This page represents current thinking about where wxWindows is going in the near, medium and long-term. It also serves as a schedule for new releases so that both developers and users can know what to expect when, at least approximately.

Note (1): as the wxWindows effort is voluntary, these are not hard-and-fast deadlines: but we will endeavour to follow them as closely as possible.

Note (2): the releases described are for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif ports. wxMac currently follows its own development path but is due to merge with the main code base in November/December. Also, minor snapshot releases for specific platforms may be available at dates convenient to the developers.

Release 2.0.?

• Release date: October 3rd, 1999
• This beta is intended to be the last stable snapshot before wxWindows is split into base and GUI libraries.
• New wxGrid in beta.
• wxWizard (beta)
• wxDialUpManager and wxPhoneDialer (beta)
• wxFontEnumerator (beta)
• Preliminary support for different encodings
• wxPostEvent function

Release 2.1

• Release date: November 7th, 1999
• Splits wxWindows into base and GUI libraries. Most, but not all makefiles are expected to support this: for the rest, the makefiles will build a valid combined base/GUI library for GUI applications only.
• New wxGrid.
• wxSocket working.
• Full support for fonts in different encodings
• Tested multithreading support (wxThread)
• wxHTML printing (possibly).
• Better i18n support (i.e. more translations)
• Animation classes (possibly, low priority).
• PCX writing capability (possibly, low priority).
• wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
• Rewritten timer.cpp, possible wxChrono class.
• Bug tracking system in place.

Release 2.1.1

• Release date: January 9th, 2000
• Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.

Release 2.1.2

• Release date: March 5th, 2000
• Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
• wxDateTime class in beta.
• Context sensitive help
• More i18n issues: dates, times, ...

Release 2.1.3

• Release date: May 7th, 2000
• Unicode compilation starting to work in wxGTK and wxMSW.

Release 2.2

• Release date: c. July 2nd, 2000
• Unicode compilation working in wxGTK and wxMSW.
• wxDateTime class.
• Regular expressions support.

Release 2.3

• Release date: unknown
• WinCE port available.

Developers: please feel free to add to these, and delete them when they are done.

General

• wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate printed reports with very little effort.
• wxSocket.
• Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only) and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).
• Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets that can handle multiple formats).
• Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file; add constraint specification to WXR syntax and Dialog Editor; add multilanguage support to WXR. May be we'd better change the format completely and replace WXR with XML (providing conversion utility for old files)?
• Context sensitive help: we need to have wxHelpEvent which would be generated when the help for a given control is requested and a standard handler for it in wxWindow which would invoke the default help system with the correct help id.
• Rewrite Dialog Editor.
• Modem-oriented classes: wxDialUpManager for dialing up the ISP and determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating with the modem.
• PCX writing code.
• GIF animation code.
• Tidying of timer code, addition of wxChrono class.
• Debug wxPostScriptDC further.
• wxDateTime class.
• Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
• MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).
• Rotated text support.
• FreeType support.
• Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes written generically in wxWindows.
• Serial and parallel port support.
• Modem and telephony support.
• Book, tutorial.
• More examples.

wxMSW

• Windows CE port.
• Cure bug whereby in a panel within another panel, all buttons become default buttons (heavy black border).
• Write a RC->WXR converter.

wxGTK

• GNOME/KDE integration libraries.

wxMotif

• Fix menu accelerators
• Fix refresh problems
• Allow wxSystemSettings to be configurable, perhaps via a control panel application.