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<h3>List of questions in this category</h3>
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<li><a href="#whatis">What is wxWidgets?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#licence">Can I use wxWidgets 2 for both proprietary projects, and GPL'ed projects?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#licence">Can I use wxWidgets for both proprietary projects, and GPL'ed projects?</a></li>
<li><a href="#support">Is there support?</a></li>
<li><a href="#users">Who uses wxWidgets?</a></li>
<li><a href="#platforms">What platforms are supported by wxWidgets?</a></li>
<li><a href="#exceptions">How to use C++ exceptions with wxWidgets?</a></ li>
<li><a href="#dev">How is wxWidgets being developed?</a></li>
<li><a href="#distrib">How is wxWidgets distributed?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#future">What are the plans for the future?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#base">What is wxBase?</a></li>
<li><a href="#univ">What is wxUniversal?</a></li>
<li><a href="#jave">What about Java?</a></li>
and Anthemion Software's <a href="http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/" target=_new>DialogBlocks</a>
are two commercial examples, but there are others: see the <a href="lnk_tool.htm">Useful Tools</a> page.<P>
-You don't have to use C++ to use wxWidgets: there is a <a href="http://wxpython.org">Python interface</a> for wxWidgets 2,
+You don't have to use C++ to use wxWidgets: there is a <a href="http://wxpython.org">Python interface</a> for wxWidgets,
and also a <a href="http://wxperl.sourceforge.net" target=_top>Perl interface</a>.
<P>
-<h3><a name="licence">Can I use wxWidgets 2 for both proprietary (commercial) projects, and GPL'ed projects?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="licence">Can I use wxWidgets for both proprietary (commercial) projects, and GPL'ed projects?</a></h3>
Yes. Please see the <a href="newlicen.htm">licence</a> for details, but basically
you can distribute proprietary binaries without distributing any source code, and neither will wxWidgets
conflict with GPL code you may be using or developing with it.
<P>
-The conditions for using wxWidgets 2 are the same whether you are a personal, academic
+The conditions for using wxWidgets are the same whether you are a personal, academic
or commercial developer.
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and his <a href="http://www.osafoundation.org" target=_new>Open Source Applications Foundation</a>.
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-<H3><a name="platforms">What platforms are supported by wxWidgets 2?</a></H3>
+<H3><a name="platforms">What platforms are supported by wxWidgets?</a></H3>
<ul>
<li>Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME.
</ul>
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-<H3><a name="specific">How does wxWidgets 2 support platform-specific
+<H3><a name="specific">How does wxWidgets support platform-specific
features?</a></H3>
This is a hotly-debated topic amongst the developers. My own philosophy
Currently resources such as bitmaps and icons are handled in a platform-specific
way, but it is hoped to reduce this dependence in due course.<P>
-Another reason why wxWidgets 2 is not a 'lowest common denominator' toolkit is that
+Another reason why wxWidgets is not a 'lowest common denominator' toolkit is that
some functionality missing on some platform has been provided using generic,
platform-independent code, such as the wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl classes.<P>
and platforms that could be supported. It would also be undesirable to make
wxWidgets dependent on another large library that may have to be downloaded and installed.
In addition, use of templates can lead to executable bloat, which is something
-wxWidgets
2 is strenuously trying to avoid.<P>
+wxWidgets is strenuously trying to avoid.<P>
The standard C++ string class is not used, again because it is not available to all compilers,
and it is not necessarily a very efficient implementation. Also, we retain more flexibility
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-<H3><a name="richedit">Is there a rich edit/markup widget for wxWidgets 2?</a></H3>
+<H3><a name="richedit">Is there a rich edit/markup widget for wxWidgets?</a></H3>
These are the possibilities so far:<P>
from <a href="cvs.htm">cvs</a>.
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<H3><a name="future">What are the plans for the future?</a></H3>
-Currently we're working too hard on getting wxWidgets finished (are GUI toolkits ever
-finished?) to think very far ahead. However, we know we want to make wxWidgets as robust
-and well-publicised as possible. We also want to aim for better platform-independence of
-resources such as icons and bitmaps, standardising on PNG and XPM for all platforms.<P>
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-Other possibilities include: DCOM/CORBA compatibility; a wxWidgets book;
-<a href="http://wxworkshop.sourceforge.net/">wxWorkshop</a>, an IDE;
-other platforms, especially embedded systems; other interface abilities such as speech output.<P>
+TODO
-We will investigate the possibility of compiler or operating system vendors bundling wxWidgets with
-their product.<P>
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-The high-level goal of wxWidgets is to be thought of as the number one C++ framework,
-for virtually any platform. Move over, MFC!<P>
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<h3><a name="base">What is wxBase?</a></h3>
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