[Tfug] wxWidgets

[Bexley Hall]

Greetings!

I'm looking into GUI toolkits for another "quick and dirty"
project and wonder what your experiences with wxWidgets have
been like?

Note, I'm not looking for "pretty", bells and whistles, etc.
I want something with a small footprint (ideally), good
"visual" tools (so I don't have to manually "count pixels"
to place widgets on the screen, etc.), reasonably portable
*and* not a pain in the ass to code around.

E.g., I can use Motif as it satisfies all of the above
(except the "small footprint"  :< ) but it requires a
fair bit of hand-holding to tie all the code together.

By contrast, doing things in limbo-tk was almost as
easy as writing code in "BASIC"!  (and, with a SUPER
tiny footprint).

I'm particularly concerned as the wxWidgets documentation appears
very amateurish.  And, wonder how well their "visual" tools
*really* work.

Also, does the library allow you to build "panels" that are smart
enough to know how to resize themselves?  E.g., can I build a
dialog and configure it so that if it is "maximized" then
I want certain geometric layout relationships to be preserved.
So, for example, the buttons remain equally spaced along the
bottom edge while a listbox located above them maybe grows
wider even though the set of radio buttons to it's right stays
in a fixed geometric relationship...

(sorry, I should probably send some pix to illustrate)

Thx,
--don