- How to add a new sample to wxWindows.
+ 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
+1. Create the directory samples/foo locally and "cvs add" it.
-2. Put the sources, headers and foo.rc file in it and "cvs add" them too
- (don't forget to use "-kb" switch for binary files)
+2. "cvs add" the sample sources (usually based on minimal.cpp) as well.
-3. Create the makefiles for Windows compilers. There are several ways to do
- it:
- a) copy the makefiles from samples/minimal, replace all occurences of
- minimal with foo
- b) use makegen (sources are under utils/makegen)
- c) use projgen
+ 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.
-4. Modify configure.in and samples/configure.in for Unix compilation:
+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 <wx-lib> 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<compiler>" 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)
- c) add foo/Makefile to AC_OUTPUT in samples/configure.in
- After this, regenerate configure and samples/configure from configure.in
+ 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 wxWindows manual. That section
+ 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: $Id$
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-Revision 1.2 2000/03/06 16:50:13 GRG
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-Added a mention of the 'samples overview' section in the wxWindows manual
-Added EOF marker to easily distinguish the text from the CVS log.
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-Revision 1.1 2000/03/02 04:18:53 GRG
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-Revision 1.2 2000/03/01 19:24:07 VZ
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