-Announcing wxWidgets 2.6.1: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
+Announcing wxWidgets 2.7.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
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-June 5th, 2005 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
-a new official release of the mature cross-platform C++
-application framework.
+August 5th, 2006 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
+a new release of the mature cross-platform C++ application framework.
The following platforms are supported:
- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
+- Windows 64 on Itanium and x86-64 architectures
- Windows CE, including Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003
-- Linux/Unix/VMS with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
-- Linux/Unix with X11 (beta)
-- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif
-- Mac OS 9.x and 10.2 and above using Carbon
-- Mac OS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64) and VMS with GTK+
+- Unix with X11 (beta)
+- Unix with Motif/Lesstif
+- Mac OS X using Carbon
+- Mac OS X using Cocoa (beta)
- OS/2 (beta)
-- MGL for Linux and DOS
-- Palm OS (alpha)
-
-A non-GUI subset of wxWidgets called wxBase is also supported
-on most of these platforms.
-
-To get wxWidgets, go to the Download page at:
-
- http://www.wxwidgets.org
-
-Since 2.4.2, we have added support for Windows Mobile devices,
-enhanced GTK+ 2 support, radically overhauled the Mac OS X port,
-replaced the build system with Bakefile, added better
-integration with STL, and added a CppUnit-based test suite.
-Other changes include sizer improvements, new Gnome printing
-features, ODBC enhancements such as BLOB support and Unicode
-support on Windows, wxTaskBarIcon support on Mac OS X and Linux
-as well as Windows, top-level windows can have arbitrary shapes,
-images can have alpha channels, plus many API enhancements and
-bug fixes to existing classes. New classes include
-wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox, wxHtmlListbox,
-wxPropertySheetDialog, wxGridBagSizer, wxMediaCtrl,
-wxDatePickerCtrl, wxArchiveInputStream/wxArchiveOutputStream
-(including zip archive read/write support), wxListbook,
-wxChoicebook, wxDebugReport, and more.
+
+To get wxWidgets, please go to the Download page at:
+
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
+
+This is the first version in the new 2.7 development series. Please
+notice that this series is called "development" and not "stable"
+solely because ABI or API compatibility is not assured between
+different 2.7.x series versions. Rest assured however that these
+potentially incompatible changes are made in order to evolve the
+toolkit to the next ABI stable release series (2.8.x) and that
+normally efforts are made to preserve compilation compatibility, so
+often moving to a new development release just requires a full
+recompile of the application using wxWidgets. There are currently no
+known issues with the stability of the programs using this version.
+
+There have been many changes since the 2.6 series, please see the
+change log file included in the distribution for more details. The
+most significant additions to the GUI part of the libraries were:
+
+ - AUI (advanced user interface) library providing dockable
+ windows and much more
+ - richtext library implementing wxRichTextCtrl
+ - New wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox controls
+ - New wxTreebook book-like control
+ - New wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls
+ - wxHyperlinkCtrl control
+
*** About wxWidgets
As well as comprehensive support for the usual widgets, advanced
features include: HTML viewing/printing, wxImage class providing
-handlers for reading and writing many image types, resizeable panels
+handlers for reading and writing many image types, resizable panels
and dialogs on all platforms, document/view, OpenGL support,
HTML-based and context-sensitive help, wizards, drag and drop,
a grid class, ODBC support, threads, sockets, container classes,
reassuringly familiar, while often clearer and more consistent.
If you're not, you should still find it intuitive from the start.
-wxWidgets bindings for several other languages are available,
+wxWidgets bindings for many other languages are available,
including Python, Perl, Basic, Lua, JavaScript and Eiffel.
If you're considering wxWidgets, do check out some of these links:
- http://www.wxwidgets.org/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
- http://www.wxwidgets.org/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
- http://www.wxwidgets.org/users.htm ; A list of some of our
- ; users
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm ; Some of our users
Have fun!
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