wxWindows 2.1.15 ---------------- 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 1100-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 ----------------------- Please see changes.txt for details. Note that there is a new contrib hierarchy for contributions, which mirrors the regular wxWindows hierarchy. The Object Graphics Library and MMedia library have been moved under contrib, so you may need to change your makefiles or project files, together with your source files. E.g. change #include "ogl.h" to #include . Also VC++ project files and makefiles have been made more consistent, so some paths and library names have changed. Platforms supported ------------------- wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms: - Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT - Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif - Most Unix variants with GTK+ - Mac (not covered here: please see the wxWindows web site for details) Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details. Files ----- The distribution is available in a number of formats. The most convenient is the platform-specific distribution, but the zip set forms a more complete distribution, for example if you wish to take part in wxWindows development. Also, add-ons such as OGL may only be available in zip form. Zip set ------- Depending on what you downloaded, you may have one or more of these ports. You may unarchive any or all of the ports into the same directory hierarchy. The zip archive set comprises the following, where x is the minor version and y the release number: wx2_x_y_gen.zip Generic source code and samples (required) wx2_x_y_msw.zip Windows-specific source code wx2_x_y_mot.zip Motif-specific source code wx2_x_y_gtk.zip GTK-specific source code wx2_x_y_stubs.zip Stubs ('empty port') source. Needs wx2_x_y_gen.zip/tgz. wx2_x_y_doc.zip Documentation source code (not required) wx2_x_y_hlp.zip WinHelp documentation wx2_x_y_pdf.zip Acrobat PDF documentation wx2_x_y_htm.zip HTML documentation wx2_x_y_vc.zip MS VC++ 5/6 project files wx2_x_y_bc.zip Borland C++ 5 project files wx2_x_y_cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior 4.1 project files jpeg.zip Optional JPEG library tiff.zip Optional TIFF library ogl3.zip Optional Object Graphics Library mmedia.zip Optional MMedia class library (Motif, GTK, MSW) stc.zip Optional wxStyledTextCtrl library (Motif, GTK, MSW) tex2rtf2.zip Tex2RTF documentation tool wxWindows for GTK distribution ------------------------------ wxGTK-2.x.y.tgz wxGTK source distribution. You will need the HTML and/or PDF documentation from the zip set (above). wxWindows for Motif distribution -------------------------------- wxMotif-2.x.y.tgz wxMotif source distribution. You will need the HTML and/or PDF documentation -- OR -- from the zip set (above). wx2_x_y_gen.zip wx2_x_y_mot.zip jpeg.zip tiff.zip wxWindows for Windows distribution ---------------------------------- As well as the core source, the Windows setup contains: - Windows Help versions of the documentation (docs/winhelp); - OGL 3 (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. setup.exe Setup file (Windows 95/98, NT) setup.* Other setup files Installation ------------ 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 Licence information ------------------- 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 ------------- 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 ------------------- 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) or contact Julian Smart . Good luck! The wxWindows Team, 19 March, 2000