Use a designer for building UI

[krazkidd]

There are a few active GUI designers for designing wxWidgets user interfaces. This allows for more rapid UI design and iteration and some are mature enough so as to be essential. I determined the following should be investigated for integration with this project:

• wxFormBuilder
  • Ubuntu package and Flatpak available
• wxGlade
  • Debian package available
  • Zip available
  • Python runtime required
  • 1.1.0 release has undo/redo
• wxSmith
  • integrated with Code::Blocks IDE
• wxCrafter
  • integrated with CodeLite IDE

Tasks

• Note in README which one is supported

[krazkidd]

I chose wxFormBuilder for the designer. It is very mature and superior to wxGlade, which I also tried. wxFormBuilder is a more active project and wxGlade's C++ generator was a little incomplete since they seem to be more focused on Python. wxGlade also seems to target wxWidgets v3.0 whereas wxFormBuilder targets v3.2 (latest). Finally, wxFormBuilder supports multiple levels of namespaces, making for a smoother refactor.

There is no distribution of wxFormBuilder for Debian (Ubuntu, yes), but building locally was flawless.