wxWidgets Controls Gallery

Introduction

In this section we present some of the many controls provided by the wxWidgets framework. We don't necessarily intend to cover every single available control. For a more complete list have a look at the official wxWidgets documentation.

In addition to the controls provided by the framework it is also possible to design your own custom controls if needed. This is explained in our Custom Controls tutorial.

Standard Controls

A series of basic common controls that are found in most UI frameworks.

Picker Controls

Picker controls allow the user to pick an item from a list of items.

Control Example
wxColourPickerCtrl Button:

Launched dialog:
wxFilePickerCtrl
wxDirPickerCtrl

Advanced Controls

Book Controls

Book controls contain a list of pages. The user selects which of these pages should be displayed. In most cases only one page is displayed at a time but more advanced controls like wxAuiNotebook can display more than one page at a time.

Tree and List Controls

The following controls display a list of items.