Audacity 4 is focusing on improving the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX), along with enhancements to the core functionality. Audacity 4 will also uses Qt GUI toolkit instead of WxWidgets.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/bring-back-advanced-vertical-zooming/120518
#wxWidgets releases are so regular nowadays that it doesn't even surprise me that we've managed to make another #release in the stable 3.2 branch even _earlier_ than planned (it was originally scheduled for April 4).
As with the other stable (meaning API and ABI-compatible) releases, nothing earth-shattering in this one, but it's still recommended to get it for bug fixes and improved support for the newest compilers versions.
See https://wxwidgets.org/news/2025/03/wxwidgets-3.2.7-released/ for more details.
For anybody looking for some nice examples of using #wxWidgets, Bartosz W. Warzocha, the author of a book about programming with wxWidgets in #polish, has made available all the book examples on GitHub, see https://github.com/bartoszwarzocha/wxwidgets_book_examples
Note that all the examples have been translated in English, so you don't need to know Polish to use them. See this post for more details: https://www.wxwidgets.org/news/2025/03/wxwidgets-example-applications-now-available-on-github/
И когда этот ваш open source перестанет страдать хернёй? Free software говорите?
Однако не от политики или денег, выделяемых фондами артистам с актёрами за поездки на Украину и различным «свободным» проектам.
It feels good to finally scratch my own itch and add support for reacting to sleep/suspend events in #wxwidgets under #Linux, see
https://wxwidgets.org/blog/2025/02/linux-power/
With these changes, my wx programs can finally save/close files/network connections when I put my machine to sleep and reopen/restore them later. I hope others find this as useful as I do!
In other news, I've accidentally found out today about Audiblez (https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html), an #opensource project for creating #audiobooks using #wxwidgets. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it looks pretty nice and useful.
Boast of the day: after many years, I've finally managed to take the number of non-draft PRs in #wxWidgets down to single digits (9).
Book count 425'777
Author count 128'053
Seria count 37'767"Hello Darkness": a new blog post which is not about the US elections, as might be expected from its title, but a feature in the upcoming #wxWidgets release:
TIL about the #Git of Theseus and couldn't resist running it on #wxWidgets repository to look at the plots shown here:
https://wxwidgets.org/blog/2024/10/survival-of-the-oldest/
As expected, wx code base is exceptionally mature and stable (or, at least, this is one way of looking at it).
Linux applications using wxWidgets include:
- Amaya – web authoring tool
- Audacity – cross-platform sound editor
- BitTorrent – peer-to-peer file sharing application
- FileZilla – FTP client
- FreeFileSync – a free and open-source file synchronization software
- Guayadeque Music Player – a music player with database
wxWidgets 3.2.6 was released today. Does anyone still use wxWidgets?
https://wxwidgets.org/news/2024/09/wxwidgets-3.2.6-released/
We've made a new maintenance #wxWidgets #release in the stable 3.2 branch: https://wxwidgets.org/news/2024/09/wxwidgets-3.2.6-released/
Nothing very exciting in this one, but a couple of rather critical bug fixes, so if you use a previous 3.2 version upgrading is definitely recommended (and it should be completely frictionless).
As always, thanks to everybody involved and special shout out to GitHub user Funami580 for fixing a 13 year old bug in ligatures handling in wxGTK (https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/13168)!
If you're using, or thinking to use, wxWebRequest, which is the #wxWidgets class for making HTTPS requests, you might be interested in the latest changes to it described in this blog post:
PSA: if you're using #wxWidgets master with #MinGW and getting new link errors, you probably need to add gdiplus.lib and msimg32.lib to the list of libraries you're linking with, due to the removal of the wrapped previously used to load GDI+ functions during run-time.
A short blog post about recent wxGrid enhancements, including the previously mentioned a11y support, but not only:
https://www.wxwidgets.org/blog/2024/06/great-grid-upgrades/
There have been other changes in #wxWidgets since I've last posted here a month or so ago too, but I'll try to summarize them in another blog post later, as there is not enough space to do it here.
#wxWidgets 3.2.5 #release is now officially done, see https://wxwidgets.org/news/2024/05/wxwidgets-3.2.5-released/ and thanks to everybody who has contributed to making and testing it!
Due to the last minute foul up (that I have to take credit for), the checksums for the binaries downloads in the release announcement have been lost, but they will be restored soon. So far this is the only known problem with this release, but I'm sure it's not going to last (does reverse psychology work with bugs?).
We're preparing to release #wxWidgets 3.2.5 next week and any help with testing the latest 3.2 sources (see https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.2.5-rc1) would be very welcome!
#BOINC is in the list of highlighted applications written with #wxwidgets: https://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screenshots/
Thanks to Oppiet from Discord for finding this.
