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copied!<p>I've used <a href="http://wxformbuilder.org/" rel="noreferrer">wxFormBuilder</a> for two reasons:</p> <ol> <li>It's cross-platform and I needed something that would work on Linux.</li> <li>I'm new to wxWidgets and I didn't want to spend lots of time futzing about with building the GUI.</li> </ol> <p>I think it works quite well, and being familiar with similar GUI building tools (Borland C++ Builder, Jigloo for Java, Delphi) I found it easy to use.</p> <p>If you stick with the paradigm of using wxFormBuilder to generate base classes, and then you make a class that inherits to layer your application specific logic on top, absolutely not hand-editing the C++ code wxFormBuilder generates, then it works well and you can easily update and modify your GUIs in wxFormBuilder again (and again...).</p> <p><em>Advantages:</em></p> <ul> <li>Can generate your base GUIs quite quickly, in a visual manner, without having to constantly look up the documentation.</li> <li>Don't have to do as many code/compile/run cycles just to make sure your GUI is looking like what you expected.</li> <li>The base class/derived class paradigm can make a reasonably clean separation of your GUI and business logic code.</li> </ul> <p><em>Potential Disadvantages</em></p> <ul> <li><em>Disclaimer:</em> I've only used wxWidgets to create very simple, straight-forward GUIs, so haven't really pushed the tool to any limits.</li> <li>Potentially the base class/derived class paradigm could sometimes get in your way if you are doing something too sophisticated with your GUI (OTOH that could indicate that you may need to re-think your approach.)</li> <li>I had a situation where I needed a menu item when compiled for one operating system, but not when compiled for another. There is no logic in wxFormBuilder to support this. I ended up taking the short-cut of always creating the menu item and then having my derived class make it invisible if it was the wrong OS (not ideal.)</li> </ul> <p>That's about it, I think.</p>

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