From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:28:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: moved wxUniv readme to its own directory X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/commitdiff_plain/048bd5039e8a444b097796d37d23df948ce718c9 moved wxUniv readme to its own directory git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@12988 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- diff --git a/docs/univ.txt b/docs/univ.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ada0d1ac24..0000000000 --- a/docs/univ.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,98 +0,0 @@ - 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 ---------------- - - 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 --------------------------------------- - - 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 -------------------------- - -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 ------------------------- - -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 ----------------------------- - - 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: - -* 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. - - diff --git a/docs/univ/readme.txt b/docs/univ/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ada0d1ac24 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/univ/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ + 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 +--------------- + + 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 +-------------------------------------- + + 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 +------------------------- + +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 +------------------------ + +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 +---------------------------- + + 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: + +* 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. + +