0. Introduction
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-wxUniversal is a port of wxWindows which implements the various GUI controls
-by drawing them itself (using low level wxWindows classes). Please see
+wxUniversal is a port of wxWidgets which implements the various GUI controls
+by drawing them itself (using low level wxWidgets classes). Please see
- http://www.wxwindows.org/wxuniv.htm
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/wxuniv.htm
for more details about it.
look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but
just changing the theme.
-Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWindows for other
+Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWidgets for other
platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special
-interest to people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform.
+interest to people interested in porting wxWidgets to another platform.
However, wxUniversal doesn't have a 100% native look and feel unlike the
-other wxWindows ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility.
+other wxWidgets ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility.
1. Requirements and supported platforms
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-wxUniversal is used together with another wxWindows port which provides the
+wxUniversal is used together with another wxWidgets port which provides the
"low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built with wxMSW,
wxGTK or wxX11. In any case, you should download the sources for the
appropriate toolkit in addition to wxUniversal - in fact, you should download
If compiling from CVS, please copy include/wx/univ/setup0.h
to include/wx/univ/setup.h before following these steps.
-a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
+a) Using Visual C++ 6.0/7.x
- Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in DevStudio and build it.
- Then open the widgetsUniv.dsp file in samples/widgets to build
- the widgets sample.
+ Follow wxMSW instructions but make sure to choose one of the "Universal"
+ configurations before building.
b) Cygwin
Please refer to the Unix section below
+ Note that gcc's precompiled headers do not work on current versions of
+ Cygwin. If your version of Cygwin is affected you will need to use the
+ --disable-precomp-headers configure option.
+
+** the instructions may be out of date as for wxWidgets 2.5.2+ **
+
c) Other compilers
Borland:
in the wxwindows\src\msw directory run
Note that you can use the wxUniversal classes, wxMSW and MicroWindows (from
Century Software) to build a different variant of wxUniversal than that
documented here. Please see docs/univ/readme.txt for further information.
+Note that this port is not up-to-date and probably needs work
+to compile.
+
+Note that by default, wxUniv under MSW uses PostScript printing,
+not Windows printing. To change to Windows printing, set
+wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT_ARCHITECTURE_IN_MSW to 0 in include/wx/univ/setup.h
+before compiling.
3. Installing under Unix
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5. Documentation and support
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-Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWindows ports
+Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWidgets ports
and is currently officially in alpha stage. In particular, it is not really
intended for the end users but rather for developers at the current stage and
this is why we don't provide any binaries for it.
-There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWindows
+There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWidgets
documentation instead.
-Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWindows
+Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWidgets
itself, namely:
* Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information
-* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
+* WWW page: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
Hope you find wxUniversal useful!
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