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1999-11-10 08:26:55 -05:00
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<H3><a name="release2_1_11">November 9th, 1999</a></H3><P>
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<a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>wxWindows 2.1.11</a> is now available for Windows, Motif and GTK.
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The final 2.2 public release will have further bug fixes, but 2.1.11 is pretty stable - a big improvement
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on 2.0.1 and better than previous snapshots. Here are a few of the features that make it well worth the upgrade:<P>
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<ul>
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<li> Numerous bug fixes and consistency improvements.
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<li> Further samples.
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<li> Factoring out of some code into base classes, for easier
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maintenance.
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<li> Ability to compile library in console (non-GUI) mode.
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<li> Integration of wxHTML widget and help controller into
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wxWindows. wxHTML allows HTML viewing and printing (wxGTK
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and wxMSW, partial support in wxMotif).
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<li> New classes wxChrono, wxDialUpManager, wxFontEnumerator,
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wxWizard, wxStaticLine, etc.
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<li> wxShowTip for showing 'startup tips' to the user.
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<li> wxSocket and wxThread classes rewritten.
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<li> New, consistent drag and drop API (not wxMotif).
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<li> Better-looking dialogs in wxGTK; native message box used
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in wxMotif.
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<li> wxSizers reimplemented and used to specify window layout
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for some generic dialogs.
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<li> New, more sophisticated wxGrid class (in beta). The old grid
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class can still be used.
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<li> Text alignment options in wxStaticText.
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<li> wxImage class extended to read PCX and GIF files.
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<li> Documentation improvements.
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<li> Revised configure system for wxGTK and wxMotif; tmake-based
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system for generating wxMSW makefiles.
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<li> Installer for Windows as alternative to zip archives.
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1999-08-06 06:10:10 -04:00
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<H3>August 6th, 1999</H3><P>
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Today, a snapshot release of the MSW and the GTK ports has been
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made. The two snapshots are synchronized and have been tested
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for several weeks and should thus be considered to be quite stable.
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Among the many new features that have appeared since version 2.0
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was release are:
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<li> A great number of incompatiblities between the GTK and the MSW port have been removed. This
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holds escecially true for the way, time and order, controls send notifications to the user program.
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<li> Practically all widgets have been updated, removing bugs or adding missing features to
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specific ports (mostly the GTK port).
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<li> The GTK port now supports GTK version 1.2 as well as 1.0, giving access to the many new
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features, such as e.g. menu accelerators.
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<li> Many of the non-GUI classes have been reworked and new ones added, the stream classes
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having undergone a complete rewrite.
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<li> The addition of code to handle Unicode has begun and is in an advanced state.
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<li> The Python bindings (wxPython) have been largely improved and upadted to the newest
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API and features.
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1999-07-31 09:58:34 -04:00
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<H3>July 31st, 1999</H3><P>
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1999-08-06 06:10:10 -04:00
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We are glad to announce the start of the work on the new wxWindows port - wxBeOS
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which will implement wxWindows 2 API for <A HREF="http://www.be.com">BeOS</A>.
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Thanks to Be for donating licenses to wxWindows project to make it possible.
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If you're interested in helping with this new port, please write to wxWindows
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developers mailing list!
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1999-07-31 05:20:44 -04:00
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<H3>May 27th, 1999</H3><P>
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<li>Beta 1 of <a href="dl_mac2.htm">wxWindows 2 for Mac</a> has been released, thanks to Stefan Csomor's amazing efforts.
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<li>Work continues on the development branch of wxWindows 2 for MSW, GTK and Motif. Vadim has been reworking the
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MSW implementation to solve some internal design problems, as well as factoring out base classes to make
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development easier.
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<li>Work on consistent drag and drop support in GTK and MSW continues.
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<H3>March 1st, 1999</H3><P>
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wxWindows 2 launch day!<P>
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<li>wxWindows 2 officially launched, after more than two years' development of
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the API and ports to Windows, GTK and Motif (Mac to follow).
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<a href="download.htm">Download</a> wxWindows 2.
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<H3>November 26th 1998</H3><P>
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<li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.68E">wxWindows 1.68E</a> contains minor bug fixes and now compiles with MS VC++ 6.0, and
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(hopefully) BC++ 5.0, as well as Cygwin b20.
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<li>The latest <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/2.0.1">wxWindows 2.0 alpha</a> shows good progress
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on the Motif port, with a tabbed MDI implementation, a nice wxToolBar class and most
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major classes working. wxWindows 2.0 for Windows now works with VC++ 6.0, BC++ 5.0 and
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Cygwin b20. There's a problem linking with Mingw32, I don't know why this is, perhaps
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something to do with differences in the way pragmas are handled.
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<li>There is also good progress with Stefan Csomor's wxMac 2.0: watch this space. A preview
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is available <a href="http://www.advanced.ch/wxwin/wxmac_d1.zip">here</a>.
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<li>Work is finally underway on a <a href="wxide.htm">wxWindows IDE</a>!
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<li>Aleksandras Gluchovas is working on a docking window implementation and the results
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are pretty impressive so far. Here's a <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_screenshot.gif">screenshot</a>;
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source code is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_src_0_1.zip">here</a> and a WIN32 executable
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is <a href="http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~alex/fl_demo_exe_0_1.zip">here</a>. The source also includes
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work on persistent storage classes.
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<H3>September 13th 1998</H3><P>
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<li>The main ftp site is now <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin">www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin</a>,
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since the AIAI site is no longer available for uploads.
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</ul>
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<H3>August 23rd 1998</H3><P>
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<li>wxGTK and wxMSW 2.0 progress continues apace. The API is being unified quite successfully,
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and most of the samples now compile under both ports.
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<li>We are looking for <a href="sponsor.htm">sponsorship</a> of wxMotif 2.0.
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</ul>
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<H3>April 28th 1998</H3><P>
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<li>wxWindows 1.68C has been released. This mainly provides compatibility with Gnu-Win32 b19
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and Mingw32.
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<li>wxWindows 2.0 beta 9 has been released. Again, this provides Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 compatibility
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plus a few small bug fixes.
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</ul>
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<H3>March 22nd 1998</H3><P>
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<li>The mailing list addresses have changed: please see the <a href="maillist2.htm">mailing list page</a>
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for details. You may need to re-subscribe if you subscribed since February 1998.
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</ul>
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<H3>January 5th 1998</H3><P>
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<li>Happy New Year!
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<li>wxWindows 1.68B is available.
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<li>wxWindows 2.0 has another port in progress - <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>wxGTK</a>,
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by Robert Roebling (see also the information on the same page about Robert's FADE desktop
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environment project).
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<li>The Windows and Xt/Motif ports to 2.0 are progressing well. A large proportion of the documentation
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has been done. One of the main things to resolve is how transformations (such as scaling
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and translation) will be done in 2.0, but we're heading towards agreement.
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<li>There is a new <a href="http://wxwin.projects.ml.org" target=_top>wxWindows Developers Site</a> in preparation, for people developing ports of
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wxWindows. There are newsgroups and a wxwin-developers mailing list.
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<li>40 wxWindows CD-ROMs have been sold, mostly outside the U.K.
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<li>Antonia Charlotte Smart was born on November 1st 1997. Naturally, she's as cute as her parents.
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<H3>August 13th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>Added <a href="getstart.htm">Getting Started</a> page for new users.
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<li>There's a good review of wxWindows by Oliver Niedung and Stefan Gunther in
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<I>iX</I>, a German computer magazine.
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<H3>July 24th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>wxWindows 1.67 <a href="download.htm" target=wxmain>released</a>.
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<H3>July 22nd 1997</H3><P>
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<li>wxWindows 1.67 is nearly there...
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<li>Check out <a href="apps/forty/forty.htm">Forty Thieves</a>, a great card game
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by Chris Breeze of Hitachi Europe Limited.
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<H3>July 16th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>Jobst Schmalenbach has set up Australian mirrors of the wxWindows ftp and Web sites:
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please see the <a href="mirrors.htm">Mirrors</a> page.
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<li>Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas is starting to look afresh at a port of wxWindows 2.0 to
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NeXTStep. This is more relevant now that the NeXT OS will be essential to the Apple Mac's future.
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<li>The next release of wxWindows for Motif/XView/Windows should be within the next two weeks or so. I have abandoned
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documentation in wxHelp form in favour of the much better quality HTML format, which I
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will be including with the distribution from now on.
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<H3>July 7th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>For news on wxWindows 2.0 development, please see <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
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- developments include DLL and experimental Netscape Plugin support. The estimate for a release
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date has been put back to October 1997 - to be out of the way before Smart Jr. arrives in November...
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<li>Negotiations with a U.S. company about development of wxWindows into a commercial product
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fell through, since it was not possible to agree about the continuation of a version
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of wxWindows that maintains the free, collaborative spirit that currently exists.
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<H3>May 18th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>wxWindows 2.0 development (mostly for the Windows platform) is on track thanks to funding for wxWin-related consultancy
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- thank you to those concerned! This work is still on the free version of 2.0, although an additional
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commercial version may be developed sometime in the future. Markus Holzem continues to generously donate
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his spare time for Motif/Xt developments, and Greg Whitehead is looking into the Mac version of 2.0.
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<li>Guilhem Lavaux has contributed a first version of
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<a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxsocket">wxSocket</a>, a set of classes for
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network programming based on work by Andrew Davison. Currently this works on Motif/Xt and is coded but not yet tested
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for Windows. The wxIPC classes on the UNIX side have been rewritten to take advantage of the new
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classes. wxSocket is a great contribution that will be a part of wxWindows 2.0. Meanwhile, do check
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it out and help Guilhem debug and develop it further.
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<li>Other noteworthy contributions in recent weeks include a patch for using bitmap
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<a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/unixmask">masks</a> on X for transparency
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effects - another Lavaux effort! - plus <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxthread">thread</a> classes
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by Wolfram Gloger, updates to <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/xt">wxXt</a> by Markus Holzem,
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a start at <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxole">OLE control</a> support by Norbert Grotz,
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an improved <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/winstmod">Winstall</a> by Stefan Hammes,
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and <A HREF="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/contrib/wxpref">wxPreferences</a> by Bart Jourquin
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to simulate .ini files on UNIX.<P>
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Check out the <A href="contrib2.htm">Contributions</a> page for more.
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<H3>May 8th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>Hitachi Europe Limited have used wxWindows both to implement and to illustrate
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their WebReuser tool - a link to <a href="http://www.stablesoft.com">their pages</a> has been
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added to the <a href="apps.htm">Applications</a> page.
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<li>Another interesting link in the Applications page is
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<a href="http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html">WipeOut</a>, a C++ integrated development
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environment for Linux.
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<li>Fixes to make wxWindows 1.66F work with VC++ 5.0 are in the
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<A href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/msvc50">ports/msvc50</a>
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directory.
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<H3>April 20th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>wxWindows is listed in the <a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/">Scientific Applications on Linux</a> index</a>,
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<a href="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/F/5/WXWINDOWS.html">here</a>.
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<li>There is a new page for <a href="issues.htm">issues with the current release</a> which I would
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encourage you to read.
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<li>The wxWindows Web pages can be switched to non-frames mode, for those who find frames irritating
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(and who use browsers that don't implement Back properly :-)).
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<li>The <A href="contrib.htm">Contrib</a> page has some new entries.
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<li>wxWindows 2.0 progress is steady.
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<li><a href="mailto:grw@market.net">Greg Whitehead</a> is taking a look at what's involved for a Mac port of 2.0, possibly using MetroWerks' PowerPlant
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classes to speed up development.
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<H3>March 13th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>Check out C-LAB's <a href="http://www.c-lab.de/~lipuser/lip" TARGET=_top>Lean Integration Platform</a> written in wxWindows/wxLisp: it's
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a multi-platform workflow tool. Nice Web pages!
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<li>I've written some <a href="prepare.htm">tips</a> to help you code for easy porting to wxWindows 2.0.
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<li>wxWin 2.0 progress: I've eliminated the need for the dreaded CTL3D library for Windows 95 applications.
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New MDI classes are working, plus wxStatusBar, wxScrolledWindow. Markus is starting work on the Motif
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port, with wxXt 2.0 as a second priority. But <a href="sponsors.htm">financial help</a> to keep
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the momentum going is needed!
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<H3>February 25th 1997</H3><P>
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<li>Yura Bidus (yari_b@automedi.com) has successfully adapted wxWindows 1.66B to compile as a DLL under
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Borland C++. He will be patching 1.66F and investigating using VC++ for building the DLL.
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<li>Early experiments indicate that application files using wxWindows 2.0
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and GNU-WIN32 will be at least twice as fast to compile as 1.66, due to elimination of base classes
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and restructuring to avoid including windows.h.
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<H3>January 29th 1997</H3><P>
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<li><a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/1.66F_internal">wxWindows 1.66F</a> has been semi-released
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for people to test before the official release. It works with GNU-WIN32, and contains miscellaneous bug fixes.
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<li>ITA, Inc. have sent a debugged and
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enhanced <a href="ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin/ports/mac/ita">Mac port</a> (building on 1.61).
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<li>Markus Holzem and Julian Smart are designing wxWindows 2.0, which should make wxWindows into a force
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to be reckoned with against other free and commercial libraries. The <a href="coming.htm">What's coming next?</a>
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page will shortly contain more details.
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<li>The <a href="maillist.htm">mailing lists</a> are up and running again, with new subscription and discussion
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list addresses.
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