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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 requirements 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	Then open the widgetsUniv.dsp file in samples/widgets to build
	52	the widgets sample.
	53
	54	b) Cygwin
	55
	56	Please refer to the Unix section below
	57
	58	c) Other compilers
	59
	60	Unfortunately we don't have makefiles for any other compilers yet.
	61	Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the
	62	compiler you use.
	63
	64	Note that you can use the wxUniversal classes, wxMSW and MicroWindows (from
	65	Century Software) to build a different variant of wxUniversal than that
	66	documented here. Please see docs/univ/readme.txt for further information.
	67
	68	3. Installing under Unix
	69	------------------------
	70
	71	Please refer to the installation instructions for wxGTK or wxX11. The only
	72	change for wxUniversal is that you must add "--enable-universal" switch to
	73	the configure command line and for wxX11 even this is unnecessary, i.e. it
	74	is enabled by default.
	75
	76	4. Running wxUniv programs
	77	--------------------------
	78
	79	wxUniv programs all honour the standard option "--theme" which allows to
	80	specify the theme to be used by name. Currently there are the following
	81	themes:
	82
	83	a) win32 -- Windows 95 look and feel
	84	b) metal -- based on win32 but with gradient backgrounds
	85	c) gtk -- GTK+ 1.x standard look and feel
	86
	87	Thus, to launch a program using gtk theme you may do "./program --theme=gtk".
	88
	89	It is also possible to change the default theme for all wxUniv applications
	90	at once by setting the environment variable WXTHEME to the theme name.
	91
	92	5. Documentation and support
	93	----------------------------
	94
	95	Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWindows ports
	96	and is currently officially in alpha stage. In particular, it is not really
	97	intended for the end users but rather for developers at the current stage and
	98	this is why we don't provide any binaries for it.
	99
	100	There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWindows
	101	documentation instead.
	102
	103	Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWindows
	104	itself, namely:
	105
	106	* Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
	107
	108	* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information
	109
	110	* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
	111
	112
	113	Hope you find wxUniversal useful!
	114
	115	Vadim Zeitlin
	116
	117
	118	This file is accurate for the version 2.3.3 of wxUniversal. It was last
	119	modified on Apr 15, 2002.
	120