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1 How to add a new sample to wxWidgets.
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3
4To add a new sample "foo" under directory "samples/foo" you need to do
5the following: (note that all this applies also to demos: just replace
6samples/ with demos/ where needed).
7
81. Create the directory samples/foo locally and "svn add" it.
9
102. "svn add" the sample sources (usually based on minimal.cpp) as well.
11
12 Note that unless your sample requires something special you shouldn't
13 add foo.rc, foo.ico, ... any more, please just reuse the generic sample.*
14 files in the samples subdirectory.
15
163. Create the makefiles:
17 a) modify samples/samples.bkl (just copy an existing line)
18 b) create foo.bkl (sed 's/minimal/foo/g' minimal.bkl > foo.bkl is usually
19 enough, but you may need to add more <wx-lib> lines if your sample uses
20 anything not in the core lib)
21 c) generate the makefiles for your sample using bakefile. For this you
22 need to:
23 (i) install bakefile (see http://bakefile.sf.net/)
24 (ii) run bakefile_gen in build/bakefiles which will regenerate all
25 makefiles which are not up to date
26
27 You may also use "bakefile_gen -b ../../samples/foo/foo.bkl" to
28 regenerate only the makefiles for this sample (path must be relative!)
29 or even add a "-f<compiler>" to generate just the makefiles for the given
30 compiler (run 'bakefile --help' to get the list of possible values).
31 See Technote #16 for more information.
32 d) currently samples/samples.dsw needs to be updated manually as it's not
33 generated by bakefile.
34
354. Modify configure.in Unix compilation:
36 a) if the sample should only be built if "wxUSE_FOO" is enabled, locate
37 the test for "wxUSE_FOO = yes" in configure.in and add a line
38 SAMPLES_SUBDIRS="$SAMPLES_SUBDIRS foo" under it
39 b) if it should be always built, locate the line "if test $wxUSE_GUI = yes"
40 near the end of configure.in and modify the assignment to
41 SAMPLES_SUBDIRS to include "foo" (put in alphabetical order)
42
43 After this, regenerate configure from configure.in
44 by running "autoconf" on a Unix system in the corresponding directory.
45
465. Add a short description of what the sample does and how does it work
47 to the "samples overview" section in the wxWidgets manual. That section
48 lives in docs/doxygen/mainpages/samples.h; look at the descriptions for
49 other samples, if you are not familiar with Doxygen.
50
516. Add any non-standard sample's files to build/bakefiles/make_dist.mk (the
52 makefiles copies all bmp, cpp, h, ico, png, rc, xpm and makefiles by
53 default, you only need to update it if the sample uses some other files)
54 and run the ./update-manifests.sh script in distrib/scripts (don't forget
55 to check the changes to manifests/*.rsp files in).
56
57=== EOF ===
58
59Author: VZ
60Version: $Id$