-wxWidgets 2.5.3
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-
-*** 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 a backwards incompatible way. If this doesn't frighten
-*** you, do try this release and please let us know what you think!
-
-Welcome to wxWidgets, 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 2.9.4 Release Notes
+ =============================
+
+Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++
+framework for writing advanced GUI applications using 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, facilities for writing network applications,
+thread handling, and so on. You can learn more about wxWidgets at
+
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
+
+
+wxWidgets sources are available for download from
+
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/
+
+or
+
+ ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.4/
+
+Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various
+files available at these locations.
+
+
+A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for various
+topics is supplied in various formats and can be accessed online at
+
+ http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/
+
+
+Note about naming: while 2.9.4 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.
+
+
Changes in this release
-----------------------
-Please see changes.txt for details.
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
Platforms supported
-------------------
-wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
+wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
+
+- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
+- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.4 or newer)
+- Mac OS X (10.4 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa
+
+There is some support for the following platforms:
-- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Pocket PC
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1 and GTK+ 2
-- Most Unix variants with X11 (beta)
+- Most Unix variants with X11
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- MacOS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon (10.3 and above preferred)
-- MacOS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
-- OS/2 (beta)
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
+- 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) for details.
-See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.
+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
-----
-The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
-target system. See the download pages for details.
+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.
+
Installation
------------
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 individual directories:
+see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory appropriate for
+the platform you use.
- docs/msw
- docs/gtk
- docs/motif
- docs/mac
- docs/cocoa
- 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 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 compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWidgets 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/2.9.4/ 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 wxWidgets.
-See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
+Bug reporting
+-------------
+
+The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
-The wxWidgets 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 wxWidgets Web site is located at:
- http://www.wxwidgets.org
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
- ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
+ ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/
A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
Have fun!
-The wxWidgets Team, October 2004
-
+The wxWidgets Team, December 2011
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