Re: C++ vs. C#

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"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio news:Xns9BF2F34E83C53MihaiN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Personally, I really like wxWidgets.

Except the way wxWidgets uses to translate strings (based on string literals instead of IDs like MFC does), right? :)

I think that going from MFC to wxWidgets is easy, you are very right in that.
However, I don't like the lack of proper documentation in wxWidgests, especially if compared to the rich examples we can find for MFC.

For example, when I had to implement a custom non-trivial grid with wxWidgets in a project, I searched for some documentation on wxWidgets web site, and I found nothing interesting.
I've retried just now, and I see the same "yet to be written" sentence :(

http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.6/wx_gridoverview.html#complexwxgridexample

(To solve my problem in that project I recall I spelunked in wxW. source code to try to better understand the wxGrid component.)

IMHO, you can have a very good library, but without proper documentation and proper support in general, its value decreases.

On the other side, MFC has rich and helpful communities supporting it (this newsgroup, lots of articles and components on CodeProject, etc.).

Giovanni


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