The DialogBlocks Interface

When you run DialogBlocks, you see a project tree on the left, various content windows on the right including the dialog editor itself, and at the bottom, an optional output window to show the results of compiling an application. Figure C-1 shows a typical session. The dialog editor is available when you have clicked on a dialog element in the project tree, and it shows a visual representation of the dialog on the left with the selected element's properties on the right.

Figure C-1. The DialogBlocks main window

New controls and sizers can be selected from drop-down menus attached to the dialog editor's toolbar buttons (above the property editor). The toolbar also gives shortcuts to various sizer properties such as alignment, stretch factor, and spacing.

There are also tabs to view the C++ and XRC code generated for the current element, and further tabs let you define variables and event handlers for the selected element.

You can view the wxWidgets reference by clicking on the Reference tab (pressing F1 goes to the appropriate topic for the selected element). The Support page lists useful links for the wxWidgets developer, which on Windows can be browsed from within DialogBlocks.