wxWidgets: Samples Overview

| Version: 3.2.7

Samples Overview

Arguably the best way to learn wxWidgets is by reading the sources of many samples, or examples, provided with it.

Many aspects of wxWidgets programming can be learned from them, but sometimes it is not simple to just choose the right sample to look at. This overview aims at describing what each sample does/demonstrates to make it easier to find the relevant one if a simple grep through all sources didn't help. They also provide some notes about using the samples and what features of wxWidgets are they supposed to test.

Notice that all wxWidgets samples mentioned here can be found in `samples` subdirectory of the library distribution. When a `foobar` sample is mentioned below, its sources can be found in `samples/foobar` directory of your wxWidgets tree. If you installed wxWidgets from a binary package, you might not have this directory. In this case, you may view the samples online at https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/ but you need to download the source distribution in order to be able to build them (highly recommended).

# Building and running the samples

Although reading the samples code can be very useful, it may not be sufficient and often it is even more useful to experiment by making a small change to a sample and checking how it works when running the sample.

Before being able to run them, you need to be able build the sample you're interested in. The right way to do it depends on the way you built wxWidgets itself (see Installing wxWidgets for more details):

- Under Microsoft Windows (MSW):
  - If you're using Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (MSVC), you need to use `makefile.vc` from the directory of the sample to build it. Open "Developer Command Prompt", navigate to the sample directory and run `nmake -f makefile.vc` command with the additional arguments corresponding to your library build, e.g. `BUILD=debug`. See MSVS instructions for more information.
  - If you're using MinGW, use `makefile.gcc` in the sample directory in a similar way. Note that if you use MSYS2 or another Unix-like environment for building, you should use the Unix instructions below instead.
- Under Unix systems (including macOS):
  - If you installed wxWidgets from your distribution binaries, you can use `makefile.unx` in the sample directory to build it using the version of wxWidgets already installed on your system. Use `make -f makefile.unx` in the sample directory to build it.
  - If you built wxWidgets from source using configure, you may use `Makefile` in the directory with the same name as the sample directory, but under the build directory, i.e. the one where you ran configure, and not under the source directory. Just run `make` to build the sample in the build directory subdirectory, e.g. `~/build/wx/samples/minimal`. You can also build all the samples at once by doing `make samples`, but be warned that this might take some time on older and slower machines.

# Overview of the available samples

There are currently almost 100 different samples as part of wxWidgets: the list in this page is not complete! You should start your tour of wxWidgets with the Minimal Sample which is the wxWidgets version of "Hello, world!". It shows the basic structure of wxWidgets program and is the most commented sample of all - looking at its source code is recommended.

The next most useful sample is Widgets Sample which shows many of wxWidgets controls, such as buttons, text entry zones, list boxes, check boxes, combo boxes etc. It is organized in many different source files, one per each control, which makes it easier to study it, and also allows to change various control styles and call its methods interactively.

Other, more complicated controls, have their own samples. In this category you may find the following samples showing the corresponding controls:

- wxCalendarCtrl: Calendar Sample
- wxListCtrl: List Control Sample
- wxTreeCtrl: wxTreeCtrl Sample
- wxGrid: Grid Sample
- wxDataViewCtrl: wxDataViewCtrl Sample
- wxWebView: wxWebView Sample

Final advice is to do a search in the entire samples directory if you can't find the sample showing the control you are interested in by name. Most classes contained in wxWidgets occur in at least one of the samples.

# Accessibility Sample

This sample shows how you can use the wxAccessible classes in a simple GUI program.

Build Note: You may need to build the wxWidgets library with `wxUSE_ACCESSIBILITY` being set to 1 to be able to make it work, please read comments in `<wx/setup_inc.h>` for more info.

Location: `samples/access` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/access

# Animation Sample

This sample shows how you can use wxAnimationCtrl control and shows concept of a platform-dependent animation encapsulated in wxAnimation.

Location: `samples/animate` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/animate

# Archive Sample

This sample shows how you can use wxArchiveClassFactory, wxArchiveOutputStream and wxArchiveInputStream. This shows how to process ZIP and TAR archives using wxZipOutputStream and wxTarOutputStream

Location: `samples/archive` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/archive

# Art Provider Sample

This sample shows how you can customize the look of standard wxWidgets dialogs by replacing default bitmaps/icons with your own versions. It also shows how you can use wxArtProvider to get stock bitmaps for use in your application.

Location: `samples/artprov` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/artprov

# Advanced User Interface Sample

This sample demonstrates AUI classes.

Location: `samples/aui` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/aui

# Calendar Sample

This sample shows the calendar control in action. It shows how to configure the control (see the different options in the calendar menu) and also how to process the notifications from it.

Location: `samples/calendar` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/calendar

# Caret Sample

This sample demonstrates wxCaret.

Location: `samples/caret` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/caret

# Collapsible Pane Sample

This sample demonstrates wxCollapsiblePane.

Location: `samples/collpane` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/collpane

# Combo Sample

This sample demonstrates wxComboBox, wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox etc.

Location: `samples/combo` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/combo

# Configuration Sample

This sample demonstrates the wxConfig classes in a platform independent way, i.e. it uses text based files to store a given configuration under Unix and uses the Registry under Windows.

See wxConfig Overview for the descriptions of all features of this class.

Location: `samples/config` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/config

# Console Program Sample

This sample demonstrates a console program.

Location: `samples/console` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/console

# wxDataViewCtrl Sample

This sample demonstrates wxDataViewCtrl.

Location: `samples/dataview` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/dataview

# Clipboard Sample

This sample demonstrates wxClipboard.

Location: `samples/clipboard` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/clipboard

# Debug Reporter Sample

This sample shows how to use wxDebugReport class to generate a debug report in case of a program crash or otherwise. On start up, it proposes to either crash itself (by dereferencing a NULL pointer) or generate debug report without doing it. Next it initializes the debug report with standard information adding a custom file to it (just a timestamp) and allows to view the information gathered using wxDebugReportPreview.

For the report processing part of the sample to work you should make available a Web server accepting form uploads, otherwise wxDebugReportUpload will report an error.

Build Note: You may need to build the wxWidgets library with `wxUSE_DEBUGREPORT` and `wxUSE_ON_FATAL_EXCEPTION` being set to 1 to be able to make it work, please read comments in `<wx/setup_inc.h>` for more info.

Location: `samples/debugrpt` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/debugrpt

# Dialogs Sample

This sample shows how to use the common dialogs available from wxWidgets. These dialogs are described in detail in the Common Dialogs.

In addition to the dialogs accessible from the sample menus, you can also run it with a `--progress=style` command line option to show a wxProgressDialog with the given style (try 0 for the default style) on program startup, before the main window is shown.

Location: `samples/dialogs` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/dialogs

# Dialup Sample

This sample shows the wxDialUpManager class. In the status bar, it displays the information gathered through its interface: in particular, the current connection status (online or offline) and whether the connection is permanent (in which case a string ‘LAN’ appears in the third status bar field - but note that you may be on a LAN not connected to the Internet, in which case you will not see this) or not.

Using the menu entries, you may also dial or hang up the line if you have a modem attached and (this only makes sense for Windows) list the available connections.

Location: `samples/dialup` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/dialup

# Display Sample

This sample demonstrates wxDisplay.

Location: `samples/display` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/display

# Drag & Drop Sample

This sample shows both clipboard and drag and drop in action. It is quite non trivial and may be safely used as a basis for implementing the clipboard and drag and drop operations in a real-life program.

When you run the sample, its screen is split in several parts. On the top, there are two listboxes which show the standard derivations of wxDropTarget: wxTextDropTarget and wxFileDropTarget.

The middle of the sample window is taken by the log window which shows what is going on (of course, this only works in debug builds) and may be helpful to see the sequence of steps of data transfer.

Finally, the last part is used for dragging text from it to either one of the listboxes (only one will accept it) or another application. The last functionality available from the main frame is to paste a bitmap from the clipboard (or, in the case of the Windows version, also a metafile) - it will be shown in a new frame.

So far, everything we mentioned was implemented with minimal amount of code using standard wxWidgets classes. The more advanced features are demonstrated if you create a shape frame from the main frame menu. A shape is a geometric object which has a position, size and color. It models some application-specific data in this sample. A shape object supports its own private wxDataFormat which means that you may cut and paste it or drag and drop (between one and the same or different shapes) from one sample instance to another (or the same). However, chances are that no other program supports this format and so shapes can also be rendered as bitmaps which allows them to be pasted/dropped in many other applications (and, under Windows, also as metafiles which are supported by most of Windows programs as well - try Write/Wordpad, for example).

Take a look at DnDShapeDataObject class to see how you may use wxDataObject to achieve this.

Location: `samples/dnd` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/dnd

# Document/View Sample

This sample demonstrates Document/View Framework.

Location: `samples/docview` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/docview

See also
  MDI Sample

# Drag Image Sample

This sample demonstrates wxDragImage.

Location: `samples/dragimag` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/dragimag

# Drawing Sample

This sample demonstrates the drawing ability of wxDC.

Location: `samples/drawing` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/drawing

# Erase Event Sample

This sample demonstrates wxEraseEvent.

Location: `samples/erase` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/erase

# Event Sample

This sample demonstrates various features of the wxWidgets events. It shows how to dynamic events and connecting/disconnecting the event handlers during run time by using wxEvtHandler::Bind() and wxEvtHandler::Unbind(), and also how to use wxWindow::PushEventHandler() and wxWindow::PopEventHandler().

Location: `samples/event` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/event

# Exception Sample

This very simple sample shows how to use C++ exceptions in wxWidgets programs, i.e. where to catch the exception which may be thrown by the program code. It doesn't do anything very exciting by itself, you need to study its code to understand what goes on.

Build Note: You need to build the library with `wxUSE_EXCEPTIONS` being set to `1` and compile your code with C++ exceptions support to be able to build this sample.

Location: `samples/except` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/except

# External Program Execution Sample

The exec sample demonstrates the wxExecute and wxShell functions. Both of them are used to execute the external programs and the sample shows how to do this synchronously (waiting until the program terminates) or asynchronously (notification will come later).

It also shows how to capture the output of the child process in both synchronous and asynchronous cases and how to kill the processes with wxProcess::Kill() and test for their existence with wxProcess::Exists().

Location: `samples/exec` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/exec

# Font Sample

The font sample demonstrates wxFont, wxFontEnumerator and wxFontMapper classes. It allows you to see the fonts available (to wxWidgets) on the computer and shows all characters of the chosen font as well.

Location: `samples/font` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/font

# Grid Sample

This sample demonstrates wxGrid.

Location: `samples/grid` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/grid

# Help Sample

This sample demonstrates wxHelpController.

Location: `samples/help` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/help

# HTML Sample

Eight HTML samples cover all features of the HTML sub-library.

- Test demonstrates how to create wxHtmlWindow and also shows most supported HTML tags.

- Widget shows how you can embed ordinary controls or windows within an HTML page. It also nicely explains how to write new tag handlers and extend the library to work with unsupported tags.

- About may give you an idea how to write good-looking About boxes.

- Zip demonstrates use of virtual file systems in wxHTML. The zip archives handler (ships with wxWidgets) allows you to access HTML pages stored in a compressed archive as if they were ordinary files.

- Virtual is yet another virtual file systems demo. This one generates pages at run-time. You may find it useful if you need to display some reports in your application.

- Printing explains use of wxHtmlEasyPrinting class which serves as as-simple-as-possible interface for printing HTML documents without much work. In fact, only few function calls are sufficient.

- Help and Helpview are variations on displaying HTML help (compatible with MS HTML Help Workshop). Help shows how to embed wxHtmlHelpController in your application while Helpview is a simple tool that only pops up the help window and displays help books given at command line.

Location: `samples/html` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/html

# HTML List Box Sample

This sample demonstrates wxHtmlListBox.

Location: `samples/htlbox` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/htlbox

# Image Sample

The image sample demonstrates use of the wxImage class and shows how to download images in a variety of formats, currently PNG, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNM and PCX. The top of the sample shows two rectangles, one of which is drawn directly in the window, the other one is drawn into a wxBitmap, converted to a wxImage, saved as a PNG image and then reloaded from the PNG file again so that conversions between wxImage and wxBitmap as well as loading and saving PNG files are tested.

At the bottom of the main frame there is a test for using a monochrome bitmap by drawing into a wxMemoryDC. The bitmap is then drawn specifying the foreground and background colours with wxDC::SetTextForeground() and wxDC::SetTextBackground() (on the left). The bitmap is then converted to a wxImage and the foreground colour (black) is replaced with red using wxImage::Replace().

This sample also contains the code for testing the image rotation and resizing and using raw bitmap access, see the corresponding menu commands.

Location: `samples/image` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/image

# Internationalization Sample

The not very clearly named internat sample demonstrates the wxWidgets internationalization (i18n for short from now on) features. To be more precise, it only shows localization support, i.e. support for translating the program messages into another language while true i18n would also involve changing the other aspects of the program's behaviour.

More information about this sample can be found in the `readme.txt` file in its directory. Please also see the Internationalization overview.

Location: `samples/internat` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/internat

# Connection Sample

This sample demonstrates wxConnection.

Location: `samples/ipc` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/ipc

# Joystick Sample

This sample demonstrates wxJoystick.

Location: `samples/joytest` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/joytest

# Key Event Sample

This sample demonstrates wxKeyEvent.

This sample can be used to interactively test the events produced by pressing various keyboard keys. It also shows the interaction between accelerators and the normal keyboard events (which are overridden by any defined accelerators) and finally allows to test that not skipping an event in EVT_KEY_DOWN handler suppresses the subsequent EVT_CHAR event.

Location: `samples/keyboard` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/keyboard

# Layout Sample

The layout sample demonstrates the two different layout systems offered by wxWidgets. When starting the program, you will see a frame with some controls and some graphics. The controls will change their size whenever you resize the entire frame and the exact behaviour of the size changes is determined using the wxLayoutConstraints class. See also the overview and the wxIndividualLayoutConstraint class for further information.

The menu in this sample offers two more tests, one showing how to use a wxBoxSizer in a simple dialog and the other one showing how to use sizers in connection with a wxNotebook class. See also wxSizer.

Location: `samples/layout` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/layout

# List Control Sample

This sample shows the wxListCtrl control. Different modes supported by the control (list, icons, small icons, report) may be chosen from the menu.

The sample also provides some timings for adding/deleting/sorting a lot of (several thousands) items into the control.

Location: `samples/listctrl` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/listctrl

# MDI Sample

This sample demonstrates MDI.

See also
  Document/View Sample

Location: `samples/mdi` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/mdi

# Mediaplayer Sample

This sample demonstrates how to use all the features of wxMediaCtrl and play various types of sound, video, and other files.

It replaces the old `dynamic` sample.

Location: `samples/mediaplayer` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/mediaplayer

# Memory Checking Sample

This sample demonstrates memory tracing using wxDebugContext.

Location: `samples/memcheck` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/memcheck

Build Note: You may need to build the wxWidgets library with `wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING` and `wxUSE_DEBUG_CONTEXT` being set to 1 to be able to make it work, please read comments in `<wx/setup_inc.h>` for more info.

# Menu Sample

This sample demonstrates wxMenu classes.

Location: `samples/menu` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/menu

# MFC Sample

This sample demonstrates how to mix MFC and wxWidgets code. It pops up an initial wxWidgets frame, with a menu item that allows a new MFC window to be created.

For build instructions please read IMPORTANT NOTES in `mfctest.cpp`.

Availability: only available for the wxMSW port.

Location: `samples/mfc` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/mfc

# Minimal Sample

The minimal sample is what most people will know under the term Hello World, i.e. a minimal program that doesn't demonstrate anything apart from what is needed to write a program that will display a "hello" dialog. This is usually a good starting point for learning how to use wxWidgets.

Location: `samples/minimal` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/minimal

# Native Windows Dialog Sample

This sample demonstrates native windows dialog.

Availability: only available for the wxMSW port.

Location: `samples/nativdlg` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/nativdlg

# Notebook Sample

This samples shows wxBookCtrl family of controls. Although initially it was written to demonstrate wxNotebook only, it can now be also used to see wxListbook, wxChoicebook, wxTreebook and wxToolbook in action. Test each of the controls, their orientation, images and pages using commands through the menu.

Location: `samples/notebook` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/notebook

# OLE Automation Sample

This sample demonstrates OLE automation using wxAutomationObject.

Availability: only available for the wxMSW port.

Location: `samples/oleauto` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/oleauto

# OpenGL Sample

This sample demonstrates wxGLCanvas.

- cube Draws a cube to demonstrate how to write a basic wxWidgets OpenGL program. Arrow keys rotate the cube. Space bar toggles spinning.
- isosurf Draws a surface by reading coordinates from a DAT file.
- penguin Draws a rotatable penguin by reading data from a DXF file.
- pyramid Draws a rotatable tetrahedron and some strings. It uses OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile context.

Location: `samples/opengl` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/opengl

# Owner-drawn Sample

This sample demonstrates owner-drawn wxMenuItem, wxCheckList and wxListBox.

Location: `samples/ownerdrw` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/ownerdrw

# Popup Transient Window Sample

This sample demonstrates wxPopupTransientWindow.

Location: `samples/popup` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/popup

# Power Management Sample

This sample demonstrates wxWidgets power management.

See also
  wxPowerEvent

Location: `samples/power` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/power

# Printing Sample

This sample demonstrates printing.

See also
  Printing Framework Overview, Printing Under Unix (GTK+)

Build Note: You may need to build the wxWidgets library with `wxUSE_PRINTING_ARCHITECTURE` being set to 1 to be able to make it work, please read comments in `<wx/setup_inc.h>` for more info.

Location: `samples/printing` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/printing

# wxPropertyGrid Sample

Sample application has following additional examples of custom properties:

- wxFontDataProperty ( edits wxFontData )
- wxPointProperty ( edits wxPoint )
- wxSizeProperty ( edits wxSize )
- wxAdvImageFileProperty ( like wxImageFileProperty, but also has a drop-down for recent image selection )
- wxDirsProperty ( edits a wxArrayString consisting of directory strings)
- wxArrayDoubleProperty ( edits wxArrayDouble )

This sample demonstrates wxPropertyGrid.

Location: `samples/propgrid` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/propgrid

# Registry Sample

This sample demonstrates wxRegKey.

Availability: only available for the wxMSW port.

Location: `samples/regtest` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/regtest

# Render Sample

This sample shows how to replace the default wxWidgets renderer and also how to write a shared library (DLL) implementing a renderer and load and unload it during the run-time.

Location: `samples/render` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/render

# wxRichTextCtrl Sample

This sample demonstrates wxRichTextCtrl.

Location: `samples/richtext` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/richtext

# Sash Sample

This sample demonstrates wxSashWindow classes.

Location: `samples/sashtest` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/sashtest

# Scroll Window Sample

This sample demonstrates wxScrolledWindow.

This sample demonstrates use of the wxScrolledWindow class including placing subwindows into it and drawing simple graphics. It uses the SetTargetWindow method and thus the effect of scrolling does not show in the scrolled window itself, but in one of its subwindows.

Additionally, this samples demonstrates how to optimize drawing operations in wxWidgets, in particular using the wxWindow::IsExposed() method with the aim to prevent unnecessary drawing in the window and thus reducing or removing flicker on screen.

Location: `samples/scroll` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/scroll

# Secret Store Sample

This sample demonstrates wxSecretStore.

This console-mode sample shows the use of wxSecretStore class for remembering the user-entered passwords. It should be run from the command line with the first argument of `save`, `load` or `delete`, followed by the "service" and "user" arguments as used by wxSecretStore methods. After storing some password, you can check that it can be retrieved later and also that it can be seen in the OS-provided password manager (e.g. credential manager under MSW or keychain utility under macOS).

Location: `samples/secretstore` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/secretstore

# Shaped Window Sample

This sample demonstrates Showing unusual, e.g. shaped or semi-transparent windows.

This sample shows windows with non-rectangular shapes and non-opaque windows as well as how the windows can be shown with a special effect.

See also
  wxTopLevelWindow::SetShape(), wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent(), wxWindow::ShowWithEffect(), wxWindow::HideWithEffect(), wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle()

Location: `samples/shaped` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/shaped

# Sockets Sample

The sockets sample demonstrates how to use the communication facilities provided by wxSocket. There are two different applications in this sample: a server, which is implemented using a wxSocketServer object, and a client, which is implemented as a wxSocketClient.

The server binds to the local address, using TCP port number 3000, sets up an event handler to be notified of incoming connection requests (wxSOCKET_CONNECTION events), and sits there, waiting for clients (listening, in socket parlance). For each accepted connection, a new wxSocketBase object is created. These socket objects are independent from the server that created them, so they set up their own event handler, and then request to be notified of wxSOCKET_INPUT (incoming data) or wxSOCKET_LOST (connection closed at the remote end) events. In the sample, the event handler is the same for all connections; to find out which socket the event is addressed to, the GetSocket function is used.

Although it might take some time to get used to the event-oriented system upon which wxSocket is built, the benefits are many. See, for example, that the server application, while being single-threaded (and of course without using fork() or ugly select() loops) can handle an arbitrary number of connections.

The client starts up unconnected, so you can use the Connect... option to specify the address of the server you are going to connect to (the TCP port number is hard-coded as 3000). Once connected, a number of tests are possible. Currently, three tests are implemented. They show how to use the basic IO calls in wxSocketBase, such as wxSocketBase::Read(), wxSocketBase::Write(), wxSocketBase::ReadMsg() and wxSocketBase::WriteMsg(), and how to set up the correct IO flags depending on what you are going to do. See the comments in the code for more information. Note that because both clients and connection objects in the server set up an event handler to catch wxSOCKET_LOST events, each one is immediately notified if the other end closes the connection.

There is also a URL test which shows how to use the wxURL class to fetch data from a given URL.

The sockets sample is work in progress. Some things to do:

- More tests for basic socket functionality.
- More tests for protocol classes (wxProtocol and its descendants).
- Tests for the recently added (and still in alpha stage) datagram sockets.
- New samples which actually do something useful (suggestions accepted).

Location: `samples/sockets` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/sockets

# Sound Sample

The `sound` sample shows how to use wxSound for simple audio output (e.g. notifications).

Location: `samples/sound` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/sound

# Splash Screen Sample

This sample demonstrates wxSplashScreen.

Location: `samples/splash` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/splash

# Splitter Window Sample

This sample demonstrates wxSplitterWindow.

Location: `samples/splitter` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/splitter

# Status Bar Sample

This sample shows how to create and use wxStatusBar. Although most of the samples have a statusbar, they usually only create a default one and only do it once.

Here you can see how to recreate the statusbar (with possibly different number of fields) and how to use it to show icons/bitmaps and/or put arbitrary controls into it.

Location: `samples/statbar` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/statbar

# wxStyledTextCtrl Sample

This sample demonstrates wxStyledTextCtrl.

Location: `samples/stc` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/stc

# SVG Sample

This sample demonstrates wxSVGFileDC.

Location: `samples/svg` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/svg

# Tab Order Sample

This sample allows to test keyboard navigation (mostly done using the `TAB` key, hence the sample name) between different controls. It shows the use of wxWindow::MoveBeforeInTabOrder() and MoveAfterInTabOrder() methods to change the default order of the windows in the navigation chain and of wxWindow::Navigate() for moving focus along this chain.

Location: `samples/taborder` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/taborder

# Task Bar Icon Sample

This sample demonstrates wxTaskBarIcon.

Location: `samples/taskbar` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/taskbar

# Text Sample

This sample demonstrates four features: firstly the use and many variants of the wxTextCtrl class (single line, multi line, read only, password, ignoring TAB, ignoring ENTER).

Secondly it shows how to intercept a wxKeyEvent in both the raw form using the `EVT_KEY_UP` and `EVT_KEY_DOWN` macros and the higher level from using the `EVT_CHAR` macro. All characters will be logged in a log window at the bottom of the main window. By pressing some of the function keys, you can test some actions in the text ctrl as well as get statistics on the text ctrls, which is useful for testing if these statistics actually are correct.

Thirdly, on platforms which support it, the sample will offer to copy text to the wxClipboard and to paste text from it. The GTK version will use the so called PRIMARY SELECTION, which is the pseudo clipboard under X and best known from pasting text to the XTerm program.

Last but not least: some of the text controls have tooltips and the sample also shows how tooltips can be centrally disabled and their latency controlled.

Location: `samples/text` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/text

# Thread Sample

This sample demonstrates use of threads in connection with GUI programs.

There are two fundamentally different ways to use threads in GUI programs and either way has to take care of the fact that the GUI library itself usually is not multi-threading safe, i.e. that it might crash if two threads try to access the GUI class simultaneously.

One way to prevent that is have a normal GUI program in the main thread and some worker threads which work in the background. In order to make communication between the main thread and the worker threads possible, wxWidgets offers the wxQueueEvent function and this sample demonstrates its usage.

The other way is to use a wxMutexGuiEnter and wxMutexGuiLeave functions, but this is not currently shown in the sample.

See also Multithreading Overview and wxThread.

Location: `samples/thread` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/thread

# Tool Bar Sample

The toolbar sample shows the wxToolBar class in action.

The following things are demonstrated:

- Creating the toolbar using wxToolBar::AddTool() and wxToolBar::AddControl(): see MyApp::InitToolbar() in the sample.
- Using `EVT_UPDATE_UI` handler for automatically enabling/disabling toolbar buttons without having to explicitly call EnableTool. This is done in MyFrame::OnUpdateCopyAndCut().
- Using wxToolBar::DeleteTool() and wxToolBar::InsertTool() to dynamically update the toolbar.

Some buttons in the main toolbar are check buttons, i.e. they stay checked when pressed. On the platforms which support it, the sample also adds a combobox to the toolbar showing how you can use arbitrary controls and not only buttons in it.

If you toggle another toolbar in the sample (using `Ctrl-A`) you will also see the radio toolbar buttons in action: the first three buttons form a radio group, i.e. checking any of them automatically unchecks the previously checked one.

Location: `samples/toolbar` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/toolbar

# wxTreeCtrl Sample

This sample demonstrates using the wxTreeCtrl class. Here you may see how to process various notification messages sent by this control and also when they occur (by looking at the messages in the text control in the bottom part of the frame).

Adding, inserting and deleting items and branches from the tree as well as sorting (in default alphabetical order as well as in custom one) is demonstrated here as well - try the corresponding menu entries.

Location: `samples/treectrl` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/treectrl

# Types Sample

This sample demonstrates wxWidgets types.

Todo:
  This sample isn't very didactive; it's more than a set of tests rather than a sample and thus should be rewritten with CppUnit and moved under "tests"

Location: `samples/typetest` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/typetest

# wxUIActionSimulator Sample

This sample demonstrates wxUIActionSimulator.

This sample shows some features of wxUIActionSimulator class. When a simulation is run using its menu items, you can see that the button is pressed programmatically and the characters generated by the program appear in the text control.

Location: `samples/uiaction` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/uiaction

# Validator Sample

This sample demonstrates wxValidator.

Location: `samples/validate` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/validate

# VScrolled Window Sample

This sample demonstrates wxVScrolledWindow.

Location: `samples/vscroll` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/vscroll

# wxWebView Sample

The wxWebView sample demonstrates the various capabilities of the wxWebView control. It is set up as a simple single window web browser, but with support for many of the more complex wxWebView features, including browsing through archives.

Location: `samples/webview` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/webview

# Web Request Sample

This sample demonstrates the various capabilities of the wxWebRequest class. It shows how to handle simple text HTTP and HTTPS requests, downloading files, showing download progress and processing downloaded data while it's being downloaded.

Location: `samples/webrequest` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/webrequest

# Widgets Sample

The widgets sample is the main presentation program for most simple and advanced native controls and complex generic widgets provided by wxWidgets. The sample tests their basic functionality, events, placement, modification in terms of colour and font as well as the possibility to change the controls programmatically, such as adding an item to a list box etc. All widgets are categorized for easy browsing.

Location: `samples/widgets` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/widgets

# Wizard Sample

This sample shows the so-called wizard dialog (implemented using wxWizard and related classes). It shows almost all features supported:

- Using bitmaps with the wizard and changing them depending on the page shown (notice that wxValidationPage in the sample has a different image from the other ones)
- Using TransferDataFromWindow to verify that the data entered is correct before passing to the next page (done in wxValidationPage which forces the user to check a checkbox before continuing).
- Using more elaborated techniques to allow returning to the previous page, but not continuing to the next one or vice versa (in wxRadioboxPage)
- This (wxRadioboxPage) page also shows how the page may process the Cancel button itself instead of relying on the wizard parent to do it.
- Normally, the order of the pages in the wizard is known at compile-time, but sometimes it depends on the user choices: wxCheckboxPage shows how to dynamically decide which page to display next (see also wxWizardPage)

Location: `samples/wizard` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/wizard

# wxWrapSizer Sample

This sample demonstrates wxWrapSizer.

Location: `samples/wrapsizer` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/wrapsizer

# XRC Sample

This sample shows how to use the various features of the XML Based Resource System (XRC) to create the gui of your program. It starts by loading and showing a frame and other resources. From its menu or toolbar you can then run the following dialogs:

- A non-derived wxDialog
- A derived dialog
- A dialog containing a large number of controls
- An uncentred dialog
- A dialog demonstrating the use of object references and ID ranges
- A dialog that contains a custom class
- A dialog with platform-specific features
- A dialog demonstrating wxArtProvider
- A dialog saying "VARIABLE EXPANSION ISN'T IMPLEMENTED CURRENTLY" :/

Location: `samples/xrc` subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation or https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/tree/master/samples/xrc