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<li><a href="#wince">What about Windows CE?</a></li>
<li><a href="#winxp">What do I need to do for Windows XP?</a></li>
<li><a href="#compilers">What compilers are supported?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#bestcompiler">Which is the best compiler to use with wxWidgets 2?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#bestcompiler">Which is the best compiler to use with wxWidgets?</a></li>
<li><a href="#unicode">Is Unicode supported?</a></li>
<li><a href="#doublebyte">Does wxWidgets support double byte fonts (Chinese/Japanese/Korean etc.)?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#dll">Can you compile wxWidgets 2 as a DLL?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#dll">Can you compile wxWidgets as a DLL?</a></li>
<li><a href="#exesize">How can I reduce executable size?</a></li>
<li><a href="#mfc">Is wxWidgets compatible with MFC?</a></li>
<li><a href="#setuph">Why do I get errors about setup.h not being found?</a></li>
<li><a href="#shortcutproblem">Why are menu hotkeys or shortcuts not working in my application?</a></li>
<li><a href="#regconfig">Why can I not write to the HKLM part of the registry with wxRegConfig?</a></li>
<li><a href="#access">Is MS Active Accessibility supported?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#dspfmt">Why does Visual C++ complain about corrupted project files??</a></li>
+<li><a href="#dspfmt">Why does Visual C++ complain about corrupted project files?</a></li>
<li><a href="#crtmismatch">Visual C++ gives errors about multiply defined symbols, what can I do?</a></li>
<li><a href="#directx">Why do I get compilation errors when using wxWidgets with DirectShow?</a></li>
<li><a href="#handlewm">How do I handle Windows messages in my wxWidgets program?</a></li>
<h3><a name="platforms">Which Windows platforms are supported?</a></h3>
-wxWidgets 2 can be used to develop and deliver applications on Windows 3.1, Win32s,
-Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. A Windows CE
-
version is being looked into (see below).<P>
+wxWidgets can be used to develop and deliver applications on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT,
+Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. A Windows CE
+
port is also available (see below).<P>
-wxWidgets 2 is designed to make use of WIN32 features and controls. However, unlike Microsoft,
-we have not forgotten users of 16-bit Windows. Most features
-work under Windows 3.1, including wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl using the generic implementation.
-However, don't expect very Windows-95-specific classes to work, such as wxTaskBarIcon. The wxRegConfig
-class doesn't work either because the Windows 3.1 registry is very simplistic. Check out the 16-bit
-makefiles to see what other files have been left out.
-<P>
-16-bit compilation is supported under Visual C++ 1.5, and Borland BC++ 4 to 5.
+16-bit compilation is only supported for wxWidgets 2.4 and previous versions,
+using Visual C++ 1.5 and Borland BC++ 4 to 5.
<P>
-wxWidgets
2 for Windows will also compile on Unix with gcc using Wine from <a href="http://www.winehq.org" target=_top>WineHQ</a>.
+wxWidgets for Windows will also compile on Unix with gcc using Wine from <a href="http://www.winehq.org" target=_top>WineHQ</a>.
The resulting executables are Unix binaries that work with the Wine Windows API emulator.<P>
-You can also compile wxWidgets 2 for Windows on Unix with Cygwin or Mingw32, resulting
+You can also compile wxWidgets for Windows on Unix with Cygwin or Mingw32, resulting
in executables that will run on Windows. So in theory you could write your applications
using wxGTK or wxMotif, then check/debug your wxWidgets for Windows
programs with Wine, and finally produce an ix86 Windows executable using Cygwin/Mingw32,
<h3><a name="wince">What about Windows CE?</a></h3>
-This port is largely complete. For further information, see the <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org/embedded.htm#wxwince">wxEmbedded</a> page.<P>
+This port supports Pocket PC 2002/2003 and MS Smartphone 2002/2003, using
+Embedded Visual C++ 3 or 4. For further information, see the wxMSW section in
+the wxWidgets Reference Manual, and also the <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org/embedded.htm#wxwince">wxEmbedded</a> page.<P>
<h3><a name="winxp">What do I need to do for Windows XP?</a></h3>
+From wxWidgets 2.5, the XP manifest is included in wx/msw/wx.rc and
+so your application will be themed automatically so long as you include wx.rc
+in your own .rc file.<P>
+
+For versions of wxWidgets below 2.5, you need to provide the manifest
+explicitly, as follows.<p>
+
In the same directory as you have your executable (e.g. foo.exe) you
put a file called foo.exe.manifest in which you have something like
the following:
1 24 "winxp.manifest"
</PRE>
-In wxWidgets 2.5, this will be in the wx/msw/wx.rc and
-so will happen automatically so long as you include wx.rc
-in your own .rc file.<P>
-
For an explanation of this syntax, please see
<a href="http://delphi.about.com/library/bluc/text/uc111601a.htm" target=_new>this
article</a>.
<h3><a name="compilers">What compilers are supported?</a></h3>
-Please see the wxWidgets 2 for Windows install.txt file for up-to-date information, but
+Please see the wxWidgets for Windows install.txt file for up-to-date information, but
currently the following are known to work:<P>
<ul>
<P>
-<h3><a name="bestcompiler">Which is the best compiler to use with wxWidgets 2?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="bestcompiler">Which is the best compiler to use with wxWidgets?</a></h3>
-It's partly a matter of taste, but I (JACS) prefer Visual C++ since the debugger is very
+It's partly a matter of taste, but some people prefer Visual C++ since the debugger is very
good, it's very stable, the documentation is extensive, and it generates small executables.
Since project files are plain text, it's easy for me to generate appropriate project files
for wxWidgets samples.<P>
Among the free compilers the best choice seem to be Borland C++ command line
tools and mingw32 (port of gcc to Win32). Both of them are supported by
-wxWidgets.
+wxWidgets. However BC++ has trouble compiling large executables statically,
+so you need to dynamically link the wxWidgets libraries.<p>
<h3><a name="unicode">Is Unicode supported?</a></h3>
<h3><a name="doublebyte">Does wxWidgets support double byte fonts (Chinese/Japanese/Korean etc.)?</a></h3>
-For Japanese under Win2000, it seems that wxWidgets has no problems to work
+For Japanese under Win2000, it seems that wxWidgets has no problems working
with double byte char sets (meaning DBCS, not Unicode). First you have to
install Japanese support on your Win2K system and choose for ANSI translation
<tt>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage=932</tt>
wxWidgets applications.
<p>
-<h3><a name="dll">Can you compile wxWidgets 2 as a DLL?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="dll">Can you compile wxWidgets as a DLL?</a></h3>
Yes (using the Visual C++ or Borland C++ makefile), but be aware that distributing DLLs is a thorny issue
and you may be better off compiling statically-linked applications, unless you're
<H3><a name="setuph">Why do I get errors about setup.h not being found?</a></H3>
When you build the wxWidgets library, setup.h is copied
-from include/wx/msw/setup.h to e.g. lib/mswd/wx/setup.h (the path
+from include/wx/msw/setup.h to e.g. lib/vc_msw/mswd/wx/setup.h (the path
depends on the configuration you're building). So you need to add
this include path if building using the static Debug library:<P>
-lib/mswd<P>
-or if building the static Release library, lib/msw.<P>
+or if building the static Release library, lib/
vc_lib/msw.<P>
See also the <a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/wiki.pl?Table_Of_Contents">wxWiki Contents</a>
for more information.<P>
<H3><a name="makefiles">How are the wxWidgets makefiles edited under Windows?</a></H3>
-As of wxWidgets 2.1, there is a new system written by Vadim Zeitlin, that
+wxWidgets 2.5.x and above uses Bakefile to generate makefiles, which
+is described in technical note 16 under docs/tech in your distribution.<p>
+
+For 2.4.x, there is a system written by Vadim Zeitlin that
generates the makefiles from templates using tmake.<P>
-Here are Vadim's notes:<P>
+Here are Vadim's notes
on tmake:<P>
<blockquote>
To use these new makefiles, you don't need anything (but see below).
and are quite simple. They do contain some Perl code, but my Perl is
primitive (very C like) so it should be possible for anybody to make
trivial modifications to it (I hope that only trivial modifications
-will be needed). I've tagged the old makefiles as MAKEFILES_WITHOUT_TMAKE
+will be needed). I've tagged the ol makefiles as MAKEFILES_WITHOUT_TMAKE
in the cvs, so you can always retrieve them and compare the new ones,
this will make it easier to solve the problems you might have.<P>
Currently this is not possible because the wxConfig family of classes is
supposed to deal with per-user application configuration data, and HKLM is
-only supposed to be writable by a user with Administrator privileges. In theory,
+only supposed to be writeable by a user with Administrator privileges. In theory,
only installers should write to HKLM. This is still a point debated by the
wxWidgets developers. There are at least two ways to work around it if you really
need to write to HKLM.<P>
regKey.SetName(idName);
{
- wxLogNull dummy;
+ wxLogNull dummy;
if (!regKey.Create())
{
idName = wxT("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\My Company\\My Product\\Stuff\\");
<P>
-<h3><a name="#dspfmt">Why does Visual C++ complain about corrupted project files??</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="#dspfmt">Why does Visual C++ complain about corrupted project files?</a></h3>
If you have downloaded the wxWidgets sources from the cvs using a Unix cvs
client or downloaded a daily snapshot in <tt>.tar.gz</tt> format, it is likely
project. Visual C++ provides static or dynamic and multithread safe or not
versions of CRT for each of debug and release builds, for a total of 8
libraries. You can choose among them by going to the "Code generation"
-page/subitem of the "C++" tab/item in the project properties dialog in VC6/7.
+page/subitem of the "C++" tab/item in the project proprieties dialog in VC6/7.
<p>
To avoid problems, you <strong>must</strong> use the same one for all
components of your project. wxWindows uses multithread safe DLL version of the
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