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