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