X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/048bd5039e8a444b097796d37d23df948ce718c9..d15040492413b54a530b5a291b26750f3d265d23:/docs/univ/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/univ/readme.txt b/docs/univ/readme.txt index ada0d1ac24..554ed793d1 100644 --- a/docs/univ/readme.txt +++ b/docs/univ/readme.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Welcome to wxUniversal! Acknowledgements: wxUniversal wouldn't have been written without the -generuous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Benett and +generous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Benett and Tom Ryan! 0. Introduction @@ -18,20 +18,20 @@ by drawing them itself (using low level wxWindows classes). Please see for more details about it. The advantage of wxUniversal is that you have precise control over the -controls appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the +controls' appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the native controls) and the theme support: the same program may be changed to -look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but +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 platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special -interest to the people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform. +interest to people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform. - However, wxUniversal doesn't have the 100% native look and feel unlike the + 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. -1. Requirments and supported platforms --------------------------------------- +1. Requirements and supported platforms +--------------------------------------- wxUniversal is used together with another wxWindows port which provides the "low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built either with @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ toolkit. a) Using Visual C++ 6.0 - Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in MSDEV and build it. + Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in DevStudio and build it. b) Cygwin @@ -55,10 +55,14 @@ b) Cygwin c) Other compilers - Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet. + Unfortunately we don't have makefiles for any other compilers yet. Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the compiler you use. +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. + 3. Installing under Unix ------------------------ @@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ itself, namely: * WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/ - Hope you will find wxUniversal useful! + Hope you find wxUniversal useful! Vadim Zeitlin