X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/ab85e6cd0021eba5d95c1e1e52187a6f256b06de..9b3a38204110b40cfab14b736f15b32f14956d72:/docs/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index 49c7f3105d..03bbb23335 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,22 +1,31 @@ -wxWindows 2.3.0 +wxWindows 2.5.1 --------------- -Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++ +*** 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 wxWindows, 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 1800-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 ----------------------- @@ -26,12 +35,14 @@ Please see changes.txt for details. Platforms supported ------------------- -wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: +wxWindows currently supports the following platforms: -- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT -- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif +- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP - Most Unix variants with GTK+ -- MacOS +- Most Unix variants with X11 +- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif +- MacOS 9.x and 10.x +- OS/2 (alpha) Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details. @@ -42,55 +53,58 @@ Files The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format. -Some add-on libraries (such as the Object Graphics Library) are -available in zip form only. In the following, x.y.z represents -the current version number. +In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number. -wxWindows for GTK distribution ------------------------------- +wxWindows for GTK+ distribution +------------------------------- -wxGTK-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK source distribution. You will +wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation (see below) -wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK demos source -wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK samples source +wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source +wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK samples source wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM +wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM -wxWindows for Motif distribution --------------------------------- +wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution +---------------------------------------- -wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains - TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML +wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without documentation. wxWindows for MS Windows distribution ------------------------------------- -setup.exe, setup.w* Setup files (Windows 95/98, NT) - in floppy-disk-sized chunks +setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files in floppy-disk-sized chunks wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip Zip archive containing the setup files -wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the - files that are in the setup - distribution +wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the files that are + in the setup distribution + +As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains: + +- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp); +- a Dialog Editor binary; +- a Tex2RTF binary; +- Life! sample binary. wxWindows for MacOS distribution -------------------------------- wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files (excludes documentation) +wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all + source files (excludes documentation). + You might prefer this format if building on + MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions. -As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains: +wxWindows for OS/2 distribution +------------------------------- -- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp); -- Object Graphics Library, in contrib/src/ogl; -- a Dialog Editor binary; -- a Tex2RTF binary; -- Life! sample binary; -- the JPEG library source; -- the TIFF library source. +wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files + (excludes documentation) Documentation files ------------------- @@ -101,27 +115,6 @@ wxWindows-x.y.z-HTML.zip HTML documentation wxWindows-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip Windows HTML Help documentation wxWindows-x.y.z-HTB.zip wxHTML documentation (for use with the helpview utility) -wxWindows-x.y.z-Word.zip MS Word documentation (currently, - database class documentation only) -wxWindows-x.y.z-DocSource.zip Documentation source code (not required) - -Add-ons -------- - -wxWindows-x.y.z-cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior 4.1 project files -wxWindows-x.y.z-wat.zip Watcom C++ project files -wxWindows-x.y.z-vc.zip Visual C++ project files (in wxMSW distr.) -wxWindows-x.y.z-bc.zip Borland C++ project files (in wxMSW distr.) -jpeg.zip JPEG library (already included - in most distributions) -tiff.zip TIFF library (already included - in most distributions) -ogl3.zip Optional Object Graphics Library -mmedia.zip Optional MMedia library (Motif, GTK, MSW) -stc.zip Optional wxStyledTextCtrl library - (Motif, GTK, MSW) -tex2rtf2.zip Tex2RTF documentation tool -wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM Installation ------------ @@ -135,6 +128,9 @@ in the individual directories: docs/gtk docs/motif docs/mac + docs/x11 + docs/mgl + docs/os2 Licence information ------------------- @@ -159,33 +155,41 @@ 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 carefuly LGPL, section 6. +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 dynamicaly and +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), wxWindows library will contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL. If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT -for libtiff license details. +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/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. See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes. +The wxWindows 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. @@ -196,21 +200,16 @@ The wxWindows Web site is located at: http://www.wxwindows.org -The wxGTK Web site (with further wxGTK-specific files and -information) is located at: - - http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt - The main wxWindows ftp site is at: - ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin + ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub A wxWindows 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: see the wxWindows web site. -Good luck! +Have fun! -The wxWindows Team, 8th May, 2001 +The wxWindows Team, September 2003