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Introduction

wxBuilder is a tool for interactively building the GUI (Graphical User Interface) component of a wxWindows application. The user chooses and places frames, dialog boxes, subwindows and panel items, and wxBuilder generates appropriate C++ code for compiling with the wxWindows library on Windows or X. Optionally, the wxWindows resource file format (suffix .WXR) may be generated to help separate out GUI specification from the application code.

The user may then populate this skeleton program with further code to complete the application, or use the results as a design and prototyping aid. wxBuilder could also find use as a learning aid for a beginning wxWindows user, since there is a clear correspondence between GUI and C++ code.

wxBuilder may also be used as a migration tool from straight Windows to wxWindows, by importing existing Windows resource (.RC) files (Windows version only).

wxBuilder is not unique in the kind of facilities it provides, but it is the only known freely available tool to generate multi-platform code, and is the only one to support wxWindows.

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