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wxUniversal README ================== Welcome to wxUniversal! Acknowledgements: wxUniversal wouldn't have been written without the generuous support of SciTech Software. Many thanks to Kendall Benett and Tom Ryan! 0. Introduction --------------- wxUniversal is a port of wxWindows which implements the various GUI controls by drawing them itself (using low level wxWindows classes). Please see http://www.wxwindows.org/wxuniv.htm for more details about it. The advantage of wxUniversal is that you have precise control over the controls appearance (it is not always possible to change all aspects of the native controls) and the theme support: the same program may be changed to look completely differently without changing a single line of its code but just changing the theme. Another advantage is that it makes writing ports of wxWindows for other platforms (such as OS/2, BeOS or QNX) much simpler, so it is of special interest to the people interested in porting wxWindows to another platform. However, wxUniversal doesn't have the 100% native look and feel unlike the other wxWindows ports - this is the price to pay for the extra flexibility. 1. Requirments and supported platforms -------------------------------------- wxUniversal is used together with another wxWindows port which provides the "low level classes" mentioned above. Currently it can be built either with wxMSW or wxGTK. In any case, you should download the sources for the appropriate toolkit in addition to wxUniversal - in fact, you should download them first and then unpack wxUniversal in the same directory. The requirments for wxUniversal are the same as for the underlying low level toolkit. 2. Installing under Win32 ------------------------- a) Using Visual C++ 6.0 Simply open the src/wxUniv.dsw file in MSDEV and build it. b) Cygwin Please refer to the Unix section below c) Other compilers Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet. Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the compiler you use. 3. Installing under Unix ------------------------ Please refer to the installation instructions for wxGTK. The only change for wxUniversal is that you must add "--enable-univ" switch to the configure command line. 4. Documentation and support ---------------------------- Please note that wxUniversal is not as mature as the other wxWindows ports and is currently officially in alpha stage. In particular, it is not really intended for the end users but rather for developers at the current stage and this is why we don't provide any binaries for it. There is no separate documentation for wxUniversal, please refer to wxWindows documentation instead. Support for wxUniversal is available from the same places as for wxWindows itself, namely: * Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows * Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information * WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/ Hope you will find wxUniversal useful! Vadim Zeitlin This file is accurate for the version 2.3.2 of wxUniversal. It was last modified on Dec 11, 2001.