X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/ab85e6cd0021eba5d95c1e1e52187a6f256b06de..170a35e36438a7afa91409367b6dd32dc46a9fde:/docs/readme.txt?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index 49c7f3105d..cfe4a07a0a 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,22 +1,27 @@ -wxWindows 2.3.0 +wxWindows 2.3.2 --------------- +*** 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 2.2.x stable series. + Welcome to wxWindows 2, 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, thread handling, and more. -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 1400-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF and -Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy. +A detailed 1700-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF +and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy. -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 ----------------------- @@ -28,7 +33,7 @@ Platforms supported wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: -- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT +- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (see msw/winxp.txt) - Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif - Most Unix variants with GTK+ - MacOS @@ -174,12 +179,13 @@ 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. + Documentation ------------- -See docs/bugs.txt for a bug list: this file is new and will initially - be edited by hand, later generated from a web-based bug database. - See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents. See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWindows 2. @@ -210,7 +216,7 @@ front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWindows web site. -Good luck! +Have fun! -The wxWindows Team, 8th May, 2001 +The wxWindows Team, 10th June, 2001