features that appeared in macOS after its release (dark mode etc), but 3.1…

Best size is determined by each window. Min size is best size by default, but can be set to something different to override it. And the initial size is also min size by default, be…

Be the change you want to be! wxC did exist but grew unmaintained, split into several variants (I think at least wxHaskell and wxErlang had their own versions) and withered. It sho…

My answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/19358996/15275 dates from 8 years ago but it's still relevant.

FWIW updating from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 (and then to 3.2.0) should be pretty seamless. The documentation does need work, but it's hard to find people volunteering to do it (although a fe…

Maybe this has something to do with the fact that Windows doesn't have dark mode for the desktop applications in the first place.

I can't say much for wxPython lib, but fixing high DPI support in native controls is the main focus of 3.2.0 and things look pretty good in 3.1.5 already IMHO. I could understand i…

It's neither a strength (there are definitely tons of things to do) but nor is it much of a weakness because the development is quite active pretty much all the time (just look at …

I'd be interested to know what do you find rough about XRC (as wx XML layout system is known)?

> Well, let's verify that… https://i.imgur.com/uHfjoUs.png No, they're not. Sorry, I don't know what is this supposed to prove, but I can definitely assure you that all the mention…

ECMerge seems to use standard wxToolBar which is definitely a native control, so I don't know why it has the same background on all the screenshots. Perhaps they've explicitly chan…

Sorry, but it was really surprising to see such an account of events. Just in case it's not obvious, and I realize that not everybody had a chance to be confronted by a giant corpo…

I've completely forgotten about this page of the site, but it's nothing but polite fiction. We didn't really have any choice in the matter, it was that or be dragged in court by Mi…

There are many screenshots here, I'm not sure which one do you mean. But do keep in mind that some of these screenshots (maybe even most of them) are 10, or 20, years old, so what …

Wow, you have some interesting sources (care to share them?). Microsoft _forced_ us to change the name, threatening unspecified but dire legal consequences if we didn't. They have …

> I submit that Wx implements its own non-native widgets. It does for the widgets that have no native equivalent, such as draggable/dockable tabs/panels that you show. You can't sa…

Both Codelite and Code::Blocks are written using wxWidgets.

The really interesting thing would be to have a wx port using the native API for it, but unfortunately the last time I heard about wxBe was in the last century...