From: Mart Raudsepp Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 05:53:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Sync wxGTK docs from WX_2_6_BRANCH to HEAD X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/commitdiff_plain/8de699dcfaecc9ec9dfb9e9348612e9ab9af5059 Sync wxGTK docs from WX_2_6_BRANCH to HEAD git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@38532 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- diff --git a/docs/gtk/install.txt b/docs/gtk/install.txt index 7f0b1c8342..8fe7903d79 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/install.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/install.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE: When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One - example: wxGTK 2.6.2, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2 + example: wxGTK 2.6.3, gcc 3.4.5, Fedora Core 4 * The simplest case ------------------- @@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo --------------- wxWidgets/GTK+ requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has -to be a stable version, preferably version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required, -1.2.7 is strongly recommended). +to be a stable version, preferably GTK+ 2.x.y, where x is an even number. +GTK+ version 1.2 is highly discouraged, but if you decide to still use it, +please use version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required, 1.2.7 is strongly recommended). You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK+ homepage at: diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt index 43ddd06918..8d964b59a3 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ wxWidgets GUI library. wxWidgets no longer supports GTK 1.0.x (as did some early snapshots) and support for GTK 1.2.x will be phased out over time. Nearly all work is now done on GTK 2.0.x and -quite a few of the enhancements of GTK+ 2.2.x and even -GTK 2.4.x are used. +quite a few of the enhancements of GTK+ 2.4.x and even +GTK 2.8.x are used. More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the diff --git a/docs/gtk/todo.txt b/docs/gtk/todo.txt index 2e22f00976..9bc83bdf50 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/todo.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/todo.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This document it always out of date. Please +This document is always out of date. Please see the bug list on SourceForge or one of the mailing lists. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/wxgtk.tex b/docs/latex/wx/wxgtk.tex index 9a53594b2f..f109aa079a 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/wxgtk.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/wxgtk.tex @@ -1,22 +1,32 @@ \section{wxGTK port}\label{wxgtkport} -wxGTK is a port of wxWidgets using the GTK+ library available -from www.gtk.org. It makes use of GTK+'s native widgets wherever -possible and uses wxWidgets' generic controls when needed. GTK+ -itself has been ported to a number of systems, but so far only the -original X11 version is supported. Support for the recently released -GTK+ 2.0 including Unicode support is work in progress. +wxGTK is a port of wxWidgets using the GTK+ library. +It makes use of GTK+'s native widgets wherever possible and uses +wxWidgets' generic controls when needed. GTK+ itself has been +ported to a number of systems, but so far only the original X11 +version is supported. Support for other GTK+ backends is planned, +such as the new DirectFB backend. -You will need GTK+ 1.2.3 or higher which is available from: +All work is being done on GTK+ version 2.0 and above. Support for +GTK+ 1.2 will be deprecated in a later release. + +You will need GTK+ 2.0 or higher which is available from: \urlref{http://www.gtk.org}{http://www.gtk.org} +The newer version of GTK+ you use, the more native widgets and +features will be utilized. We have gone to a great extent to +allow compiling wxWidgets applications with a latest version of +GTK+, with the resulting binary working on systems even with a +much lower version of GTK+. You will have to ensure that the +application is launched with lazy symbol binding for that. + In order to configure wxWidgets to compile wxGTK you will -need to type: +need use the {\tt --with-gtk} argument to the {\tt configure} script. +This is the default for many systems. -\begin{verbatim} - configure --with-gtk -\end{verbatim} +GTK+ 1.2 can still be used, albeit discouraged. For that you can +pass {\tt --with-gtk=1} to the {\tt configure} script. For further information, please see the files in docs/gtk in the distribution.