X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/0bc9b25e9a0218d5ddc1d12c40dd96216bb275e7..1bd98e415000d06b5e4def7b92535e9ebb388f9b:/docs/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index bcc6c8447f..bc2b34dbc7 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,74 +1,64 @@ -wxWindows 2 beta 5 ------------------- - -Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++ +wxWidgets 2.5.2 +--------------- + +*** 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. -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. -Where certain features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and -tree controls on Unix, they are emulated. +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. + +A detailed 1800-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF +and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy. -A detailed 700-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF and -Windows Help form. +For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm +for a list of important documents and samples. -For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm for a list of -important documents and samples. +Changes in this release +----------------------- + +Please see changes.txt for details. Platforms supported ------------------- -wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: +wxWidgets currently supports the following platforms: -- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT +- 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 -- Most Unix variants with GTK+ +- 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 release notes -(available via docs/html/index.htm) for details. +Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt +file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details. +See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm. Files ----- -Depending on what you downloaded, you may have one or more of -these ports. You may unarchive any or all of the ports into -the same directory hierarchy. The zip archive set comprises the -following: - -wx200gen.zip Generic source code and samples (required) -wx200msw.zip Windows-specific source code -wx200mot.zip Motif-specific source code -wx200gtk.zip GTK-specific source code -wx200stubs.zip Stubs ('empty port') source. Needs - wx200gen.zip/wxgen.tgz. -wx200doc.zip Documentation source code (not required) -wx200hlp.zip WinHelp documentation -wx200pdf.zip Acrobat PDF documentation -wx200htm.zip HTML documentation -wx200vc.zip MS VC++ 5/6 project files -wx200bc.zip Borland C++ 5 project files -wx200cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior 4.1 project files - -The tarred, gzip archive comprises the following (or similar -names). Not all of these files are available in all distributions, due -to space restrictions. - -wxgtk.tgz All wxGTK source and samples -wxmotif.tgz All wxMotif source and samples -wxstubs.tgz Stubs ('empty port') source. Needs - wx200gen.zip/wxgen.tgz. -wxgen.tgz Generic code and samples (common to all ports) -wxpdf.tgz Acrobat PDF documentation -wxhtml.tgz HTML documentation -wxdocsrc.tgz Documentation source +The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the +target system. See the download pages for details. Installation ------------ -wxWindows 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out +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: @@ -76,6 +66,10 @@ in the individual directories: docs/msw docs/gtk docs/motif + docs/mac + docs/x11 + docs/mgl + docs/os2 Licence information ------------------- @@ -89,47 +83,71 @@ For licensing information, please see the files: docs/lgpl.txt Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of -proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in +proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, -the licence is L-GPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted +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 wxWindows. +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. + +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 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/changes.txt for a history of changes to wxWindows 2. 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/tech for an archive of technical notes. + +The wxWidgets bug database can be browsed at: + + http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863 + The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp. The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf. Further information ------------------- -The wxWindows Web site is located at: +The wxWidgets Web site is located at: - http://www.wxwindows.org + http://www.wxwidgets.org -The wxGTK Web site (with further wxGTK-specific files and -information) is located at: +The main wxWidgets ftp site is at: - http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt + ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub -The main wxWindows ftp site is at: - - ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin - -A wxWindows CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML +A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other -material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: - - http://www.wxwindows.org/cdrom.htm - -or contact Julian Smart . +material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets +web site. -Good luck! +Have fun! -The wxWindows Team, February 1999 +The wxWidgets Team, May 2004