X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/25f471275725cf712dd01f32c564d1bff107e997..51dc95a4c8ccb00741be48f6353749ada3e9f39a:/docs/html/news.htm diff --git a/docs/html/news.htm b/docs/html/news.htm index a085388f3d..538e5b4e37 100644 --- a/docs/html/news.htm +++ b/docs/html/news.htm @@ -8,16 +8,113 @@ <font face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica"> -<table width=100% border=4 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> +<table width=100% border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> <tr> -<td bgcolor="#660000"> -<font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> +<td bgcolor="#C4ECF9"> +<font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#000000"> News </font> </td> </tr> </table> +<H3>July 28th, 2000</H3><P> + +<ul> +<li>Vaclav Slavik has recently written an +<a href="http://www.root.cz/clanek.phtml?id=425" target=_top>article about wxWindows</a> for a Czech ezine. +<li>Hurray! There is a lot of traffic on the wxStudio mailing list, and +Gerd Mueller has offered to make the <a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de" target=_top>WipeOut</a> IDE +open source and merge it with wxStudio. +</ul> + +<H3><a name="release2_2_0">July 9th, 2000</H3><P> + +<ul> +<li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.2.0</a> is the result of many +fixes and enhancements to 2.1, and is an official stable release. +</ul> + +<H3><a name="release2_1_16">June 4th, 2000</H3><P> + +<ul> +<li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.16</a> contains fixes +for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif. It is hoped that this is the last release before the stable 2.2 version. +</ul> + +<H3><a name="release2_1_15">March 28th, 2000</H3><P> + +<ul> +<li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.15</a> contains a few fixes +for wxGTK and wxMSW. wxMSW and wxMotif users who already have 2.1.14 do not need to rush to +download this version! The fixes in the patch file (see main download page) contain the +major differences between 2.1.14 and 2.1.15. +</ul> + +<H3><a name="release2_1_14">March 21st, 2000</H3><P> + +<ul> +<li><a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.14</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK. +Again, great strides have been made since the previous official version (2.1.11), and 2.2 will be the next official +stable version. Many things have been fixed and added but <a href="newver.htm">here are some highlights</a>. +<li>Robin Dunn is contributing a wxStyledTextCtrl, a wrapper around the <a href="http://www.scintilla.org/" target=_new>Scintilla</a> +styled text edit control. It can be used to provide syntax highlighting for various languages, and other applications. +A snapshot of this work in progress, stc.zip, is provided on the ftp site alongside the latest wxWindows release. +<li>Guilhem Lavaux has reworked his MMedia sound and video class library and started its documentation; +it too is available alongside the latest release as mmedia.zip. +</ul> + +<H3>January 14th, 2000</H3><P> + +<ul> +<li>Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32, +to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working +for Mingw32. +<li>Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive. +<li>TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up. +<li>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo. +<li>The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last. +<li>Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced +metafile class. +<li>The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and +other facilities to follow shortly. +</ul> + + +<H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P> + +<a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK. +The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement +on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P> + +<ul> +<li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements. +<li> Further samples. +<li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier + maintenance. +<li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode. +<li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into + wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK + and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif). +<li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator, + wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc. +<li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user. +<li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten. +<li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif). +<li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used + in wxMotif. +<li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout + for some generic dialogs. +<li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid + class can still be used. +<li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText. +<li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files. +<li> Documentation improvements. +<li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based + system for generating wxMSW makefiles. +<li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives. +</ul> + <H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P> Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been