-wxWindows 2.5.0
----------------
-
-*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
-*** Unless you need the new features and bug fixes, you may wish to
-*** use the official 2.4.x stable series. You are still encouraged
-*** to try the releases from 2.5.x branch, of course, and unstable
-*** doesn't mean that they crash all the time -- just that the API
-*** may change in backwards incompatible way. If this doesn't frighten
-*** you, do try this release and please let us know what you think!
-
-Welcome to wxWindows, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
-framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
-possible) the native controls.
-
-In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as
-frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons,
-device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there are
-wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for writing
-TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more. Where certain
-features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and tree
-controls on Unix, they are emulated.
-
-A detailed 1800-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF
-and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
-
-For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm
-for a list of important documents and samples.
+ wxWidgets 2.9.5 Release Notes
+ =============================
-Changes in this release
------------------------
+Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++
+framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
-Please see changes.txt for details.
-Platforms supported
--------------------
+In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames,
+scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts,
+printing, splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common
+file operations, facilities for writing network applications,
+thread handling, and so on. You can learn more about wxWidgets at
-wxWindows currently supports the following platforms:
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
-- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+
-- Most Unix variants with X11
-- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- MacOS 9.x and 10.x
-- OS/2 (alpha)
-Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
-file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
-See also http://www.wxwindows.org/platform.htm.
+wxWidgets sources are available for download from
-Files
------
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.5/
-The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
-target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
-In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.
+or
-wxWindows for GTK+ distribution
--------------------------------
+ ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.5/
-wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will
- need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
- (see below)
-wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source
-wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK samples source
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM
-wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM
+Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various
+files available at these locations.
-wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution
-----------------------------------------
-wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
- documentation.
+A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for various
+topics is supplied in various formats and can be accessed online at
-wxWindows for MS Windows distribution
--------------------------------------
+ http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.5/
-setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files in floppy-disk-sized chunks
-wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip Zip archive containing the
- setup files
-wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the files that are
- in the setup distribution
-As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:
+Note about naming: while 2.9.5 is called a "development" release,
+this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in the
+subsequent 2.9.x releases (although it is still likely that it will),
+unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch. We believe the current version is
+stable and suitable for use in production environment.
-- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
-- a Dialog Editor binary;
-- a Tex2RTF binary;
-- Life! sample binary.
-wxWindows for MacOS distribution
---------------------------------
-wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
- source files (excludes documentation)
-wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all
- source files (excludes documentation).
- You might prefer this format if building on
- MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.
+Changes in this release
+-----------------------
+
+This release contains several years worth of improvements compared
+to 2.8 version. Notably, Unicode support has been completely
+overhauled and made much easier to use. Debugging support, including
+when using a release build of the library, was much improved making
+it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Many new GUI
+and base classes have been added or improved.
+
+Compared to the previous 2.9.3 release the most important change is
+the addition of new, still experimental, GTK+ 3 support in wxGTK.
+But the main focus of this release is on incremental improvements
+and fixing defects in preparation for 3.0 release. In particular,
+wxOSX/Cocoa port has been significantly improved.
-wxWindows for OS/2 distribution
--------------------------------
+Please see the file docs/changes.txt for more details and make sure
+to read the section "Incompatible changes since 2.8" if you upgrade
+from a previous wxWidgets release.
-wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
- (excludes documentation)
+This release introduces many important changes and we are looking
+forward to your feedback about them. In particular please let us
+know about any regressions compared to the previous versions (see
+the section "Bug reporting" below) so that we could fix them before
+3.0 release.
-Documentation files
+
+Platforms supported
-------------------
-wxWindows-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip WinHelp documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-PDF.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTML.zip HTML documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip Windows HTML Help documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTB.zip wxHTML documentation (for
- use with the helpview utility)
+wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
+
+- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
+- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
+- Mac OS X (10.4 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa
+
+There is some support for the following platforms:
+
+- Most Unix variants with X11
+- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 3 (still in development)
+- OS/2
+- Windows CE (Pocket PC)
+
+Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
+file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) and
+http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Supported_Platforms for the most up to
+date status.
+
+
+Files
+-----
+
+wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats.
+ZIP and 7z archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the
+files with DOS/Windows line endings while the compressed tar archives
+for Unix systems users (including OS X) and contain the files with
+Unix line endings. Please notice that some Windows tools still don't
+accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling sources with
+DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct
+file for your system.
+
+In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB
+(wxWidgets help viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer
+for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile
+wxWidgets even when using the installer.
+
+Experimentally, we also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built
+with several versions of Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for this
+release. They are available in the "binaries" subdirectory, see
+the description of the files in the README file there.
+
Installation
------------
-wxWindows 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out
-the samples or write your own applications.
-For installation information, please see the install.txt file
-in the individual directories:
+wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
+or write your own applications. For installation information, please
+see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory appropriate for
+the platform you use.
- docs/msw
- docs/gtk
- docs/motif
- docs/mac
- docs/x11
- docs/mgl
- docs/os2
Licence information
-------------------
docs/lgpl.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
-proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in
-addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
-the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted
-distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you
-don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write
-commercial applications using wxWindows.
-
-However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version
-of your application, don't forget that it is linked against
-GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without* exception
-notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
-against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section 6.
-which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
-linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically and
-include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is
-already present in user's system - like glibc usually is).
-If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will
-contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
+proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition
+to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, the licence is
+LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted distribution of
+application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't have to
+distribute any source if you wish to write commercial
+applications using wxWidgets.
+
+However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
+version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
+against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
+exception notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
+against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section
+6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source
+applications linked against LGPL library. Basically you should
+link dynamically and include source code of LGPL libraries with
+your product (unless it is already present in user's system -
+like glibc usually is).
If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
for libtiff licence details.
-If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program should
-contain following sentence: "This software is based in part on the work of
-the Independent JPEG Group". See src/jpeg/README for details.
+If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program
+should contain following sentence: "This software is based in
+part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group". See
+src/jpeg/README for details.
-If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
-support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
-regular expression library copyright.
+If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular
+expressions support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT
+file for Henry Spencer's regular expression library copyright.
If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
Documentation
-------------
-See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
+wxWidgets documentation is available online at
+http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.5/ and can also be downloaded in HTML
+format. To generate documentation in other formats (PDF, CHM, ...)
+please use the scripts in docs/doxygen directory.
+
-See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWindows 2.
+Bug reporting
+-------------
-See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
+The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
-The wxWindows bug database can be browsed at:
+ http://trac.wxwidgets.org/report
- http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863
+Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find
+any possibly relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please
+notice that often trying to correct the bug yourself is the
+quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do it, you may
+discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing
+it. We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches
+fixing the problems so this ensures that your report will be
+addressed sooner.
-The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
-The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
Further information
-------------------
-The wxWindows Web site is located at:
+The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
- http://www.wxwindows.org
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
-The main wxWindows ftp site is at:
+The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
- ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
+ ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/
-A wxWindows CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
+A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
-material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWindows
+material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets
web site.
Have fun!
-The wxWindows Team, August 2003
-
+The wxWidgets Team, July 2012
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