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About |
Participants |
Publication |
-Suggestions |
+
Format |
+Style guide |
+Titles |
Contents
+
+
-Discussions have been taking place on the wxwin-developers list about
-collaboratively writing a wxWindows book. The concensus is to write a tutorial
-book for people with reasonable C++ experience, with the possibility of including the API reference either in a very compact
-form at the back of the book, or as a separate volume. The book would almost certainly
-contain a CD-ROM with wxWindows and its documentation. It would probably be available
-for free on-line, publisher permitting.
+August 2000: the 'wxBook' project is getting going again,
+with a good response from potential contributors.
+
+Robin Dunn has set up a wxBook mailing list.
+
+The book will comprise 30 or so chapters dealing with progressively
+more advanced areas of wxWindows; each chapter will be as stand-alone as
+possible. The book will
+not include the API reference, though this could be a
+separate project. The book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM with
+wxWindows and its documentation. It will initially be
+available on-line, and when enough is done we will look for a
+publisher.
+
+There will also be a separate small booklet which can easily be printed
+out and which gives an overview of wxWindows facilities by taking
+the reader through a single worked example. Guillermo Rodriguez
+Garcia has volunteered to write this, and will use his Life!
+demo to illustrate it.
Goals for the book:
@@ -59,19 +76,44 @@ knowledge.
It is suggested that any financial return from the book be allocated on a points system,
with a predefined number of points for chapters, indexing, editing, proof-reading etc.
+
+
So far, the following people are interested in taking part in this project:
-- Bil Simser. Bil would like to coordinate
-the book. He's currently writing a book for WordWare Publishing (about his CDX library)
-and also has contacts at Sams and the Waite Group. Bil is writing
-wxBuilder, an IDE for wxWindows.
+
- Julian Smart -
+editor and coordinator of the project; introductory chapter, some other
+chapters.
+
- Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia - Separate tutorial booklet;
+communication classes (wxSocket, wxXXXServer, some protocol stuff); timing and timers.
+
- Robin Dunn - wxPython chapter.
+
+
- Vadim Zeitlin - drag and drop, several other chapters.
+
- Robert Roebling - not known.
+
- Vaclav Slavik - wxHTML section.
+
- George Tasker - database chapter.
+
- Carlos Moreno - wxImage, wxBitmap.
+
- Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan - wxWindows advocacy, convincing your manager,
+container classes and strings, comparison with STL
+
- Markus Neifer - user-defined events.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Others welcome! Please contact Julian Smart
+if you would like to contribute.
+
+
+
+We wll investigate publishers, especially O'Reilly. We will have to get together
+several sample chapters to convince a publisher that the many-author approach will
+work.
+
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+
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+
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+
+Possible formats:
+
+
+- Word
+
- Abiword: possibly not developed enough yet, but
+it can output Latex which would make conversion to Tex2RTF format quite simple
+
- Latex: favoured format so far. The LyX near-WYSIWYG word processor (Unix only) can output Latex.
+See also NTTex
+which uses EMACS as an editor. For an introduction to Latex, see here.
+A free TeX for Windows: see MikTex. More TeX info: TUG.
+
- XML: hard to read/write
+
- SGML: ditto
+
- DocBook: don't have any information about this, but Linux Admin Made Easy
+uses it.
+
- Structured text -
+plain text with indentation and other elements to provide structure. The tools seem under-developed and there
+doesn't seem to be a simple way of getting them without using the CVS Zope archive.
+
- troff - favoured by O'Reilly
+
+
+
+
-
+
-This depends partly on the publisher, but one possibility is to target Word but have
-submissions in a number of formats including Latex. We should eventually write a style
-and formatting guide.
+We should write a style and formatting guide.
+
+
+
+
+
+It would be good to include certain buzzwords such as Linux and open source, to get
+a publisher's (and the potential reader's) attention. The trick is to do that and
+not narrow the scope unduly.
+
+Suggestions for the main book:
+
+
+- Multiplatform GUI development with wxWindows
+
- wxWindows: an open source multiplatform toolkit
+
- wxWindows: GUI development for Linux and other platforms
+
+
+
+Other book titles that a publisher might be interested (but would be distinct projects):
+
+
+- Writing GTK+ Application Using wxWindows
+
- Migrating MFC Apps to Linux Using wxWindows
+
+
+
+
+
-This is open to suggestion.
+The following is open to discussion.
-Last year, Mike Lorenz of VisionX
-suggested this
-tutorial outline, which could
-be a good starting point.
+
+- Chapter 01: Introduction to wxWindows: history, advocacy, future developments
+
- Chapter 02: Installing wxWindows (and what tools to use)
+
- Chapter 03: C++ and wxWindows. Summarises the sorts of constructs used/not used, plus wxString class,
+some conventions. Vadim suggests putting it in 1st chapter but I think it deserves a chapter of its own.
+
- Chapter 04: Getting started: Hello World. Introduces app class, frames, menus, status bar, message box
+
- Chapter 05: Basic event handling
+
- Chapter 06: Frames and menubars. The components of a frame, menubars.
+
- Chapter 07: Toolbars and status bars
+
- Chapter 08: Basic controls
+
- Chapter 09: Common dialogs
+
- Chapter 10: Custom dialogs and resources (XML + WXR)
+
- Chapter 11: Drawing on device contexts
+
- Chapter 12: Handling input (mouse, keyboard, joystick)
+
- Chapter 14: Sizers
+
- Chapter 15: Images and bitmaps
+
- Chapter 16: Clipboard and drag and drop
+
- Chapter 17: Advanced controls (list,tree,notebook,splitter,wxWizard,wxCalCtrl...)
+
- Chapter 18: Document/view classes
+
- Chapter 19: Scrolling
+
- Chapter 20: MDI
+
- Chapter 21: Printing
+
- Chapter 22: Providing help in your applications
+
- Chapter 23: Strings and internationalization
+
- Chapter 24: Collection and container classes
+
- Chapter 25: Memory management and debugging (including wxLog)
+
- Chapter 26: Run-time class information
+
- Chapter 27: Advanced event handling (user-defined events, ...)
+
- Chapter 28: Communication classes, including wxSocket
+
- Chapter 29: Database classes
+
- Chapter 30: File and stream classes
+
- Chapter 31: Configuration classes
+
- Chapter 32: Time, timers and idle processing
+
- Chapter 33: Writing multithreading applications
+
- Chapter 34: Perfecting your UI (Adapting to system settings, accelerators, ...)
+
- Chapter 35: Platform-specific programming (metafiles, OLE automation, taskbar, ...)
+
- Chapter 36: Using wxHTML
+
- Chapter 37: Using wxPython
+
- Chapter 38: wxBase?
+
- Appendix: Comparison with other toolkits: MFC, Qt etc.
+