Editing WxWidgets (section)

{{Short description|Widget toolkit}}
{{Primary sources|date=June 2011}}
{{lowercase title|title=wxWidgets}}
{{Infobox software
| name = wxWidgets
| logo = wxWidgets.svg
| logo size = 128px
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| collapsible = yes
| author = Julian Smart<ref name=wxabout>{{cite web
 | url        = https://wxwidgets.org/about/
 | title      = About the wxWidgets Project
 | publisher  = wxwidgets.org
 | access-date = 2010-01-02}}</ref><ref name=aboutjs>{{cite web
 | url        = http://www.anthemion.co.uk/julian.htm
 | title      = About Julian Smart, www.anthemion.co.uk
 | publisher  = anthemion.co.uk
 | access-date = 2009-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | url        = http://www.bookfayre.cz/books/name/julian_smart.2247651.html.cs
 | title      = Julian Smart
 | publisher  = bookfayre.cz
 | access-date = 2009-06-08}}</ref>
| developer = Various developers and contributors<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wxwidgets.org/about/team/|title=The Team - wxWidgets|website=wxwidgets.org}}</ref>
| released = {{start date and age|1992}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wxwidgets.org/about/history/|title=History - wxWidgets|website=www.wxwidgets.org}}</ref>
| discontinued = 
| latest_stable_version = <!-- Information about the latest stable version is maintained in [[Template:Latest stable software release/wxWidgets]] -->
| latest_stable_date =
| programming_language = [[C++]]
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| platform = 
| size = 
| language = 
| genre = Development [[library (computing)|library]]
| license = [[#License|wxWidgets Licence]]
| website = {{URL|https://wxwidgets.org}}
}}
'''wxWidgets''' (formerly '''wxWindows''') is a [[widget toolkit]] and tools library for creating [[graphical user interface]]s (GUIs) for [[cross-platform]] applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with no significant [[source code|code]] changes. A wide choice of [[compiler]]s and other tools to use with wxWidgets facilitates development of sophisticated applications.<ref name="users"/> wxWidgets supports a comprehensive range of popular [[operating system]]s and graphical libraries, both [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] and [[Free software|free]].

The project was started under the name wxWindows in 1992 by Julian Smart at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name=wxabout /> The project was renamed wxWidgets in 2004 in response to a trademark claim by [[Microsoft]] [[United Kingdom|UK]].

It is [[free software|free]] and [[open source software]], distributed under the terms of the [[#License|wxWidgets Licence]], which satisfies those who wish to produce for [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] and [[proprietary software]].<ref name="license"/>