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  21 <H3>January 14th, 2000</H3><P>
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  23 <ul>
  24 <li>A 2.1.12 release is not far off.
  25 <li>Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32,
  26 to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working
  27 for Mingw32.
  28 <li>Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive.
  29 <li>TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up.
  30 <li>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo.
  31 <li>The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last.
  32 <li>Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced
  33 metafile class.
  34 <li>The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and
  35 other facilities to follow shortly.
  36 </ul>
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  38
  39 <H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P>
  40
  41 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
  42 The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
  43 on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P>
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  45 <ul>
  46 <li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
  47 <li> Further samples.
  48 <li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
  49   maintenance.
  50 <li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
  51 <li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
  52   wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
  53   and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
  54 <li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
  55   wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
  56 <li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
  57 <li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
  58 <li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
  59 <li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
  60   in wxMotif.
  61 <li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
  62   for some generic dialogs.
  63 <li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
  64   class can still be used.
  65 <li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
  66 <li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
  67 <li> Documentation improvements.
  68 <li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
  69   system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
  70 <li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
  71 </ul>
  72
  73 <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
  74
  75 Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
  76 made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
  77 for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
  78
  79 Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
  80 was release are:
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  82 <ul>
  83 <li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
  84 holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
  85 <li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
  86 specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
  87 <li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
  88 features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
  89 <li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
  90 having undergone a complete rewrite.
  91 <li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
  92 <li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
  93 API and features.
  94 </ul>
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  97
  98 <H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
  99
 100 We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
 101 which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
 102 Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
 103 <P>
 104 If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
 105 developers mailing list!
 106
 107 <H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
 108
 109 <ul>
 110 <li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
 111 <li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
 112 MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
 113 development easier.
 114 <li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
 115 </ul>
 116
 117 <H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
 118
 119 wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
 120
 121 <ul>
 122 <li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
 123 the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
 124 <a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
 125 </ul>
 126
 127 <H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
 128
 129 <ul>
 130 <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
 131 (hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
 132 <li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
 133 on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
 134 major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
 135 Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
 136 something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
 137 <li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
 138 is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
 139 <li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
 140 <li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
 141 are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
 142 source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
 143 is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
 144 work on persistent storage classes.
 145 </ul>
 146
 147 <H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
 148
 149 <ul>
 150 <li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
 151 since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
 152 </ul>
 153
 154 <H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
 155
 156 <ul>
 157 <li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
 158 and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
 159 <li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
 160 </ul>
 161
 162 <H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
 163
 164 <ul>
 165 <li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
 166 and Mingw32.
 167 <li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
 168 plus a few small bug fixes.
 169 </ul>
 170
 171 <H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
 172
 173 <ul>
 174 <li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
 175 for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
 176 </ul>
 177
 178 <H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
 179
 180 <ul>
 181 <li>Happy New Year!
 182 <li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
 183 <li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
 184 by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
 185 environment project).
 186 <li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
 187 has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
 188 and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
 189 <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
 190 wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
 191 <li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
 192 <li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
 193 </ul>
 194
 195 <H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
 196
 197 <ul>
 198 <li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
 199 <li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
 200 <I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
 201 </ul>
 202
 203 <H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
 204
 205 <ul>
 206 <li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
 207 </ul>
 208
 209 <H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
 210
 211 <ul>
 212 <li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
 213 <li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
 214 by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
 215 </ul>
 216
 217 <H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
 218
 219 <ul>
 220 <li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
 221 please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
 222 <li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
 223 NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
 224 <li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
 225 documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
 226 will be including with the distribution from now on.
 227 </ul>
 228
 229 <H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
 230
 231 <ul>
 232 <li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 233 - developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
 234 date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
 235 <li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
 236 fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
 237 of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
 238 </ul>
 239
 240 <H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
 241
 242 <ul>
 243 <li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
 244 - thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
 245 commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
 246 his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
 247 <li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
 248 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
 249 network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
 250 for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
 251 classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
 252 it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
 253 <li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
 254 <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
 255 effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
 256 by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
 257 a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
 258 an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
 259 and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
 260 to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
 261 Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
 262 </ul>
 263
 264 <P>
 265
 266 <H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
 267
 268 <ul>
 269 <li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
 270 their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
 271 added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
 272 <li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
 273 <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
 274 environment for Linux.
 275 <li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
 276 <A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
 277 directory.
 278 </ul>
 279
 280 <P>
 281
 282 <H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
 283
 284 <ul>
 285 <li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
 286 <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
 287 <li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
 288 encourage you to read.
 289 <li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
 290 (and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
 291 <li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
 292 <li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
 293 <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
 294 classes to speed up development.
 295 </ul>
 296
 297 <P>
 298 <H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
 299
 300 <ul>
 301 <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
 302 a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
 303 <li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
 304 <li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
 305 New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
 306 port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
 307 the momentum going is needed!
 308 </ul>
 309
 310 <P>
 311
 312 <H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
 313
 314 <ul>
 315 <li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
 316 Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
 317 <li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
 318 and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
 319 and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
 320 </ul>
 321
 322 <P>
 323
 324 <H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
 325
 326 <ul>
 327 <li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
 328 for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
 329 <li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
 330 enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
 331 <li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
 332 to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
 333 page will shortly contain more details.
 334 <li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
 335 list addresses.
 336 </ul>
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