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32 <!-- INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES -->
33
34 <h1>Installation and Release Notes</h1>
35
36 <p>Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux
37 using your distro's package manager), you will probably have to
38 <strong>compile</strong> the wxWidgets library before you can start use
39 it.</p>
40 <p>Please read the platform-specific <tt>readme.txt</tt> and
41 <tt>install.txt</tt> for how to do this:</p>
42
43 <ul>
44 <li>Readme:
45 <a href="readme.txt"><b>General ReadMe</b></a>,
46 <a href="msw/readme.txt">wxMSW</a> (<a href="msw/winxp.txt">wxMSW for WinXP</a>),
47 <a href="gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK</a>,
48 <a href="mac/readme.txt">wxMac</a>,
49 <a href="cocoa/readme.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
50 <a href="motif/readme.txt">wxMotif</a>,
51 <a href="x11/readme.txt">wxX11</a>,
52 <a href="univ/readme.txt">Univ</a>
53 </li>
54 <li>Installation:
55 <a href="msw/install.txt">wxMSW</a>,
56 <a href="gtk/install.txt">wxGTK</a>,
57 <a href="motif/install.txt">wxMotif</a>,
58 <a href="x11/install.txt">wxX11</a>,
59 <a href="mac/install.txt">wxMac</a>,
60 <a href="cocoa/install.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
61 <a href="os2/install.txt">wxOS2</a>
62 </li>
63 <li><a href="changes.txt"><b>General change log</b></a></li>
64 <li>Licence:
65 <a href="preamble.txt">Preamble</a>,
66 <a href="licence.txt">Licence</a>,
67 <a href="licendoc.txt">Documentation Licence</a>,
68 <a href="lgpl.txt">L-GPL</a>,
69 <a href="gpl.txt">GPL</a>
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78 <li><a href="faqgen.htm">General questions</a></font></li>
79 <li><a href="faqcmn.htm">Questions common to all platforms</a></font></li>
80 <li><a href="faqmsw.htm">wxWidgets for Windows</a></font></li>
81 <li><a href="faqgtk.htm">wxWidgets for GTK+</a></font></li>
82 <li><a href="faqmot.htm">wxWidgets for Motif</a></font></li>
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90 <!-- DOCUMENTATION -->
91
92 <h1>Documentation</h1>
93
94 <p>The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of
95 the following formats depends on what you've downloaded from the
96 <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets website</a>:</p>
97
98 <ul>
99 <li><a href="doxygen/out/html/index.html">HTML</a></li>
100 <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.chm">MS HTML Help (CHM)</a></li>
101 <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.htb">wxHTML Help (HTB)</a></li>
102 <li><a href="doxygen/out/rtf/refman.rtf">Rich Text Format (RTF)</a></li>
103 <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF)</a></li>
104 </ul>
105
106 <p>To use the manual in the <b>wxHTML Help</b> format (extension
107 <tt>htb</tt>), you can use the <b>HelpView</b> application, compiling it
108 from the <tt>utils/helpview</tt> folder in the wxWidgets
109 distribution.</p>
110
111 <p>Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other
112 <strong>resources</strong> which can help to learn wxWidgets
113 programming:</p>
114
115 <ul>
116 <li><a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">The wxWidgets website</a>: Contains
117 FAQs, tutorials, info about the mailing lists, and in general
118 everything related to the wxWidgets world is linked here.</li>
119 <li><a href="http://wxforum.shadonet.com/">The wxWidgets forum</a>:
120 Provides a discussion board about various wxWidgets topics (contains
121 also <em>localized</em> forums).</li>
122 <li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/">The wxWiki</a>: A user-editable
123 website with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources,
124 etc.</li>
125 </ul>
126
127 <!-- TECHNICAL NOTES -->
128
129 <h1>Technical Notes</h1>
130
131 <p>Technical notes contains informations useful only to wxWidgets developers
132 for the maintainance of the project:</p>
133
134 <ul>
135 <li><a href="tech/index.txt">Index of Technical Notes</a></li>
136 <li><a href="tech/">Technical Notes</a></li>
137 </ul>
138
139 <p>Todo List for wxWidgets:</p>
140
141 <ul>
142 <li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_Todo_List">wxWiki Todo List</a></li>
143 <li><a href="doxygen/out/html/todo.html">Documentation Todo List</a></li>
144 </ul>
145
146 <!-- DEMOS -->
147
148 <h1>Demos</h1>
149
150 <p>The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some
151 features of wxWidgets (for a list of the 70+ samples please look at the
152 manual):</p>
153
154 <ul>
155 <li><a href="../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.</li>
156 <li><a href="../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.</li>
157 <li><a href="../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.</li>
158 <li><a href="../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway,
159 implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.</li>
160 <li><a href="../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.</li>
161 </ul>
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