+
+
+
+July 28th, 2000
+
+
+- Vaclav Slavik has recently written an
+article about wxWindows for a Czech ezine.
+
- Hurray! There is a lot of traffic on the wxStudio mailing list, and
+Gerd Mueller has offered to make the WipeOut IDE
+open source and merge it with wxStudio.
+
+
+
+
+
+- wxWindows 2.2.0 is the result of many
+fixes and enhancements to 2.1, and is an official stable release.
+
+
+
+
+
+- wxWindows 2.1.16 contains fixes
+for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif. It is hoped that this is the last release before the stable 2.2 version.
+
+
+
+
+
+- wxWindows 2.1.15 contains a few fixes
+for wxGTK and wxMSW. wxMSW and wxMotif users who already have 2.1.14 do not need to rush to
+download this version! The fixes in the patch file (see main download page) contain the
+major differences between 2.1.14 and 2.1.15.
+
+
+
+
+
+- wxWindows 2.1.14 is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
+Again, great strides have been made since the previous official version (2.1.11), and 2.2 will be the next official
+stable version. Many things have been fixed and added but here are some highlights.
+
- Robin Dunn is contributing a wxStyledTextCtrl, a wrapper around the Scintilla
+styled text edit control. It can be used to provide syntax highlighting for various languages, and other applications.
+A snapshot of this work in progress, stc.zip, is provided on the ftp site alongside the latest wxWindows release.
+
- Guilhem Lavaux has reworked his MMedia sound and video class library and started its documentation;
+it too is available alongside the latest release as mmedia.zip.
+
+
+January 14th, 2000
+
+
+- Mumit Khan of Mingw32 fame has been testing wxWindows against Mingw32,
+to eliminate some bugs in both products and get wxWindows compilation as a DLL working
+for Mingw32.
+
- Vadim has added his wxDateTime and wxCalendarCtrl classes and samples to the CVS archive.
+
- TIFF support has been added, and wxImage speeded up.
+
- Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia has added a new Game of Life demo.
+
- The DDE sample now works in socket mode, at last.
+
- Vadim has got clipboard copy and paste working for metafiles, by adding an enhanced
+metafile class.
+
- The wxWindows web site is now hosted on SourceGear's server, with a bug tracker and
+other facilities to follow shortly.
+
+
+
+
+
+wxWindows 2.1.11 is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
+The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
+on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:
+
+
+- Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
+
- Further samples.
+
- Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
+ maintenance.
+
- Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
+
- Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
+ wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
+ and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
+
- New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
+ wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
+
- wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
+
- wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
+
- New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
+
- Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
+ in wxMotif.
+
- wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
+ for some generic dialogs.
+
- New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
+ class can still be used.
+
- Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
+
- wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
+
- Documentation improvements.
+
- Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
+ system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
+
- Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
+
+
+August 6th, 1999
+
+Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
+made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
+for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
+
+Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
+was release are:
+
+
+- A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
+holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
+
- Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
+specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
+
- The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
+features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
+
- Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
+having undergone a complete rewrite.
+
- The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
+
- The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
+API and features.
+
+
+
+
+July 31st, 1999
+
+We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
+which will implement wxWindows 2 API for BeOS.
+Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
+
+If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
+developers mailing list!
+
+
May 27th, 1999
+
+
+- Beta 1 of wxWindows 2 for Mac has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
+
- Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
+MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
+development easier.
+
- Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
+
+
+March 1st, 1999
+
+wxWindows 2 launch day!
+
+
+- wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
+the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
+Download wxWindows 2.
+
+
+November 26th 1998
+
+
+- wxWindows 1.68E contains minor bug fixes and now compiles with MS VC++ 6.0, and
+(hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
+
- The latest wxWindows 2.0 alpha shows good progress
+on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
+major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
+Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
+something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
+
- There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
+is available here.
+
- Work is finally underway on a wxWindows IDE!
+
- Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
+are pretty impressive so far. Here's a screenshot;
+source code is here and a WIN32 executable
+is here. The source also includes
+work on persistent storage classes.
+
+
+September 13th 1998
+
+
+
+August 23rd 1998
+
+
+- wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
+and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
+
- We are looking for sponsorship of wxMotif 2.0.
+
+
+April 28th 1998
+
+
+- wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
+and Mingw32.
+
- wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
+plus a few small bug fixes.
+
+
+March 22nd 1998
+
+
+- The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the mailing list page
+for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
+
+
+January 5th 1998
+
+
+- Happy New Year!
+
- wxWindows 1.68B is available.
+
- wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - wxGTK,
+by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
+environment project).
+
- The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
+has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
+and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
+
- There is a new wxWindows Developers Site in preparation, for people developing ports of
+wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
+
- 40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
+
- Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
+
+
+August 13th 1997
+
+
+- Added Getting Started page for new users.
+
- There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
+iX, a German computer magazine.
+
+
+July 24th 1997
+
+
+
+July 22nd 1997
+
+
+- wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
+
- Check out Forty Thieves, a great card game
+by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
+
+
+July 16th 1997
+
+
+- Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
+please see the Mirrors page.
+
- Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
+NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
+
- The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
+documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
+will be including with the distribution from now on.
+
+
+July 7th 1997
+
+
+- For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see What's coming next?
+- developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
+date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
+
- Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
+fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
+of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
+
+
+May 18th 1997
+
+
+
+
+
+
May 8th 1997
+
+
+- Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
+their WebReuser tool - a link to their pages has been
+added to the Applications page.
+
- Another interesting link in the Applications page is
+WipeOut, a C++ integrated development
+environment for Linux.
+
- Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
+ports/msvc50
+directory.
+
+
+
+
+
April 20th 1997
+
+
+- wxWindows is listed in the Scientific Applications on Linux index,
+here.
+
- There is a new page for issues with the current release which I would
+encourage you to read.
+
- The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
+(and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
+
- The Contrib page has some new entries.
+
- wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
+
- Greg Whitehead is taking a look at what's involved for a Mac port of 2.0, possibly using MetroWerks' PowerPlant
+classes to speed up development.
+
+
+
+
March 13th 1997
+
+
+- Check out C-LAB's Lean Integration Platform written in wxWindows/wxLisp: it's
+a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
+
- I've written some tips to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
+
- wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
+New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
+port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But financial help to keep
+the momentum going is needed!
+
+
+
+
+
February 25th 1997
+
+
+- Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
+Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
+
- Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
+and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
+and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
+
+
+
+
+
January 29th 1997
+
+
+- wxWindows 1.66F has been semi-released
+for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
+
- ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
+enhanced Mac port (building on 1.61).
+
- Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
+to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The What's coming next?
+page will shortly contain more details.
+
- The mailing lists are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
+list addresses.
+
+
+
+
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