maintenance.
- Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
- Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
- wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing.
+ wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
+ and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
- New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
- wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
- wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
- New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
-- Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK.
+- Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
+ in wxMotif.
- wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
for some generic dialogs.
- New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
- Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
- wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
- Documentation improvements.
+- Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
+ system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
+- Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
Platforms supported
-------------------
-- OR -- from the zip set (above).
wx2_x_y_gen.zip
-wx2_x_y_msw.zip
wx2_x_y_mot.zip
jpeg.zip
Documentation
-------------
-See docs/changes.txt for a detailed history of changes to wxWindows 2.
+See docs/release.txt for some notes about the current release.
+
+See docs/bugs.txt for a bug list: this file is new and will initially
+ be edited by hand, later generated from a web-based bug database.
+
See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
+See docs/changes.txt for a detailed history of changes to wxWindows 2
+ (not up-to-date).
+
The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.