How to add a new sample to wxWidgets. ===================================== To add a new sample "foo" under directory "samples/foo" you need to do the following: (note that all this applies also to demos: just replace samples/ with demos/ where needed). 1. Create the directory samples/foo locally and "cvs add" it. 2. "cvs add" the sample sources (usually based on minimal.cpp) as well. Note that unless your sample requires something special you shouldn't add foo.rc, foo.ico, ... any more, please just reuse the generic sample.* files in the samples subdirectory. 3. Create the makefiles: a) modify samples/samples.bkl (just copy an existing line) b) create foo.bkl (sed 's/minimal/foo/g' minimal.bkl > foo.bkl is usually enough, but you may need to add more lines if your sample uses anything not in the core lib) c) generate the makefiles for your sample using bakefile. For this you need to: (i) install bakefile (see http://bakefile.sf.net/) (ii) run bakefile_gen in build/bakefiles which will regenerate all makefiles which are not up to date You may also use "bakefile_gen -b ../../samples/foo/foo.bkl" to regenerate only the makefiles for this sample (path must be relative!) or even add a "-f" to generate just the makefiles for the given compiler (run 'bakefile --help' to get the list of possible values). See Technote #16 for more information. 4. Modify configure.in Unix compilation: a) if the sample should only be built if "wxUSE_FOO" is enabled, locate the test for "wxUSE_FOO = yes" in configure.in and add a line SAMPLES_SUBDIRS="$SAMPLES_SUBDIRS foo" under it b) if it should be always built, locate the line "if test $wxUSE_GUI = yes" near the end of configure.in and modify the assignment to SAMPLES_SUBDIRS to include "foo" (put in alphabetical order) After this, regenerate configure from configure.in by running "autoconf" on a Unix system in the corresponding directory. 5. Add a short description of what the sample does and how does it work to the "samples overview" section in the wxWidgets manual. That section lives in docs/latex/wx/tsamples.tex; look at the descriptions for other samples, if you are not familiar with LaTeX. 6. Add any non-standard sample's files to build/bakefiles/make_dist.mk (the makefiles copies all bmp, cpp, h, ico, png, rc, xpm and makefiles by default, you only need to update it if the sample uses some other files) and run the ./update-manifests.sh script in distrib/scripts (don't forget to check the changes to manifests/*.rsp files in). === EOF === Author: VZ Version: $Id$