X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/c801d85f158c4cba50b588807daabdcbd0ed3853..84f858e94cc2f5256530ad9dfc7687310dc3556a:/docs/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index dfff164e67..b9544a6f2d 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,10 +1,226 @@ -wxWindows 2.0 alpha +wxWindows 2.3.3 +--------------- + +*** 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. + +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. + +Changes in this release +----------------------- + +Please see changes.txt for details. + +Platforms supported +------------------- + +wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: + +- 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 +- Most Unix variants with X11 (beta) +- DOS with MGL (beta) + +Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt +file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details. +See also http://www.wxwindows.org/platform.htm. + +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. + +wxWindows for GTK distribution +------------------------------ + +wxGTK-x.y.z.tgz 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-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 + +wxWindows for Motif distribution +-------------------------------- + +wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution, without + documentation. + +wxWindows for X11 distribution +------------------------------ + +wxX11-x.y.z.tgz wxX11 source distribution, without + documentation. + +wxWindows for MS Windows distribution +------------------------------------- + +setup.exe, setup.w* Setup files (Windows 95/98, NT) + 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 + +wxWindows for MacOS distribution +-------------------------------- + +wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all + source files (excludes documentation) + +As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains: + +- 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. + +Documentation files ------------------- -This is an alpha distribution of wxWindows 2.0. It may be made up -of sources for different platforms from different authors. +wxWindows-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip WinHelp documentation +wxWindows-x.y.z-PDF.zip Acrobat PDF documentation +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 +------------ + +wxWindows 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out +the samples or write your own applications. +For installation information, please see the install.txt file +in the individual directories: + + docs/msw + docs/gtk + docs/motif + docs/mac + docs/x11 + docs/mgl + +Licence information +------------------- + +For licensing information, please see the files: + + docs/preamble.txt + docs/licence.txt + docs/licendoc.txt + docs/gpl.txt + docs/lgpl.txt + +Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of +proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in +addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, +the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted +distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you +don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write +commercial applications using wxWindows. + +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. +which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications +linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamicaly 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. + +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/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 Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp. +The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf. + +Further information +------------------- + +The wxWindows Web site is located at: + + http://www.wxwindows.org + +The main wxWindows ftp site is at: + + ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin + +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. + +Have fun! -For generic installation information, see the docs directory. For -platform-specific installation information see for example docs/msw or -docs/gtk. +The wxWindows Team, 10th June, 2001