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Note also that the releases described are for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif ports. wxMac currently follows
its own development path but is due to merge with the main code base in November/December.
Also, minor snapshot releases for specific platforms may be
-available at dates convenient to the developers.<P>
+available at dates convenient to the developers.
+
+Finally, this page only shows the things which are still left to do, please
+look elsewhere to see the complete list of changes between the releases,
+including the things which are already done.
+<P>
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<HR> <FONT SIZE=+2><I><B><a name="schedule">Schedule</a></B></I></FONT> <HR>
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<P>
-<H4>Release 2.1.14</H4>
-
-Release date: February 13 or 20, 2000<P>
-
-This will be the final beta release before the final 2.2 release. It will be
-synchronized for as many platforms as possible (at least Windows and GTK,
-probably Motif and hopefully Mac).
-
-Changes since the last synchronized release (2.1.11):
-
-<ul>
-<li>first beta release of wxBase
-<li>new or significantly improved base classes: wxDateTime, wxLongLong,
-wxCmdLineParser, wxDir, wxStopWatch
-<li>much better i18n support, encoding conversion on the fly, wxFontMapper
-<li>new wxGrid class
-<li>new wxCalendarCtrl class
-<li>dynamic toolbar/menubar management
-<li>better image formats support: TIFF (new), PCX (improved)
-<li>attributes (custom colours/font) support in wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl
-<li>impressive number of fixed bugs in wxMSW and wxGTK including various
-incompatibilities between the two
-</ul>
-
-<P>
-
-<H4>Release 2.2 (stable)</H4>
-
-Release date: March 5, 2000.<P>
-
-This is the next stable version of wxWindows. No new features since
-2.1.14 beta.
-
-<ul>
-<li>bugs found during 2.1.14 will be fixed.
-<li>translations of text strings used in wxWindows
-<li>documentation updated to include all new classes
-</ul>
+<H4>Release 2.4.0 (stable)</H4>
-<P>
+Release date: Summer 2002?
-<H4>Release 2.3</H4>
+<p>
-Release date: ?
+Stable version of 2.3.
-<ul>
-<li>Context sensitive help.
-<li>More i18n issues: dates, times, ...
-<li>POSIX-like regular expressions support for all platforms.
-<li>Encryption support (interface to OpenSSL).
-<li>UDP support in wxSocket
-<li>wxPlot
-<li>XML for resource files.
-<li>Built-in support for configuring key bindings
-</ul>
+<ol>
+ <li>Very important
+ <ul>
+ <li>wxMac: make the release together with the other ports
+ <li>Fix wxStream::Eof() problems
+ <li>wxGTK: GTK+ 2.0 support
+ </ul>
+
+ <li>Important
+ <ul>
+ <li>(Unix) implement <tt>wx-config</tt> as a version and build
+ parameters independent script which would just read the
+ configuration files
+ <li>Finish wxFileName
+ <li>Make it possible to process the key strokes portably
+ <li>Add wxSemaphor, fix wxCondition
+ </ul>
+
+ <li>Nice to have
+ <ul>
+ <li>support for text in the wxToolBar buttons
+ <li>radio buttons in wxToolBar
+ <li>possibility to use individual wxUniv controls from the native
+ ports
+ </ul>
+</ol>
<P>
-<H4>Release 2.4 (stable)</H4>
+<H4>Release 3.0.0 (stable)</H4>
-Release date: ?
-
-Stable version of 2.3.
-
-<ul>
-<li>wxMac release.
-<li>wxBeOS port.
-</ul>
+This release should finally mark the end of support for the antiquated
+compilers without decent support of the modern C++ features such as templates,
+exceptions and namespaces. wxWindows containers should be replaced with the
+corresponding standard library classes and <tt>std::basic_string<></tt>
+should be used instead of <tt>wxString</tt>.
-<P>
+<p>
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<HR> <FONT SIZE=+2><I><B><a name="todo">To-Do List</a></B></I></FONT> <HR>
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+This is just a collection of the various things which it would be nice to
+include in wxWindows but which are not actively worked on right now and for
+which no schedule is fixed yet. If you're interested in helping with wxWindows
+development, one of the small projects below could be a great way to join the
+team!
+
+<p>
Developers: please feel free to add to these, and delete them when they are done.
<P>
<B><I>General</I></B><P>
<ul>
-<li>wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate
-printed reports with very little effort.
-<li>wxSocket.
-<li>Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI
-applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only)
-and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).
+<li>A rich text editor similar to GTK+ 2.0 GtkTextView but cross-platform
<li>Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets
that can handle multiple formats).
-<li>Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file;
-add constraint specification to WXR syntax and Dialog Editor; add multilanguage support to WXR.
-May be we'd better change the format completely and replace WXR with XML
-(providing conversion utility for old files)?
-<li>Context sensitive help: we need to have wxHelpEvent which would be
-generated when the help for a given control is requested and a standard
-handler for it in wxWindow which would invoke the default help system with the
-correct help id.
-<li>Rewrite Dialog Editor.
-<li>Modem-oriented classes: wxDialUpManager for dialing up the ISP and
-determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and
-wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating
-with the modem.
-<li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
-<li>PCX writing code.
-<li>GIF animation code.
-<li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxChrono class.
-<li>Debug wxPostScriptDC further.
-<li>wxDateTime class.
-<li>Regular expressions support.
-<li>Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
-<li>MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).
-<li>Rotated text support.
-<li>FreeType support.
<li>Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes
written generically in wxWindows.
<li>Serial and parallel port support.
<li>Modem and telephony support.
<li>Book, tutorial.
<li>More examples.
-<li>Bug tracking system.
</ul>
<P>
<ul>
<li>Windows CE port.
-<li>Write a RC to WXR converter.
</ul>
<P>
<B><I>wxGTK</I></B><P>
<ul>
+<li>Full Unicode support using GTK+ 2.0
+<li>Wrap the new GTK+ 2.0 GtkTextView powerful widget
<li>GNOME/KDE integration libraries.
</ul>
<P>
-<B><I>wxMotif</I></B><P>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Fix menu accelerators
-<li>Fix refresh problems
-<li>Allow wxSystemSettings to be configurable, perhaps via a control
-panel application.
-</ul>
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