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  21 <H3>July 28th, 2000</H3><P>
  22
  23 <ul>
  24 <li>Vaclav Slavik has recently written an
  25 <a href="http://www.root.cz/clanek.phtml?id=425" target=_top>article about wxWindows</a> for a Czech ezine.
  26 <li>Hurray! There is a lot of traffic on the wxStudio mailing list, and
  27 Gerd Mueller has offered to make the <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de" target=_top>WipeOut</a> IDE
  28 open source and merge it with wxStudio.
  29 </ul>
  30
  31 <H3><a name="release2_2_0">July 9th, 2000</H3><P>
  32
  33 <ul>
  34 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.2.0</a> is the result of many
  35 fixes and enhancements to 2.1, and is an official stable release.
  36 </ul>
  37
  38 <H3><a name="release2_1_16">June 4th, 2000</H3><P>
  39
  40 <ul>
  41 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.16</a> contains fixes
  42 for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif. It is hoped that this is the last release before the stable 2.2 version.
  43 </ul>
  44
  45 <H3><a name="release2_1_15">March 28th, 2000</H3><P>
  46
  47 <ul>
  48 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.15</a> contains a few fixes
  49 for wxGTK and wxMSW. wxMSW and wxMotif users who already have 2.1.14 do not need to rush to
  50 download this version! The fixes in the patch file (see main download page) contain the
  51 major differences between 2.1.14 and 2.1.15.
  52 </ul>
  53
  54 <H3><a name="release2_1_14">March 21st, 2000</H3><P>
  55
  56 <ul>
  57 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.14</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  58 Again, great strides have been made since the previous official version (2.1.11), and 2.2 will be the next official
  59 stable version. Many things have been fixed and added but <a href="newver.htm">here are some highlights</a>.
  60 <li>Robin Dunn is contributing a wxStyledTextCtrl, a wrapper around the <a href="http://www.scintilla.org/" target=_new>Scintilla</a>
  61 styled text edit control. It can be used to provide syntax highlighting for various languages, and other applications.
  62 A snapshot of this work in progress, stc.zip, is provided on the ftp site alongside the latest wxWindows release.
  63 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has reworked his MMedia sound and video class library and started its documentation;
  64 it too is available alongside the latest release as mmedia.zip.
  65 </ul>
  66
  67 <H3>January 14th, 2000</H3><P>
  68
  69 <ul>
  70 <li>Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32,
  71 to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working
  72 for Mingw32.
  73 <li>Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive.
  74 <li>TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up.
  75 <li>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo.
  76 <li>The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last.
  77 <li>Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced
  78 metafile class.
  79 <li>The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and
  80 other facilities to follow shortly.
  81 </ul>
  82
  83
  84 <H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P>
  85
  86 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  87 The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
  88 on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P>
  89
  90 <ul>
  91 <li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
  92 <li> Further samples.
  93 <li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
  94   maintenance.
  95 <li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
  96 <li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
  97   wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
  98   and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
  99 <li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
 100   wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
 101 <li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
 102 <li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
 103 <li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
 104 <li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
 105   in wxMotif.
 106 <li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
 107   for some generic dialogs.
 108 <li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
 109   class can still be used.
 110 <li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
 111 <li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
 112 <li> Documentation improvements.
 113 <li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
 114   system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
 115 <li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
 116 </ul>
 117
 118 <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
 119
 120 Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
 121 made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
 122 for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
 123
 124 Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
 125 was release are:
 126
 127 <ul>
 128 <li> A great number of incompatibilities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
 129 holds especially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
 130 <li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
 131 specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
 132 <li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
 133 features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
 134 <li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
 135 having undergone a complete rewrite.
 136 <li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
 137 <li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and updated to the newest
 138 API and features.
 139 </ul>
 140
 141
 142
 143 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
 144
 145 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
 146 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
 147 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
 148 <P>
 149 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
 150 developers mailing list!
 151
 152 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
 153
 154 <ul>
 155 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
 156 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
 157 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
 158 development easier.
 159 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
 160 </ul>
 161
 162 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
 163
 164 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
 165
 166 <ul>
 167 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
 168 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
 169 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
 170 </ul>
 171
 172 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
 173
 174 <ul>
 175 <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
 176 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
 177 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
 178 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
 179 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
 180 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
 181 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
 182 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
 183 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
 184 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
 185 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
 186 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
 187 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
 188 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
 189 work on persistent storage classes.
 190 </ul>
 191
 192 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
 193
 194 <ul>
 195 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
 196 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
 197 </ul>
 198
 199 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
 200
 201 <ul>
 202 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
 203 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
 204 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
 205 </ul>
 206
 207 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
 208
 209 <ul>
 210 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
 211 and Mingw32.
 212 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
 213 plus a few small bug fixes.
 214 </ul>
 215
 216 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
 217
 218 <ul>
 219 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
 220 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
 221 </ul>
 222
 223 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 224
 225 <ul>
 226 <li>Happy New Year!
 227 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 228 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 229 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 230 environment project).
 231 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 232 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 233 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 234 <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
 235 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 236 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 237 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 238 </ul>
 239
 240 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 241
 242 <ul>
 243 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 244 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 245 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 246 </ul>
 247
 248 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 249
 250 <ul>
 251 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 252 </ul>
 253
 254 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 255
 256 <ul>
 257 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 258 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 259 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 260 </ul>
 261
 262 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 263
 264 <ul>
 265 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 266 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 267 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 268 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 269 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 270 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 271 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 272 </ul>
 273
 274 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 275
 276 <ul>
 277 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 278 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 279 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 280 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 281 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 282 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 283 </ul>
 284
 285 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 286
 287 <ul>
 288 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 289 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 290 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 291 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 292 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 293 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 294 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 295 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 296 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 297 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 298 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 299 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 300 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 301 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 302 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 303 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 304 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 305 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 306 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 307 </ul>
 308
 309 <P>
 310
 311 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 312
 313 <ul>
 314 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 315 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 316 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 317 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 318 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 319 environment for Linux.
 320 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 321 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 322 directory.
 323 </ul>
 324
 325 <P>
 326
 327 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 328
 329 <ul>
 330 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 331 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 332 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 333 encourage you to read.
 334 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 335 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 336 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 337 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 338 <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
 339 classes to speed up development.
 340 </ul>
 341
 342 <P>
 343 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 344
 345 <ul>
 346 <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
 347 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 348 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 349 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 350 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 351 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 352 the momentum going is needed!
 353 </ul>
 354
 355 <P>
 356
 357 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 358
 359 <ul>
 360 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 361 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 362 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 363 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 364 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 365 </ul>
 366
 367 <P>
 368
 369 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 370
 371 <ul>
 372 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 373 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 374 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 375 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 376 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 377 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 378 page will shortly contain more details.
 379 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 380 list addresses.
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