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Hi Blair,
WxSmith from code blocks seems to be actively developed and up to date...
Maurice


On 13 August 2015 12:23:39 CEST, Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi Wayne et al,
>
>Coming back to this after no reply in four months to the patch I posted
>to
>the wxFormBuilder tracker (see my other email to the list about the
>future
>of wxFB).
>
>
>On 14 May 2015 at 01:03, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I was looking at this patch and I like the idea of entering arc
>angles
>> in degrees instead of deci-degrees.  I'm sure most users will
>appreciate
>> it.  However, the wxSpinCtrl hack needs to be replaced by using a
>> wxSpinCtrl when creating the dialog with wxFormBuilder. 
>wxFormBuilder
>> v3.5 supports wxSpinCtrl.
>
>
>Sorry, I didn't explain the issue very clearly.
>
>The wxSpinCtrl widget only handles integer inputs. This would mean that
>either the user still inputs deci-degrees, or the angular resolution is
>limited to whole degrees.
>
>wxWidgets > 2.9 has an extra widget, wxSpinCtrlDouble, which returns a
>double value. This is ideal for inputting degrees.
>
>However, wxFormBuilder doesn't know that wxSpinCtrlDouble exists, and
>therefore we cannot place it directly in a dialog through wxFB.
>
>My patch (which doesn't apply cleanly anymore BTW) proposes using a
>wxSpinCtrl from within wxFB as a placeholder. The actual dialog class,
>which inherits from the base class created by wxFB, replaces this with
>a
>wxSpinCtrlDouble.
>
>
>> This is kind of polishing that I would like
>> to see make it into the stable release.
>
>If you're OK with my proposed method, then I'll go through and change
>all
>existing dialogs which input angles to match, and post a patch
>accordingly.
>
>Blair
>
>
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