-wxWindows 2 beta 4
-------------------
+wxWidgets 2.9.x
+---------------------------------------------------------
-Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
-framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
-possible) the native controls.
+Welcome to wxWidgets, a cross-platform C++ framework for
+writing advanced GUI applications using native controls
+where possible.
-In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames, scrolling
-windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts,
-printing, splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common
-file operations and facilities for writing TCP/IP applications.
-Where certain features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and
-tree controls on Unix, they are emulated.
+In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as
+frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons,
+device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there
+are wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for
+writing TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more.
-A detailed 700-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF and
-Windows Help form.
+Where certain features are not available on a platform, such
+as MDI under Unix and OS X, they are emulated.
-For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm for a list of
-important documents and samples.
+A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for
+various topics is supplied in various formats and can be
+accessed online.
+
+Changes in this release
+-----------------------
+
+Please see changes.txt and "Changes since 2.8" in the manual
+for details.
Platforms supported
-------------------
-wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms:
+wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
+
+- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Pocket PC/Mobile, Smartphone
+- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ 2 toolkit (version 2.4 or newer)
+- MacOS OS X (10.4 or newer) using Carbon and some Cocao mix-in
+
+There is some support for the followig platforms:
-- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
+- Most Unix variants with X11
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
+- MacOS 10.x using the Cocoa API
+- OS/2
+- PalmOS
-Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the release notes
-(available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
+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.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm.
Files
-----
-Depending on what you downloaded, you may have one or more of
-these ports. You may unarchive any or all of the ports into
-the same directory hierarchy. The zip archive set comprises the
-following:
-
-wx200gen.zip Generic source code and samples (required)
-wx200msw.zip Windows-specific source code
-wx200mot.zip Motif-specific source code
-wx200gtk.zip GTK-specific source code
-wx200doc.zip Documentation source code (not required)
-wx200hlp.zip WinHelp documentation
-wx200pdf.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
-wx200htm.zip HTML documentation
-wx200vc.zip MS VC++ 5.0 project files
-wx200cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior project files
+The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
+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/osx
+ docs/cocoa
+ docs/x11
+ docs/mgl
+ docs/os2
+ docs/palmos
Licence information
-------------------
docs/lgpl.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
-proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in
-addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
-the licence is L-GPL 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.
+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 wxWidgets.
+
+However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
+version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
+against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
+exception notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
+against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section
+6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source
+applications 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 you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
+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 the Independent JPEG Group". See
+src/jpeg/README for details.
+
+If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular
+expressions 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/changes.txt for a history of changes to wxWindows 2.
See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
-The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
-The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
+See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets.
-Further information
--------------------
+See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
-The wxWindows Web site is located at:
+The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
- http://www.wxwindows.org
+ http://trac.wxwidgets.org/report
-The wxGTK Web site (with further wxGTK-specific files and
-information) is located at:
+Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find
+any possibly relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please
+notice that often trying to correct the bug yourself is the
+quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do it, you may
+discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing
+it. We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches
+fixing the problems so this ensures that your report will be
+addressed sooner.
- http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt
+The Windows HTML Help files are located in docs/htmlhelp.
+The Windows Help files are located in docs/winhelp.
+The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
+The HTB (wxWidgets HTML Help) files are located in docs/htb.
+
+Further information
+-------------------
-The main wxWindows ftp site is at:
+The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
- ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org
-A wxWindows 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:
+The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
- http://www.wxwindows.org/cdrom.htm
+ ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub
-or contact Julian Smart <julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk>.
+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 wxWidgets
+web site.
-Good luck!
+Have fun!
-The wxWindows Team, February 1999
+The wxWidgets Team, January 2007
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