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  21 <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
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  23 Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
  24 made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
  25 for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
  26
  27 Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
  28 was release are:
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  30 <ul>
  31 <li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
  32 holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
  33 <li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
  34 specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
  35 <li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
  36 features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
  37 <li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
  38 having undergone a complete rewrite.
  39 <li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
  40 <li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
  41 API and features.
  42 </ul>
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  46 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
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  48 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
  49 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
  50 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
  51 <P>
  52 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
  53 developers mailing list!
  54
  55 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
  56
  57 <ul>
  58 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
  59 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
  60 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
  61 development easier.
  62 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
  63 </ul>
  64
  65 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
  66
  67 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
  68
  69 <ul>
  70 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
  71 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
  72 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
  73 </ul>
  74
  75 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
  76
  77 <ul>
  78 <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
  79 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
  80 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
  81 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
  82 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
  83 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
  84 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
  85 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
  86 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
  87 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
  88 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
  89 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
  90 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
  91 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
  92 work on persistent storage classes.
  93 </ul>
  94
  95 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
  96
  97 <ul>
  98 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
  99 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
 100 </ul>
 101
 102 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
 103
 104 <ul>
 105 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
 106 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
 107 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
 108 </ul>
 109
 110 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
 111
 112 <ul>
 113 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
 114 and Mingw32.
 115 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
 116 plus a few small bug fixes.
 117 </ul>
 118
 119 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
 120
 121 <ul>
 122 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
 123 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
 124 </ul>
 125
 126 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 127
 128 <ul>
 129 <li>Happy New Year!
 130 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 131 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 132 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 133 environment project).
 134 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 135 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 136 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 137 <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
 138 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 139 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 140 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 141 </ul>
 142
 143 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 144
 145 <ul>
 146 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 147 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 148 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 149 </ul>
 150
 151 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 152
 153 <ul>
 154 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 155 </ul>
 156
 157 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 158
 159 <ul>
 160 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 161 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 162 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 163 </ul>
 164
 165 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 166
 167 <ul>
 168 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 169 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 170 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 171 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 172 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 173 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 174 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 175 </ul>
 176
 177 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 178
 179 <ul>
 180 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 181 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 182 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 183 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 184 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 185 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 186 </ul>
 187
 188 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 189
 190 <ul>
 191 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 192 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 193 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 194 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 195 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 196 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 197 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 198 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 199 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 200 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 201 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 202 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 203 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 204 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 205 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 206 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 207 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 208 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 209 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 210 </ul>
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 213
 214 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 215
 216 <ul>
 217 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 218 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 219 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 220 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 221 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 222 environment for Linux.
 223 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 224 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 225 directory.
 226 </ul>
 227
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 229
 230 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 231
 232 <ul>
 233 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 234 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 235 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 236 encourage you to read.
 237 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 238 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 239 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 240 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 241 <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
 242 classes to speed up development.
 243 </ul>
 244
 245 <P>
 246 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 247
 248 <ul>
 249 <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
 250 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 251 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 252 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 253 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 254 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 255 the momentum going is needed!
 256 </ul>
 257
 258 <P>
 259
 260 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 261
 262 <ul>
 263 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 264 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 265 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 266 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 267 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 268 </ul>
 269
 270 <P>
 271
 272 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 273
 274 <ul>
 275 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 276 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 277 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 278 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 279 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 280 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 281 page will shortly contain more details.
 282 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 283 list addresses.
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