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Re: Which wxFormBuilder?

 

Mark Roszko forked wxFormBuilder to make building much easier and faster +
has at least one new wxWidgets widget.

https://github.com/marekr/wxFormBuilder/

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 2:30 PM Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Berhard.
>
> Yes this is a bit if a pain on OS X.  I built this from HEAD sometime last
> year, and it seemed to work okay for my purposes.  I had to munge a few
> things to get it to build, though.  I’ll send you a patch off-list and see
> if that gets you going in the right direction.
>
> It was some time ago that I looked at this so I don’t exactly remember why
> I changed what I changed, but it should be fairly evident, I think.
>
> Garth
>
>
> > On Feb 6, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I manually made some changes to preferences dialogs which are working
> fine.
> > To finish this, I wanted to check that I didn’t break the .fbp files and
> generate code from that (as it probably is supposed to be).
> >
> > But, which wxFormBuilder to use?
> >
> > Last official is 3.1.70, it doesn’t open at least some fpb files I tried
> (because it is too old).
> >
> > Last beta/nightly is 3.5.1-rc1, there is also a binary for OS X.
> > This opens some KiCad .fbp I tried, but for others it doesn’t show a
> dialog and you can’t select/change anything (e.g.,
> dialog_eeschema_options_base.fbp).
> > Is this a problem of this 3.5.1-rc1, just a problem of 3.5.1-rc1 on OS
> X, or am I doing something completely wrong here?
> > Also, it seems that this version only works at all on the first file
> loaded after start, but I could live with that...
> >
> > I could try other version, but for most of them there are no OS X
> binaries, so I would have to compile myself… before doing that, what should
> be a working version (though a …-rc1 should be better than all betas out
> there!?)?
> >
> > I also tried in my Debian VM, but there seem to be no packages available…
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Bernhard
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