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  21 <H3>January 14th, 2000</H3><P>
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  23 <ul>
  24 <li>Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32,
  25 to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working
  26 for Mingw32.
  27 <li>Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive.
  28 <li>TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up.
  29 <li>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo.
  30 <li>The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last.
  31 <li>Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced
  32 metafile class.
  33 <li>The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and
  34 other facilities to follow shortly.
  35 </ul>
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  37
  38 <H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P>
  39
  40 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  41 The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
  42 on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P>
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  44 <ul>
  45 <li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
  46 <li> Further samples.
  47 <li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
  48   maintenance.
  49 <li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
  50 <li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
  51   wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
  52   and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
  53 <li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
  54   wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
  55 <li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
  56 <li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
  57 <li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
  58 <li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
  59   in wxMotif.
  60 <li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
  61   for some generic dialogs.
  62 <li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
  63   class can still be used.
  64 <li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
  65 <li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
  66 <li> Documentation improvements.
  67 <li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
  68   system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
  69 <li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
  70 </ul>
  71
  72 <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
  73
  74 Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
  75 made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
  76 for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
  77
  78 Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
  79 was release are:
  80
  81 <ul>
  82 <li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
  83 holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
  84 <li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
  85 specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
  86 <li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
  87 features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
  88 <li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
  89 having undergone a complete rewrite.
  90 <li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
  91 <li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
  92 API and features.
  93 </ul>
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  96
  97 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
  98
  99 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
 100 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
 101 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
 102 <P>
 103 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
 104 developers mailing list!
 105
 106 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
 107
 108 <ul>
 109 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
 110 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
 111 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
 112 development easier.
 113 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
 114 </ul>
 115
 116 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
 117
 118 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
 119
 120 <ul>
 121 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
 122 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
 123 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
 124 </ul>
 125
 126 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
 127
 128 <ul>
 129 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.68E">wxWindows 1.68E</a> contains minor bug fixes and now compiles with MS VC++ 6.0, and
 130 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
 131 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
 132 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
 133 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
 134 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
 135 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
 136 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
 137 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
 138 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
 139 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
 140 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
 141 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
 142 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
 143 work on persistent storage classes.
 144 </ul>
 145
 146 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
 147
 148 <ul>
 149 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
 150 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
 151 </ul>
 152
 153 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
 154
 155 <ul>
 156 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
 157 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
 158 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
 159 </ul>
 160
 161 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
 162
 163 <ul>
 164 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
 165 and Mingw32.
 166 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
 167 plus a few small bug fixes.
 168 </ul>
 169
 170 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
 171
 172 <ul>
 173 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
 174 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
 175 </ul>
 176
 177 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 178
 179 <ul>
 180 <li>Happy New Year!
 181 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 182 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 183 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 184 environment project).
 185 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 186 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 187 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 188 <li>There is a new <a href="http://wxwin.projects.ml.org" target=_top>wxWindows Developers Site</a> in preparation, for people developing ports of
 189 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 190 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 191 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 192 </ul>
 193
 194 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 195
 196 <ul>
 197 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 198 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 199 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 200 </ul>
 201
 202 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 203
 204 <ul>
 205 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 206 </ul>
 207
 208 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 209
 210 <ul>
 211 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 212 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 213 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 214 </ul>
 215
 216 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 217
 218 <ul>
 219 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 220 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 221 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 222 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 223 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 224 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 225 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 226 </ul>
 227
 228 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 229
 230 <ul>
 231 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 232 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 233 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 234 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 235 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 236 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 237 </ul>
 238
 239 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 240
 241 <ul>
 242 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 243 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 244 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 245 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 246 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 247 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 248 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 249 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 250 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 251 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 252 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 253 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 254 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 255 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 256 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 257 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 258 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 259 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 260 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 261 </ul>
 262
 263 <P>
 264
 265 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 266
 267 <ul>
 268 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 269 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 270 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 271 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 272 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 273 environment for Linux.
 274 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 275 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 276 directory.
 277 </ul>
 278
 279 <P>
 280
 281 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 282
 283 <ul>
 284 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 285 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 286 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 287 encourage you to read.
 288 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 289 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 290 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 291 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 292 <li><a href="mailto:grw@market.net">Greg Whitehead</a> is taking a look at what's involved for a Mac port of 2.0, possibly using MetroWerks' PowerPlant
 293 classes to speed up development.
 294 </ul>
 295
 296 <P>
 297 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 298
 299 <ul>
 300 <li>Check out C-LAB's <a href="http://www.c-lab.de/~lipuser/lip" TARGET=_top>Lean Integration Platform</a> written in wxWindows/wxLisp: it's
 301 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 302 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 303 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 304 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 305 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 306 the momentum going is needed!
 307 </ul>
 308
 309 <P>
 310
 311 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 312
 313 <ul>
 314 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 315 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 316 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 317 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 318 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 319 </ul>
 320
 321 <P>
 322
 323 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 324
 325 <ul>
 326 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 327 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 328 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 329 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 330 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 331 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 332 page will shortly contain more details.
 333 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 334 list addresses.
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