book on wxPython?

Roger Binns rogerb at rogerbinns.com
Sun May 16 22:19:16 EDT 2004


Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> By the way, wxWindows does a API model that is
> relativly close to Windows developement ;)

The real Win32 API is based on the Win16 API which was a reasonable
design in 1983, but had a lot of premature size and performance
optimization.  That premature optimization is extremely cruddy
now.  MFC was a C++ wrapper that tried to do things more sensibly
(aka object oriented) but was constrained by the C++ language
of the time and the underlying Win32 API.

That said, MFC isn't *bad* a toolkit to base something like the
design of wxWidgets on.  And wxWidgets has gone through two
major versions now and has significantly refined things.

Roger





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