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  30 This page represents current thinking about where wxWindows is going in the near,
  31 medium and long-term. It also serves as a schedule for new releases so
  32 that both developers and users can know what to expect when, at least approximately.<P>
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  34 Note (1): as the wxWindows effort is voluntary, these are not hard-and-fast deadlines:
  35 but we will endeavour to follow them as closely as possible.<P>
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  37 Note (2): the releases described are for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif ports. wxMac currently follows
  38 its own development path but is due to merge with the main code base in November/December.
  39 Also, minor snapshot releases for specific platforms may be
  40 available at dates convenient to the developers.<P>
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  47 <H4>Release 2.0.?</H4>
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  49 <ul>
  50 <li>Release date: October 3rd, 1999
  51 <li>This beta is intended to be the last stable snapshot before wxWindows
  52 is split into base and GUI libraries.
  53 <li>New wxGrid in beta.
  54 <li>wxWizard (beta)
  55 <li>wxDialUpManager and wxPhoneDialer (beta)
  56 <li>wxFontEnumerator (beta)
  57 <li>Preliminary support for different encodings
  58 <li>wxPostEvent function
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  63 <H2>Release 2.1</H2>
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  66 <li>Release date: November 7th, 1999
  67 <li>Splits wxWindows into base and GUI libraries. Most, but not all makefiles
  68 are expected to support this: for the rest, the makefiles will build a valid
  69 combined base/GUI library for GUI applications only.
  70 <li>New wxGrid.
  71 <li>wxSocket working.
  72 <li>Full support for fonts in different encodings
  73 <li>Tested multithreading support (wxThread)
  74 <li>wxHTML printing (possibly).
  75 <li>Better i18n support (i.e. more translations)
  76 <li>Animation classes (possibly, low priority).
  77 <li>PCX writing capability (possibly, low priority).
  78 <li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
  79 <li>Rewritten timer.cpp, possible wxChrono class.
  80 <li>Bug tracking system in place.
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  85 <H4>Release 2.1.1</H4>
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  87 <ul>
  88 <li>Release date: January 9th, 2000
  89 <li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
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  94 <H4>Release 2.1.2</H4>
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  96 <ul>
  97 <li>Release date: March 5th, 2000
  98 <li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
  99 <li>wxDateTime class in beta.
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 104 <H4>Release 2.1.3</H4>
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 106 <ul>
 107 <li>Release date: May 7th, 2000
 108 <li>Unicode compilation starting to work in wxGTK and wxMSW.
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 113 <H2>Release 2.2</H2>
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 115 <ul>
 116 <li>Release date: c. July 2nd, 2000
 117 <li>Unicode compilation working in wxGTK and wxMSW.
 118 <li>wxDateTime class.
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 123 <H2>Release 2.3</H2>
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 125 <ul>
 126 <li>Release date: unknown
 127 <li>WinCE port available.
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 138 Developers: please feel free to add to these, and delete them when they are done.
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 142 <B><I>General</I></B><P>
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 145 <li>wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate
 146 printed reports with very little effort.
 147 <li>wxSocket.
 148 <li>Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI
 149 applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only)
 150 and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).
 151 <li>Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets
 152 that can handle multiple formats).
 153 <li>Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file;
 154 add constraint specification to WXR syntax and Dialog Editor; add multilanguage support to WXR.
 155 May be we'd better change the format completely and replace WXR with XML
 156 (providing conversion utility for old files)?
 157 <li>Rewrite Dialog Editor.
 158 <li>Modem-oriented classes: wxDialUpManager for dialing up the ISP and
 159 determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and
 160 wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating
 161 with the modem.
 162 <li>PCX writing code.
 163 <li>GIF animation code.
 164 <li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxChrono class.
 165 <li>Debug wxPostScriptDC further.
 166 <li>wxDateTime class.
 167 <li>Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
 168 <li>MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).
 169 <li>Rotated text support.
 170 <li>FreeType support.
 171 <li>Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes
 172 written generically in wxWindows.
 173 <li>Serial and parallel port support.
 174 <li>Modem and telephony support.
 175 <li>Book, tutorial.
 176 <li>More examples.
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 181 <B><I>wxMSW</I></B><P>
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 183 <ul>
 184 <li>Windows CE port.
 185 <li>Cure bug whereby in a panel within another panel, all buttons become
 186 default buttons (heavy black border).
 187 <li>Write a RC->WXR converter.
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 192 <B><I>wxGTK</I></B><P>
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 194 <ul>
 195 <li>GNOME/KDE integration libraries.
 196 </ul>
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 200 <B><I>wxMotif</I></B><P>
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 202 <ul>
 203 <li>Fix menu accelerators
 204 <li>Fix refresh problems
 205 <li>Allow wxSystemSettings to be configurable, perhaps via a control
 206 panel application.
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