Welcome to wxUniversal!
Acknowledgements: wxUniversal wouldn't have been written without the
-generuous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Benett and
+generous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Benett and
Tom Ryan!
0. Introduction
for more details about it.
The advantage of wxUniversal is that you have precise control over the
-controls appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the
+controls' appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the
native controls) and the theme support: the same program may be changed to
-look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but
+look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but
just changing the theme.
Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWindows for other
platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special
-interest to the people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform.
+interest to people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform.
- However, wxUniversal doesn't have the 100% native look and feel unlike the
+ However, wxUniversal doesn't have a 100% native look and feel unlike the
other wxWindows ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility.
-1. Requirments and supported platforms
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+1. Requirements and supported platforms
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wxUniversal is used together with another wxWindows port which provides the
"low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built either with
a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
- Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in MSDEV and build it.
+ Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in DevStudio and build it.
b) Cygwin
c) Other compilers
- Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet.
+ Unfortunately we don't have makefiles for any other compilers yet.
Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the
compiler you use.
+Note that you can use the wxUniversal classes, wxMSW and MicroWindows (from
+Century Software) to build a different variant of wxUniversal than that
+documented here. Please see docs/univ/readme.txt for further information.
+
3. Installing under Unix
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* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
- Hope you will find wxUniversal useful!
+ Hope you find wxUniversal useful!
Vadim Zeitlin