CrossPlatform GUI Programming with wxWidgets [Electronic resources]

The Frame Class

Let's look at the frame class MyFrame. A frame is a top-level window that contains other windows, and usually has a title bar and menu bar. Here's our simple frame class declaration that we will put after the declaration of MyApp:

// Declare our main frame class
class MyFrame : public wxFrame
{
public:
// Constructor
MyFrame(const wxString& title);
// Event handlers
void OnQuit(wxCommandEvent& event);
void OnAbout(wxCommandEvent& event);
private:
// This class handles events
DECLARE_EVENT_TABLE()
};

Our frame class has a constructor, two event handlers to link menu commands to C++ code, and a macro to tell wxWidgets that this class handles events.