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-See also <a href="faq.htm">top-level FAQ page</a>
+See also <a href="faq.htm">top-level FAQ page</a>
and <a href="faqunx.htm">Unix FAQ page</a>.
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<h3>List of questions in this category</h3>
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-<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK+?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWindows?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWidgets 2 for GTK+?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWidgets?</a></li>
<li><a href="#gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></li>
<li><a href="#redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></li>
<li><a href="#bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</a></li>
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-<h3><a name="wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="wxgtk">What is wxWidgets 2 for GTK?</a></h3>
-wxWi
ndows 2 for GTK is a port of wxWindows to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>,
-which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWindows 2 for GTK is
+wxWi
dgets 2 for GTK is a port of wxWidgets to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>,
+which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWidgets 2 for GTK is
often abbreviated to wxGTK. wxGTK has a separate home page <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>here</a>.
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-<h3><a name="locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWindows?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWidgets?</a></h3>
If your program reads the floating point numbers in the format <tt>123.45</tt>
-from a file, it may suddently start returning just <tt>123</tt> instead of the
+from a file, it may suddenly start returning just <tt>123</tt> instead of the
correct value on some systems -- which is all the more mysterious as the same
code in a standalone program works just fine.
<h3><a name="redhat">Warning about GTK+ libraries supplied with RedHat</a></h3>
It seems that some versions of RedHat include a badly patched version of GTK+ (not wxGTK)
-which causes some trouble with wxWindows' socket code. Common symptoms are that when
+which causes some trouble with wxWidgets' socket code. Common symptoms are that when
a client tries to establish a connection to an existing server which refuses the request,
the client will get notified twice, first getting a LOST event and then a CONNECT event.
This problem can be solved by updating GTK with an official distribution of the library.
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