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8 Purpose: gateway to wxWidgets documentation
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15 <title>wxWidgets Documentation
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28 Welcome to
<em style=
"font-size: 150%">wxWidgets
</em>: a portable C++ and Python GUI toolkit
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"wxWidgets logo" />
36 <p>This page lets you access various resources for
37 <a href=
"http://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets
</a> development. Enjoy!
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<a href=
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42 [
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49 INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES
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56 <b><a name=
"install">Installation and release notes
</a></b>
62 <p>Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux using your distro's
63 package manager), you will probably have to
<strong>compile
</strong> the wxWidgets library
64 before you can start use it.
</p>
65 <p>Please read the platform-specific
<tt>readme.txt
</tt> and
<tt>install.txt
</tt>
66 for how to do this:
</p>
70 <a href=
"readme.txt"><b>General ReadMe
</b></a>,
<a href=
"msw/readme.txt">wxMSW
</a> (
<a href=
"msw/winxp.txt">wxMSW for WinXP
</a>),
<a href=
"gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK
</a>,
<a href=
"mac/readme.txt">wxMac
</a>,
<a href=
"cocoa/readme.txt">wxCocoa
</a>,
<a href=
"mgl/readme.txt">wxMGL
</a>,
<a href=
"motif/readme.txt">wxMotif
</a>,
<a href=
"x11/readme.txt">wxX11
</a>,
<a href=
"univ/readme.txt">Univ
</a>
73 <a href=
"msw/install.txt">wxMSW
</a>,
<a href=
"gtk/install.txt">wxGTK
</a>,
<a href=
"motif/install.txt">wxMotif
</a>,
<a href=
"x11/install.txt">wxX11
</a>,
<a href=
"mac/install.txt">wxMac
</a>,
<a href=
"cocoa/install.txt">wxCocoa
</a>,
<a href=
"mgl/install.txt">wxMGL
</a>,
<a href=
"os2/install.txt">wxOS2
</a>
76 <a href=
"changes.txt"><b>General change log
</b></a>
79 <a href=
"preamble.txt">Preamble
</a>,
<a href=
"licence.txt">Licence
</a>,
<a href=
"licendoc.txt">Documentation Licence
</a>,
<a href=
"lgpl.txt">L-GPL
</a>,
<a href=
"gpl.txt">GPL
</a>
82 <!-- FIXME: FAQs are very out-of-date; should be moved in the wx docs or
83 to the website or to the wiki...
87 "faq.htm"><b>FAQ</b></a>:</font>
90 "faqgen.htm">General questions</a></font></li>
92 "faqcmn.htm">Questions common to all platforms</a></font></li>
94 "faqmsw.htm">wxWidgets for Windows</a></font></li>
96 "faqgtk.htm">wxWidgets for GTK+</a></font></li>
98 "faqmot.htm">wxWidgets for Motif</a></font></li>
100 "faqx11.htm">wxWidgets for X11</a></font></li>
102 "faqmac.htm">wxWidgets for Mac</a></font></li>
107 <!-- FIXME: todo lists are in the wiki now.... -->
108 <li>ToDo:
<a href=
"todo.txt"><b>General ToDo
</b></a>,
<a href=
"gtk/todo.txt">wxGTK
</a>,
<a href=
"motif/todo.txt">wxMotif
</a>,
<a href=
"mac/todo.txt">wxMac
</a></li>
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"100%" border=
"0" cellpadding=
"3" cellspacing=
"0">
119 <td bgcolor=
"#004080">
120 <font size=
"+1" color=
"#FFFFFF"><b><a name=
"doc">Documentation
</a></b></font>
125 <p>The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of the following
126 formats depends on what you've downloaded from the
127 <a href=
"http://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets Web site
</a>:
</p>
130 <li><a href=
"doxygen/out/html/index.html">HTML
</a></li>
131 <li><a href=
"doxygen/out/wx.chm">MS HTML Help (CHM)
</a></li>
132 <li><a href=
"doxygen/out/wx.htb">wxHTML Help (HTB)
</a></li>
133 <li><a href=
"doxygen/out/rtf/refman.rtf">Rich Text Format (RTF)
</a></li>
134 <li><a href=
"doxygen/out/wx.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF)
</a></li>
137 <p>To use the manual in the
<b>wxHTML Help
</b> format (extension
<tt>htb
</tt>), you
138 can use the
<b>HelpView
</b> application, compiling it from the
<tt>utils/helpview
</tt>
139 folder in the wxWidgets distribution.
</p>
141 <p>Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other
<strong>resources
</strong> which can
142 help to learn wxWidgets programming:
</p>
145 <li><a href=
"http://www.wxwidgets.org">The wxWidgets website
</a>: contains FAQs, tutorials,
146 info about the mailing lists, and in general everything related to the wxWidgets world
148 <li><a href=
"http://wxforum.shadonet.com/">The wxWidgets forum
</a>: provides a discussion board
149 about various wxWidgets topics (contains also
<em>localized
</em> forums)
</li>
150 <li><a href=
"http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki">The wxWidgets wiki
</a>: a user-editable website
151 with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources, etc
</li>
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"100%" border=
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"3" cellspacing=
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161 <td bgcolor=
"#004080">
162 <font size=
"+1" color=
"#FFFFFF"><b><a name=
"technotes">Technical notes
</a></b></font>
167 <p>Technical notes contains informations useful only to wxWidgets developers for
168 the maintainance of the project:
</p>
171 <li><a href=
"tech/index.txt">Index of technical notes
</a></li>
172 <li><a href=
"tech/">Technical notes
</a></li>
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175 <li><a href="platform.htm">Platforms supported</a></font></li>
176 <li><a href="i18n.htm">Languages supported by wxWidgets</a></font></li>
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189 <font size=
"+1" color=
"#FFFFFF"><b><a name=
"demos">Demos
</a></b></font>
194 <p>The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some features of wxWidgets
195 (for a list of the
70+ samples please look at the manual):
</p>
197 <li><a href=
"../demos/bombs">bombs
</a>: minesweeper-like game.
</li>
198 <li><a href=
"../demos/forty">forty
</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.
</li>
199 <li><a href=
"../demos/fractal">fractal
</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.
</li>
200 <li><a href=
"../demos/life">life
</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway,
201 implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.
</li>
202 <li><a href=
"../demos/poem">poem
</a>: a little poetry display program.
</li>
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