X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bcfd974ef26faf6f91a62cac09827e09463fd1..9e7ed2b008e4c179b4b46449877f2e492cc0ab9f:/docs/readme.txt?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index 0b0acafcc5..b9544a6f2d 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,22 +1,27 @@ -wxWindows 2.2.0 +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. +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 1400-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF and -Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy. +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. +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 ----------------------- @@ -28,15 +33,16 @@ Platforms supported wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: -- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT +- 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+ -- Mac (not covered here: please see the wxWindows web site - for details) +- 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.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html. +See also http://www.wxwindows.org/platform.htm. Files ----- @@ -62,8 +68,13 @@ wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an wxWindows for Motif distribution -------------------------------- -wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains - TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML +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 @@ -77,6 +88,12 @@ 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); @@ -129,6 +146,9 @@ in the individual directories: docs/msw docs/gtk docs/motif + docs/mac + docs/x11 + docs/mgl Licence information ------------------- @@ -168,12 +188,13 @@ 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/bugs.txt for a bug list: this file is new and will initially - be edited by hand, later generated from a web-based bug database. - 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. @@ -190,21 +211,16 @@ The wxWindows Web site is located at: http://www.wxwindows.org -The wxGTK Web site (with further wxGTK-specific files and -information) is located at: - - http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt - 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) or contact Julian Smart . +material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWindows +web site. -Good luck! +Have fun! -The wxWindows Team, 9th July, 2000 +The wxWindows Team, 10th June, 2001