X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/b953bdc2934895fa31d859be25be1f850701c2c3..bf085665fd6a214feb7c5bba7e5da827dd5e034d:/docs/univ/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/univ/readme.txt b/docs/univ/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..08e4f1042b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/univ/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ + wxUniversal README + ================== + +Welcome to wxUniversal! + +Acknowledgements: wxUniversal wouldn't have been written without the +generous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Bennett and +Tom Ryan! + +0. Introduction +--------------- + +wxUniversal is a port of wxWidgets which implements the various GUI controls +by drawing them itself (using low level wxWidgets classes). Please see + + http://www.wxwidgets.org/wxuniv.htm + +for more details about it. + +The advantage of wxUniversal is that you have precise control over the +controls' appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the +native controls) and the theme support: the same program may be changed to +look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but +just changing the theme. + +Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWidgets for other +platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special +interest to people interested in porting wxWidgets to another platform. + +However, wxUniversal doesn't have a 100% native look and feel unlike the +other wxWidgets ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility. + +1. Requirements and supported platforms +--------------------------------------- + +wxUniversal is used together with another wxWidgets port which provides the +"low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built with wxMSW, +wxGTK or wxX11. In any case, you should download the sources for the +appropriate toolkit in addition to wxUniversal - in fact, you should download +them first and then unpack wxUniversal in the same directory. + +The requirements for wxUniversal are the same as for the underlying low level +toolkit. + +2. Installing under Win32 +------------------------- + +If compiling from CVS, please copy include/wx/univ/setup0.h +to include/wx/univ/setup.h before following these steps. + +a) Using Visual C++ 6.0/7.x + + Follow wxMSW instructions but make sure to choose one of the "Universal" + configurations before building. + +b) Cygwin + + Please refer to the Unix section below + + Note that gcc's precompiled headers do not work on current versions of + Cygwin. If your version of Cygwin is affected you will need to use the + --disable-precomp-headers configure option. + +** the instructions may be out of date as for wxWidgets 2.5.2+ ** + +c) Other compilers + Borland: + in the wxwindows\src\msw directory run + 'make -f makefile.b32 WXUSINGUNIV=1' to build the library and then run + 'make -f makefile.b32 WXUSINGUNIV=1' in the sample directory which you wish + to build using the wxUniversal widgets. Use 'SET WXTHEME=GTK' [or WIN32 or METAL] + to test the existing themes + +Unfortunately we don't have makefiles for any other compilers yet. +Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the +compiler you use. + +Note that you can use the wxUniversal classes, wxMSW and MicroWindows (from +Century Software) to build a different variant of wxUniversal than that +documented here. Please see docs/univ/readme.txt for further information. +Note that this port is not up-to-date and probably needs work +to compile. + +Note that by default, wxUniv under MSW uses PostScript printing, +not Windows printing. To change to Windows printing, set +wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT_ARCHITECTURE_IN_MSW to 0 in include/wx/univ/setup.h +before compiling. + +3. Installing under Unix +------------------------ + +Please refer to the installation instructions for wxGTK or wxX11. The only +change for wxUniversal is that you must add "--enable-universal" switch to +the configure command line and for wxX11 even this is unnecessary, i.e. it +is enabled by default. + +If compiling from CVS, please copy include/wx/univ/setup0.h +to include/wx/univ/setup.h before configuring. + +4. Running wxUniv programs +-------------------------- + +wxUniv programs all honour the standard option "--theme" which allows to +specify the theme to be used by name. Currently there are the following +themes: + +a) win32 -- Windows 95 look and feel +b) metal -- based on win32 but with gradient backgrounds +c) gtk -- GTK+ 1.x standard look and feel + +Thus, to launch a program using gtk theme you may do "./program --theme=gtk". + +It is also possible to change the default theme for all wxUniv applications +at once by setting the environment variable WXTHEME to the theme name. + +5. Documentation and support +---------------------------- + +Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWidgets ports +and is currently officially in alpha stage. In particular, it is not really +intended for the end users but rather for developers at the current stage and +this is why we don't provide any binaries for it. + +There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWidgets +documentation instead. + +Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWidgets +itself, namely: + +* Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows + +* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information + +* WWW page: http://www.wxwidgets.org/ + + + Hope you find wxUniversal useful! + + Vadim Zeitlin + + +This file is accurate for the version 2.3.4 of wxUniversal. It was last +modified on Apr 15, 2002. +