- wxUniversal README
- ==================
-
- Welcome to wxUniversal!
-
- Acknowledgements: wxUniversal wouldn't have been written without the
-generuous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Benett and
-Tom Ryan!
-
-0. Introduction
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-
- wxUniversal is a port of wxWindows which implements the various GUI controls
-by drawing them itself (using low level wxWindows classes). Please see
-
- http://www.wxwindows.org/wxuniv.htm
-
-for more details about it.
-
- The advantage of wxUniversal is that you have precise control over the
-controls appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the
-native controls) and the theme support: the same program may be changed to
-look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but
-just changing the theme.
-
- Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWindows for other
-platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special
-interest to the people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform.
-
- However, wxUniversal doesn't have the 100% native look and feel unlike the
-other wxWindows ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility.
-
-1. Requirments and supported platforms
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-
- wxUniversal is used together with another wxWindows port which provides the
-"low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built either with
-wxMSW or wxGTK. In any case, you should download the sources for the
-appropriate toolkit in addition to wxUniversal - in fact, you should download
-them first and then unpack wxUniversal in the same directory.
-
- The requirments for wxUniversal are the same as for the underlying low level
-toolkit.
-
-2. Installing under Win32
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-
-a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
-
- Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in MSDEV and build it.
-
-b) Cygwin
-
- Please refer to the Unix section below
-
-c) Other compilers
-
- Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet.
-Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the
-compiler you use.
-
-3. Installing under Unix
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-
-Please refer to the installation instructions for wxGTK. The only change for
-wxUniversal is that you must add "--enable-univ" switch to the configure
-command line.
-
-4. Documentation and support
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-
- Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWindows ports
-and is currently officially in alpha stage. In particular, it is not really
-intended for the end users but rather for developers at the current stage and
-this is why we don't provide any binaries for it.
-
- There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWindows
-documentation instead.
-
- Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWindows
-itself, namely:
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-* Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
-
-* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information
-
-* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
-
-
- Hope you will find wxUniversal useful!
-
- Vadim Zeitlin
-
-
-This file is accurate for the version 2.3.2 of wxUniversal. It was last
-modified on Dec 11, 2001.
-
-