-wxWidgets 2.5.1
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+wxWidgets 2.9.x
+---------------------------------------------------------
-*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
-*** Unless you need the new features and bug fixes, you may wish to
-*** 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
-*** you, do try this release and please let us know what you think!
-
-Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
-framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
-possible) the native controls.
+Welcome to wxWidgets, a cross-platform C++ framework for
+writing advanced GUI applications using native controls
+where possible.
In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as
frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons,
-device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there are
-wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for writing
-TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more. Where certain
-features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and tree
-controls on Unix, they are emulated.
+device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there
+are wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for
+writing TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more.
-A detailed 1800-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF
-and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
+Where certain features are not available on a platform, such
+as MDI under Unix and OS X, they are emulated.
-For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm
-for a list of important documents and samples.
+A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for
+various topics is supplied in various formats and can be
+accessed online.
Changes in this release
-----------------------
-Please see changes.txt for details.
+Please see changes.txt and "Changes since 2.8" in the manual
+for details.
Platforms supported
-------------------
wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms:
-- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Most Unix variants with GTK+
+- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Pocket PC/Mobile, Smartphone
+- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ 2 toolkit (version 2.4 or newer)
+- MacOS OS X (10.4 or newer) using Carbon and some Cocao mix-in
+
+There is some support for the followig platforms:
+
- Most Unix variants with X11
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
-- MacOS 9.x and 10.x
-- OS/2 (alpha)
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
+- MacOS 10.x using the Cocoa API
+- OS/2
+- PalmOS
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
--------------------------------
-
-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
-----------------------------------------
-
-wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
- documentation.
-
-wxWidgets for MS Windows distribution
--------------------------------------
-
-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
---------------------------------
-
-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
--------------------------------
-
-wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
- (excludes documentation)
-
-Documentation files
--------------------
-
-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/osx
+ docs/cocoa
docs/x11
docs/mgl
docs/os2
+ docs/palmos
Licence information
-------------------
docs/lgpl.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
-proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in
-addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
-the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted
-distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you
-don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write
-commercial applications using wxWidgets.
-
-However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version
-of your application, don't forget that it is linked against
-GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without* exception
-notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
-against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section 6.
-which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
-linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically and
-include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is
-already present in user's system - like glibc usually is).
-If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWidgets library will
-contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
+proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition
+to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, the licence is
+LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted distribution of
+application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't have to
+distribute any source if you wish to write commercial
+applications using wxWidgets.
+
+However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
+version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
+against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
+exception notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
+against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section
+6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source
+applications linked against LGPL library. Basically you should
+link dynamically and include source code of LGPL libraries with
+your product (unless it is already present in user's system -
+like glibc usually is).
If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
for libtiff licence details.
-If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program should
-contain following sentence: "This software is based in part on the work of
-the Independent JPEG Group". See src/jpeg/README for details.
+If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program
+should contain following sentence: "This software is based in
+part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group". See
+src/jpeg/README for details.
-If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
-support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
-regular expression library copyright.
+If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular
+expressions support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT
+file for Henry Spencer's regular expression library copyright.
If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
-
Documentation
-------------
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.
-The wxWidgets bug database can be browsed at:
+The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
+
+ http://trac.wxwidgets.org/report
- http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863
+Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find
+any possibly relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please
+notice that often trying to correct the bug yourself is the
+quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do it, you may
+discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing
+it. We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches
+fixing the problems so this ensures that your report will be
+addressed sooner.
-The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
+The Windows HTML Help files are located in docs/htmlhelp.
+The Windows Help files are located in docs/winhelp.
The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
+The HTB (wxWidgets HTML Help) files are located in docs/htb.
Further information
-------------------
Have fun!
-The wxWidgets Team, February 2004
+The wxWidgets Team, January 2007
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