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author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-05-27 13:22:53 +0000 |
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committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2010-05-27 13:22:53 +0000 |
commit | 2eaa542e0006f2b41fdf5e680b5baa0b91999694 (patch) | |
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parent | Added Andrej Krpic. (Thanks for issue #7879 patch.) (diff) | |
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Rewrite wxWidgets section
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/gui.rst b/Doc/faq/gui.rst index 1f2ae0989cc..80416141972 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/gui.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/gui.rst @@ -28,17 +28,22 @@ Unix platforms. wxWidgets ''''''''' -wxWidgets is a GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable -interface to various platform-specific libraries, and that has a -Python interface called `wxPython <http://www.wxpython.org>`__. +wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org) is a free, portable GUI class +library written in C++ that provides a native look and feel on a +number of platforms, with Windows, MacOS X, GTK, X11, all listed as +current stable targets. Language bindings are available for a number +of languages including Python, Perl, Ruby, etc. + +wxPython (http://www.wxpython.org) is the Python binding for +wxwidgets. While it often lags slightly behind the official wxWidgets +releases, it also offers a number of features via pure Python +extensions that are not available in other language bindings. There +is an active wxPython user and developer community. + +Both wxWidgets and wxPython are free, open source, software with +permissive licences that allow their use in commercial products as +well as in freeware or shareware. -wxWidgets preserves the look and feel of the -underlying graphics toolkit, and has a large set of widgets and -collection of GDI classes. See `the wxWidgets page -<http://www.wxwidgets.org>`_ for more details. - -wxWidgets supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants, -it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits. Qt ''' |