File Workbench

General

FileWorkbench is a cross platform open source application. It’s core part is developed in C++. It can be customized and extended either through:

• Squirrel scripts
• Binary plugins

Building

The Building page has instructions on how to build FWB from sources.

Contributing

FileWorkbench is open source and open to contribution.

Used Components

It builds on a number of other opens source libraries, such as:

• wxWidgets – Cross platform GUI library
• Squirrel – Scripting library
• SqPlus – Script bindings library
• PCRE – Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
• TinyXML – XML parsing library
• wxStEdit – High level Scintilla based text editor
• wxFlatNotebook – Notebook functionality

Exported Components

To this collection of libraries, it adds some new libraries, available to others:

• wxRL – Scripted main window and dialog layout
• DynObj – Generic dynamic C++ binary plugin classes

Given it’s C/C++ nature, it is comparatively easy to bind platform specific parts into the FWB environment.

It also has a moderate resource consumption (compared to Java and .NET application frameworks).