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wxWindows Book
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<a href="#about">About</a> |
<a href="#participants">Participants</a> |
<a href="#publication">Publication</a> |
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<a href="#format">Format</a> |
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<H3><a name="about">About the wxWindows book</a></H3>

August 2000: the 'wxBook' project is getting going again,
with a good response from potential contributors.<P>

Robin Dunn has set up a <a href="http://wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wxbook">wxBook mailing list</a>.<P>

The book will comprise 30 or so chapters dealing with progressively
more advanced areas of wxWindows; each chapter will be as stand-alone as
possible. The book will
not include the API reference, though this could be a
separate project. The book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM with
wxWindows and its documentation. It will initially be
available on-line, and when enough is done we will look for a
publisher.<P>

There will also be a separate small booklet which can easily be printed
out and which gives an overview of wxWindows facilities by taking
the reader through a single worked example. Guillermo Rodriguez
Garcia has volunteered to write this, and will use his Life!
demo to illustrate it.<P>

Goals for the book:<P>

<ol>
<li> to allow users to become accomplished wxWindows developers rapidly;
<li> to be useful over a longer period than just the first few weeks, since
there are a lot of complex areas to address and not all features will be
used up-front in a project;
<li> to promote wxWindows to a wider audience;
<li> to make at least some money for the authors.
</ol>

<P>

Audience: beginners + experienced wxWindows users, but with reasonable C++
knowledge.<P>

It is suggested that any financial return from the book be allocated on a points system,
with a predefined number of points for chapters, indexing, editing, proof-reading etc.<P>

<p>
<hr>
<p>

<H3><a name="participants">Participants</a></H3>

So far, the following people are interested in taking part in this project:<P>

<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk">Julian Smart</a> -
editor and coordinator of the project; introductory chapter, some other
chapters.
<li><a href="mailto:guille@iies.es">Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia</a> - Separate tutorial booklet;
communication classes (wxSocket, wxXXXServer, some protocol stuff); timing and timers.
<li><a href="mailto:robin@alldunn.com">Robin Dunn</a> - wxPython chapter.
</i>
<li><a href="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">Vadim Zeitlin</a> - drag and drop, several other chapters.
<li><a href="mailto:roebling@uni-freiburg.de">Robert Roebling</a> - not known.
<li><a href="mailto:slavik2@czn.cz">Vaclav Slavik</a> - wxHTML section.
<li><a href="mailto:gtasker@fastpicsystems.com">George Tasker</a> - database chapter.
<li><a href="mailto:moreno@mochima.com">Carlos Moreno</a> - wxImage, wxBitmap.
<li><a href="mailto:Shiv@pspl.co.in">Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan</a> - wxWindows advocacy, convincing your manager,
container classes and strings, comparison with STL
<li><a href="mailto:markusneifer@my-Deja.com">Markus Neifer</a> - user-defined events.

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<li><a href="mailto:csomor@advancedconcepts.ch">Stefan Csomor</a>. The sequence of events i.e. which action provokes which event sequence,
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<li><a href="mailto:tomr@scitechsoft.com">Tom Ryan</a>, SciTech Software.
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<li><a href="mailto:karsten@phy.hw.ac.uk">Karsten Ballueder</a>. Short tutorials on some useful
GNU tools, like autoconf/configure/make, programming
strategies, etc.
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<li><a href="mailto:mheck@www.surveyorcorp.com">Matt Heck</a>, SurveyorCorp Inc.
<i>
<ol>
  <li>a case study of how and why we've used wxWindows at Surveyor Corp., and
  how it's worked out so far;
  <li>an appendix something similar about how to use wxLIVID for video capture and display;
  <li>proofreading
</ol>
-->
</ul>

<P>
Others welcome! Please contact <a href="mailto:julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk">Julian Smart</a>
if you would like to contribute.

<p>
<hr>
<p>

<H3><a name="publication">Publication</a></H3>

We wll investigate publishers, especially O'Reilly. We will have to get together
several sample chapters to convince a publisher that the many-author approach will
work.<P>

<!--
Tom Ryan originally wrote:<P>

<PRE>
Hi Guys,

I just wanted to let you know that I have spoken with officials here 
at California State University, Chico and they are potentially 
interested in publishing a book on wxWindows!  A wxWindows 
book would give wxWindows a great deal of exposure.

These discussions came out of the fact that CSUC wanted to 
switch from MFC to wxWindows in their GUI programming classes, 
but there was not a book available for students to work with. 

I was thinking that the first edition could be primarily the reference 
documentation combined with a basic wxTutorial and examples. In 
this case, it would be fairly straightforward to get something out 
initially and then we could take it from there.
</PRE>

<p>

<a href="mailto:benles@powernet.net">Ben Allfree</a> has also expressed an interest
in publishing a wxWindows book, and distributing it via Amazon. Ben was thinking
in terms of a quickie job using the existing reference manual.<P>

Another publishing name to think of is O'Reilly. They would probably give us a lot
of guidance for style, formatting, etc.<P>

<a href="mailto:Roald.Ribe@winlink.no">Roald Ribe</a> writes:
"<a href="http://www.bruceeckel.com/javabook.html" target=_new>Thinking in Java</a>
is published both as a PDF for internet (by the author) and in print by Prentice Hall."<P>

-->

<P>
<hr>
<P>

<!--

<H3><a name="suggestions">Suggestions and comments</a></H3>

<ul>
<li>Chapter on converting from MFC. (Julian Smart)
<li>A chapter on why some inconsistencies are almost always going to show up in a
multiplatform toolkit, how to avoid them, how to deal with when you have
no choice, and (if wxBook explains the internals or philosophy of
wxWindows at all) how wxWindows attempts to minimize the number we
encounter. (Matt Heck)
<li>Creating the shortest possible path to writing "Hello World" from scratch in wxWindows. (Matt Heck)
<li>How will royalties for subsequent editions be shared out? (Tom Ryan)
<li>"My personal feeling is that this project will wind up being developed 
by a small team, led by an editor that will wind up doing about half 
of the total amount of work." (Tom Ryan)
</ul>

<P>
<hr>
<P>
-->

<H3><a name="format">File format</a></H3>

Possible formats:

<ul>
<li>Word
<li><a href="http://www.abisource.com" target=_top>Abiword</a>: possibly not developed enough yet, but
it can output Latex which would make conversion to Tex2RTF format quite simple
<li>Latex: favoured format so far. The LyX near-WYSIWYG word processor (Unix only) can output Latex.
See also <a href="http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~minten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html" target=_top>NTTex</a>
which uses EMACS as an editor. For an introduction to Latex, see <a href="ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort" target=_top>here</a>.
A free TeX for Windows: see <a href="http://www.miktex.org/" target=_top>MikTex</a>. More TeX info: <a href="http://www.tug.org/" target=_top>TUG</a>.
<li>XML: hard to read/write
<li>SGML: ditto
<li>DocBook: don't have any information about this, but <a href="http://www.LinuxNinja.com/linux-admin/" target=_top>Linux Admin Made Easy</a>
uses it.
<li><a href="http://www.zope.org//Members/jim/StructuredTextWiki/StructuredTextNG" target=_top>Structured text</a> -
plain text with indentation and other elements to provide structure. The tools seem under-developed and there
doesn't seem to be a simple way of getting them without using the CVS Zope archive.
<li>troff - favoured by O'Reilly
</ul>

<P>
<hr>
<P>

<H3><a name="style">Style guide</a></H3>

We should write a style and formatting guide.<P>

<P>
<hr>
<P>

<H3><a name="titles">Book Titles</a></H3>

It would be good to include certain buzzwords such as Linux and open source, to get
a publisher's (and the potential reader's) attention. The trick is to do that and
not narrow the scope unduly.<P>

Suggestions for the main book:<P>

<ul>
<li>Multiplatform GUI development with wxWindows
<li>wxWindows: an open source multiplatform toolkit
<li>wxWindows: GUI development for Linux and other platforms
</ul>

<P>
Other book titles that a publisher might be interested (but would be distinct projects):<P>

<ul>
<li>Writing GTK+ Application Using wxWindows
<li>Migrating MFC Apps to Linux Using wxWindows
</ul>

<P>
<hr>
<P>

<H3><a name="contents">Contents</a></H3>

The following is open to discussion.<P>

<ul>
<li>Chapter 01: Introduction to wxWindows: history, advocacy, future developments
<li>Chapter 02: Installing wxWindows (and what tools to use)
<li>Chapter 03: C++ and wxWindows. Summarises the sorts of constructs used/not used, plus wxString class,
some conventions. Vadim suggests putting it in 1st chapter but I think it deserves a chapter of its own.
<li>Chapter 04: Getting started: Hello World. Introduces app class, frames, menus, status bar, message box
<li>Chapter 05: Basic event handling
<li>Chapter 06: Frames and menubars. The components of a frame, menubars.
<li>Chapter 07: Toolbars and status bars
<li>Chapter 08: Basic controls
<li>Chapter 09: Common dialogs
<li>Chapter 10: Custom dialogs and resources (XML + WXR)
<li>Chapter 11: Drawing on device contexts
<li>Chapter 12: Handling input (mouse, keyboard, joystick)
<li>Chapter 14: Sizers
<li>Chapter 15: Images and bitmaps
<li>Chapter 16: Clipboard and drag and drop
<li>Chapter 17: Advanced controls (list,tree,notebook,splitter,wxWizard,wxCalCtrl...)
<li>Chapter 18: Document/view classes
<li>Chapter 19: Scrolling
<li>Chapter 20: MDI
<li>Chapter 21: Printing
<li>Chapter 22: Providing help in your applications
<li>Chapter 23: Strings and internationalization
<li>Chapter 24: Collection and container classes
<li>Chapter 25: Memory management and debugging (including wxLog)
<li>Chapter 26: Run-time class information
<li>Chapter 27: Advanced event handling (user-defined events, ...)
<li>Chapter 28: Communication classes, including wxSocket
<li>Chapter 29: Database classes
<li>Chapter 30: File and stream classes
<li>Chapter 31: Configuration classes
<li>Chapter 32: Time, timers and idle processing
<li>Chapter 33: Writing multithreading applications
<li>Chapter 34: Perfecting your UI (Adapting to system settings, accelerators, ...)
<li>Chapter 35: Platform-specific programming (metafiles, OLE automation, taskbar, ...)
<li>Chapter 36: Using wxHTML
<li>Chapter 37: Using wxPython
<li>Chapter 38: wxBase?
<li>Appendix: Comparison with other toolkits: MFC, Qt etc.
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	38	<H3><a name="about">About the wxWindows book</a></H3>
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	43	Robin Dunn has set up a <a href="http://wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wxbook">wxBook mailing list</a>.<P>
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	45	The book will comprise 30 or so chapters dealing with progressively
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ad90972f JS	48	not include the API reference, though this could be a
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	54	There will also be a separate small booklet which can easily be printed
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	56	the reader through a single worked example. Guillermo Rodriguez
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	60	Goals for the book:<P>
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	62	<ol>
	63	<li> to allow users to become accomplished wxWindows developers rapidly;
	64	<li> to be useful over a longer period than just the first few weeks, since
	65	there are a lot of complex areas to address and not all features will be
	66	used up-front in a project;
	67	<li> to promote wxWindows to a wider audience;
	68	<li> to make at least some money for the authors.
	69	</ol>
	70
	71	<P>
	72
	73	Audience: beginners + experienced wxWindows users, but with reasonable C++
	74	knowledge.<P>
	75
	76	It is suggested that any financial return from the book be allocated on a points system,
	77	with a predefined number of points for chapters, indexing, editing, proof-reading etc.<P>
	78
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	83	<H3><a name="participants">Participants</a></H3>
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	85	So far, the following people are interested in taking part in this project:<P>
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	87	<ul>
ad90972f JS	88	<li><a href="mailto:julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk">Julian Smart</a> -
	89	editor and coordinator of the project; introductory chapter, some other
	90	chapters.
	91	<li><a href="mailto:guille@iies.es">Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia</a> - Separate tutorial booklet;
	92	communication classes (wxSocket, wxXXXServer, some protocol stuff); timing and timers.
	93	<li><a href="mailto:robin@alldunn.com">Robin Dunn</a> - wxPython chapter.
	94	</i>
9ec98f7c JS	95	<li><a href="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">Vadim Zeitlin</a> - drag and drop, several other chapters.
9ec98f7c JS	96	<li><a href="mailto:roebling@uni-freiburg.de">Robert Roebling</a> - not known.
ad90972f JS	97	<li><a href="mailto:slavik2@czn.cz">Vaclav Slavik</a> - wxHTML section.
	98	<li><a href="mailto:gtasker@fastpicsystems.com">George Tasker</a> - database chapter.
	99	<li><a href="mailto:moreno@mochima.com">Carlos Moreno</a> - wxImage, wxBitmap.
	100	<li><a href="mailto:Shiv@pspl.co.in">Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan</a> - wxWindows advocacy, convincing your manager,
	101	container classes and strings, comparison with STL
	102	<li><a href="mailto:markusneifer@my-Deja.com">Markus Neifer</a> - user-defined events.
	103
	104	<!--
	105	<li><a href="mailto:csomor@advancedconcepts.ch">Stefan Csomor</a>. The sequence of events i.e. which action provokes which event sequence,
	106	this is implicit for the use on MSW, but very important for other systems; and porting to new platforms
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	111	<!--
	112	<li><a href="mailto:karsten@phy.hw.ac.uk">Karsten Ballueder</a>. Short tutorials on some useful
	113	GNU tools, like autoconf/configure/make, programming
	114	strategies, etc.
	115	-->
	116	<!--
bed9b806 JS	117	<li><a href="mailto:mheck@www.surveyorcorp.com">Matt Heck</a>, SurveyorCorp Inc.
	118	<i>
	119	<ol>
	120	<li>a case study of how and why we've used wxWindows at Surveyor Corp., and
	121	how it's worked out so far;
	122	<li>an appendix something similar about how to use wxLIVID for video capture and display;
	123	<li>proofreading
	124	</ol>
ad90972f	125	-->
bed9b806 JS	126	</ul>
bed9b806 JS	127
9ec98f7c JS	128	<P>
	129	Others welcome! Please contact <a href="mailto:julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk">Julian Smart</a>
	130	if you would like to contribute.
	131
	132	<p>
bed9b806	133	<hr>
9ec98f7c	134	<p>
bed9b806 JS	135
	136	<H3><a name="publication">Publication</a></H3>
	137
9ec98f7c JS	138	We wll investigate publishers, especially O'Reilly. We will have to get together
	139	several sample chapters to convince a publisher that the many-author approach will
	140	work.<P>
ad90972f JS	141
ad90972f JS	142	<!--
bed9b806 JS	143	Tom Ryan originally wrote:<P>
	144
	145	<PRE>
	146	Hi Guys,
	147
	148	I just wanted to let you know that I have spoken with officials here
	149	at California State University, Chico and they are potentially
	150	interested in publishing a book on wxWindows! A wxWindows
	151	book would give wxWindows a great deal of exposure.
	152
	153	These discussions came out of the fact that CSUC wanted to
	154	switch from MFC to wxWindows in their GUI programming classes,
	155	but there was not a book available for students to work with.
	156
	157	I was thinking that the first edition could be primarily the reference
	158	documentation combined with a basic wxTutorial and examples. In
	159	this case, it would be fairly straightforward to get something out
	160	initially and then we could take it from there.
	161	</PRE>
	162
	163	<p>
	164
	165	<a href="mailto:benles@powernet.net">Ben Allfree</a> has also expressed an interest
	166	in publishing a wxWindows book, and distributing it via Amazon. Ben was thinking
	167	in terms of a quickie job using the existing reference manual.<P>
	168
	169	Another publishing name to think of is O'Reilly. They would probably give us a lot
	170	of guidance for style, formatting, etc.<P>
	171
c7527e3f JS	172	<a href="mailto:Roald.Ribe@winlink.no">Roald Ribe</a> writes:
	173	"<a href="http://www.bruceeckel.com/javabook.html" target=_new>Thinking in Java</a>
	174	is published both as a PDF for internet (by the author) and in print by Prentice Hall."<P>
bed9b806	175
ad90972f	176	-->
9ec98f7c JS	177
9ec98f7c JS	178	<P>
bed9b806	179	<hr>
9ec98f7c JS	180	<P>
	181
	182	<!--
bed9b806 JS	183
	184	<H3><a name="suggestions">Suggestions and comments</a></H3>
	185
	186	<ul>
	187	<li>Chapter on converting from MFC. (Julian Smart)
	188	<li>A chapter on why some inconsistencies are almost always going to show up in a
	189	multiplatform toolkit, how to avoid them, how to deal with when you have
	190	no choice, and (if wxBook explains the internals or philosophy of
	191	wxWindows at all) how wxWindows attempts to minimize the number we
	192	encounter. (Matt Heck)
	193	<li>Creating the shortest possible path to writing "Hello World" from scratch in wxWindows. (Matt Heck)
	194	<li>How will royalties for subsequent editions be shared out? (Tom Ryan)
	195	<li>"My personal feeling is that this project will wind up being developed
	196	by a small team, led by an editor that will wind up doing about half
	197	of the total amount of work." (Tom Ryan)
	198	</ul>
	199
9ec98f7c JS	200	<P>
	201	<hr>
	202	<P>
	203	-->
	204
	205	<H3><a name="format">File format</a></H3>
	206
	207	Possible formats:
	208
	209	<ul>
	210	<li>Word
	211	<li><a href="http://www.abisource.com" target=_top>Abiword</a>: possibly not developed enough yet, but
	212	it can output Latex which would make conversion to Tex2RTF format quite simple
	213	<li>Latex: favoured format so far. The LyX near-WYSIWYG word processor (Unix only) can output Latex.
	214	See also <a href="http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~minten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html" target=_top>NTTex</a>
	215	which uses EMACS as an editor. For an introduction to Latex, see <a href="ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort" target=_top>here</a>.
	216	A free TeX for Windows: see <a href="http://www.miktex.org/" target=_top>MikTex</a>. More TeX info: <a href="http://www.tug.org/" target=_top>TUG</a>.
	217	<li>XML: hard to read/write
	218	<li>SGML: ditto
	219	<li>DocBook: don't have any information about this, but <a href="http://www.LinuxNinja.com/linux-admin/" target=_top>Linux Admin Made Easy</a>
	220	uses it.
	221	<li><a href="http://www.zope.org//Members/jim/StructuredTextWiki/StructuredTextNG" target=_top>Structured text</a> -
	222	plain text with indentation and other elements to provide structure. The tools seem under-developed and there
	223	doesn't seem to be a simple way of getting them without using the CVS Zope archive.
	224	<li>troff - favoured by O'Reilly
	225	</ul>
	226
	227	<P>
bed9b806	228	<hr>
9ec98f7c	229	<P>
bed9b806	230
9ec98f7c	231	<H3><a name="style">Style guide</a></H3>
bed9b806	232
9ec98f7c	233	We should write a style and formatting guide.<P>
bed9b806	234
9ec98f7c	235	<P>
bed9b806	236	<hr>
9ec98f7c JS	237	<P>
	238
	239	<H3><a name="titles">Book Titles</a></H3>
	240
	241	It would be good to include certain buzzwords such as Linux and open source, to get
	242	a publisher's (and the potential reader's) attention. The trick is to do that and
	243	not narrow the scope unduly.<P>
	244
	245	Suggestions for the main book:<P>
	246
	247	<ul>
	248	<li>Multiplatform GUI development with wxWindows
	249	<li>wxWindows: an open source multiplatform toolkit
	250	<li>wxWindows: GUI development for Linux and other platforms
	251	</ul>
	252
	253	<P>
	254	Other book titles that a publisher might be interested (but would be distinct projects):<P>
	255
	256	<ul>
	257	<li>Writing GTK+ Application Using wxWindows
	258	<li>Migrating MFC Apps to Linux Using wxWindows
	259	</ul>
	260
	261	<P>
	262	<hr>
	263	<P>
bed9b806 JS	264
	265	<H3><a name="contents">Contents</a></H3>
	266
9ec98f7c	267	The following is open to discussion.<P>
bed9b806	268
9ec98f7c JS	269	<ul>
	270	<li>Chapter 01: Introduction to wxWindows: history, advocacy, future developments
	271	<li>Chapter 02: Installing wxWindows (and what tools to use)
	272	<li>Chapter 03: C++ and wxWindows. Summarises the sorts of constructs used/not used, plus wxString class,
	273	some conventions. Vadim suggests putting it in 1st chapter but I think it deserves a chapter of its own.
	274	<li>Chapter 04: Getting started: Hello World. Introduces app class, frames, menus, status bar, message box
	275	<li>Chapter 05: Basic event handling
	276	<li>Chapter 06: Frames and menubars. The components of a frame, menubars.
	277	<li>Chapter 07: Toolbars and status bars
	278	<li>Chapter 08: Basic controls
	279	<li>Chapter 09: Common dialogs
	280	<li>Chapter 10: Custom dialogs and resources (XML + WXR)
	281	<li>Chapter 11: Drawing on device contexts
	282	<li>Chapter 12: Handling input (mouse, keyboard, joystick)
	283	<li>Chapter 14: Sizers
	284	<li>Chapter 15: Images and bitmaps
	285	<li>Chapter 16: Clipboard and drag and drop
	286	<li>Chapter 17: Advanced controls (list,tree,notebook,splitter,wxWizard,wxCalCtrl...)
	287	<li>Chapter 18: Document/view classes
	288	<li>Chapter 19: Scrolling
	289	<li>Chapter 20: MDI
	290	<li>Chapter 21: Printing
	291	<li>Chapter 22: Providing help in your applications
	292	<li>Chapter 23: Strings and internationalization
6342bd1a JS	293	<li>Chapter 24: Collection and container classes
	294	<li>Chapter 25: Memory management and debugging (including wxLog)
	295	<li>Chapter 26: Run-time class information
	296	<li>Chapter 27: Advanced event handling (user-defined events, ...)
	297	<li>Chapter 28: Communication classes, including wxSocket
	298	<li>Chapter 29: Database classes
	299	<li>Chapter 30: File and stream classes
	300	<li>Chapter 31: Configuration classes
	301	<li>Chapter 32: Time, timers and idle processing
	302	<li>Chapter 33: Writing multithreading applications
	303	<li>Chapter 34: Perfecting your UI (Adapting to system settings, accelerators, ...)
	304	<li>Chapter 35: Platform-specific programming (metafiles, OLE automation, taskbar, ...)
	305	<li>Chapter 36: Using wxHTML
	306	<li>Chapter 37: Using wxPython
	307	<li>Chapter 38: wxBase?
9ec98f7c JS	308	<li>Appendix: Comparison with other toolkits: MFC, Qt etc.
9ec98f7c JS	309	</ul>
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