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  21 <H3><a name="release2_1_14">March 19th, 2000</H3><P>
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  23 <ul>
  24 <li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.14</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  25 Again, great strides have been made since the previous official version (2.1.11), and 2.2 will be the next official
  26 stable version. Many things have been fixed and added but <a href="newver.htm">here</a> are some highlights.
  27 <li>Robin Dunn is contributing a wxStyledTextCtrl, a wrapper around the <a href="http://www.scintilla.org/" target=_new>Scintilla</a>
  28 styled text edit control. It can be used to provide syntax highlighting for various languages, and other applications.
  29 A snapshot of this work in progress, stc.zip, is provided on the ftp site alongside wxWindows 2.1.14.
  30 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has reworked his MMedia sound and video class library and started its documentation;
  31 it too is available alongside 2.1.14 as mmedia.zip.
  32 </ul>
  33
  34 <H3>January 14th, 2000</H3><P>
  35
  36 <ul>
  37 <li>Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32,
  38 to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working
  39 for Mingw32.
  40 <li>Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive.
  41 <li>TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up.
  42 <li>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo.
  43 <li>The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last.
  44 <li>Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced
  45 metafile class.
  46 <li>The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and
  47 other facilities to follow shortly.
  48 </ul>
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  50
  51 <H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P>
  52
  53 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  54 The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
  55 on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P>
  56
  57 <ul>
  58 <li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
  59 <li> Further samples.
  60 <li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
  61   maintenance.
  62 <li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
  63 <li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
  64   wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
  65   and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
  66 <li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
  67   wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
  68 <li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
  69 <li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
  70 <li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
  71 <li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
  72   in wxMotif.
  73 <li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
  74   for some generic dialogs.
  75 <li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
  76   class can still be used.
  77 <li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
  78 <li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
  79 <li> Documentation improvements.
  80 <li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
  81   system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
  82 <li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
  83 </ul>
  84
  85 <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
  86
  87 Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
  88 made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
  89 for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
  90
  91 Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
  92 was release are:
  93
  94 <ul>
  95 <li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
  96 holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
  97 <li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
  98 specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
  99 <li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
 100 features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
 101 <li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
 102 having undergone a complete rewrite.
 103 <li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
 104 <li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
 105 API and features.
 106 </ul>
 107
 108
 109
 110 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
 111
 112 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
 113 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
 114 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
 115 <P>
 116 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
 117 developers mailing list!
 118
 119 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
 120
 121 <ul>
 122 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
 123 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
 124 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
 125 development easier.
 126 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
 127 </ul>
 128
 129 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
 130
 131 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
 132
 133 <ul>
 134 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
 135 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
 136 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
 137 </ul>
 138
 139 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
 140
 141 <ul>
 142 <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
 143 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
 144 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
 145 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
 146 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
 147 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
 148 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
 149 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
 150 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
 151 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
 152 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
 153 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
 154 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
 155 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
 156 work on persistent storage classes.
 157 </ul>
 158
 159 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
 160
 161 <ul>
 162 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
 163 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
 164 </ul>
 165
 166 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
 167
 168 <ul>
 169 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
 170 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
 171 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
 172 </ul>
 173
 174 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
 175
 176 <ul>
 177 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
 178 and Mingw32.
 179 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
 180 plus a few small bug fixes.
 181 </ul>
 182
 183 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
 184
 185 <ul>
 186 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
 187 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
 188 </ul>
 189
 190 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 191
 192 <ul>
 193 <li>Happy New Year!
 194 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 195 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 196 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 197 environment project).
 198 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 199 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 200 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 201 <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
 202 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 203 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 204 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 205 </ul>
 206
 207 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 208
 209 <ul>
 210 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 211 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 212 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 213 </ul>
 214
 215 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 216
 217 <ul>
 218 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 219 </ul>
 220
 221 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 222
 223 <ul>
 224 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 225 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 226 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 227 </ul>
 228
 229 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 230
 231 <ul>
 232 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 233 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 234 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 235 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 236 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 237 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 238 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 239 </ul>
 240
 241 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 242
 243 <ul>
 244 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 245 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 246 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 247 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 248 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 249 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 250 </ul>
 251
 252 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 253
 254 <ul>
 255 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 256 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 257 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 258 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 259 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 260 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 261 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 262 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 263 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 264 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 265 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 266 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 267 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 268 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 269 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 270 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 271 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 272 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 273 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 274 </ul>
 275
 276 <P>
 277
 278 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 279
 280 <ul>
 281 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 282 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 283 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 284 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 285 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 286 environment for Linux.
 287 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 288 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 289 directory.
 290 </ul>
 291
 292 <P>
 293
 294 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 295
 296 <ul>
 297 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 298 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 299 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 300 encourage you to read.
 301 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 302 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 303 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 304 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 305 <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
 306 classes to speed up development.
 307 </ul>
 308
 309 <P>
 310 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 311
 312 <ul>
 313 <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
 314 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 315 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 316 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 317 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 318 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 319 the momentum going is needed!
 320 </ul>
 321
 322 <P>
 323
 324 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 325
 326 <ul>
 327 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 328 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 329 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 330 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 331 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 332 </ul>
 333
 334 <P>
 335
 336 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 337
 338 <ul>
 339 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 340 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 341 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 342 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 343 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 344 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 345 page will shortly contain more details.
 346 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 347 list addresses.
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