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  32   <!-- INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES -->
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  34   <h1>Installation and Release Notes</h1>
  35
  36   <p>Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux
  37      using your distro's package manager), you will probably have to
  38      <strong>compile</strong> the wxWidgets library before you can start use
  39      it.</p>
  40   <p>Please read the platform-specific <tt>readme.txt</tt> and
  41      <tt>install.txt</tt> for how to do this:</p>
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  43   <ul>
  44     <li>Readme:
  45       <a href="readme.txt"><b>General ReadMe</b></a>,
  46       <a href="msw/readme.txt">wxMSW</a> (<a href="msw/winxp.txt">wxMSW for WinXP</a>),
  47       <a href="gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK</a>,
  48       <a href="mac/readme.txt">wxMac</a>,
  49       <a href="cocoa/readme.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
  50       <a href="mgl/readme.txt">wxMGL</a>,
  51       <a href="motif/readme.txt">wxMotif</a>,
  52       <a href="x11/readme.txt">wxX11</a>,
  53       <a href="univ/readme.txt">Univ</a>
  54     </li>
  55     <li>Installation:
  56       <a href="msw/install.txt">wxMSW</a>,
  57       <a href="gtk/install.txt">wxGTK</a>,
  58       <a href="motif/install.txt">wxMotif</a>,
  59       <a href="x11/install.txt">wxX11</a>,
  60       <a href="mac/install.txt">wxMac</a>,
  61       <a href="cocoa/install.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
  62       <a href="mgl/install.txt">wxMGL</a>,
  63       <a href="os2/install.txt">wxOS2</a>
  64     </li>
  65     <li><a href="changes.txt"><b>General change log</b></a></li>
  66     <li>Licence:
  67       <a href="preamble.txt">Preamble</a>,
  68       <a href="licence.txt">Licence</a>,
  69       <a href="licendoc.txt">Documentation Licence</a>,
  70       <a href="lgpl.txt">L-GPL</a>,
  71       <a href="gpl.txt">GPL</a>
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  92   <!-- DOCUMENTATION -->
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  94   <h1>Documentation</h1>
  95
  96   <p>The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of
  97      the following formats depends on what you've downloaded from the
  98      <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets website</a>:</p>
  99
 100   <ul>
 101     <li><a href="doxygen/out/html/index.html">HTML</a></li>
 102     <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.chm">MS HTML Help (CHM)</a></li>
 103     <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.htb">wxHTML Help (HTB)</a></li>
 104     <li><a href="doxygen/out/rtf/refman.rtf">Rich Text Format (RTF)</a></li>
 105     <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF)</a></li>
 106   </ul>
 107
 108   <p>To use the manual in the <b>wxHTML Help</b> format (extension
 109      <tt>htb</tt>), you can use the <b>HelpView</b> application, compiling it
 110      from the <tt>utils/helpview</tt> folder in the wxWidgets
 111      distribution.</p>
 112
 113   <p>Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other
 114      <strong>resources</strong> which can help to learn wxWidgets
 115      programming:</p>
 116
 117   <ul>
 118     <li><a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">The wxWidgets website</a>: Contains
 119         FAQs, tutorials, info about the mailing lists, and in general
 120         everything related to the wxWidgets world is linked here.</li>
 121     <li><a href="http://wxforum.shadonet.com/">The wxWidgets forum</a>:
 122         Provides a discussion board about various wxWidgets topics (contains
 123         also <em>localized</em> forums).</li>
 124     <li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/">The wxWiki</a>: A user-editable
 125         website with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources,
 126         etc.</li>
 127   </ul>
 128
 129   <!-- TECHNICAL NOTES -->
 130
 131   <h1>Technical Notes</h1>
 132
 133   <p>Technical notes contains informations useful only to wxWidgets developers
 134      for the maintainance of the project:</p>
 135
 136   <ul>
 137     <li><a href="tech/index.txt">Index of Technical Notes</a></li>
 138     <li><a href="tech/">Technical Notes</a></li>
 139   </ul>
 140
 141   <p>Todo List for wxWidgets:</p>
 142
 143   <ul>
 144     <li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_Todo_List">wxWiki Todo List</a></li>
 145     <li><a href="doxygen/out/html/todo.html">Documentation Todo List</a></li>
 146   </ul>
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 148   <!-- DEMOS -->
 149
 150   <h1>Demos</h1>
 151
 152   <p>The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some
 153      features of wxWidgets (for a list of the 70+ samples please look at the
 154      manual):</p>
 155
 156   <ul>
 157     <li><a href="../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.</li>
 158     <li><a href="../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.</li>
 159     <li><a href="../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.</li>
 160     <li><a href="../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway,
 161         implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.</li>
 162     <li><a href="../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.</li>
 163   </ul>
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