Fix conversion of bitmaps with alpha to icons/cursors in wxMSW.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / microwin / readme.txt

diff --git a/docs/microwin/readme.txt b/docs/microwin/readme.txt
index c9d3d56524ee61758e074c41e3aa72dc6874becb..4c43843608deb47e62f9b4436a0a7aa8899a29c9 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/microwin/readme.txt
+++ b/docs/microwin/readme.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 wxMicroWindows port
 ===================
 
 wxMicroWindows port
 ===================
 

+Warning: As of 2007-07-17 this port probably doesn't build any more.
+         Please don't expect it to work out of the box currently.
+
+

 Julian Smart 2001-12-08
 
 Julian Smart 2001-12-08
 

-This is a port of wxWindows to MicroWindows, under Linux.
+This is a port of wxWidgets to MicroWindows, under Linux.

 Widgets are supplied by the wxUniversal project, while the
 underlying port uses the Windows ports with small modifications
 for the MicroWindows API.
 Widgets are supplied by the wxUniversal project, while the
 underlying port uses the Windows ports with small modifications
 for the MicroWindows API.


@@ -45,7 +49,7 @@ MicroWindows:
 
   Note: these are already applied by the patch below.
 
 
   Note: these are already applied by the patch below.
 

-- apply microwindows.patches (from wxWindows:
+- apply microwindows.patches (from wxWidgets:

   docs/microwin/microwindows.patches) to fix PeekMessage
   and other issues. If the patch doesn't apply automatically,
   you may need to apply it by hand, and the relevant changed
   docs/microwin/microwindows.patches) to fix PeekMessage
   and other issues. If the patch doesn't apply automatically,
   you may need to apply it by hand, and the relevant changed


@@ -60,10 +64,12 @@ MicroWindows:
 
 wxMicroWindows:
 
 
 wxMicroWindows:
 

-- Download wxMSW 2.3.3 or greater, or get it from CVS
+- Download wxMSW 2.3.4 or greater, or get it from CVS

 
 

-- Copy include/wx/msw/setup_microwin.h to include/wx/setup.h if
-  include/wx/setup.h doesn't exist
+- Many settings in include/wx/setup.h have to be disabled. As contents
+  of this file keeps changing, it's impossible to say what exactly should be
+  disabled but it probably makes sense to disable as much as possible
+  initially, make sure that the build works and then add features as needed.

 
 - EITHER:
 
 
 - EITHER:
 


@@ -156,7 +162,7 @@ XPMs etc. Unfortunately the XPM routines are also #ifdefed
 for FILE_IO, even though for inline XPMs we don't need file I/O.
 (Embedded systems tend not to have file I/O, anyway.)
 
 for FILE_IO, even though for inline XPMs we don't need file I/O.
 (Embedded systems tend not to have file I/O, anyway.)
 

-Now, wxWindows has its own XPM decoder, src/common/xpmdecod.cpp,
+Now, wxWidgets has its own XPM decoder, src/common/xpmdecod.cpp,

 so in theory we don't need to use MicroWindows' code there.
 wxImage can load an inline XPM, _but_ we need to convert to
 a wxBitmap since this is what the widgets need.
 so in theory we don't need to use MicroWindows' code there.
 wxImage can load an inline XPM, _but_ we need to convert to
 a wxBitmap since this is what the widgets need.