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To use manuals in wxHTML Help form (extension htb), you can use the <b>HelpView</b>
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or downloading a binary, for example from <a href="http://www.storylinescentral.com/helpview.htm">here</a>.<P>

See also the <a href="../pdf/wxTutorial.pdf">wxWidgets Tutorial</a>
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Each of the following samples demonstrates one or more aspect of wxWidgets.<P>

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<li><a href="../../samples/artprov">artprov</a>: shows how you can customize the look of standard
wxWidgets dialogs by replacing default bitmaps/icons with your own versions.
<li><a href="../../samples/calendar">calendar</a>: a sample to test the wxCalendarCtrl class.
<li><a href="../../samples/caret">caret</a>: a sample to test the wxCaret class.
<li><a href="../../samples/checklst">checklst</a>: demonstrates wxCheckListBox on
supported platforms (currently Windows and GTK only).
<li><a href="../../samples/config">config</a>: demonstrates use of wxConfig, which
defaults to wxRegConfig on WIN32 (optionally wxIniConfig), and wxFileConfig on other platforms.
<li><a href="../../samples/console">console</a>: demonstrates a console application using
console-mode (no-GUI) compilation of wxWidgets.
<li><a href="../../samples/controls">controls</a>: sample showing a variety of controls, including
wxNotebook.
<li><a href="../../samples/db">db</a>: wxDB ODBC sample.
<li><a href="../../samples/dialogs">dialogs</a>: shows some of the common dialogs available -- wxFontDialog,
wxColourDialog, wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog, wxMessageBox, wxTextEntryDialog, wxSingleChoiceDialog.
For printing-related dialogs, see the printing sample.
<li><a href="../../samples/dialup">dialup</a>: wxDialUpManager demo.
<li><a href="../../samples/dnd">dnd</a>: demonstrates drag and drop on supported platforms.
<li><a href="../../samples/docview">docview</a>: demonstrates use of the document view classes,
using wxFrame.
<li><a href="../../samples/docvwmdi">docvwmdi</a>: demonstrates use of the document view classes,
using wxMDIParentFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
<li><a href="../../samples/dragimag">dragimag</a>: wxDragImage demo.
<li><a href="../../samples/drawing">drawing</a>: tests device context drawing.
<li><a href="../../samples/dynamic">dynamic</a>: shows how to connect events to member functions
dynamically.
<li><a href="../../samples/event">event</a>: demonstrates event handling.
<li><a href="../../samples/exec">exec</a>: demonstrates wxExecute.
<li><a href="../../samples/font">font</a>: tests fonts, font enumerator, font encodings.
<li><a href="../../samples/grid">grid</a>: demonstrates the wxGrid class.
<li><a href="../../samples/help">help</a>: shows how to use wxHelpController.
<li><a href="../../samples/html">html</a>: a number of demos for the wxHTML class library, used inside
applications and also as a help facility.
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  <li><a href="../../samples/html/about">about</a>: shows use of a wxHTML widget inside an About box.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/help">help</a>: shows use of wxHtmlHelpController to display wxHTML help.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/helpview">helpview</a>: a stand-alone wxHTML help viewer for any .htb book.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/printing">printing</a>: shows how easy it is to preview and print HTML files.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/test">test</a>: general wxHTML test application.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/virtual">virtual</a>: demonstrates the virtual file system feature.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/widget">widget</a>: demonstrates the use of controls in HTML pages.
  <li><a href="../../samples/html/zip">zip</a>: shows how help files can be packaged in zip archives.
  </ul>
<li><a href="../../samples/image">image</a>: shows off the cross-platform wxImage class.
<li><a href="../../samples/ipc">ipc</a>: shows the DDE-like protocol in action, both using real
DDE on Windows, and TCP/IP on all platforms. Edit <a href="../../samples/ipc/ddesetup.h">ddesetup.h</a>
to switch between compilation modes.
<li><a href="../../samples/internat">internat</a>: use of wxWidgets' internationalization support.
<li><a href="../../samples/joytest">joytest</a>: tests the wxJoystick class (currently Windows and GTK only).
<li><a href="../../samples/keyboard">keyboard</a>: tests keyboard support.
<li><a href="../../samples/layout">layout</a>: shows the constraint layout system in action.
<li><a href="../../samples/listctrl">listctrl</a>: demonstrates the wxListCtrl (implemented natively on
WIN32, and using a generic version on other platforms).
<li><a href="../../samples/menu">menu</a>: tests menus.
<li><a href="../../samples/mdi">mdi</a>: shows off the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) classes. On Windows, the regular MDI
scheme is used whereby child windows have full sizing and moving rights within the main
window. On other platforms, tabbed windows are used, where the children are always maximized.
<li><a href="../../samples/memcheck">memcheck</a>: demonstrates the memory checking/debugging facilities.
<li><a href="../../samples/mfc">mfc</a>: shows how to use MFC and wxWidgets code in the same application (Windows only).
To compile this, you must edit include/wx/wxprec.h, comment out the windows.h inclusion, and recompile wxWidgets.
<li><a href="../../samples/minifram">minifram</a>: demonstrates a frame with a small title bar. On
platforms that don't support it, a normal-sized title bar is displayed.
<li><a href="../../samples/minimal">minimal</a>: just shows a frame, a menubar, and a statusbar. About as
small a wxWidgets application as you can get.
<li><a href="../../samples/mobile">mobile</a>: mini applications for embedded platforms.
<li><a href="../../samples/nativdlg">nativdlg</a>: shows how wxWidgets can load a standard Windows
dialog resource, translating the controls into wxWidgets controls (Windows only).
<li><a href="../../samples/notebook">notebook</a>: shows the wxNotebook (tabbed window) control.
<li><a href="../../samples/oleauto">oleauto</a>: a little OLE automation controller (Windows only; requires
Excel to be present).
<li><a href="../../samples/ownerdrw">ownerdrw</a>: demonstrates owner-draw menus and controls (Windows only).
<li><a href="../../samples/png">png</a>: demonstrates PNG loading.
<li><a href="../../samples/printing">printing</a>: shows printing and previewing.
<li><a href="../../samples/propsize">propsize</a>: demonstrates proportional sizer classes.
<li><a href="../../samples/regtest">regtest</a>: tests the low-level Windows registry functions (Windows only).
<!-- <li><a href="../../samples/richedit">richedit</a>: a work-in-progress rich text editor with plain text and HTML export
facilities.
-->
<li><a href="../../samples/rotate">rotate</a>: demonstrates interpolated and non-interpolated
rotation of a wxImage.
<li><a href="../../samples/sashtest">sashtest</a>: demonstrates use of the wxSashWindow class to allow
the user to resize subwindows.
<li><a href="../../samples/scroll">scroll</a>: demonstrates wxScrolledWindow.
<li><a href="../../samples/scrollsub">scrollsub</a>: demonstrates the use of wxScrolledWindow to scroll
an embedded window.
<li><a href="../../samples/sockets">sockets</a>: demonstrates the TCP/IP family of classes.
<li><a href="../../samples/splash">splash</a>: demonstrates use of the wxSplashScreen class.
<li><a href="../../samples/splitter">splitter</a>: demonstrates the wxSplitterWindow class.
<li><a href="../../samples/statbar">statbar</a>: demonstrates the wxStatusBar class.
<li><a href="../../samples/taskbar">taskbar</a>: demonstrates the wxTaskBarIcon class, for
adding icons to the system tray. Windows only, but may eventually be implemented for other desktop
environments that use this metaphor.
<li><a href="../../samples/text">text</a>: demonstrates single and multiline text controls,
and clipboard operations.
<li><a href="../../samples/thread">thread</a>: tests the family of classes for doing thread
programming.
<li><a href="../../samples/toolbar">toolbar</a>: demonstrates wxToolBar.
<li><a href="../../samples/treectrl">treectrl</a>: demonstrates wxTreeCtrl.
<li><a href="../../samples/typetest">typetest</a>: tests various data type classes, including
wxTime, wxDate and wxVariant.
<li><a href="../../samples/validate">validate</a>: shows simple use of validation.
<li><a href="../../samples/wizard">wizard</a>: demonstrates the wxWizard class.
<li><a href="../../samples/xrc">xrc</a>: demonstrates the XRC resource system.
</ul>

The following are deprecated samples.

<ul>
<li><a href="../../contrib/deprecated/samples/resource">resource</a>: shows how to use old-style wxWidgets resources (.wxr files).
<li><a href="../../contrib/deprecated/samples/proplist">proplist</a>: demonstrates the property list classes (a VB-style property editor).
<li><a href="../../contrib/deprecated/samples/treelay">treelay</a>: an algorithm for displaying tree hierarchies.
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The following are fully-fledged applications.<P>

<ul>
<li><a href="../../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.
<li><a href="../../demos/dbbrowse">dbbrowse</a>: ODBC database browser application.
<li><a href="../../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.
<li><a href="../../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.
<li><a href="../../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway, implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.
<li><a href="../../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.
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fc2171bd JS	47	Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets using RPMs,
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7be6137a JS	49	Please read the platform-specific readme.txt and install.txt
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2dc5505e JS	56	<a href="../gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK</a>,
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e492150d JS	59	<a href="../x11/readme-nanox.txt">wxNanoX</a>,
	60	<a href="../msw/readme.txt">wxMSW</a>,
	61	<a href="../mac/readme.txt">wxMac</a>,
	62	<a href="../mgl/readme.txt">wxMGL</a>,
	63	<a href="../univ/readme.txt">Univ</a>
ddcc5f5b JS	64	<li>Installation: <a href="../gtk/install.txt">wxGTK</a>,
ddcc5f5b JS	65	<a href="../motif/install.txt">wxMotif</a>,
69477ac4	66	<a href="../x11/install.txt">wxX11</a>,
e492150d JS	67	<a href="../msw/install.txt">wxMSW</a>,
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	69	<a href="../mgl/install.txt">wxMGL</a>,
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	71	<li><a href="../changes.txt"><b>General change log</b></a>, <a href="../gtk/changes.txt">wxGTK change log</a>
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fc2171bd JS	80	<li><a href="faqgtk.htm">wxWidgets 2 for GTK+</a>
	81	<li><a href="faqmsw.htm">wxWidgets 2 for Windows</a>
	82	<li><a href="faqmot.htm">wxWidgets 2 for Motif</a>
	83	<li><a href="faqx11.htm">wxWidgets 2 for X11</a>
	84	<li><a href="faqmac.htm">wxWidgets 2 for Mac</a>
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2dc5505e JS	86	<li>ToDo: <a href="../todo.txt"><b>General ToDo</b></a>,
2dc5505e JS	87	<a href="../gtk/todo.txt">wxGTK</a>,
ddcc5f5b	88	<a href="../motif/todo.txt">wxMotif</a>,
7be6137a JS	89	<a href="../msw/todo.txt">wxMSW</a>,
7be6137a JS	90	<a href="../mac/todo.txt">wxMac</a>
fc2171bd	91	<li>List of <a href="../symbols.txt">preprocessor symbols</a> used in wxWidgets
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	116	or downloading a binary, for example from <a href="http://www.storylinescentral.com/helpview.htm">here</a>.<P>
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fc2171bd	118	See also the <a href="../pdf/wxTutorial.pdf">wxWidgets Tutorial</a>
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	286	<P>
7921cf2b	287
fc2171bd	288	Each of the following samples demonstrates one or more aspect of wxWidgets.<P>
457e6c54	289
7921cf2b	290	<ul>
2a3476f2	291	<li><a href="../../samples/artprov">artprov</a>: shows how you can customize the look of standard
fc2171bd	292	wxWidgets dialogs by replacing default bitmaps/icons with your own versions.
1cf4526d	293	<li><a href="../../samples/calendar">calendar</a>: a sample to test the wxCalendarCtrl class.
edc26c4c	294	<li><a href="../../samples/caret">caret</a>: a sample to test the wxCaret class.
7921cf2b JS	295	<li><a href="../../samples/checklst">checklst</a>: demonstrates wxCheckListBox on
	296	supported platforms (currently Windows and GTK only).
	297	<li><a href="../../samples/config">config</a>: demonstrates use of wxConfig, which
3a5bcc4d	298	defaults to wxRegConfig on WIN32 (optionally wxIniConfig), and wxFileConfig on other platforms.
1a7f3062	299	<li><a href="../../samples/console">console</a>: demonstrates a console application using
fc2171bd	300	console-mode (no-GUI) compilation of wxWidgets.
7921cf2b JS	301	<li><a href="../../samples/controls">controls</a>: sample showing a variety of controls, including
	302	wxNotebook.
	303	<li><a href="../../samples/db">db</a>: wxDB ODBC sample.
7921cf2b JS	304	<li><a href="../../samples/dialogs">dialogs</a>: shows some of the common dialogs available -- wxFontDialog,
	305	wxColourDialog, wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog, wxMessageBox, wxTextEntryDialog, wxSingleChoiceDialog.
	306	For printing-related dialogs, see the printing sample.
7b28757f	307	<li><a href="../../samples/dialup">dialup</a>: wxDialUpManager demo.
7921cf2b JS	308	<li><a href="../../samples/dnd">dnd</a>: demonstrates drag and drop on supported platforms.
	309	<li><a href="../../samples/docview">docview</a>: demonstrates use of the document view classes,
	310	using wxFrame.
7b28757f	311	<li><a href="../../samples/docvwmdi">docvwmdi</a>: demonstrates use of the document view classes,
7921cf2b	312	using wxMDIParentFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2a3476f2	313	<li><a href="../../samples/dragimag">dragimag</a>: wxDragImage demo.
25f47127	314	<li><a href="../../samples/drawing">drawing</a>: tests device context drawing.
7921cf2b JS	315	<li><a href="../../samples/dynamic">dynamic</a>: shows how to connect events to member functions
7921cf2b JS	316	dynamically.
d35b028e	317	<li><a href="../../samples/event">event</a>: demonstrates event handling.
76a4f50d	318	<li><a href="../../samples/exec">exec</a>: demonstrates wxExecute.
ad556aa9	319	<li><a href="../../samples/font">font</a>: tests fonts, font enumerator, font encodings.
4a9dba0e	320	<li><a href="../../samples/grid">grid</a>: demonstrates the wxGrid class.
7921cf2b	321	<li><a href="../../samples/help">help</a>: shows how to use wxHelpController.
edc26c4c JS	322	<li><a href="../../samples/html">html</a>: a number of demos for the wxHTML class library, used inside
edc26c4c JS	323	applications and also as a help facility.
9ffdee80 JS	324	<ul>
	325	<li><a href="../../samples/html/about">about</a>: shows use of a wxHTML widget inside an About box.
	326	<li><a href="../../samples/html/help">help</a>: shows use of wxHtmlHelpController to display wxHTML help.
0d3a69ec	327	<li><a href="../../samples/html/helpview">helpview</a>: a stand-alone wxHTML help viewer for any .htb book.
9ffdee80 JS	328	<li><a href="../../samples/html/printing">printing</a>: shows how easy it is to preview and print HTML files.
	329	<li><a href="../../samples/html/test">test</a>: general wxHTML test application.
	330	<li><a href="../../samples/html/virtual">virtual</a>: demonstrates the virtual file system feature.
	331	<li><a href="../../samples/html/widget">widget</a>: demonstrates the use of controls in HTML pages.
	332	<li><a href="../../samples/html/zip">zip</a>: shows how help files can be packaged in zip archives.
	333	</ul>
7921cf2b	334	<li><a href="../../samples/image">image</a>: shows off the cross-platform wxImage class.
2a3476f2 JS	335	<li><a href="../../samples/ipc">ipc</a>: shows the DDE-like protocol in action, both using real
	336	DDE on Windows, and TCP/IP on all platforms. Edit <a href="../../samples/ipc/ddesetup.h">ddesetup.h</a>
	337	to switch between compilation modes.
fc2171bd	338	<li><a href="../../samples/internat">internat</a>: use of wxWidgets' internationalization support.
7921cf2b	339	<li><a href="../../samples/joytest">joytest</a>: tests the wxJoystick class (currently Windows and GTK only).
e492150d	340	<li><a href="../../samples/keyboard">keyboard</a>: tests keyboard support.
7921cf2b JS	341	<li><a href="../../samples/layout">layout</a>: shows the constraint layout system in action.
	342	<li><a href="../../samples/listctrl">listctrl</a>: demonstrates the wxListCtrl (implemented natively on
	343	WIN32, and using a generic version on other platforms).
ad556aa9	344	<li><a href="../../samples/menu">menu</a>: tests menus.
7921cf2b JS	345	<li><a href="../../samples/mdi">mdi</a>: shows off the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) classes. On Windows, the regular MDI
	346	scheme is used whereby child windows have full sizing and moving rights within the main
	347	window. On other platforms, tabbed windows are used, where the children are always maximized.
	348	<li><a href="../../samples/memcheck">memcheck</a>: demonstrates the memory checking/debugging facilities.
fc2171bd JS	349	<li><a href="../../samples/mfc">mfc</a>: shows how to use MFC and wxWidgets code in the same application (Windows only).
fc2171bd JS	350	To compile this, you must edit include/wx/wxprec.h, comment out the windows.h inclusion, and recompile wxWidgets.
7921cf2b JS	351	<li><a href="../../samples/minifram">minifram</a>: demonstrates a frame with a small title bar. On
	352	platforms that don't support it, a normal-sized title bar is displayed.
	353	<li><a href="../../samples/minimal">minimal</a>: just shows a frame, a menubar, and a statusbar. About as
fc2171bd	354	small a wxWidgets application as you can get.
e492150d	355	<li><a href="../../samples/mobile">mobile</a>: mini applications for embedded platforms.
fc2171bd JS	356	<li><a href="../../samples/nativdlg">nativdlg</a>: shows how wxWidgets can load a standard Windows
fc2171bd JS	357	dialog resource, translating the controls into wxWidgets controls (Windows only).
7921cf2b JS	358	<li><a href="../../samples/notebook">notebook</a>: shows the wxNotebook (tabbed window) control.
	359	<li><a href="../../samples/oleauto">oleauto</a>: a little OLE automation controller (Windows only; requires
	360	Excel to be present).
	361	<li><a href="../../samples/ownerdrw">ownerdrw</a>: demonstrates owner-draw menus and controls (Windows only).
	362	<li><a href="../../samples/png">png</a>: demonstrates PNG loading.
	363	<li><a href="../../samples/printing">printing</a>: shows printing and previewing.
c3b177ae	364	<li><a href="../../samples/propsize">propsize</a>: demonstrates proportional sizer classes.
7921cf2b	365	<li><a href="../../samples/regtest">regtest</a>: tests the low-level Windows registry functions (Windows only).
e492150d	366	<!-- <li><a href="../../samples/richedit">richedit</a>: a work-in-progress rich text editor with plain text and HTML export
edc26c4c	367	facilities.
e492150d	368	-->
457e6c54 JS	369	<li><a href="../../samples/rotate">rotate</a>: demonstrates interpolated and non-interpolated
457e6c54 JS	370	rotation of a wxImage.
7921cf2b JS	371	<li><a href="../../samples/sashtest">sashtest</a>: demonstrates use of the wxSashWindow class to allow
7921cf2b JS	372	the user to resize subwindows.
ad556aa9 JS	373	<li><a href="../../samples/scroll">scroll</a>: demonstrates wxScrolledWindow.
	374	<li><a href="../../samples/scrollsub">scrollsub</a>: demonstrates the use of wxScrolledWindow to scroll
	375	an embedded window.
1cf4526d	376	<li><a href="../../samples/sockets">sockets</a>: demonstrates the TCP/IP family of classes.
daa9deb2	377	<li><a href="../../samples/splash">splash</a>: demonstrates use of the wxSplashScreen class.
7921cf2b	378	<li><a href="../../samples/splitter">splitter</a>: demonstrates the wxSplitterWindow class.
0d3a69ec	379	<li><a href="../../samples/statbar">statbar</a>: demonstrates the wxStatusBar class.
7921cf2b JS	380	<li><a href="../../samples/taskbar">taskbar</a>: demonstrates the wxTaskBarIcon class, for
	381	adding icons to the system tray. Windows only, but may eventually be implemented for other desktop
	382	environments that use this metaphor.
edc26c4c JS	383	<li><a href="../../samples/text">text</a>: demonstrates single and multiline text controls,
edc26c4c JS	384	and clipboard operations.
7921cf2b JS	385	<li><a href="../../samples/thread">thread</a>: tests the family of classes for doing thread
	386	programming.
	387	<li><a href="../../samples/toolbar">toolbar</a>: demonstrates wxToolBar.
	388	<li><a href="../../samples/treectrl">treectrl</a>: demonstrates wxTreeCtrl.
	389	<li><a href="../../samples/typetest">typetest</a>: tests various data type classes, including
	390	wxTime, wxDate and wxVariant.
	391	<li><a href="../../samples/validate">validate</a>: shows simple use of validation.
2723cfeb	392	<li><a href="../../samples/wizard">wizard</a>: demonstrates the wxWizard class.
2a3476f2	393	<li><a href="../../samples/xrc">xrc</a>: demonstrates the XRC resource system.
1cf4526d JS	394	</ul>
1cf4526d JS	395
7c9955d1 JS	396	The following are deprecated samples.
	397
	398	<ul>
fc2171bd	399	<li><a href="../../contrib/deprecated/samples/resource">resource</a>: shows how to use old-style wxWidgets resources (.wxr files).
7c9955d1 JS	400	<li><a href="../../contrib/deprecated/samples/proplist">proplist</a>: demonstrates the property list classes (a VB-style property editor).
	401	<li><a href="../../contrib/deprecated/samples/treelay">treelay</a>: an algorithm for displaying tree hierarchies.
	402	</ul>
	403
	404
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	409	<td bgcolor="#004080" align=left height=24 background="images/bluetitlegradient.gif">
	410	<font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">
	411	<b><a name="demos">Demos</a></b>
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	413	</td>
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1cf4526d	418
457e6c54 JS	419	The following are fully-fledged applications.<P>
457e6c54 JS	420
1cf4526d JS	421	<ul>
1cf4526d JS	422	<li><a href="../../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.
457e6c54 JS	423	<li><a href="../../demos/dbbrowse">dbbrowse</a>: ODBC database browser application.
457e6c54 JS	424	<li><a href="../../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.
1cf4526d	425	<li><a href="../../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.
fc2171bd	426	<li><a href="../../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway, implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.
1cf4526d	427	<li><a href="../../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.
7921cf2b JS	428	</ul>
7921cf2b JS	429
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