Why can I do fancy GUI feature on wxWidgets?
Using wxWidgets requires a certain frame of mind. Specifically, you need to give up on replicating exactly some Windows or Macintosh application you’ve seen elsewhere. If you want to have unlimited possibilities for your GUI interface – if that is really a requirement – then you should learn MFC on Windows, GTK on Linux, and Cocoa on Macintosh, and write in those native languages. Of course, learning three interface languages, and all of their eccentricities, is about 100x the amount of work it takes to learn and use wxWidgets, which I can tell you (having programmed all three) is a relatively clean GUI interface. So my recommendation is this: get comfortable with the limitations that wxWidgets imposes. First off, they aren’t that bad, and second, it saves you a ton of work. Realize that there are some trade-offs in using a cross-platform GUI tool. I realize that this is something of a Zen response, i.e. learn to not let it bother you. But hey, we can all learn something from the Buddh
