documented wxCONFIG_USE_RELATIVE_PATH

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / body.tex

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@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 
 wxWindows is a C++ framework providing GUI (Graphical User
 Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform.  Version 2.0 currently
-supports MS Windows (16-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT) and GTK+, with Motif
-and Mac ports in an advanced state.
+supports MS Windows (16-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT), Unix with GTK+, and Unix with Motif.
+A Mac port is in an advanced state.
 
 wxWindows was originally developed at the Artificial Intelligence
 Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, for internal use.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ here are some of the benefits:
 \item Available on a variety of popular platforms.
 \item Works with almost all popular C++ compilers.
 \item Several example programs.
-\item Over 700 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
+\item Over 900 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
 \item Includes Tex2RTF, to allow you to produce your own documentation
 in Windows Help, HTML and Word RTF formats.
 \item Simple-to-use, object-oriented API.
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ same API;
 temporarily with the window as an argument;
 \item events from sliders and scrollbars can be handled more flexibly;
 \item the handling of window close events has been changed in line with the new
-event system, but backward {\bf OnClose} compatibility has been retained;
+event system;
 \item the concept of {\it validator} has been added to allow much easier coding of
 the relationship between controls and application data;
 \item the documentation has been revised, with more cross-referencing.
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Applications Institute by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
   ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin
-  http://wxwin.home.ml.org
+  http://www.wxwindows.org
 \end{verbatim}
 
 \section{Acknowledgments}
@@ -403,6 +403,27 @@ The following documents some miscellaneous C++ issues.
 
 wxWindows does not use templates since it is a notoriously unportable feature.
 
+\subsection{RTTI}
+
+wxWindows does not use run-time type information since wxWindows provides
+its own run-time type information system, implemented using macros.
+
+\subsection{Type of NULL}
+
+Some compilers (e.g. the native IRIX cc) define NULL to be 0L so that
+no conversion to pointers is allowed. Because of that, all these
+occurences of NULL in the GTK port use an explicit conversion such 
+as
+
+{\small
+\begin{verbatim}
+  wxWindow *my_window = (wxWindow*) NULL;
+\end{verbatim}
+}
+
+It is recommended to adhere to this in all code using wxWindows as
+this make the code (a bit) more portable.
+
 \subsection{Precompiled headers}
 
 Some compilers, such as Borland C++ and Microsoft C++, support