Are Macros Required To Use wxWidgets?

As anybody familiar with the Betteridge’s law of headlines could immediately tell, the answer to the question in the title is, of course, “No” and the goal of this post is to debunk the myth that using wxWidgets C++ API involves dealing with macros. Of course, as anybody familiar with the mythology could also tell, like many good myths, this one is based on the real events, and even if these events happened in the distant past, they left their trace in the historical record, including various forum posts, t