-Announcing wxWindows 2.3.4: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
+Announcing wxWidgets 2.6.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
----------------------------------------------------------------
-September 16th, 2002 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to
-announce the release of a development snapshot of the mature
-cross-platform C++ application framework.
+April 21st, 2005 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
+a new official release of the mature cross-platform C++
+application framework.
The following platforms are supported:
- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
-- Unix with X11
-- Unix with Motif/Lesstif
-- VMS with GTK+ 1.x
-- MacOS 8.6, 9.x and 10.x
-- OS/2 (alpha)
-
-To get wxWindows, go to the Download page at:
-
- http://www.wxwindows.org
-
-This is likely to be the last development snapshot in the
-2.3.x series, before the release of the stable 2.4.x series.
-
-*** About wxWindows
-
-wxWindows is a comprehensive open-source, multi-platform C++
-GUI framework, that can be used to build commercial and free
-software. It's used by many organisations all over the world,
-including the company that invented the GUI.
-
-For most ports, wxWindows adopts the native look and feel of
+- 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)
+- 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.
+
+*** About wxWidgets
+
+wxWidgets is a comprehensive open-source, multi-platform C++ GUI
+framework, that can be used to build commercial and free
+software. First released in 1992 under the name wxWindows, it's
+increasingly used by organisations and individuals all over the
+world due to its winning combination of sophistication, wide
+platform coverage, ease of use, unrestrictive licence and
+vibrant user community.
+
+For most ports, wxWidgets adopts the native look and feel of
each platform since it uses the native widget sets. There is also
-a generic widget set, used for the wxX11 port - no other widget set
-is required, giving the potential for embedded use.
+a generic widget set, used for example by the wxX11 port - no
+other widget set is required, giving the potential for embedded
+use.
An extraordinary range of classes is provided - but don't be put
-off by this because most people find wxWindows easier to learn
+off by this because most people find wxWidgets easier to learn
and use than MFC and other frameworks.
As well as comprehensive support for the usual widgets, advanced
features include: HTML viewing/printing, wxImage class providing
-handlers for eading and writing many image types, resizeable panels
+handlers for reading and writing many image types, resizeable 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,
-and much more. An 1800-page reference manual is provided in HTML,
-MS HTML Help, WinHelp, wxWindows Help and PDF, and there are over
-70 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 wxWindows concepts
+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.
-wxWindows bindings for several other languages are available,
+wxWidgets bindings for several other languages are available,
including Python, Perl, Basic, Lua, JavaScript and Eiffel.
-If you're considering wxWindows, do check out some of these links:
+If you're considering wxWidgets, do check out some of these links:
- http://www.wxwindows.org/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
- http://www.wxwindows.org/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
- http://www.wxwindows.org/users.htm ; A list of some of our
+ 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
Have fun!
-Julian Smart and the wxWindows team
-
-=====
-
-A small selection of the comments from the Feedback page:
-
-"wxWindows 2.xx has been an absolute dream; putting together a
-nice interface has been quite easy, and I'm especially pleased
-that I can do most of our development on *nix with confidence
-that only minor issues will have to get cleaned up when we build
-on Windows."
-
-"I use wxWindows as a GUI Toolkit for Python. Its stability,
-flexibility and speed are the base of industrial strength
-cross-platform GUI application design with interpreted languages
-like Python. Porting is child's play. Thanks for this great
-piece of software!"
-
-"Excellent, stable and intuitive API. Very straightforward to
-learn and easy to port Java, X11 and Win32 code to."
-
-"Thanks heaps for the best piece of software I've ever come
-across (wxWindows)."
-
-"I chose wxWindows for a very much Windows-only application
-because of the simplicity of the API compared to MFC and Win32
-GDI programming. Aside from some minor mistakes in the manual
-which confused me for a while, wxWin has been really easy to use
-and increased my productivity immensely compared to using
-another framework."
-
-"wxWindows is a great product. One of its best features, IMHO,
-are all the language bindings. It's very easy to prototype your
-app in wxPython, then convert to a C/C++ app later."
-
-"Porting to wxWindows is easy - I recently ported an MFC project
-at work to wxGTK on Solaris, and changing all the MFC calls to
-wxWindows calls only took a couple of hours for a 2 man-month
-project... I've never had an easier porting experience.
-wxWindows was intentially built to work like MFC to make it easy
-to port, and they most certainly succeeded, with the notable
-exception of OLE support. I ported a several man month project
-in a day or two, and none of it was hard or confusing, it just
-amounted to looking up the equivalent functions in the help. I
-could do the conversion much faster now because I wouldn't have
-to keep glancing at the web page."
-
-"I'd like to take the opportunity and say a big thank you to all
-the wxWin developers and contributors. wxWindows is the best
-piece of software I have been using so far, and I can't believe
-that I haven't discovered it earlier. I never thought that
-cross-platform development could be so easy and simply cool.
-Great stuff :)"
-
-"Just wanted to commend you on wxWindows. As I'm reading the
-code samples (the checklistbox right now), I'm realizing that
-this is so intuitive and so Java-like in some parts of it,
-especially with the way the layout works... Very good work and
-thank you."
-
-"I have used wxWindows in the past very successfully on multiple
-projects, and think it's the bee's knees. Thanks for everything!"
-
-"Well, I'm using wxWindows since 2 days and I'm already in love
-with it :) The sizers saved me from writing a complete layout
-solution myself. Great work! You guys rock!"
-
-"wxWindows is jaw dropping amazing. Community support from the
-mailing list is extraordinary. Are you sure this is free?"
-
-"I love wxWindows. I can program 10 times faster than with MFC,
-and almost everything works the first time. And unlike MFC,
-there are (useful) examples and documentation. Thanks to you
-guys who did all the work to develop this framework. Big kudos."
-
-"ImageLinks now uses the Open Source version of wxWindows for
-all its current GUI development. Doing this ensures that
-everything interfaces cleanly and also makes it easier in the
-long run to add other GUIs along the way because ImageLinks has
-access to all the source code."
+The wxWidgets team
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