wxWindows 2.3.0
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*** Please note that this is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT.
*** Unless you need the new features and bug fixes, you may wish to
*** use the official 2.2.x stable series.
Welcome to wxWindows 2, a sophisticated cross-platform C++
framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where
possible) the native controls.
In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as
frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons,
device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there are
wrappers for common file operations, and facilities for writing
TCP/IP applications, thread handling, and more. Where certain
features are not available on a platform, such as MDI and tree
controls on Unix, they are emulated.
A detailed 1400-page reference manual is supplied in HTML, PDF
and Windows Help form: see the docs hierarchy.
For a quick start, point your Web browser at docs/html/index.htm
for a list of important documents and samples.
Changes in this release
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Please see changes.txt for details.
Platforms supported
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wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms:
- Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
- Most Unix variants with GTK+
- MacOS
Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
See also http://www.wxwindows.org/platform.htm.
Files
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The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
Some add-on libraries (such as the Object Graphics Library) are
available in zip form only. In the following, x.y.z represents
the current version number.
wxWindows for GTK distribution
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wxGTK-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK source distribution. You will
need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
(see below)
wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK demos source
wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tgz wxGTK samples source
wxGTK-x.y.z-0.src.rpm wxGTK Linux source as an RPM, without manuals
wxGTK-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux binaries as an RPM, without manuals
wxGTK-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxGTK Linux minimum development system as an RPM
wxWindows for Motif distribution
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wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.
wxWindows for MS Windows distribution
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setup.exe, setup.w* Setup files (Windows 95/98, NT)
in floppy-disk-sized chunks
wxMSW-x.y.z-setup.zip Zip archive containing the
setup files
wxMSW-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all the
files that are in the setup
distribution
wxWindows for MacOS distribution
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wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation)
As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:
- Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
- Object Graphics Library, in contrib/src/ogl;
- a Dialog Editor binary;
- a Tex2RTF binary;
- Life! sample binary;
- the JPEG library source;
- the TIFF library source.
Documentation files
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wxWindows-x.y.z-WinHelp.zip WinHelp documentation
wxWindows-x.y.z-PDF.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
wxWindows-x.y.z-HTML.zip HTML documentation
wxWindows-x.y.z-HTMLHelp.zip Windows HTML Help documentation
wxWindows-x.y.z-HTB.zip wxHTML documentation (for
use with the helpview utility)
wxWindows-x.y.z-Word.zip MS Word documentation (currently,
database class documentation only)
wxWindows-x.y.z-DocSource.zip Documentation source code (not required)
Add-ons
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wxWindows-x.y.z-cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior 4.1 project files
wxWindows-x.y.z-wat.zip Watcom C++ project files
wxWindows-x.y.z-vc.zip Visual C++ project files (in wxMSW distr.)
wxWindows-x.y.z-bc.zip Borland C++ project files (in wxMSW distr.)
jpeg.zip JPEG library (already included
in most distributions)
tiff.zip TIFF library (already included
in most distributions)
ogl3.zip Optional Object Graphics Library
mmedia.zip Optional MMedia library (Motif, GTK, MSW)
stc.zip Optional wxStyledTextCtrl library
(Motif, GTK, MSW)
tex2rtf2.zip Tex2RTF documentation tool
wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM
Installation
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wxWindows 2 needs to be compiled before you can test out
the samples or write your own applications.
For installation information, please see the install.txt file
in the individual directories:
docs/msw
docs/gtk
docs/motif
docs/mac
Licence information
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For licensing information, please see the files:
docs/preamble.txt
docs/licence.txt
docs/licendoc.txt
docs/gpl.txt
docs/lgpl.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWindows in
addition to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary,
the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted
distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you
don't have to distribute any source if you wish to write
commercial applications using wxWindows.
However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version
of your application, don't forget that it is linked against
GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without* exception
notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefuly LGPL, section 6.
which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamicaly and
include source code of LGPL libraries with your product (unless it is
already present in user's system - like glibc usually is).
If compiled with --enable-odbc (Unix only), wxWindows library will
contain iODBC library which is covered by LGPL.
If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
for libtiff license details.
If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program should
contain following sentence: "This software is based in part on the work of
the Independent JPEG Group". See src/jpeg/README for details.
Documentation
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See docs/bugs.txt for a bug list: this file is new and will initially
be edited by hand, later generated from a web-based bug database.
See docs/html/index.htm for an HTML index of the major documents.
See docs/changes.txt for a summary of changes to wxWindows 2.
See docs/tech for an archive of technical notes.
The Windows help files are located in docs/winhelp.
The PDF help files are located in docs/pdf.
Further information
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The wxWindows Web site is located at:
http://www.wxwindows.org
The wxGTK Web site (with further wxGTK-specific files and
information) is located at:
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt
The main wxWindows ftp site is at:
ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin
A wxWindows CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWindows
web site.
Good luck!
The wxWindows Team, 12th May, 2001
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