wxWidgets and WYSIWYG forms creator clues

[Piotrek G.]

Hi!

I've just found wxWidgets and i think it's pretty cool stuff to code
"almost-native" (as it's win32 api wrapped code, mostly) win32
application in C++.

But i wonder whether there's some widget, or add-on, to wxWidgets which
allow to create nice auto-hiding panels? I was 'googling' and i've found
'Xtreme DockingPane' but it's not that what i want actually, as it
supposed to be free GPL (BSD maybe) licence.

That's what i have so far:
- wx-Dev-C++ - nice stuff...
- wx-AUI - pretty panels, dockable menus and so on

What I'm looking for:
- _Clues_ concerning free WYSIWYG forms creators for win32 and C++
- _Free_widget_to_create_auto-hiding_panels.

My main goals:
1. Have WYSIWYG forms creator - I want to focus on application
purposes, not on GUI creation with win32 api.

2. Produce commercial software using GPL licenced soft until i'll
manage to buy some commercial stuff
2b. BTW which one of commercial RAD's can provide me with all needed
(mentioned above) features? (Borland C++? MS Visual C++ doesn't have
WYSIWIG form maker for native win32 api and C++. Something else?)

3. Write quite low-level applications using C++. No CLR, Virual
Machines and so on. I think dotNet and C# is great, but i don't want to
use it yet. It's too heavy, i think - starting entire CLR just to run a
simple calculator application for instance...

If i missed the group and my post should go somewhere else, please point
me to the right one.

Thank you!
Piotr

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Piotrek G.

[Lionel B]

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:47:23 +0200, Piotrek G. wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've just found wxWidgets and i think it's pretty cool stuff to code
> "almost-native" (as it's win32 api wrapped code, mostly) win32
> application in C++.

[...]

> If i missed the group and my post should go somewhere else, please point
> me to the right one.

This group is for C++ language issues only... try:

http://www.wxwidgets.org/support/

for forums and mailing lists (Google not working for you?)

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Lionel B