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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 We are adopting the Linux kernel style of numbering system where odd minor version numbers are development
  35 versions, and even numbers are stable versions. For example, 2.1.x are development releases,
  36 and the next 'stable' or final release of it would be 2.2.<P>
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  38 Bug-fix patches to the stable release (if made) then become point
  39 releases of 2.2 (2.2.x) while development continues with wild abandon
  40 on 2.3.x until the end of the next development cycle when it is
  41 released as 2.4.<P>
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  43 Development versions that end up on the FTP site or CD-ROM, as opposed to remaining
  44 in the CVS archive, are semi-stable -- i.e. they are checked for compilation and
  45 run-time problems, but not as thoroughly as the stable versions.<P>
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  47 Note that since the wxWindows effort is voluntary, these are not hard-and-fast deadlines:
  48 but we will endeavour to follow them as closely as possible.<P>
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  50 Note also that the releases described are for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif ports. wxMac currently follows
  51 its own development path but is due to merge with the main code base in November/December.
  52 Also, minor snapshot releases for specific platforms may be
  53 available at dates convenient to the developers.<P>
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  60 <H4>Release 2.1.11</H4>
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  62 Release date: November 7th, 1999<P>
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  65 <li>Split wxWindows into base and GUI libraries. Most, but not all makefiles
  66 are expected to support this: for the rest, the makefiles will build a valid
  67 combined base/GUI library for GUI applications only.
  68 <li>wxWizard (beta).
  69 <li>wxDialUpManager and wxPhoneDialer.
  70 <li>wxFontEnumerator.
  71 <li>Preliminary support for different font encodings
  72 <li>wxPostEvent function
  73 <li>New wxGrid.
  74 <li>wxSocket working.
  75 <li>Full support for fonts in different encodings.
  76 <li>Tested multithreading support (wxThread).
  77 <li>wxHTML printing.
  78 <li>Better i18n support (i.e. more translations).
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  83 <H4>Release 2.2 (stable)</H4>
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  85 Release date: December 19th, 1999.<P>
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  87 <ul>
  88 <li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
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  93 <H4>Release 2.3</H4>
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  95 Release date: March 5th, 2000
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  97 <ul>
  98 <li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
  99 <li>wxDateTime class in beta.
 100 <li>Context sensitive help.
 101 <li>More i18n issues: dates, times, ...
 102 <li>Regular expressions support.
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 107 <H4>Release 2.4 (stable)</H4>
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 109 Release date: May 7th, 2000.
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 111 <ul>
 112 <li>Unicode compilation starting to work in wxGTK and wxMSW.
 113 <li>wxDateTime class.
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 124 Developers: please feel free to add to these, and delete them when they are done.
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 128 <B><I>General</I></B><P>
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 131 <li>wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate
 132 printed reports with very little effort.
 133 <li>wxSocket.
 134 <li>Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI
 135 applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only)
 136 and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).
 137 <li>Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets
 138 that can handle multiple formats).
 139 <li>Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file;
 140 add constraint specification to WXR syntax and Dialog Editor; add multilanguage support to WXR.
 141 May be we'd better change the format completely and replace WXR with XML
 142 (providing conversion utility for old files)?
 143 <li>Context sensitive help: we need to have wxHelpEvent which would be
 144 generated when the help for a given control is requested and a standard
 145 handler for it in wxWindow which would invoke the default help system with the
 146 correct help id.
 147 <li>Rewrite Dialog Editor.
 148 <li>Modem-oriented classes: wxDialUpManager for dialing up the ISP and
 149 determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and
 150 wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating
 151 with the modem.
 152 <li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
 153 <li>PCX writing code.
 154 <li>GIF animation code.
 155 <li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxChrono class.
 156 <li>Debug wxPostScriptDC further.
 157 <li>wxDateTime class.
 158 <li>Regular expressions support.
 159 <li>Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
 160 <li>MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).
 161 <li>Rotated text support.
 162 <li>FreeType support.
 163 <li>Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes
 164 written generically in wxWindows.
 165 <li>Serial and parallel port support.
 166 <li>Modem and telephony support.
 167 <li>Book, tutorial.
 168 <li>More examples.
 169 <li>Bug tracking system.
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 174 <B><I>wxMSW</I></B><P>
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 176 <ul>
 177 <li>Windows CE port.
 178 <li>Cure bug whereby in a panel within another panel, all buttons become
 179 default buttons (heavy black border).
 180 <li>Write a RC->WXR converter.
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 185 <B><I>wxGTK</I></B><P>
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 187 <ul>
 188 <li>GNOME/KDE integration libraries.
 189 </ul>
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 193 <B><I>wxMotif</I></B><P>
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 195 <ul>
 196 <li>Fix menu accelerators
 197 <li>Fix refresh problems
 198 <li>Allow wxSystemSettings to be configurable, perhaps via a control
 199 panel application.
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