-Announcing wxWidgets 2.5.5: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
+Announcing wxWidgets 2.7.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
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-October 11th, 2004 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
-a development snapshot 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 CE
-- 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.x using Carbon
-- Mac OS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- Windows 64 on Itanium and x86-64 architectures
+- Windows CE, including Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003
+- 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 (Linux and DOS)
-A non-GUI subset of wxWidgets called wxBase is also supported
-on most of these platforms.
+To get wxWidgets, please go to the Download page at:
-To get wxWidgets, go to the Download page at:
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
- 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
-This is a development snapshot, sometimes known as
-an 'unstable' release. Improvements over 2.4.x include:
-numerous bug fixes, STL-like container classes,
-improved GTK+ 2 compatibility, new build system,
-improved Unicode compatibility, wxRenderer class,
-shaped frame and dialog windows on Windows and GTK+,
-more efficient UI update processing, print preview
-improvements, wxCrashReport class, OpenWatcom and
-Digital Mars compiler support, and more. Improvements
-over 2.5.2 include much improved Mac OS X and Windows CE
-support, as well as the usual bug fixes and minor enhancements.
*** 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,
-a styled text control, and much more. An eighteen hundred page
-reference manual is provided in HTML, MS HTML Help, WinHelp,
-wxWidgets Help and PDF formats, and there are over eighty samples
-and demos.
+a styled text control, and much more. A 2,000-page reference manual
+is provided in HTML, MS HTML Help, WinHelp, wxWidgets Help and PDF
+formats, and there are over eighty samples and demos.
If you're an MFC user, you'll find many wxWidgets concepts
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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