wxFormBuilder is an open source

Open-source software

Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...

 GUI designer application for wxWidgets

WxWidgets

wxWidgets is a widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with minimal or no code changes...

 toolkit

Widget toolkit

In computing, a widget toolkit, widget library, or GUI toolkit is a set of widgets for use in designing applications with graphical user interfaces...

, which allows creating cross-platform

Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...

 applications. A streamlined, easy to use interface enables faster development and easier maintenance of software. It is written in C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

.

wxFormBuilder is a visual development tool, but also allows including non-graphical components. It can emit C++, Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

 and XRC

XML Resource

XRC, or XML Resource, or XML Based Resource System is a cross-platform XML-based user interface markup language used by wxWidgets. XRC allows graphical user interface elements, such as dialogs, menu bars and toolbars, to be stored as XML, which can be loaded into the application at run-time or...

 code. Emitted code cannot be edited directly in the program.

Event handlers

wxFormBuilder uses the Connect method or the event table for creating events. For most of the available controls, custom event handlers can be created. Events can also be added through external xml

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

files, eliminating the need to rebuild.

Available controls

wxFormBuilder have a rich set of supported widgets. They can be easily extended via plugins.

Common	Additional	Containers	Menu-toolbar	Layout	Forms	Contrib (using wxAdditions Plugin)
wxButton wxBitmapButton wxStaticText wxTextCtrl wxStaticBitmap wxComboBox wxChoice wxListBox wxListCtrl wxCheckBox wxRadioBox wxRadioButton wxStaticLine wxSlider wxGauge	wxTreeCtrl wxHtmlWindow wxRichTextCtrl wxCheckListBox wxGrid wxToggleButton wxColourPickerCtrl wxFontPickerCtrl wxFilePickerCtrl wxDirPickerCtrl wxDatePickerCtrl wxCalendarCtrl wxScrollBar wxSpinCtrl wxSpinButton wxHyperlinkCtrl wxGenericDirCtr CustomControl	wxSplitterWindow wxScrolledWindow wxNotebook wxAuiNotebook wxListBook wxChoiceBook	wxStatusBar wxMenuBar wxMenu wxMenuItem Sub Menus Menu Separators wxToolBar ToolBar Tools ToolBar Separators	wxBoxSizer wxStaticBoxSizer wxGridSizer wxFlexGridSizer wxGridBagSizer wxStdDialogButtonSizer spacer	wxFrame wxPanel wxDialog	wxPlotCtrl wxPropertyGrid wxPropertyGridManager wxFlatNotebook wxScintilla awxLed wxTreeListCtrl wxLedBarGraph

External links

• Comparison of wxWidgets RAD solutions