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  21 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
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  23 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBe
  24 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
  25 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
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  27 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
  28 developers mailing list!
  29
  30 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
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  32 <ul>
  33 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
  34 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
  35 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
  36 development easier.
  37 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
  38 </ul>
  39
  40 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
  41
  42 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
  43
  44 <ul>
  45 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
  46 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
  47 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
  48 </ul>
  49
  50 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
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  52 <ul>
  53 <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
  54 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
  55 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
  56 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
  57 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
  58 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
  59 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
  60 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
  61 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
  62 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
  63 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
  64 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
  65 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
  66 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
  67 work on persistent storage classes.
  68 </ul>
  69
  70 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
  71
  72 <ul>
  73 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
  74 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
  75 </ul>
  76
  77 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
  78
  79 <ul>
  80 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
  81 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
  82 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
  83 </ul>
  84
  85 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
  86
  87 <ul>
  88 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
  89 and Mingw32.
  90 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
  91 plus a few small bug fixes.
  92 </ul>
  93
  94 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
  95
  96 <ul>
  97 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
  98 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
  99 </ul>
 100
 101 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 102
 103 <ul>
 104 <li>Happy New Year!
 105 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 106 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 107 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 108 environment project).
 109 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 110 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 111 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 112 <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
 113 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 114 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 115 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 116 </ul>
 117
 118 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 119
 120 <ul>
 121 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 122 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 123 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 124 </ul>
 125
 126 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 127
 128 <ul>
 129 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 130 </ul>
 131
 132 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 133
 134 <ul>
 135 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 136 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 137 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 138 </ul>
 139
 140 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 141
 142 <ul>
 143 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 144 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 145 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 146 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 147 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 148 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 149 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 150 </ul>
 151
 152 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 153
 154 <ul>
 155 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 156 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 157 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 158 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 159 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 160 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 161 </ul>
 162
 163 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 164
 165 <ul>
 166 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 167 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 168 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 169 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 170 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 171 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 172 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 173 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 174 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 175 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 176 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 177 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 178 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 179 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 180 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 181 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 182 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 183 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 184 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 185 </ul>
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 188
 189 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 190
 191 <ul>
 192 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 193 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 194 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 195 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 196 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 197 environment for Linux.
 198 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 199 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 200 directory.
 201 </ul>
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 204
 205 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 206
 207 <ul>
 208 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 209 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 210 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 211 encourage you to read.
 212 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 213 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 214 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 215 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 216 <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
 217 classes to speed up development.
 218 </ul>
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 220 <P>
 221 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 222
 223 <ul>
 224 <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
 225 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 226 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 227 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 228 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 229 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 230 the momentum going is needed!
 231 </ul>
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 234
 235 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 236
 237 <ul>
 238 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 239 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 240 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 241 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 242 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 243 </ul>
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 246
 247 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 248
 249 <ul>
 250 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 251 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 252 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 253 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 254 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 255 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 256 page will shortly contain more details.
 257 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 258 list addresses.
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