git.saurik.com Git - wxWidgets.git/blame_incremental

... / ...

Commit	Line	Data
	1	<HTML>
	2
	3	<HEAD>
	4	<TITLE>News</TITLE>
	5	</HEAD>
	6
	7	<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF TEXT=#000000 LINK=#FF0000 VLINK=#000000>
	8
	9	<font face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica">
	10
	11	<table width=100% border=4 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0>
	12	<tr>
	13	<td bgcolor="#660000">
	14	<font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">
	15	News
	16	</font>
	17	</td>
	18	</tr>
	19	</table>
	20
	21	<H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
	22
	23	Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
	24	made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
	25	for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
	26
	27	Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
	28	was release are:
	29
	30	<ul>
	31	<li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
	32	holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
	33	<li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
	34	specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
	35	<li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
	36	features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
	37	<li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
	38	having undergone a complete rewrite.
	39	<li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
	40	<li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
	41	API and features.
	42	</ul>
	43
	44
	45
	46	<H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
	47
	48	We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
	49	which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
	50	Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
	51	<P>
	52	If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
	53	developers mailing list!
	54
	55	<H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
	56
	57	<ul>
	58	<li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
	59	<li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
	60	MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
	61	development easier.
	62	<li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
	63	</ul>
	64
	65	<H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
	66
	67	wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
	68
	69	<ul>
	70	<li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
	71	the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
	72	<a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
	73	</ul>
	74
	75	<H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
	76
	77	<ul>
	78	<li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.68E">wxWindows 1.68E</a> contains minor bug fixes and now compiles with MS VC++ 6.0, and
	79	(hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
	80	<li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
	81	on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
	82	major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
	83	Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
	84	something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
	85	<li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
	86	is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
	87	<li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
	88	<li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
	89	are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
	90	source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
	91	is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
	92	work on persistent storage classes.
	93	</ul>
	94
	95	<H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
	96
	97	<ul>
	98	<li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
	99	since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
	100	</ul>
	101
	102	<H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
	103
	104	<ul>
	105	<li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
	106	and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
	107	<li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
	108	</ul>
	109
	110	<H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
	111
	112	<ul>
	113	<li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
	114	and Mingw32.
	115	<li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
	116	plus a few small bug fixes.
	117	</ul>
	118
	119	<H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
	120
	121	<ul>
	122	<li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
	123	for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
	124	</ul>
	125
	126	<H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
	127
	128	<ul>
	129	<li>Happy New Year!
	130	<li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
	131	<li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
	132	by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
	133	environment project).
	134	<li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
	135	has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
	136	and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
	137	<li>There is a new <a href="http://wxwin.projects.ml.org" target=_top>wxWindows Developers Site</a> in preparation, for people developing ports of
	138	wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
	139	<li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
	140	<li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
	141	</ul>
	142
	143	<H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
	144
	145	<ul>
	146	<li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
	147	<li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
	148	<I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
	149	</ul>
	150
	151	<H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
	152
	153	<ul>
	154	<li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
	155	</ul>
	156
	157	<H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
	158
	159	<ul>
	160	<li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
	161	<li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
	162	by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
	163	</ul>
	164
	165	<H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
	166
	167	<ul>
	168	<li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
	169	please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
	170	<li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
	171	NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
	172	<li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
	173	documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
	174	will be including with the distribution from now on.
	175	</ul>
	176
	177	<H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
	178
	179	<ul>
	180	<li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
	181	- developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
	182	date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
	183	<li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
	184	fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
	185	of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
	186	</ul>
	187
	188	<H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
	189
	190	<ul>
	191	<li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
	192	- thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
	193	commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
	194	his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
	195	<li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
	196	<a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
	197	network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
	198	for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
	199	classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
	200	it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
	201	<li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
	202	<a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
	203	effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
	204	by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
	205	a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
	206	an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
	207	and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
	208	to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
	209	Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
	210	</ul>
	211
	212	<P>
	213
	214	<H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
	215
	216	<ul>
	217	<li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
	218	their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
	219	added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
	220	<li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
	221	<a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
	222	environment for Linux.
	223	<li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
	224	<A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
	225	directory.
	226	</ul>
	227
	228	<P>
	229
	230	<H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
	231
	232	<ul>
	233	<li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
	234	<a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
	235	<li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
	236	encourage you to read.
	237	<li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
	238	(and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
	239	<li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
	240	<li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
	241	<li><a href="mailto:grw@market.net">Greg Whitehead</a> is taking a look at what's involved for a Mac port of 2.0, possibly using MetroWerks' PowerPlant
	242	classes to speed up development.
	243	</ul>
	244
	245	<P>
	246	<H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
	247
	248	<ul>
	249	<li>Check out C-LAB's <a href="http://www.c-lab.de/~lipuser/lip" TARGET=_top>Lean Integration Platform</a> written in wxWindows/wxLisp: it's
	250	a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
	251	<li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
	252	<li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
	253	New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
	254	port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
	255	the momentum going is needed!
	256	</ul>
	257
	258	<P>
	259
	260	<H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
	261
	262	<ul>
	263	<li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
	264	Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
	265	<li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
	266	and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
	267	and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
	268	</ul>
	269
	270	<P>
	271
	272	<H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
	273
	274	<ul>
	275	<li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
	276	for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
	277	<li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
	278	enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
	279	<li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
	280	to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
	281	page will shortly contain more details.
	282	<li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
	283	list addresses.
	284	</ul>
	285
	286	<P>
	287
	288	</font>
	289
	290	</BODY>
	291
	292	</HTML>