\section{What is wxWindows?}
wxWindows is a C++ framework providing GUI (Graphical User
-Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform. Version 2.0 currently
-supports MS Windows (16-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT), Unix with GTK+, and Unix with Motif.
-A Mac port is in an advanced state, an OS/2 port and a port to the MGL graphics library
-have been started.
+Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform. Version 2 currently
+supports MS Windows (16-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT), Unix with GTK+, Unix with Motif,
+and Mac. An OS/2 port is in progress.
wxWindows was originally developed at the Artificial Intelligence
-Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, for internal use.
-wxWindows has been released into the public domain in the hope
-that others will also find it useful. Version 2.0 is written and
-maintained by Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin and others.
+Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, for internal use,
+and was first made publicly available in 1993.
+Version 2 is a vastly improved version written and maintained by
+Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin and many others.
This manual discusses wxWindows in the context of multi-platform
development.\helpignore{For more detail on the wxWindows version 2.0 API
emerged. However, none has the range of features, flexibility, documentation and the
well-established development team that wxWindows has.
-As public domain software and a project open to everyone, wxWindows has
+As open source software, wxWindows has
benefited from comments, ideas, bug fixes, enhancements and the sheer
-enthusiasm of users, especially via the Internet. This gives wxWindows a
+enthusiasm of users. This gives wxWindows a
certain advantage over its commercial competitors (and over free libraries
without an independent development team), plus a robustness against
the transience of one individual or company. This openness and
thousands of lines of application code may depend upon the longevity of
the underlying class library.
-Version 2.0 goes much further than previous versions in terms of generality and features,
+Version 2 goes much further than previous versions in terms of generality and features,
allowing applications to be produced
that are often indistinguishable from those produced using single-platform
-toolkits such as Motif and MFC.
+toolkits such as Motif, GTK+ and MFC.
The importance of using a platform-independent class library cannot be
overstated, since GUI application development is very time-consuming,
platform or audience. wxWindows helps to insulate the programmer from
these winds of change. Although wxWindows may not be suitable for
every application (such as an OLE-intensive program), it provides access to most of the functionality a
-GUI program normally requires, plus some extras such as network programming
-and PostScript output, and can of course be extended as needs dictate. As a bonus, it provides
-a cleaner programming interface than the native
+GUI program normally requires, plus many extras such as network programming,
+PostScript output, and HTML rendering; and it can of course be extended as needs dictate. As a bonus, it provides
+a far cleaner and easier programming interface than the native
APIs. Programmers may find it worthwhile to use wxWindows even if they
are developing on only one platform.
\item You get the source.
\item Available on a variety of popular platforms.
\item Works with almost all popular C++ compilers and Python.
-\item Over 40 example programs.
-\item Over 900 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
+\item Over 50 example programs.
+\item Over 1000 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
\item Includes Tex2RTF, to allow you to produce your own documentation
in Windows Help, HTML and Word RTF formats.
\item Simple-to-use, object-oriented API.
\item Under MS Windows, support for creating metafiles and copying
them to the clipboard.
\item An API for invoking help from applications.
-\item Ready to use HTML window (supporting a subset of HTML).
+\item Ready-to-use HTML window (supporting a subset of HTML).
\item Dialog Editor for building dialogs.
\item Network support via a family of socket and protocol classes.
\item Support for platform independent image procesing.
\section{Availability and location of wxWindows}
-wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web
+\winhelponly{wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web
+from ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin and/or http://www.wxwindows.org.}
+\winhelpignore{wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web
from \urlref{ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin}{ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin}
-and/or \urlref{http://www.wxwindows.org}{http://www.wxwindows.org}
+and/or \urlref{http://www.wxwindows.org}{http://www.wxwindows.org}.}
You can also buy a CD-ROM using the form on the Web site, or by contacting:
GTK version of wxWindows 2.2 on Linux and Solaris will be libwx\_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0,
on HP-UX, it will be libwx\_gtk-2.2.sl, on AIX just libwx\_gtk.a etc.
-Under Windows, use the library wx.lib for stand-alone Windows
-applications, or wxdll.lib for creating DLLs.
+Under Windows, use the library wx.lib (release) or wxd.lib (debug) for stand-alone Windows
+applications, or wxdll.lib (wxdlld.lib) for creating DLLs.
\section{Configuration}
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