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-Announcing wxWidgets 2.5.4: 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.
-
-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)
-- 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, go to the Download page at:
-
-  http://www.wxwidgets.org
-
-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
-
-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 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 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 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,
-a styled text control, and much more. An 1800-page reference manual
-is provided in HTML, MS HTML Help, WinHelp, wxWidgets Help and PDF
-formats, and there are over 80 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,
-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
-
-Have fun!
-
-The wxWidgets team
+July 9, 2012 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce the
+latest 2.9.4 release of wxWidgets library.

 
 

+wxWidgets 2.9.4 is available at
+
+        https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.4/
+
+and soon will also appear at our FTP mirror at
+
+        ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.4/
+
+Please choose the archive format suitable for your platform, i.e. 7z
+or ZIP for Windows platforms and tar.bz2 for the Unix systems
+including OS X (all archives contain sources for all wxWidgets ports
+but they use different line endings) and follow the instructions in
+readme.txt file for installing it. Notice that if you decide to use
+the Windows installer (.exe file) you still need to build wxWidgets
+as only sources, not binaries, are installed.
+
+However, for the first time ever, we also experimentally provide the
+pre-built versions of wxMSW libraries built with several version of
+Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. You can download them from
+
+        https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.4/binaries/
+
+Please see the README file there for the descriptions of the
+individual files.
+
+
+This release mostly focuses on bug fixes in preparation for 3.0
+release, in particular there are a lot of improvements in wxOSX/Cocoa
+port. The most important new feature in this release is experimental
+support for building wxGTK with GTK+ 3 version of the toolkit. Other
+noteworthy additions are:
+
+- Transparent background is now support for wxGTK windows.
+- New style directory selection dialog is now used in wxMSW.
+- Native wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl for wxOSX.
+- wxFSInputStream stream class for reading data from wxFileSystem.
+- wxGrid::Render() method allows to print or save wxGrid contents.
+- Strike-through fonts are now supported.
+- Horizontal mouse wheel events are now generated.
+
+
+The list of of changes since the 2.8 series is much too long to be
+listed here but the most important ones are:
+
+- Completely overhauled Unicode support which is much easier to use.
+- New Cocoa-based wxOSX port for Mac OS X for both 32 and 64 bits.
+- New property grid and ribbon libraries are now included in wxWidgets.
+- Better interoperability with standard library classes.
+- Totally revised and more readable manual.
+- Improved debugging support.
+
+Please see the changes.txt file in the "docs" subdirectory of
+wxWidgets distribution or also available online at
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/changes.txt/docs/changes.txt
+for more details and http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/overview_changes_since28.html
+if you are upgrading from wxWidgets 2.8.
+
+
+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 very unlikely to change
+in incompatible ways at this stage), unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch
+where source and binary compatibility is always preserved between the
+different micro releases. We believe the current version is stable and
+suitable for use in production environment and recommend using it for
+any new projects using wxWidgets.
+
+We are especially looking forward to your feedback about the changes
+in this release compared to 2.8 version if you're upgrading. Please
+let us know about any regressions (http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket)
+so that we could fix them in the upcoming 3.0. Thanks in advance!
+
+ Enjoy!
+
+Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.