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wxWidgets 3.1.0 Release Notes
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Welcome to the latest development release of wxWidgets, a free and
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open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI
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applications using native controls.
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wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for
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all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting
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the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free
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for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes
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with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive
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documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples.
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You can learn more about wxWidgets at
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http://www.wxwidgets.org/
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and read its documentation online at
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1.0/
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wxWidgets sources and binaries for the selected platforms are
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available for download from
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.1.0/
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or
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.1.0/
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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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Changes in this release
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Platforms supported
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wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
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- Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (32/64 bits).
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- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
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- Mac OS X (10.6 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits) or Carbon (32 only)
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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 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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We also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built with several
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versions of Microsoft Visual C++ and GNU g++ compiler for this
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release. They are available in the "binaries" subdirectory, see
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the description of the files in the README file there.
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Installation
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Unless you have downloaded the binaries for your compiler, you
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will need to build wxWidgets before you can test out the samples
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or write your own applications. For installation information,
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please see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory
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appropriate for 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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docs/xserver.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 and so is bound by its requirements.
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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
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details.
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Documentation
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wxWidgets documentation is available online at
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1.0/ and can also be downloaded in
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HTML 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/newticket
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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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If you are looking for support, you can get it from
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- wxForum at http://forums.wxwidgets.org/
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- wx-users mailing list (http://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/)
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- #wxwidgets IRC channel
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- http://stackoverflow.com/ if you tag your question with "wxwidgets"
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Have fun!
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The wxWidgets Team, November 2013
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