This required changing CompareStrings() to be a method of wxUILocale object, rather than just as a static function, as we must only allocate the locale_t object once, and not during each to this function, as this could make it unusably slow when using it as a comparison function when sorting a large list of strings. This is also more efficient under Mac, where we can similarly allocate NSLocale only once and even marginally more efficient under MSW, where we don't have to construct the locale string during each call. And, under all platforms, it also simplifies code by separating this function implementation from the initialization of wxUILocaleImpl. Also document that case-insensitive comparison is not available under Unix and adjust the tests accordingly.
About
wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at https://docs.wxwidgets.org/
Platforms
This version of wxWidgets supports the following primary platforms:
- Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (32/64 bits).
- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
- macOS (10.10 or newer) using Cocoa under both amd64 and ARM platforms.
Most popular C++ compilers are supported including but not limited to:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or later (up to 2022).
- g++ 4 or later, including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
- Clang under macOS and Linux.
- Intel icc compiler.
- Oracle (ex-Sun) CC.
Licence
wxWidgets licence is a modified version of LGPL explicitly allowing not distributing the sources of an application using the library even in the case of static linking.
Building
For building the library, please see platform-specific documentation under
docs/<port>
directory, e.g. here are the instructions for
wxGTK, wxMSW and
wxOSX.
If you're building the sources checked out from Git, and not from a released version, please see these additional Git-specific notes.
Further information
If you are looking for community support, you can get it from
- Mailing Lists
- Discussion Forums
- #wxwidgets IRC channel
- Stack Overflow
(tag your questions with
wxwidgets
) - And you can report bugs at https://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
Commercial support is also available.
Finally, keep in mind that wxWidgets is an open source project collaboratively developed by its users and your contributions to it are always welcome. Please check our guidelines if you'd like to do it.
Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team.