Is wxMax good for anything?

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Brucey(Posted 2009) [#1]
Creating particle engine editors, it seems :-)

Anything else? Surprise me !


TaskMaster(Posted 2009) [#2]
I used it to make the front end for a backup program I use here at work. Backs up all of my servers every single night...

wxMax is easy to use once you get a handle on it.


Wiebo(Posted 2009) [#3]
Creating particle engine editors, it seems :-)

oh, excuses moi! =]


Warner(Posted 2009) [#4]
I'm using it to create a mesh editor. WxMax works real nice.



Chroma(Posted 2009) [#5]
What's wxMax? ><


markcw(Posted 2009) [#6]
And while we're asking stupid questions, what does NG mean?


Warner(Posted 2009) [#7]
wxmax = wxwidgets for bmax.
http://www.wxwidgets.org/
And I guess NG = "Nuclear Glory"?


Brucey(Posted 2009) [#8]
or... Next Generation? Just needed a name to differentiate between the two bmks :-)

What's wxMax?

It's a cross-platform GUI toolkit (OS-based, as opposed to graphics-based). One might call it "fully featured", in that it has one or two features.


Warner(Posted 2009) [#9]
It has certainly a lot more features than that. For me, it works splendidly.
Actually, I was just checking out how it works. But now I'm using it continuously for about a week. It saves so much time and effort.
Thanks a lot for sharing it, Brucey. It must have been quite some work getting this to work.


Brucey(Posted 2009) [#10]
It must have been quite some work getting this to work.

It was about 1 year (on and off) to get to the first "release", although I think it only took me a day to get the very first window to appear on the screen... How time flies ;-)

It saves so much time and effort.

If you are using the GUI editor (wxFormBuilder), then yes, it is very quick to push out quite sophisticated applications.
I much prefer the OO style of working than MaxGUI's procedural approach - but then I'm used to working in Java, do perhaps it's more natural for me.

Glad you are enjoying it.


Wiebo(Posted 2009) [#11]
I love it too, and thanks again Brucey. I even removed the official brl module.