Towards the end of a previous post I’ve exposed my thought of a wxWidgets plugin for NetBeans, more specifically, a plugin for C++ wxWidgets. If you have followed the tutorial through, you’ve probably realized how difficult it is to set up wxWidgets to be used on Windows using NetBeans. Even after the environment is completely configured, you still lack the power of tools like Matisse to prototype your frames. For now, a simple tool will address this problem: it’s called wxMatisse. wxMatisse is a tool that uses windows created by Matisse to create equivalent windows in C++ wxWidgets.

Setting up a wxWidgets project on Windows using NetBeans 6.0 is quite harder than doing the same on Linux, but if you want to be able to use the powerful features of NetBeans instead of smaller IDEs like wxDev-cpp, here is a quick guide to setup your environment.