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  21 <H3><a name="release2_2_0">July 9th, 2000</H3><P>
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  23 <ul>
  24 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.2.0</a> is the result of many
  25 fixes and enhancements to 2.1, and is an official stable release.
  26 </ul>
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  28 <H3><a name="release2_1_16">June 4th, 2000</H3><P>
  29
  30 <ul>
  31 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.16</a> contains fixes
  32 for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif. It is hoped that this is the last release before the stable 2.2 version.
  33 </ul>
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  35 <H3><a name="release2_1_15">March 28th, 2000</H3><P>
  36
  37 <ul>
  38 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.15</a> contains a few fixes
  39 for wxGTK and wxMSW. wxMSW and wxMotif users who already have 2.1.14 do not need to rush to
  40 download this version! The fixes in the patch file (see main download page) contain the
  41 major differences between 2.1.14 and 2.1.15.
  42 </ul>
  43
  44 <H3><a name="release2_1_14">March 21st, 2000</H3><P>
  45
  46 <ul>
  47 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.14</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  48 Again, great strides have been made since the previous official version (2.1.11), and 2.2 will be the next official
  49 stable version. Many things have been fixed and added but <a href="newver.htm">here are some highlights</a>.
  50 <li>Robin Dunn is contributing a wxStyledTextCtrl, a wrapper around the <a href="http://www.scintilla.org/" target=_new>Scintilla</a>
  51 styled text edit control. It can be used to provide syntax highlighting for various languages, and other applications.
  52 A snapshot of this work in progress, stc.zip, is provided on the ftp site alongside the latest wxWindows release.
  53 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has reworked his MMedia sound and video class library and started its documentation;
  54 it too is available alongside the latest release as mmedia.zip.
  55 </ul>
  56
  57 <H3>January 14th, 2000</H3><P>
  58
  59 <ul>
  60 <li>Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32,
  61 to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working
  62 for Mingw32.
  63 <li>Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive.
  64 <li>TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up.
  65 <li>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo.
  66 <li>The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last.
  67 <li>Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced
  68 metafile class.
  69 <li>The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and
  70 other facilities to follow shortly.
  71 </ul>
  72
  73
  74 <H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P>
  75
  76 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  77 The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
  78 on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P>
  79
  80 <ul>
  81 <li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
  82 <li> Further samples.
  83 <li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
  84   maintenance.
  85 <li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
  86 <li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
  87   wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
  88   and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
  89 <li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
  90   wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
  91 <li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
  92 <li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
  93 <li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
  94 <li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
  95   in wxMotif.
  96 <li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
  97   for some generic dialogs.
  98 <li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
  99   class can still be used.
 100 <li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
 101 <li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
 102 <li> Documentation improvements.
 103 <li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
 104   system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
 105 <li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
 106 </ul>
 107
 108 <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
 109
 110 Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
 111 made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
 112 for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
 113
 114 Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
 115 was release are:
 116
 117 <ul>
 118 <li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
 119 holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
 120 <li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
 121 specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
 122 <li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
 123 features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
 124 <li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
 125 having undergone a complete rewrite.
 126 <li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
 127 <li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
 128 API and features.
 129 </ul>
 130
 131
 132
 133 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
 134
 135 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
 136 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
 137 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
 138 <P>
 139 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
 140 developers mailing list!
 141
 142 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
 143
 144 <ul>
 145 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
 146 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
 147 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
 148 development easier.
 149 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
 150 </ul>
 151
 152 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
 153
 154 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
 155
 156 <ul>
 157 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
 158 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
 159 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
 160 </ul>
 161
 162 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
 163
 164 <ul>
 165 <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
 166 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
 167 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
 168 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
 169 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
 170 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
 171 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
 172 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
 173 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
 174 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
 175 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
 176 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
 177 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
 178 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
 179 work on persistent storage classes.
 180 </ul>
 181
 182 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
 183
 184 <ul>
 185 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
 186 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
 187 </ul>
 188
 189 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
 190
 191 <ul>
 192 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
 193 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
 194 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
 195 </ul>
 196
 197 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
 198
 199 <ul>
 200 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
 201 and Mingw32.
 202 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
 203 plus a few small bug fixes.
 204 </ul>
 205
 206 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
 207
 208 <ul>
 209 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
 210 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
 211 </ul>
 212
 213 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 214
 215 <ul>
 216 <li>Happy New Year!
 217 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 218 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 219 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 220 environment project).
 221 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 222 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 223 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 224 <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
 225 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 226 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 227 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 228 </ul>
 229
 230 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 231
 232 <ul>
 233 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 234 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 235 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 236 </ul>
 237
 238 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 239
 240 <ul>
 241 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 242 </ul>
 243
 244 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 245
 246 <ul>
 247 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 248 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 249 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 250 </ul>
 251
 252 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 253
 254 <ul>
 255 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 256 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 257 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 258 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 259 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 260 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 261 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 262 </ul>
 263
 264 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 265
 266 <ul>
 267 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 268 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 269 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 270 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 271 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 272 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 273 </ul>
 274
 275 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 276
 277 <ul>
 278 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 279 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 280 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 281 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 282 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 283 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 284 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 285 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 286 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 287 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 288 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 289 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 290 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 291 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 292 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 293 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 294 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 295 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 296 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 297 </ul>
 298
 299 <P>
 300
 301 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 302
 303 <ul>
 304 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 305 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 306 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 307 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 308 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 309 environment for Linux.
 310 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 311 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 312 directory.
 313 </ul>
 314
 315 <P>
 316
 317 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 318
 319 <ul>
 320 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 321 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 322 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 323 encourage you to read.
 324 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 325 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 326 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 327 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 328 <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
 329 classes to speed up development.
 330 </ul>
 331
 332 <P>
 333 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 334
 335 <ul>
 336 <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
 337 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 338 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 339 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 340 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 341 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 342 the momentum going is needed!
 343 </ul>
 344
 345 <P>
 346
 347 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 348
 349 <ul>
 350 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 351 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 352 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 353 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 354 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 355 </ul>
 356
 357 <P>
 358
 359 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 360
 361 <ul>
 362 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 363 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 364 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 365 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 366 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 367 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 368 page will shortly contain more details.
 369 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 370 list addresses.
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