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+*** wxWidgets 2.3.3 ***
+
+Look at the General changes file for more encompassing on
+the changes that have taken place in 2.3.3. This file has
+not been kept uptodate. RR.
+
+Beta support for GTK 2.0. Use "configure --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode".
+
+Lots of work locale/encoding conversion classes.
+
+Large changes in wxThread/wxCondition code.
+
+wxLocale detects the system language on all ports.
+
+Corrected wxFrame::ShowFullScreen().
+
+Added wxArtProvider for changing default icons and more.
+
+Corrected wxScrolledWindow in some rare cases.
+
+Added wxIconBundle for mini- and normal icons.
+
+Made wxWindow::SetFocus() work before a wxDialog
+is created. Until now always the first item
+was focussed.
+
+Corrected wxComboBox's semantics of pressing <Enter>.
+
+Corrected SeekI() return values and other related functions
+in wxFilterStream and wxBufferedStream.
+
+Implemented new ref-counting for GDI classes.
+
+New implementation of wxCondition.
+
+Implemented actual comparisons between GDI classes instead of
+comparing just the ref-count.
+
+Fixed wxMiniFrame again.
+
+Added wxCursor creation from wxImage.
+
+Added inlined wxHashMap class.
+
+Redone thread wake-up code for immediate wake-up instead
+of 50 ms pause. This gives apps 100% CPU time for background
+tasks.
+
+New behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a 
+delayed refresh. Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force
+an immediate update.
+
+Support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others) and
+corrections to wxImage code for special SGI visuals.
+
+Changed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates.
+
+Implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background
+tasks (unlike thread work).
+
+Various updates to wxHTML.
+
+Some wxFont changes for better mixing of native fonts and
+wxFont's accessors.
+
+Added IFF image handler.
+
+Added ICO, CUR and ANI image handler. Added image handler
+for several image per file (GIF, TIFF).
+
+wxFrame::SetMenuBar() corrected (for NULL etc.)
+
+wxButton honours wxBU_EXACTFIT.
+
+wxStaticBox honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
+
+Reworked wxConfig class interface.
+
+Reworked wxDynamicLibary class for loading classes (particularly
+wxWidgets classes) from dynamic libraries.
+
+Removed wxObjectStream class.
+
+Further improvements to wxFileName class.
+
+*** wxWidgets 2.3.2 ***
+
+Addition of wxFileName class to handler DOS, Unix, Mac and VMS filenames
+and paths in a platform independent way.
+
+Addition of a wxPopupWindow class to imitate temporary windows such
+as those used combo boxes or in tool tips.
+
+Addition of wxToggleButton which was missing in wxWidgets 2.2.
+
+Support for virtual lists in wxListCtrl.
+
+Addition wxSingleInstanceChecker which does just that.
+
+Addition of wxRegEx for regular expression parsing either
+using the built-in Unix function or a freeware add-on library.
+
+wxScrolledWindow completely reimplemented as a native GTK widget.
+
+Reimplemented event cloning used for inter-thread communication.
+
+Big improvements to the HTML display engine. Handles many more tags
+correctly now.
+
+Partial rewrite and enhancements to the XML based resource system wxXRC.
+It is now based on the Expat parser.
+
+Wider image type support including read/write support for XPM and
+reading support for ICO files. BMP can be saved in various bit depths now.
+
+Fixed some incompatibilities with GTK 1.2.10.
+
+Partially reworked build system for installation of multiple builds and
+cross compilations.
+
+Improved wxSizer-based layout system for better support for dynamic
+layout.
+
+*** wxWidgets 2.3.0 ***
+
+scaling for map modes other than wxMM_TEXT works correctly (Derry Bryson)
+
+*** wxWidgets 2.2.6 ***
+
+wxGauge now supports wxGA_VERTICAL (Shane Forsythe)
+
+*** 29th January 2001: wxWidgets 2.2.5 released ***
+
+Synchronized with wxMSW 2.2.5, include macros
+for upwards 2.4.0 compatibility.
+
+Added missing wxEntry prototype to wx/gtk/app.h.
+
+Fixed compilation with --enable-no_rtti/no_exceptions
+with older egcs.
+
+*** 15th January 2001: wxWidgets 2.2.4 released ***
+
+Corrected wxYield() to handle recursive calls
+more gracefully (and with a warning in debug mode).
+This fixes a problem with crashing wxTreeCtrl's
+built-in drag'n'drop and probably some other as
+well.
+
+Corrected wxMenuItem::GetLabel() to handle deliberate '_'
+characters correctly.
+
+Patch for better 8-bit-display support.
+
+Corrected log error message box.
+
+Implemented wxCommandEvent::IsSelection() for wxListBox.
+
+Corrected wxListBox::Set() for sorted mode.
+
+Added EVT_TEXT_UPDATED for spin ctrl.
+
+Corrected wrongly rounded value in slider and scrollbar
+for negative values.
+
+Small fix for wxTextFile type guessing.
+
+Translation updates.
+
+Various other fixes.
+
+Synchronized release with wxMSW again.
+
+*** 3rd November: wxWidgets 2.2.3 released ***
+
+Fixed bugs in HTTP code.
+
+Implemented wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE whenever possible
+and reduced flicker a little (no longer disables GTK's own
+anti-flicker code).
+
+Always have a clipping region equivalent to the update
+region in OnPaint events (such as under wxMSW and wxMac).
+
+Implemented wxListBox::SetFirstItem().
+
+Fixed some minor problems in HTML code, wxListCtrl,
+wxListBox.
+
+Fixed compilation on RedHat 7.0.
+
+Updated many translations, added Swedish.
+
+Changed default screenpixels-per-inch from 100 to 75 in
+printing code.
+
+Updated AFM font metrics for Ghostscript fonts and let
+Linux and FreeBSD default to using GS fonts (and not
+Adobe fonts).
+
+*** 20th September: wxWidgets 2.2.2 released ***
+
+Fixed wxSizer bug that made items with option
+flags greater than 1 report a wrong size.
+
+Fixed many incompatibilities with GTK themes -
+essentially a backport from the 2.3 branch.
+
+Added missing wxImage::Paste() for transparent
+images.
+
+Fixed a drawing error for ellipses and arc in both
+the DC code and the PostScript code.
+
+Fixed wxListCtrl::HitTest() for report mode.
+
+Other minor fixes.
+
+*** 20th August 2000: wxWidgets 2.2.1 released ***
+
+Minor build fixes.
+
+Use the wxCommmandEvent::IsChecked() function for checkable
+menu items. This mean that the m_int parameter no longer
+contains the ID of the menu!
+
+Fixed major problems in ODBC logging code. This change is
+binary backward incompatible.
+
+Fixed reentry problems in DnD code.
+
+Changed PostScript code so that it can handle a higher
+resolution (720dpi).
+
+Minor improvements to wxGrid code.
+
+Corrected guffow-scrolling so that no surplus expose
+events are generated.
+
+Corrected bug in wxMask creation on 16-bit displays.
+
+Minor correction to wxDC::DrawRoundedRectangle.
+
+Added support for <INSERT> and <DELETE> menu accelerators.
+
+Made wxComboBox case-sensitive.
+
+Minor correction to doc-view architecture.
+
+Minor wxCommandLineParser changes.
+
+*** 10th July 2000: wxWidgets 2.2.0 released ***
+
+Added code for writing BMP images.
+
+Added code for writing TIFF images.
+
+Fixed problem with best visuals (on SGI)
+
+Applied a number of compile fixes for various Unix variants.
+
+Fixed wrong background colours appearing sometimes and fix
+for resetting the default font in controls.
+
+Speed-up to wxListCtrl.
+
+Fixed bug wxTextStream::ReadLine()
+
+Various improvements commandline parser.
+
+Changed wxColour unequal operator to compare colours.
+
+Fixed wxMenuBar::Replace bug.
+
+Added new position to slider update event.
+
+Minor fix to idle handling (now wxGTK events come after all GTK events).
+
+Various fixes to the new wxGrid class.
+
+Bug-fixes.
+
+*** 4th June 2000: wxWidgets pre-2.2 release ***
+
+Complete freeze now. Only vital bug-fixes allowed.
+
+Various enhancements to wxSizer.
+
+Added wxGridSizer and wxFlexGridSizer.
+
+Reworked wxURL.
+
+MANY bugfixes.
+
+*** 22th March 2000: wxWidgets 2.1.15 released ***
+
+Build fix. RPMs no longer require GTK's include files.
+
+An extra library for the OpenGl class now gets built
+*** 19th March 2000: wxWidgets 2.1.14 released ***
+
+An extra library for the OpenGl class now gets built
+and installed. There is also an extra RPM for this
+small class now.
+
+Added possibility to compile wxGTK with already installed
+image libraries (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, ZLIB) if you really
+know what you are doing.
+
+Added support for pipes and a stream class to get data
+out of them.
+
+Added memory file system (so you can save html pages with
+images in memory).
+
+Added wxDragImage class for dragging easily images.
+
+The DEB and RPM packages now conform better to various
+standards.
+
+Renamed wx-config to wxgtk-config so that motif can be co-installed
+on the same machine (with wxmotif-config).
+
+Speed up for drawing by reusing once created DCs instead of
+creating and destroying them all the time.
+
+Corrections to clipping region code (among others related to
+simultaneous bitmap clipping).
+
+A few more improvements to tab traversal.
+
+A number of changes to socket code.
+
+Added code for rotating images.
+
+Much work on the new grid class has been done. Very cool now.
+
+wxPlotWindow is now useful and works. Added on-off lines useful for
+displaying trigger signals.
+
+Corrected one more bug in the TIFF handler.
+
+It is now possible to run wxGTK apps in the best visual
+instead of only the default on system that support this
+(typically IRIX).
+
+Added default keyboard handling to wxScrolledWindow.
+
+Fixed slightly overoptimized window colour and style handling.
+This will expose a bug in the GtkPixmap theme, or more exactly
+in ImLib's image cashing so that wxGTK currently doesn't work
+well with pixmap themes. As a result, wxGTK will disable all
+widget settings when using this theme.
+
+Fixed bug in drawing code that made GTK pick the wrong pen
+style when using the default.
+
+The L-GPL iODBC library must now be enables explicitly so as
+to not mislead people into reading the license wrong.
+
+*** 24th January '2000: wxWidgets 2.1.13 released ***
+
+Corrections to TAB handling in notebooks.
+
+Added scroll event to indicate when the thumb has
+been released (as opposed to only changed).
+
+Fixed crashes with GTK Pixmap theme.
+
+Fixed endianness problems in image code.
+
+Minor fixes for sockets related to GUI reentrance. Also
+improved the IPV address class and added more error
+checking and related things.
+
+Many enhancements to wxHTML, more tags supported, better support
+for non-western texts etc.
+
+Corrected code handling mono-bitmaps and their conversion to
+wxImage etc. Added experimental ConvertToMonoBitmap() to
+wxImage class.
+
+Fixed a few minor problems in wxListCtrl.
+
+The MIME-type code in now reads KDE and GNOME mime-type bindings
+including icon information. This is used in the file dialog.
+
+Small fix for problems with code that didn't changed the size of a
+window, but its client size and thus sent no wxSizeEvent.
+
+Fixed problem with shared contexts in OpenGl canvas.
+
+Fixed keyboard handling in wxCheckListBox.
+
+Corrected the completely nonfunctional TIFF code.
+
+Various minor corrections to wxWizard, wxCalendarCtrl and other
+complex controls.
+
+Revamped code for TCP based connections between programs.
+
+Updates to the ODBC classes (George Tasker).
+
+Build-fixes for various platforms and compilers.
+
+*** 6th January '2000: wxWidgets 2.1.12 released ***
+
+Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc or PowerPC) that runs a 15
+and/or 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this
+person could help me by running a small test program and sending
+me the output.
+
+Improved support for GTK's themes, changes in font sizes (and
+the dialogs' ability to react to that) and related things.
+
+Added Calendar control.
+
+Added classes for recoding text (e.g. from Windows encoding to ISO encoding
+and for converting to and from Unicode).
+
+Updated the 64-bit long class (a class that substitutes a 64-bit int
+type on platforms which don't provide a native one).
+
+Added wxImage::Replace() (for replacing colours) and wxImage::GetSubImage().
+Also corrected conversion from mono bitmaps to wxImage.
+
+Added wxBitmap::GetSubBitmap().
+
+Removed some flicker from tree ctrl. Minor optical changes.
+
+Added support for multiple font and colour support for items in
+list ctrls and tree ctrls.
+
+Added support for multiple-selection file dialog.
+
+Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is
+also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that.
+
+Enhanced wxMimeTypesManager to read GNOME and KDE file ending
+bindings to MIME types and icons.
+
+Corrected wxExecute to longer eat up all memory and crash under
+certain circumstances (Karsten Ballueder).
+
+wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog
+before entering the main loop.
+
+Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some
+more string related things.
+
+Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective
+stream classes. Documented some more stream classes.
+
+Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing,
+history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc).
+
+Corrected wxRegion::GetBox().
+
+Added wxNotebookSizer for combining notebooks and sizers.
+
+Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst()
+and wxFileGetNext().
+
+Fixed Y2000 bug in file dialog (sic.)
+
+Added wxStopWatch class.
+
+wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject.
+
+Added inlined classes for 2D geometry calculations.
+
+wxSpinCtrl now has its own event, intercepted using EVT_SPINCTRL.
+
+The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they
+are to use forward-only cursors or not.
+
+Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate
+have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDateTime.
+
+Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the
+thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or
+if the main thread must delete the C++ class.
+
+Added TIFF reading code, PCX writing code.
+
+Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures.
+
+Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and
+centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer.
+
+Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool.
+
+Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for
+setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream.
+
+Added code to send events from one thread to another and added
+function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread
+events).
+
+Corrected wrongly set flag in dialogs which broke its tab code.
+Also corrected navigation on wxRadioBox.
+
+Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using
+several such canvasses.
+
+Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem.
+
+Speed-up for new encoding related font code. Minor fixes.
+
+Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by
+the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message.
+
+More minor changes and fixes.
+
+Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner).
+
+*** 7st November '99: wxWidgets 2.1.11 released ***
+
+There is still an unresolved problem with bitmap to image
+conversion on big-endian architectures (such as Solaris),
+where color values get exchanged. I'd need help on this
+one as I have no BE computer.
+
+Enlightenment has struck the majority of the developers and
+they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme
+for wxWidgets from now on. This means that the next stable
+release will be called wxWidgets 2.2.X, development snapshots
+will be called 2.1.X.
+
+A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a
+once released stable version. It was almost universally
+agreed that only a commercial entity will have the motivation
+($$$) to do that - so far there is no wxWidgets Inc.
+
+Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. This version has
+been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it might
+not work with some other versions.
+
+Rewritten the support for multiple-format Drag'n'Drop and
+clipboard under both GTK and MSW. There are probably some
+problems here and there left.
+
+wxListBox and wxChoice can now handle only either void
+client data (which it will not delete on destruction) or
+client data of the wxClientData type (which it will delete),
+instead of both at the same time. The same will happen
+to wxComboBox some time. Also, wxListBox can now sort its
+items.
+
+Many build fixes for various platforms have been applied,
+try again, poor AIX, HP-UX and *BSD users, but don't reckon
+with immediate success. Actually, when using GNU compilers,
+your chances are quite good.
+
+My rewrite of the wxWidgets underlying GTK widget
+has turned scrolling including subwindows from barely
+functional to pretty and fast. I also added scrolling
+of foreign windows to wxScrolledWindow.
+
+Setting size hints for the window manager might work now.
+
+wxSocket and Co. have been improved up to the point of
+calling it a rewrite. It works on wxMSW now too and
+seems pretty stable, but testing is still welcome.
+
+The ODBC classes contributed by Remstar Inc. have been
+overhauled (incl the sample) and have been tested with
+all relevant SQL databases (even DBase). For that reason
+I have reawakened the iODBC code from wxGTK 2.0 so you
+can now use wxODBC from wxMSW and wxGTK.
+
+Several printing things fixed. More work needs to be done
+here..
+
+HTML widget and the wxWidgets' help system based upon
+it have been reorganized and improved for easier use
+from Python and C++. Also HTML printing has been added.
+
+wxSpinCtrl added. Like a wxSpinButton and a wxTextCtrl.
+
+Changed the behaviour of the popular new wxFileDialog to
+not forget the once typed file name when changing the
+directory.
+
+Implemented the wxSIMPLE_BORDER flag (simple black line
+without shadow affect).
+
+Michael is writing a complete rewrite of the antiquated
+wxGrid. This is still work-in-progress and might not make
+it into wxWidgets 2.2, we'll see. Help would be welcome
+to make that happen.
+
+Made wxMenu code lose less memory, also added wxMenu::Delete().
+
+Added code to send wxActivateEvent to MDI windows.
+
+Vadim added configure things to compile wxWidgets without any
+GUI library. This is probably work in progress. He'll also add
+a wxFontEnumerator class and has enhanced wxFont to make use
+of char-encodings.
+
+wxSlider, wxWindow, wxScrollBar now emit the correct events
+for scrolling (like page up, line up etc) instead of just
+"thumb-track" as before.
+
+Corrected Reparent() code, including the special case for
+wxToolBar (as the toolbar sits in a different window than
+normal windows).
+
+Corrected key accelerator code for toplevel child windows
+and added support for more key combinations - pretty much
+all, actually.
+
+Corrected cursor handling in a number of special cases.
+
+wxGLCanvas now waits until all expose events have been sent
+and then emits its own redraw event. Also removed flicker
+for wxGLCanvas and in some other places.
+
+A handler to read PCX file (in most variants) has been added.
+
+A number of problems with compressed and socket streams have
+been solved.
+
+Changed behaviour of wxTextStream to make use of delimiters
+and default to space as the standard C++ stream do.
+
+Changes to tab traversal code to better reflect MSW code.
+
+Corrected problems with wxGenericValidator and certain controls.
+
+Made default button action work in more cases.
+
+28th August '99: Ninth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+As the old makefile system didn't work, I trashed it and wrote
+a new one - no more GNU. This, of course, caused a lot of people
+to start sing their song of complaints - any change is a good
+opportunity to complain, but the effect of the change is that
+we now have shared library support on Linux and Solaris (and
+probably others as well) and that the Linux shared library no
+longer depends on libstdc++, so that we can finally create an
+RPM that works on different Linux distributions. Also, the
+Unix make system is now much simpler and directly mirrors its
+Windows counterparts, making it easier to understand and maintain.
+As it is independent of the various GNU tools, the requirements
+for using CVS versions are also much less (any make, any compiler,
+no other tools).
+
+Split RPMs into two, one for run-time requirements and one
+for development (mostly headers).
+
+Addition of new layout classes that work like Java's, GTK's
+or Qt`s - basically, you pack item in a box and let it tell
+you how much space it needs. These class are called wxSizer
+and I consider them a great addition as they make true cross-
+platform dialogs a child's play and are very quick to write
+and easy to read. Do consider using them.
+
+Rewritten all dialogs to make use of the new sizers. Also
+added a new wxFileDialog like Win95 and replaced the generic
+wxFontDialog with GTK's native font selection dialog - this
+probably isn't perfect though.
+
+A few more fixes to wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, implemented
+more options and modes like the wxMSW version.
+
+New handler for PNM files. Added CanRead() function to image
+handlers, updates to GIF handler for preparing the new wxAnimation
+class. We'll also get a PCX and hopefully a TIFF handler so
+that we support all common general-purpose file formats I know
+about. PhotoShop and PhotoPaint images are not general purpose.
+I also tried to correct a wxImage bug in connection with big-endian
+vs. little-endian problems, but I have no Sparc to actually test
+this.
+
+Inclusion of wxMultiMedia. Can play most sound formats on GTK
+and MSW and (using xanim on Unix and Win95's MM functions)
+display a video in a wxWindow. This will probably be moved to
+the core library.
+
+Small updates to socket code. The MSW version is still missing.
+
+Implemented wxBitmapDataObject class.
+
+Added wxFFileStream using FILE* instead if file descriptor.
+Useful for creating a "cerr" like class as in normal C++.
+Also added "endl" for use with wxTextStream and fixed a few
+minor problems with buffered streams etc.
+
+Corrected Tabbing code in wxPanel and made it work with wxNotebook.
+
+Small cursor fixes in connection with text control.
+
+Added experimental wxWizard class. Work in progress.
+
+A few more minor fixes.
+
+6th August '99: Eight wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+The new makefile system is not able to produce shared libraries
+on Unix with the exception of Linux - libtool is really great.
+Therefore, the build system defaults to static libraries on
+anything but Linux for now.
+
+Work in wxPen, wxBrush and wxDC to match wxMSW more exactly and
+to implement missing feature etc.
+
+Reimplemented radio buttons. The first of a group of such buttons
+is now marked by having the wxRB_GROUP style.
+
+Complete redesign of all stream classes, including tests for them
+in the samples.
+
+Controls now send the same messages (or more importantly none if
+changed programmatically) as per wxMSW.
+
+New implementation of wxSocket using an intermediate library called
+GSocket. This will hopefully change in the future.
+
+Reworked in-place editing of wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl.
+
+Fixed bug reporting two refreshes when scrolling.
+
+Corrected bug in wxComboBox client data code.
+
+Corrected reported but unverified bug in BMP loading code.
+
+Added a few more methods to wxStaticBitmap.
+
+Integration of wxHTML code in the main library, including wxZIPStream,
+wxFilesystem, wxHTMLHelpController and others.
+
+Added a wrapper for ffile() etc functions.
+
+Updates to wxDynamicLibrary.
+
+New documentation.
+
+New version of wxPython, of course.
+
+Fixed an undisclosed number of other bugs...
+
+25th June '99: Seventh wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+Many fixes to the new makefile system. The last version gave
+immediate crashes on all Unices except Linux when linked
+dynamically against an application. I reordered the object
+files in the library as I guess that this was the cause.
+
+Added icons to message box. This also slightly killed the
+layout so this needs to be changed again.
+
+wxGTK now chooses the best visual available on the display instead
+of the default one.
+
+Fixed wxProgressDialog again.
+
+Some more corrections I forgot.
+
+New wxPython (includes new layout system and printing).
+
+15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile
+system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake
+is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that
+people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The
+new makefile system also handles dependencies correctly, allows for
+shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for
+concurrent builds within one source tree, uses libtool for greater
+shared-library platform support, has a functional "make uninstall",
+works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards
+as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to
+maintain.
+
+Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2.
+
+Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping
+with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample.
+Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on
+Solaris and such.
+
+Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare
+RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask,
+corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible
+to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't
+make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.)
+
+Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard
+class.
+
+Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out
+of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug).
+
+Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions
+of the wxTextCtrl.
+
+Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal().
+
+Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made
+this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed
+a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for
+added images.
+
+Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame
+menu bars.
+
+Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's
+sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this
+is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors
+in splitter window.
+
+New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items.
+
+Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections
+and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not
+exist in the native Win32 tree control.
+
+Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed
+another cursor misbehaviour.
+
+Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes
+in wxWidgets 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of
+cross-platform issues as well as platform differences.
+
+Many other fixes, mainly by others...
+
+Further compile fixes for different architectures.
+
+
+
+25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+
+This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny
+times to make wxGTK work well with different micro
+versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible.
+All versions give warnings, although their number might
+vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get warnings in
+one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in
+GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings
+getting spat out for what seems like no reason.
+
+This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of
+headers, meaning that in the future all ports will
+use the same headers and will share a lot more code.
+We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and
+hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported
+primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin).
+
+Rewritten char and key event propagation routines
+to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK
+as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars
+and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you
+are interested in which key actually got pressed,
+intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer).
+
+Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer
+get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary
+negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes.
+
+wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the
+wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent
+so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders
+or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur.
+
+Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background
+work such as printing.
+
+Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of
+which show some misbehaviours...
+
+When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses
+GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical
+mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some
+rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then
+you should change wxINVERT.
+
+Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation.
+
+More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly
+finished.
+
+You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well,
+at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look
+at the threads sample.
+
+wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists
+over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker.
+(Norber Irmer).
+
+wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches
+wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page
+number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent
+switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also,
+wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty.
+
+Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel).
+
+Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when
+given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser).
+
+Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard,
+wxString, wxThreads and many others.
+
+Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release...
+
+
+
+11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread,
+and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window
+placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now.
+
+Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finished).
+
+Updated wxPython to beta 9.
+
+Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now...
+
+wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't
+yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows
+(although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly
+due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well).
+
+Added wxStaticLine.
+
+Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard
+handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow.
+
+By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much
+*** different in the final wxWidgets 2.1 release. Please test as ***
+much as you can.
+
+The next release will have a new build system.
+
+
+
+3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt.
+
+Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in
+both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim.
+
+Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental
+wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS).
+
+New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1.
+This now includes a very comprehensive test/demo suite. Thanks to
+Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man...
+
+More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets.
+
+Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental).
+Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux.
+
+wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does,
+indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys
+such as in wxXt and wxMSW.
+
+Rewritten MDI subsystem.
+
+Corrections and additions to the printing framework including
+a paper type database (Julian).
+
+Several controls now support more style flags for modifying
+look (and feel) of the controls and windows.
+
+New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle
+event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which
+is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly.
+This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having
+to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to
+the application if desired.
+
+wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWidgets) now accepts keyboard input.
+
+The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved.
+
+
+
+21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very
+cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then
+you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode".
+
+More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible
+to resize etc.
+
+Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging
+and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite
+good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing.
+I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken
+and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it.
+
+I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been
+added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In
+the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on
+the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will
+ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading
+of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten
+different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the
+PNG code to the newest PNG version.
+
+wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by
+GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics
+heavy apps.
+
+Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed
+to only with GTK 1.2.1 now.
+
+wxPython still doesn't compile, I think.
+
+
+
+12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+This is the first developers' version of wxWidgets 2.1 for GTK. It's main
+new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which
+will make development within the GNOME environment a lot easier.
+
+Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were
+required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been
+made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard,
+wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig)
+and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with
+scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab
+traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets).
+
+There have been slight changes to the printing dialogs and their
+setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous
+versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed
+(actually not tested).
+
+Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not
+to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are,
+of course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate
+to bugs in GTK).
+
+I think I preserved backward compatibility with GTK 1.0 and if not it
+should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care.
+
+Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently
+doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to
+work.
+
+Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure
+system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duper frame layout
+stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME
+goodies, possibly world domination.
+
+
+
+*** 5th March '99: wxWidgets 2.0 released ***
+
+
+This is the final version of wxWidgets 2.0 for GTK. The versions for
+Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's
+site. The Mac version is still under development.
+
+
+
+*** 19th February '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 5 ***
+
+
+This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
+updates for documentation.
+
+Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers).
+
+
+
+*** 12th February '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 4 ***
+
+
+This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
+updates for documentation.
+
+Tracked a few more cases, where the behaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK
+differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as
+for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some
+other minor details.
+
+Most standard dialogs have been face-lifted a little.
+
+Implemented default buttons for GTK.
+
+Fixed many bugs. You guessed it.
+
+
+
+*** 29th January '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 3 ***
+
+
+This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes.
+
+There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that
+it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in
+GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that
+we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although
+we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWidgets 2.0 (being
+based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support.
+
+The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely
+rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works
+better now.
+
+Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added.
+
+There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and
+Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying...
+
+Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the
+classes, at least.
+
+The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless.
+
+A few member functions of wxString have been renamed.
+
+For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which
+now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK
+now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the
+generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times.
+
+It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header
+files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer
+is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled
+with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will   not   work in
+SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package.
+
+
+
+*** 6th January '99: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 2 ***
+
+
+This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and
+bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems,
+commercial Unices and Windows.
+
+
+
+*** 20th December '98: wxWidgets 2.0 beta 1 ***
+
+
+This is the first beta release and we have used the time before
+this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from
+now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility
+for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of
+the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent
+conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release
+we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any
+program statically with wxGTK.
+
+We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of
+the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous
+versions of wxWidgets for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on.
+
+As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different
+development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll
+wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting
+then.
+
+wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on
+Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't
+as easy as it sounds...
+
+Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWidgets.
+Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution.
+Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say.
+
+Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished
+up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and
+all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions
+much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is functional but probably won't
+be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features.
+
+wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been
+tested carefully yet.
+
+wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars
+etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to
+include his very nice work later.
+
+wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden).
+
+The entire "tab traversal" system for moving from item to item in
+a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the
+not-so-well-done GTK native tab system.
+
+Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now
+available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related
+to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale
+bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context
+has changed.
+
+Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have
+received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible
+to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc)
+has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also
+greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and
+log system).
+
+We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour)
+which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users
+resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these
+constructors.
+
+As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples
+is steadily rising the core classes of wxWidgets for MSW and GTK 1.0
+can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't
+seen a crash for weeks now and wxWidgets' internal debug features also
+have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost
+completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself
+(when in debug mode).
+