+
+15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile
+system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake
+is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that
+people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The
+new makefile sytem also handles dependencies correctly, allows for
+shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for
+concurrent builds wihtin one source tree, uses libtool for greater
+shared-library platform support, has a functinonal "make uninstall",
+works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards
+as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to
+maintain.
+
+Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2.
+
+Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping
+with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample.
+Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on
+Solaris and such.
+
+Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare
+RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask,
+corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible
+to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't
+make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.)
+
+Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard
+class.
+
+Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out
+of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug).
+
+Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions
+of the wxTextCtrl.
+
+Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal().
+
+Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made
+this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed
+a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for
+added images.
+
+Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame
+menu bars.
+
+Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's
+sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this
+is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors
+in splitter window.
+
+New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items.
+
+Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections
+and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not
+exist in the native Win32 tree control.
+
+Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed
+another cursor misbehaviour.
+
+Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes
+in wxWindows 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of
+cross-platform issues as well as platform differences.
+
+Many other fixes, mainly by others...
+
+Further compile fixes for different architectures.
+
+
+
+25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+
+This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny
+times to make wxGTK work well with different micro
+versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible.
+All versions give warnings, although their number might
+vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get wanrnings in
+one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in
+GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings
+getting spitted out for what seems like no reason.
+
+This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of
+headers, meaning that in the future all ports will
+use the same headers and will share a lot more code.
+We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and
+hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported
+primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin).
+
+Rewritten char and key event propagation routines
+to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK
+as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars
+and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you
+are interested in which key actually got pressed,
+intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer).
+
+Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer
+get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary
+negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes.
+
+wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the
+wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent
+so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders
+or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur.
+
+Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background
+work such as printing.
+
+Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of
+which show some misbehaviours...
+
+When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses
+GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical
+mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some
+rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then
+you should change wxINVERT.
+
+Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation.
+
+More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly
+finished.
+
+You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well,
+at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look
+at the threads sample.
+
+wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists
+over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker.
+(Norber Irmer).
+
+wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches
+wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page
+number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent
+switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also,
+wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty.
+
+Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel).
+
+Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when
+given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser).
+
+Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard,
+wxString, wxThreads and many others.
+
+Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release...
+
+
+
+11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread,
+and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window
+placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now.
+
+Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finshed).
+
+Updated wxPython to beta 9.
+
+Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now...
+
+wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't
+yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows
+(although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly
+due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well).
+
+Added wxStaticLine.
+
+Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard
+handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow.
+
+By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much
+different in the final wxWindows 2.1 release. Please test as
+much as you can.
+
+The next release will have a new build system.
+
+
+
+3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt.
+
+Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in
+both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim.
+
+Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental
+wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS).
+
+New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1.
+This now includes a very comprensive test/demo suite. Thanks to
+Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man...
+
+More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets.
+
+Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental).
+Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux.
+
+wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does,
+indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys
+such as in wxXt and wxMSW.
+
+Rewritten MDI subsystem.
+
+Correcetions and additions to the printing framework including
+a paper type database (Julian).
+
+Several controls now support more style flags for modifying
+look (and feel) of the controls and windows.
+
+New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle
+event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which
+is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly.
+This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having
+to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to
+the application if desired.
+
+wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWindows) now accepts keyboard input.
+
+The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved.
+
+
+
+21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very
+cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then
+you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode".
+
+More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible
+to resize etc.
+
+Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging
+and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite
+good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing.
+I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken
+and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it.
+
+I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been
+added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In
+the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on
+the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will
+ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading
+of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten
+different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the
+PNG code to the newest PNG version.
+
+wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by
+GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics
+heavy apps.
+
+Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed
+to only with GTK 1.2.1 now.
+
+wxPython still doesn't compile, I think.
+
+
+
+12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
+
+
+This is the first developers' version of wxWindows 2.1 for GTK. It's main
+new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which
+will make development within the GNOME evironment a lot easier.
+
+Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were
+required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been
+made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard,
+wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig)
+and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with
+scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab
+traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets).
+
+There have been slight changes to the priting dialogs and their
+setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous
+versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed
+(actually not tested).
+
+Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not
+to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are,
+pf course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate
+to bugs in GTK).
+
+I think I preserved backward compatility with GTK 1.0 and if not it
+should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care.
+
+Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently
+doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to
+work.
+
+Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure
+system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duppah frame layout
+stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME
+gooddies, possibly world domination.
+
+
+
+5th March '99: wxWindows 2.0 released
+
+
+This is the final version of wxWindows 2.0 for GTK. The versions for
+Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's
+site. The Mac version is still under development.
+
+
+
+19th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 5
+
+
+This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
+updates for documentation.
+
+Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers).
+
+
+
+12th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 4
+
+
+This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
+updates for documentation.
+
+Tracked a few more cases, where the bahaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK
+differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as
+for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some
+other minor details.
+
+Most standard dialogs have been face-liftet a little.
+
+Implememted default buttons for GTK.
+
+Fixed many bugs. You guessed it.
+
+
+
+29th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 3
+
+
+This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes.
+
+There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that
+it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in
+GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that
+we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although
+we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWindows 2.0 (being
+based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support.
+
+The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely
+rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works
+better now.
+
+Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added.
+
+There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and
+Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying...
+
+Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the
+classes, at least.
+
+The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless.
+
+A few member functions of wxString have been renamed.
+
+For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which
+now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK
+now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the
+generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times.
+
+It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header
+files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer
+is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled
+with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will not work in
+SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package.
+
+
+
+6th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 2
+
+
+This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and
+bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems,
+commercial Unices and Windows.
+
+
+
+20th December '98: wxWindows 2.0 beta 1
+
+
+This is the first beta release and we have used the time before
+this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from
+now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility
+for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of
+the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent
+conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release
+we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any
+program statically with wxGTK.
+
+We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of
+the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous
+versions of wxWindows for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on.
+
+As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different
+development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll
+wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting
+then.
+
+wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on
+Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't
+as easy as it sounds...
+
+Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWindows.
+Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution.
+Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say.
+
+Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished
+up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and
+all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions
+much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is fucntional but probably won't
+be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features.
+
+wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been
+tested carefully yet.
+
+wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars
+etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to
+include his very nice work later.
+
+wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden).
+
+The entite "tab traveral" system for moving from item to item in
+a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the
+not-so-well-done GTK native tab system.
+
+Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now
+available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related
+to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale
+bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context
+has changed.
+
+Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have
+received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible
+to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc)
+has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also
+greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and
+log system).
+
+We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour)
+which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users
+resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these
+constructors.
+
+As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples
+is steadialy rising the core classes of wxWindows for MSW and GTK 1.0
+can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't
+seen a crash for weeks now and wxWindows' internal debug features also
+have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost
+completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself
+(when in debug mode).
+
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