Code::Blocks

While I'm using Code::Blocks, it crashed suddenly and when I reopen the project, one of the newest panel created by wxSmith won't open in Resources mode, instead, it opened as text file. Thus I can't change the GUI in wxSmith. Here's steps to fix the issue.

1. Add the .h, .cpp and .wxs into the project if it's not there

2. Close project

3. Open cbp file in a text editor, btw I like PSPad and Notepad++ the most on Windows and Geany on Linux

4. Find the section in the cbp file:

Since I'm going to extend my knowledge of programming, I selected wxWidgets as the next target. It has some advantages when comparing with other frameworks:

1. cross platform: vs Win32, Cocoa, Gnome, KDE
2. can develop commercial applications: vs Qt
3. has more features: vs FLTK
4. active community

So here's how to setup wxWidgets on Windows Vista. I assume you already setup MinGW and Code::Blocks.

1. download and install wxWidgets: wxMSW-2.8.9-Setup.exe, I installed it to c:\apps\wxWidgets-2.8.9