Hi all,
It appears wxFormBuilder is, if not dead, not far from it. The evidence:
* No stable release in 4 years, and the last beta release was 13
months ago.
* A grand total of 13 commits in the last 12 months (current trunk is
r2205, r2192 was made on 1 August 2014). A number of these are
buildsystem / release / changelog (!) updates.
* No developer responses on the mailing list, including to a message
three months ago [1] asking if the project was still active.
* No support for newer widgets. For example, the wxSpinCtrlDouble
widget added in wxWidgets 2.9.0 is not supported. I patched it to add
this widget back in April and posted the patch to both the mailing
list and an existing ticket from three years ago [2]. No response to
that either.
We may have to start thinking about whether we continue with it from
here, or consider a move towards a different tool.
I realise any change like this isn't going to happen prior to the
stable release, and nor am I suggesting it should. But with the recent
post to this list about UI improvements, I think this is a highly
related topic which should be discussed as well.
There are a number of alternatives listed on the wxWidgets wiki [3].
Does anybody have any experience with any of them? (Spoiler alert, I
don't). Are there any thoughts on how to proceed from here?
Regards
Blair
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/wxformbuilder/mailman/message/34100789/
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/wxformbuilder/feature-requests/45/
[3]
https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Tools#Rapid_Application_Development_.2F_GUI_Builders
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