X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/c4077b34241da1740b99cb04748916a3d9cc1892..22fd4d7d5e19a8ef4d78729f1a340e9f988f7223:/docs/publicity/announce.txt diff --git a/docs/publicity/announce.txt b/docs/publicity/announce.txt index dc20d8cf3b..0ef3435e40 100644 --- a/docs/publicity/announce.txt +++ b/docs/publicity/announce.txt @@ -1,16 +1,18 @@ -Announcing wxWindows 2.3.3, September 8th, 2002 +Announcing wxWindows 2.3.4: a cross-platform GUI toolkit ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Announcing the release of a development snapshot of the mature -cross-platform C++ application framework, wxWindows. +September 16th, 2002 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to +announce the release of a development snapshot of the mature +cross-platform C++ application framework. -The following versions are provided: +The following platforms are supported: - Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP -- Most Unix variants with GTK+ -- Most Unix variants with X11 -- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif -- MacOS 9.x and 10.x +- Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0 +- Unix with X11 +- Unix with Motif/Lesstif +- VMS with GTK+ 1.x +- MacOS 8.6, 9.x and 10.x - OS/2 (alpha) To get wxWindows, go to the Download page at: @@ -22,15 +24,14 @@ This is likely to be the last development snapshot in the *** About wxWindows -wxWindows is probably the most powerful and comprehensive -open-source, multi-platform C++ GUI framework available, which -can be used to build commercial and free software. It's used by many -organisations all over the world, including the company that -invented the GUI. +wxWindows is a comprehensive open-source, multi-platform C++ +GUI framework, that can be used to build commercial and free +software. It's used by many organisations all over the world, +including the company that invented the GUI. For most ports, wxWindows adopts the native look and feel of each platform since it uses the native widget sets. There is also -a generic widget set, used for the wxX11 port -- no other widget set +a generic widget set, used for the wxX11 port - no other widget set is required, giving the potential for embedded use. An extraordinary range of classes is provided - but don't be put @@ -65,3 +66,82 @@ Have fun! Julian Smart and the wxWindows team +===== + +A small selection of the comments from the Feedback page: + +"wxWindows 2.xx has been an absolute dream; putting together a +nice interface has been quite easy, and I'm especially pleased +that I can do most of our development on *nix with confidence +that only minor issues will have to get cleaned up when we build +on Windows." + +"I use wxWindows as a GUI Toolkit for Python. Its stability, +flexibility and speed are the base of industrial strength +cross-platform GUI application design with interpreted languages +like Python. Porting is child's play. Thanks for this great +piece of software!" + +"Excellent, stable and intuitive API. Very straightforward to +learn and easy to port Java, X11 and Win32 code to." + +"Thanks heaps for the best piece of software I've ever come +across (wxWindows)." + +"I chose wxWindows for a very much Windows-only application +because of the simplicity of the API compared to MFC and Win32 +GDI programming. Aside from some minor mistakes in the manual +which confused me for a while, wxWin has been really easy to use +and increased my productivity immensely compared to using +another framework." + +"wxWindows is a great product. One of its best features, IMHO, +are all the language bindings. It's very easy to prototype your +app in wxPython, then convert to a C/C++ app later." + +"Porting to wxWindows is easy - I recently ported an MFC project +at work to wxGTK on Solaris, and changing all the MFC calls to +wxWindows calls only took a couple of hours for a 2 man-month +project... I've never had an easier porting experience. +wxWindows was intentially built to work like MFC to make it easy +to port, and they most certainly succeeded, with the notable +exception of OLE support. I ported a several man month project +in a day or two, and none of it was hard or confusing, it just +amounted to looking up the equivalent functions in the help. I +could do the conversion much faster now because I wouldn't have +to keep glancing at the web page." + +"I'd like to take the opportunity and say a big thank you to all +the wxWin developers and contributors. wxWindows is the best +piece of software I have been using so far, and I can't believe +that I haven't discovered it earlier. I never thought that +cross-platform development could be so easy and simply cool. +Great stuff :)" + +"Just wanted to commend you on wxWindows. As I'm reading the +code samples (the checklistbox right now), I'm realizing that +this is so intuitive and so Java-like in some parts of it, +especially with the way the layout works... Very good work and +thank you." + +"I have used wxWindows in the past very successfully on multiple +projects, and think it's the bee's knees. Thanks for everything!" + +"Well, I'm using wxWindows since 2 days and I'm already in love +with it :) The sizers saved me from writing a complete layout +solution myself. Great work! You guys rock!" + +"wxWindows is jaw dropping amazing. Community support from the +mailing list is extraordinary. Are you sure this is free?" + +"I love wxWindows. I can program 10 times faster than with MFC, +and almost everything works the first time. And unlike MFC, +there are (useful) examples and documentation. Thanks to you +guys who did all the work to develop this framework. Big kudos." + +"ImageLinks now uses the Open Source version of wxWindows for +all its current GUI development. Doing this ensures that +everything interfaces cleanly and also makes it easier in the +long run to add other GUIs along the way because ImageLinks has +access to all the source code." +