Fixes to Cygwin/Mingw32 makefile, manual now compiles wxStaticLine, etc.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / body.tex

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--- a/docs/latex/wx/body.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/body.tex
@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@
 
 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) and GTK+, with Motif
-and Mac ports in an advanced state.
+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.
 
 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 and others.
+maintained by Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin and others.
 
 This manual discusses wxWindows in the context of multi-platform
 development.\helpignore{For more detail on the wxWindows version 2.0 API
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ here are some of the benefits:
 \item Available on a variety of popular platforms.
 \item Works with almost all popular C++ compilers.
 \item Several example programs.
-\item Over 700 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
+\item Over 900 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.
@@ -182,21 +183,29 @@ Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
 (b) Unix:
 
 \begin{enumerate}\itemsep=0pt
-\item Almost any C++ compiler, including GNU C++.
-\item Almost any Unix workstation, and one of: GTK+ 1.0, Motif 1.2 or higher, Lesstif.
+\item Almost any C++ compiler, including GNU C++ (EGCS 1.1.1 or above).
+\item Almost any Unix workstation, and one of: GTK+ 1.0, GTK+ 1.2, Motif 1.2 or higher, Lesstif.
 \item At least 60 MB of disk space.
 \end{enumerate}
 
 \section{Availability and location of wxWindows}
 
-wxWindows is currently available from the Artificial Intelligence
-Applications Institute by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web:
+wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
   ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin
-  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin
+  http://www.wxwindows.org
 \end{verbatim}
 
+You can also buy a CD-ROM using the form on the Web site, or by contacting:
+
+Julian Smart\\
+12 North Street West\\
+Uppingham\\
+Rutland\\
+LE15 9SG\\
+julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk
+
 \section{Acknowledgments}
 
 Thanks are due to AIAI for being willing to release the original version of
@@ -211,7 +220,7 @@ Dunn, Hermann Dunkel, Jos van Eijndhoven, Tom Felici, Thomas Fettig, Matthew Fla
 Wolfram Gloger, Norbert Grotz, Stefan Gunter, Bill Hale, Patrick Halke, Stefan Hammes, Guillaume Helle, Harco de Hilster, Cord Hockemeyer, Markus 
 Holzem, Olaf Klein, Leif Jensen, Bart Jourquin, Guilhem Lavaux, Jan Lessner, Nicholas Liebmann, Torsten Liermann, Per Lindqvist, Thomas Runge, Tatu
 M\"{a}nnist\"{o}, Scott Maxwell, Thomas Myers, Oliver Niedung, Hernan Otero, Ian Perrigo, Timothy Peters, Giordano Pezzoli, Harri Pasanen, Thomaso Paoletti, 
-Garrett Potts, Marcel Rasche, Robert Roebling, Dino Scaringella, Jobst Schmalenbach, Arthur Seaton, Paul Shirley, Stein Somers, Petr Smilauer, Neil Smith, 
+Garrett Potts, Marcel Rasche, Robert Roebling, Dino Scaringella, Jobst Schmalenbach, Arthur Seaton, Paul Shirley, Vaclav Slavik, Stein Somers, Petr Smilauer, Neil Smith, 
 Kari Syst\"{a}, Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas, Jonathan Tonberg, Jyrki Tuomi, Janos Vegh, Andrea Venturoli, Vadim Zeitlin, Xiaokun Zhu, Edward Zimmermann.
 
 `Graphplace', the basis for the wxGraphLayout library, is copyright Dr. Jos
@@ -356,7 +365,7 @@ STACKSIZE    8192
 The only lines which will usually have to be changed per application are
 NAME and DESCRIPTION.
 
-\subsection{Allocating and deleting wxWindows objects}
+\section{Allocating and deleting wxWindows objects}
 
 In general, classes derived from wxWindow must dynamically allocated
 with {\it new} and deleted with {\it delete}. If you delete a window,
@@ -386,6 +395,26 @@ make calls like wxDC::SetPen(wxNullPen) or wxDC::SelectObject(wxNullBitmap) befo
 a drawing object that may be in use. Code that doesn't do this will probably work
 fine on some platforms, and then fail under Windows.
 
+\section{Architecture dependency}
+
+A problem which sometimes arises from writing multi-platform programs is that
+the basic C types are not defiend the same on all platforms. This holds true
+for both the length in bits of the standard types (such as int and long) as 
+well as their byte order, which might be little endian (typically
+on Intel computers) or big endian (typically on some Unix workstations). wxWindows
+defines types and macros that make it easy to write architecture independent
+code. The types are:
+
+wxInt32, wxInt16, wxInt8, wxUint32, wxUint16 = wxWord, wxUint8 = wxByte
+
+where wxInt32 stands for a 32-bit signed integer type etc. You can also check
+which architecture the program is compiled on using the wxBYTE\_ORDER define
+which is either wxBIG\_ENDIAN or wxLITTLE\_ENDIAN (in the future maybe wxPDP\_ENDIAN
+as well).
+
+The macros handling bit-swapping with respect to the applications endianness
+are described in the \helpref{Macros}{macros} section.
+
 \section{Conditional compilation}
 
 One of the purposes of wxWindows is to reduce the need for conditional