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wxWidgets 2.9.4 Release Notes
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Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++
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framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
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In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames,
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scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts,
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printing, splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common
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file operations, facilities for writing network applications,
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thread handling, and so on. You can learn more about wxWidgets at
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http://www.wxwidgets.org/
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wxWidgets sources are available for download from
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/
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or
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.4/
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Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various
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files available at these locations.
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A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for various
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topics is supplied in various formats and can be accessed online at
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/
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Note about naming: while 2.9.4 is called a "development" release,
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this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in the
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subsequent 2.9.x releases (although it is still likely that it will),
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unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch. We believe the current version is
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stable and suitable for use in production environment.
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Changes in this release
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-----------------------
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This release contains several years worth of improvements compared
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to 2.8 version. Notably, Unicode support has been completely
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overhauled and made much easier to use. Debugging support, including
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when using a release build of the library, was much improved making
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it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Many new GUI
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and base classes have been added or improved.
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Compared to the previous 2.9.3 release the most important change is
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the addition of new, still experimental, GTK+ 3 support in wxGTK.
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But the main focus of this release is on incremental improvements
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and fixing defects in preparation for 3.0 release. In particular,
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wxOSX/Cocoa port has been significantly improved.
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Please see the file docs/changes.txt for more details and make sure
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to read the section "Incompatible changes since 2.8" if you upgrade
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from a previous wxWidgets release.
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This release introduces many important changes and we are looking
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forward to your feedback about them. In particular please let us
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know about any regressions compared to the previous versions (see
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the section "Bug reporting" below) so that we could fix them before
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3.0 release.
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Platforms supported
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wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
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- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
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- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
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- Mac OS X (10.4 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa
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There is some support for the following platforms:
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- Most Unix variants with X11
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- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
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- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
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- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 3 (still in development)
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- OS/2
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- Windows CE (Pocket PC)
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Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
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file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) and
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http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Supported_Platforms for the most up to
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date status.
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Files
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wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats.
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ZIP and 7z archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the
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files with DOS/Windows line endings while the compressed tar archives
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for Unix systems users (including OS X) and contain the files with
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Unix line endings. Please notice that some Windows tools still don't
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accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling sources with
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DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct
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file for your system.
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In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB
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(wxWidgets help viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer
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for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile
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wxWidgets even when using the installer.
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Installation
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wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
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or write your own applications. For installation information, please
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see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory appropriate for
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the platform you use.
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Licence information
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For licensing information, please see the files:
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docs/preamble.txt
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docs/licence.txt
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docs/licendoc.txt
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docs/gpl.txt
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docs/lgpl.txt
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Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
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proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition
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to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, the licence is
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LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted distribution of
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application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't have to
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distribute any source if you wish to write commercial
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applications using wxWidgets.
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However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
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version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
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against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
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exception notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
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against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section
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6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source
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applications linked against LGPL library. Basically you should
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link dynamically and include source code of LGPL libraries with
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your product (unless it is already present in user's system -
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like glibc usually is).
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If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
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for libtiff licence details.
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If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program
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should contain following sentence: "This software is based in
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part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group". See
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src/jpeg/README for details.
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If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular
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expressions support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT
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file for Henry Spencer's regular expression library copyright.
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If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
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Documentation
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wxWidgets documentation is available online at
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/ and can also be downloaded in HTML
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format. To generate documentation in other formats (PDF, CHM, ...)
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please use the scripts in docs/doxygen directory.
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Bug reporting
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The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
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http://trac.wxwidgets.org/report
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Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find
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any possibly relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please
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notice that often trying to correct the bug yourself is the
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quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do it, you may
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discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing
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it. We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches
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fixing the problems so this ensures that your report will be
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addressed sooner.
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Further information
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The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
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http://www.wxwidgets.org/
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The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/
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A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
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front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
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material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets
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web site.
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Have fun!
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The wxWidgets Team, July 2012
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