X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/dcb39c53303d1ec6884f7bcd7bc9dc101e560e62..b02dd12239c8a59b9a545d9fcb04974f8ad02c6b:/docs/publicity/announce.txt diff --git a/docs/publicity/announce.txt b/docs/publicity/announce.txt index 563e54b841..6a8ac79909 100644 --- a/docs/publicity/announce.txt +++ b/docs/publicity/announce.txt @@ -1,40 +1,48 @@ -Announcing wxWidgets 2.6.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit +Announcing wxWidgets 2.7.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit ---------------------------------------------------------------- -October 11th, 2004 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce -a development snapshot release of the mature cross-platform C++ -application framework. +August 5th, 2006 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce +a new release of the mature cross-platform C++ application framework. The following platforms are supported: - Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP -- Windows CE -- Linux/Unix/VMS with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0 -- Linux/Unix with X11 (beta) -- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif -- Mac OS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon -- Mac OS 10.x using Cocoa (beta) +- Windows 64 on Itanium and x86-64 architectures +- Windows CE, including Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003 +- Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64) and VMS with GTK+ +- Unix with X11 (beta) +- Unix with Motif/Lesstif +- Mac OS X using Carbon +- Mac OS X using Cocoa (beta) - OS/2 (beta) -- MGL (Linux and DOS) -A non-GUI subset of wxWidgets called wxBase is also supported -on most of these platforms. +To get wxWidgets, please go to the Download page at: -To get wxWidgets, go to the Download page at: + http://www.wxwidgets.org/ - http://www.wxwidgets.org +This is the first version in the new 2.7 development series. Please +notice that this series is called "development" and not "stable" +solely because ABI or API compatibility is not assured between +different 2.7.x series versions. Rest assured however that these +potentially incompatible changes are made in order to evolve the +toolkit to the next ABI stable release series (2.8.x) and that +normally efforts are made to preserve compilation compatibility, so +often moving to a new development release just requires a full +recompile of the application using wxWidgets. There are currently no +known issues with the stability of the programs using this version. + +There have been many changes since the 2.6 series, please see the +change log file included in the distribution for more details. The +most significant additions to the GUI part of the libraries were: + + - AUI (advanced user interface) library providing dockable + windows and much more + - richtext library implementing wxRichTextCtrl + - New wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox controls + - New wxTreebook book-like control + - New wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls + - wxHyperlinkCtrl control -This is a development snapshot, sometimes known as -an 'unstable' release. Improvements over 2.4.x include: -numerous bug fixes, STL-like container classes, -improved GTK+ 2 compatibility, new build system, -improved Unicode compatibility, wxRenderer class, -shaped frame and dialog windows on Windows and GTK+, -more efficient UI update processing, print preview -improvements, wxCrashReport class, OpenWatcom and -Digital Mars compiler support, and more. Improvements -over 2.5.2 include much improved Mac OS X and Windows CE -support, as well as the usual bug fixes and minor enhancements. *** About wxWidgets @@ -58,11 +66,11 @@ and use than MFC and other frameworks. As well as comprehensive support for the usual widgets, advanced features include: HTML viewing/printing, wxImage class providing -handlers for reading and writing many image types, resizeable panels +handlers for reading and writing many image types, resizable panels and dialogs on all platforms, document/view, OpenGL support, HTML-based and context-sensitive help, wizards, drag and drop, a grid class, ODBC support, threads, sockets, container classes, -a styled text control, and much more. A 2,000 page reference manual +a styled text control, and much more. A 2,000-page reference manual is provided in HTML, MS HTML Help, WinHelp, wxWidgets Help and PDF formats, and there are over eighty samples and demos. @@ -70,15 +78,14 @@ If you're an MFC user, you'll find many wxWidgets concepts reassuringly familiar, while often clearer and more consistent. If you're not, you should still find it intuitive from the start. -wxWidgets bindings for several other languages are available, +wxWidgets bindings for many other languages are available, including Python, Perl, Basic, Lua, JavaScript and Eiffel. If you're considering wxWidgets, do check out some of these links: - http://www.wxwidgets.org/feedback.htm ; Comments from users - http://www.wxwidgets.org/screensh.htm ; Screenshots - http://www.wxwidgets.org/users.htm ; A list of some of our - ; users + http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/feedback.htm ; Comments from users + http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm ; Screenshots + http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm ; Some of our users Have fun!