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Programming for the Eee PC with wxWidgets (wxBlog)

[Posted December 11, 2007 by cook]

wxBlog covers the porting of the wxWidgets GUI toolkit to the Asus Eee PC. "There has been a lot of fuss about the Asus Eee PC in the last few months and Asus have clearly pressed the right consumer buttons with their cheap Linux subnotebook. No doubt there will be many more machines in this format in the future, representing a market of many millions, so its an attractive target for developers. Fortunately for wxWidgets programmers, its pretty straightforward to adapt wxGTK applications to the requirements of the Eee PC. This consists mainly of two tasks: fitting windows and dialogs onto the 800x480 screen, and distributing the application in a Xandros-friendly package (a .deb)."

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Posted Dec 15, 2007 12:27 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

The eee PC is pretty amazing - I saw one last night for the first time and it's amazingly
useful with a very sharp screen and good anti-aliasing.  The fact that it includes Ethernet,
USB and WiFi, as well as SD card that can take 8 GB or more, makes it an incredibly useful
mini-laptop / UMPC type device.  It can run non-Xandros distros including Ubuntu (see the very
active forums), and you can even run eye candy like Compiz, as well as Windows games in WINE
etc.  All this for a very low price - makes me glad I didn't have the chance to buy a Palm
Foleo!