See also <a href="faq.htm">top-level FAQ page</a>.
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<h3>List of questions in this category</h3>
-<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></li>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK+?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWindows?</a></li>
<li><a href="#gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></li>
<li><a href="#redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></li>
-<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#static">Can I statically link the GTK+ library?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#charinframe">Why does my simple program using <tt>EVT_CHAR</tt> doesn't work?</a></li>
+</ul>
+
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+<h3><a name="wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></h3>
+
wxWindows 2 for GTK is a port of wxWindows to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>,
which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWindows 2 for GTK is
often abbreviated to wxGTK. wxGTK has a separate home page <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>here</a>.
<P>
+<h3><a name="locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWindows?</a></h3>
+
+If your program reads the floating point numbers in the format <tt>123.45</tt>
+from a file, it may suddently start returning just <tt>123</tt> instead of the
+correct value on some systems -- which is all the more mysterious as the same
+code in a standalone program works just fine.
+
+<p>
+The explanation is that GTK+ changes the current locale on program startup. If
+the decimal point character in the current locale is not the period (for
+example, it is comma in the French locale), all the standard C functions won't
+recognize the numbers such as above as floating point ones any more.
+
+<p>
+The solution is to either use your own function for reading the floating point
+numbers (probably the best one) or to call <tt>setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C")</tt>
+before reading from file and restore the old locale back afterwards if needed.
+
<h3><a name="gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></h3>
Currently wxGTK does not have any features that would involve dependence on any desktop
future, probably as a separate library.
<P>
-<h3><a name="redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="redhat">Warning about GTK+ libraries supplied with RedHat</a></h3>
-It seems that some versions of RedHat include a badly patched version of GTK (not wxGTK)
+It seems that some versions of RedHat include a badly patched version of GTK+ (not wxGTK)
which causes some trouble with wxWindows' socket code. Common symptoms are that when
a client tries to establish a connection to an existing server which refuses the request,
the client will get notified twice, first getting a LOST event and then a CONNECT event.
This problem can be solved by updating GTK with an official distribution of the library.
<P>
+<h3><a name="bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</h3>
+
+Robert Roebling replies:<P>
+
+"The important thing is the libc version that your app
+is linked against. The most recent version is 2.2.5
+and programs linked against it will not run with version
+2.1.X so that you will fare best if you compile your app
+on a 2.1.X system. It will then run on practically all
+Linux distros (if you link you app statically against
+the image libraries and std C++ lib)."
+<P>
+
+<h3><a name="#static">Can I statically link the GTK+ library?</a></h3>
+
+No, this is not possible. It leads to crashes in GTK+.
+<P>
+
+<h3><a name="#charinframe">Why does my simple program using
+<tt>EVT_CHAR</tt> doesn't work?</a></h3>
+
+In wxGTK, the frames never get focus and so can never receive <tt>CHAR</tt>
+nor <tt>KEY</tt> events so an <tt>EVT_CHAR</tt> handler for a frame will be
+never called. To receive these events, you should create a <tt>wxPanel</tt>
+inside the frame and register the key event handlers for the panel, not the
+frame.
+
+<p>
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