Porting from MFC to wxWidgets

Sometimes we have a useful Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) application that we’d like to make available to other platforms. wxWidgets has a programming model very similar to MFC, so porting our application from MFC to wxWidgets seems like the simplest way to get a cross-platform version of our application. This month, Richard Thomson will give us a quick refresher on GUI programming and walk us through an example of porting the MFC application “hippy“ -- a Motorola 6800 microprocessor assembler and simulator -- to wxWidgets. Some of the topics covered will include: - Conversion of event handling - Conversion of CMake based build - Consuming wxWidgets through vcpkg - Conversion of resources (bitmaps, etc.) - Conversion of loading plugins with GUI elements Hippy: wxMFC: Porting Guide: Past t