#wxwidgets — Public Fediverse posts

Within the next few hours, there should be an update for our #Flatpak! Not only will this update feature 1.3.5, but it will also feature plenty of updated dependencies too, namely #Soundtouch, #PortMidi, #wxWidgets, and #libid3tag! 😄

It's been a little bit since we last gave an update on what's up with #Tenacity itself, aside from testing week, so here's what's happened today.

First off, we finally got to fixing an issue with #Windows builds failing with (s)cache enabled under Ninja. We added a patch for #wxWidgets in our vcpkg fork that we'll upstream over to wxWidgets.

Next up, we're making some Windows manifest tweaks. Basic, but we'll focus on improved Windows #HiDPI support after that work is merged.

Flamerobin 0.9.15 is released

https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin/releases/tag/0.9.15

#FirebirdSQL #SQL #WxWidgets

Curious

The left version is running in an opensuse distrobox, handles emojis properly, runs in X and doesn't respect the system theme.

The right version is running in a ubuntu distrobox, mangles the emoji, runs in wayland and respects dark mode.

Maybe they are using different frontends? #wxWidgets seems to support GTK3 and QT.

Can I find out somehow? I know the ubuntu package uses GTK, but the OpenSuse one won't tell me.

They look very similar.

Repo is https://github.com/ui-comparison/wxWidgets

#cpp

I found a new thing to test in my ui-comparison project that I hadn't thought of until now: Grapheme clusters.

I implemented the tests for #wxWidgets today and noticed that I can move the text cursor in-between the codepoints of a multi-codepoint emoji.

E.g. If I enter "👮🏽‍♀️", I can use the cursor keys and space to pull it apart into "👮 🏽 ‍ ♀️"

That seems to be a limitation of the Win32 edit. Sure enough, if I try it on my win32 implementation, the same happens.

QT and SwiftUI seem to work though.

New blog post "Why We Need the Gtk Platform for MAUI -- A short wrap-up of our goal and motivation along with a historical overview of events that lead to MauiGtk" https://mauigtk.net/blog/20260125/

#dotnet #dotnetmaui #gtk #gtk3 #qt #wxwidgets #eto #crossplatform #mauigtk #mauilinux #net_maui

Unfortunately, Tenacity's Flatpak remains on runtime version 24.08. We're looking to update it along with PortMidi inside the Flatpak so we're all up-to-date (mostly) on updates.

The other concern is wxWidgets, but we're holding off updating that because 1.3.4 can't build against wxWidgets 3.3+. The upcoming 1.3.5 release will, and it should also allow us to improve our default Flatpak permissions because #wxWidgets 3.3 got updated to use portals automatically via GTK!

@k That's great news to hear! We're also hoping to improve the experience in the Flatpak too, starting with #wxWidgets. For now, we'll have to see what we can do! 😄

Wait, #wxWidgets has a new dark mode on Windows now...

👀

Random #fact: some features in #Tenacity depend on the libraries we use, including #wxWidgets. If you want to see Tenacity get better and want to contribute, we suggest you look into our supporting libraries such as wxWidgets and #PortAudio.

@alavi I don't know any platform where GUI is light and easy. #Rust people have good experience with #iced - choice for Cosmic Desktop.

Last time I did any GUI it was #Qt and #wxWidgets - both in #C++, but it doesn't mean I recommend that path in 2025.

#Clojure is a JVM language, hence violates your requirement on RAM/resources. IMVHO S-expression languages aren't good for GUI programming.

Have you considered #Dart and #Flutter?

Today's #random #idea: #wxWidgets with a native #Haiku port.