-wxWidgets 2.5.1
+wxWidgets 2.5.4
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*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
*** use the official 2.4.x stable series. You are still encouraged
*** to try the releases from 2.5.x branch, of course, and unstable
*** doesn't mean that they crash all the time -- just that the API
-*** may change in backwards incompatible way. If this doesn't frighten
+*** may change in a backwards incompatible way. If this doesn't frighten
*** you, do try this release and please let us know what you think!
Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
-- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+
-- Most Unix variants with X11
+- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Pocket PC
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1 and GTK+ 2
+- Most Unix variants with X11 (beta)
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- MacOS 9.x and 10.x
-- OS/2 (alpha)
+- MacOS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon (10.3 and above preferred)
+- MacOS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- OS/2 (beta)
Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
-----
The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
-target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
-In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.
-
-wxWidgets for GTK+ distribution
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-
-wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will
- need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
- (see below)
-wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source
-wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK samples source
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals
-wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM
-wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM
-
-wxWidgets for X11 and Motif distribution
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-
-wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
- documentation.
-
-wxWidgets for MS Windows distribution
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-
-setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files in floppy-disk-sized chunks
-wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip Zip archive containing the
- setup files
-wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the files that are
- in the setup distribution
-
-As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:
-
-- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
-- a Tex2RTF binary;
-- Life! sample binary.
-
-wxWidgets for MacOS distribution
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-
-wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
- source files (excludes documentation)
-wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all
- source files (excludes documentation).
- You might prefer this format if building on
- MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.
-
-wxWidgets for OS/2 distribution
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-
-wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
- (excludes documentation)
-
-Documentation files
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-
-wxWidgets-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip WinHelp documentation
-wxWidgets-x.y.z-PDF.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
-wxWidgets-x.y.z-HTML.zip HTML documentation
-wxWidgets-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip Windows HTML Help documentation
-wxWidgets-x.y.z-HTB.zip wxHTML documentation (for
- use with the helpview utility)
+target system. See the download pages for details.
Installation
------------
-wxWidgets 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out
-the samples or write your own applications.
-For installation information, please see the install.txt file
-in the individual directories:
+wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
+or write your own applications. For installation information, please
+see the install.txt file in the individual directories:
docs/msw
docs/gtk
docs/motif
docs/mac
+ docs/cocoa
docs/x11
docs/mgl
docs/os2
If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
-
Documentation
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See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
-See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets 2.
+See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets.
See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
Have fun!
-The wxWidgets Team, February 2004
+The wxWidgets Team, October 2004
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