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+Microsoft Windows XP Support in wxWindows 2.3.2
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+Windows XP introduces the themes (called "visual styles" in the Microsoft
+documentation) in Windows world. As wxWindows uses the standard Windows
+controls for most of its classes, it can take advantage of it without
+(almost) any effort from your part. The only thing you need to do if you
+want your program to honour the visual style setting of Windows XP is to
+add the manifest file to your program (this is not at all specific to
+wxWindows programs but is required for all Windows applications).
+
+
+For your convinience, below is an example manifest. It should be put in a
+file called "yourapp.exe.manifest" and put in the same directory where
+"yourapp.exe" resides. Alternatively, you can include the manifest in your
+applications resource section. Please see the MSDN documentation at
+
+http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp
+
+for more details.
+
+
+Here is the example manifest which you can put into controls.exe.manifest
+file to test theme support using the controls sample:
+
+--- cut here ---
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
+<assemblyIdentity
+ version="0.64.1.0"
+ processorArchitecture="x86"
+ name="Controls"
+ type="win32"
+/>
+<description>Controls: wxWindows sample application</description>
+<dependency>
+ <dependentAssembly>
+ <assemblyIdentity
+ type="win32"
+ name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
+ version="6.0.0.0"
+ processorArchitecture="X86"
+ publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
+ language="*"
+ />
+ </dependentAssembly>
+</dependency>
+</assembly>
+--- cut here ---
+
+
+There are a few minor problems with theme support in wxWindows currently
+which will be fixed in the next releases:
+
+- the buttons with non-default colours are owner-drawn and thus don't
+ follow the visual style look but always have the default 3D look of
+ the previous Windows versions - don't change the buttons colours if
+ you want them to look nicely under Windows XP
+
+- wxCheckListBox control doesn't have the same appearance as the native
+ checkboxes in Windows XP
+
wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms:
-- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
+- 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