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	1	wxUniversal README
	2	==================
	3
	4	Welcome to wxUniversal!
	5
	6	Acknowledgements: wxUniversal wouldn't have been written without the
	7	generous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Bennett and
	8	Tom Ryan!
	9
	10	0. Introduction
	11	---------------
	12
	13	wxUniversal is a port of wxWindows which implements the various GUI controls
	14	by drawing them itself (using low level wxWindows classes). Please see
	15
	16	http://www.wxwindows.org/wxuniv.htm
	17
	18	for more details about it.
	19
	20	The advantage of wxUniversal is that you have precise control over the
	21	controls' appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the
	22	native controls) and the theme support: the same program may be changed to
	23	look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but
	24	just changing the theme.
	25
	26	Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWindows for other
	27	platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special
	28	interest to people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform.
	29
	30	However, wxUniversal doesn't have a 100% native look and feel unlike the
	31	other wxWindows ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility.
	32
	33	1. Requirements and supported platforms
	34	---------------------------------------
	35
	36	wxUniversal is used together with another wxWindows port which provides the
	37	"low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built with wxMSW,
	38	wxGTK or wxX11. In any case, you should download the sources for the
	39	appropriate toolkit in addition to wxUniversal - in fact, you should download
	40	them first and then unpack wxUniversal in the same directory.
	41
	42	The requirments for wxUniversal are the same as for the underlying low level
	43	toolkit.
	44
	45	2. Installing under Win32
	46	-------------------------
	47
	48	a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
	49
	50	Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in DevStudio and build it.
	51
	52	b) Cygwin
	53
	54	Please refer to the Unix section below
	55
	56	c) Other compilers
	57
	58	Unfortunately we don't have makefiles for any other compilers yet.
	59	Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the
	60	compiler you use.
	61
	62	Note that you can use the wxUniversal classes, wxMSW and MicroWindows (from
	63	Century Software) to build a different variant of wxUniversal than that
	64	documented here. Please see docs/univ/readme.txt for further information.
	65
	66	3. Installing under Unix
	67	------------------------
	68
	69	Please refer to the installation instructions for wxGTK or wxX11. The only
	70	change for wxUniversal is that you must add "--enable-universal" switch to
	71	the configure command line and for wxX11 even this is unnecessary, i.e. it
	72	is enabled by default.
	73
	74	4. Running wxUniv programs
	75	--------------------------
	76
	77	wxUniv programs all honour the standard option "--theme" which allows to
	78	specify the theme to be used by name. Currently there are the following
	79	themes:
	80
	81	a) win32 -- Windows 95 look and feel
	82	b) metal -- based on win32 but with gradient backgrounds
	83	c) gtk -- GTK+ 1.x standard look and feel
	84
	85	Thus, to launch a program using gtk theme you may do "./program --theme=gtk".
	86
	87	It is also possible to change the default theme for all wxUniv applications
	88	at once by setting the environment variable WXTHEME to the theme name.
	89
	90	5. Documentation and support
	91	----------------------------
	92
	93	Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWindows ports
	94	and is currently officially in alpha stage. In particular, it is not really
	95	intended for the end users but rather for developers at the current stage and
	96	this is why we don't provide any binaries for it.
	97
	98	There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWindows
	99	documentation instead.
	100
	101	Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWindows
	102	itself, namely:
	103
	104	* Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
	105
	106	* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information
	107
	108	* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
	109
	110
	111	Hope you find wxUniversal useful!
	112
	113	Vadim Zeitlin
	114
	115
	116	This file is accurate for the version 2.3.3 of wxUniversal. It was last
	117	modified on Apr 15, 2002.
	118