-wxWindows 2.5.0
+wxWidgets 2.5.3
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*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
*** Unless you need the new features and bug fixes, you may wish to
-*** use the official 2.4.x stable series.
+*** use the official 2.4.x stable series. You are still encouraged
+*** to try the releases from 2.5.x branch, of course, and unstable
+*** doesn't mean that they crash all the time -- just that the API
+*** may change in backwards incompatible way. If this doesn't frighten
+*** you, do try this release and please let us know what you think!
-Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
+Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
possible) the native controls.
Platforms supported
-------------------
-wxWindows currently supports the following platforms:
+wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
-- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+
-- Most Unix variants with X11
+- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Pocket PC
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1 and GTK+ 2
+- Most Unix variants with X11 (beta)
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- MacOS 9.x and 10.x
-- OS/2 (alpha)
+- MacOS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon (10.3 and above preferred)
+- MacOS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- OS/2 (beta)
Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
-See also http://www.wxwindows.org/platform.htm.
+See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.
Files
-----
The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
-target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
-In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.
-
-wxWindows for GTK+ distribution
--------------------------------
-
-wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will
- need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
- (see below)
-wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source
-wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK samples source
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM
-wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM
-
-wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution
-----------------------------------------
-
-wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
- documentation.
-
-wxWindows for MS Windows distribution
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-
-setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files in floppy-disk-sized chunks
-wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip Zip archive containing the
- setup files
-wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the files that are
- in the setup distribution
-
-As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:
-
-- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
-- a Dialog Editor binary;
-- a Tex2RTF binary;
-- Life! sample binary.
-
-wxWindows for MacOS distribution
---------------------------------
-
-wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
- source files (excludes documentation)
-wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all
- source files (excludes documentation).
- You might prefer this format if building on
- MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.
-
-wxWindows for OS/2 distribution
--------------------------------
-
-wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
- (excludes documentation)
-
-Documentation files
--------------------
-
-wxWindows-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip WinHelp documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-PDF.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTML.zip HTML documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip Windows HTML Help documentation
-wxWindows-x.y.z-HTB.zip wxHTML documentation (for
- use with the helpview utility)
+target system. See the download pages for details.
Installation
------------
-wxWindows 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out
-the samples or write your own applications.
-For installation information, please see the install.txt file
-in the individual directories:
+wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
+or write your own applications. For installation information, please
+see the install.txt file in the individual directories:
docs/msw
docs/gtk
docs/motif
docs/mac
+ docs/cocoa
docs/x11
docs/mgl
docs/os2
docs/lgpl.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
-proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in
+proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in
addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted
distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you
don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write
-commercial applications using wxWindows.
+commercial applications using wxWidgets.
However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version
of your application, don't forget that it is linked against
linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically and
include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is
already present in user's system - like glibc usually is).
-If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will
+If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWidgets library will
contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
-for libtiff license details.
+for libtiff licence details.
If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program should
contain following sentence: "This software is based in part on the work of
support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
regular expression library copyright.
+If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
+
Documentation
-------------
See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
-See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWindows 2.
+See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets.
See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
-The wxWindows bug database can be browsed at:
+The wxWidgets bug database can be browsed at:
http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863
Further information
-------------------
-The wxWindows Web site is located at:
+The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
- http://www.wxwindows.org
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org
-The main wxWindows ftp site is at:
+The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
-A wxWindows CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
+A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
-material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWindows
+material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets
web site.
Have fun!
-The wxWindows Team, November 2002
+The wxWidgets Team, October 2004
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