X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/e492150d405b3281ea50df8baa023055297b5a90..bae2dc62af49b5a870bbabd9473a92921736a6f0:/docs/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index a0ea14293f..9d1ca3926a 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ -wxWindows 2.3.3 ---------------- +wxWidgets 2.7.0 +--------------------------------------------------------- -*** 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. +Welcome to wxWidgets, a sophisticated cross-platform C++ +framework for writing advanced GUI applications using +native controls where possible. In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, @@ -17,138 +13,79 @@ 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 +A detailed 2000-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. +Releases in the 2.7 series are considered development releases, +and as such, each new release may contain significant new +features or code changes which have not yet received thorough +testing and/or may break ABI or API compatibility with previous +releases. Therefore, we recommend that you keep this in mind if +you are to base your software on a 2.7 release, and thoroughly +test the parts of the wx library your application uses. 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. + + Changes in this release ----------------------- -Please see changes.txt for details. +Please see changes.txt and "Changes since 2.6" in the manual +for details. Platforms supported ------------------- -wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: +wxWidgets 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 +- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, + Pocket PC, Smartphone +- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1 and GTK+ 2 - Most Unix variants with X11 (beta) -- DOS with MGL (beta) +- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif +- MacOS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon (10.3 and above preferred) +- MacOS 10.x using Cocoa (beta) +- OS/2 (beta) +- PalmOS (alpha) 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. +See also http://www.wxwidgets.org/platform.htm. + +Note that 2.6 series were the last to fully support GTK+ 1.2, and Mac OS +9/Mac OS 10.2 and below. wxWidgets 2.7 and above focuses on GTK+ 2 and Mac OS +10.3 and above and compatibility with earlier systems is not guaranteed any +more. 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 -------------------- - -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 +target system. See the download pages for details. 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: +wxWidgets 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/cocoa docs/x11 docs/mgl + docs/os2 + docs/palmos Licence information ------------------- @@ -162,65 +99,75 @@ For licensing information, please see the files: 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 carefully LGPL, section 6. -which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications -linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically 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. +proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets 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 wxWidgets. + +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 carefully LGPL, section +6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source +applications linked against LGPL library. Basically you should +link dynamically 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), wxWidgets 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. +for libtiff licence 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 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. -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. +If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details. 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/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWidgets. See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes. -The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp. +The wxWidgets bug database can be browsed at: + + http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863 + +The Windows HTML Help files are located in docs/htmlhelp. +The Windows Help files are located in docs/winhelp. The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf. +The HTB (wxWidgets HTML Help) files are located in docs/htb. Further information ------------------- -The wxWindows Web site is located at: +The wxWidgets Web site is located at: - http://www.wxwindows.org + http://www.wxwidgets.org -The main wxWindows ftp site is at: +The main wxWidgets ftp site is at: ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub -A wxWindows CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML +A wxWidgets 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 +material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets web site. Have fun! -The wxWindows Team, April 2002 +The wxWidgets Team, September 2005