Appendix D Other Features in wxWidgets

wxWidgets is a large system, and we couldn’t cover all its features in depth. Here we present a sampler of other aspects that may be useful to you; details on most of them can be found in the wxWidgets reference manual. See also Appendix E, “Third-Party Tools for wxWidgets,” for third-party classes.

Further Window Classes

wxGenericDirCtrl shows a hierarchy of directories, and optionally files; it can be used to build browsers.

wxCalendarCtrl (see Figure D-1) is an attractive way for the user to enter date information. This control can be customized in various ways, including highlighting special dates and starting the week with either Monday or Sunday. wxCalendarCtrl is in the core wxWidgets library, ...

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