2.4.0

wxWindows 2.4.0

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 1800-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.

Platforms supported

wxWindows currently supports the following platforms:

• Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Most Unix variants with GTK+
• Most Unix variants with X11
• Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
• MacOS 9.x and 10.x
• OS/2 (alpha)

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

The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.

wxWindows for GTK+ distribution

wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will
need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
(see below)
wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source
wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz 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
wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM

wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution

wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files 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

As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:

• Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
• a Dialog Editor binary;
• a Tex2RTF binary;
• Life! sample binary.

wxWindows for MacOS distribution

wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation)
wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation).
You might prefer this format if building on
MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.

wxWindows for OS/2 distribution

wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
(excludes documentation)

Documentation files

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)

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
docs/mac
docs/x11
docs/mgl
docs/os2

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 carefully LGPL, section 6.
which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically 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.

If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
regular expression library copyright.

Documentation

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 wxWindows bug database can be browsed at:

http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863

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 main wxWindows ftp site is at:

ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub

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.

Have fun!

The wxWindows Team, January 2003

2.3.4

wxWindows 2.3.4

*** 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 1800-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.

Platforms supported

wxWindows currently supports the following platforms:

• Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Most Unix variants with GTK+
• Most Unix variants with X11
• Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
• MacOS 9.x and 10.x
• OS/2 (alpha)

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

The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.

wxWindows for GTK+ distribution

wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will
need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
(see below)
wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source
wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz 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
wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM

wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution

wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files 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

As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:

• Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
• a Dialog Editor binary;
• a Tex2RTF binary;
• Life! sample binary.

wxWindows for MacOS distribution

wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation)
wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation).
You might prefer this format if building on
MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.

wxWindows for OS/2 distribution

wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
(excludes documentation)

Documentation files

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)

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
docs/mac
docs/x11
docs/mgl
docs/os2

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 carefully LGPL, section 6.
which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically 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.

If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
regular expression library copyright.

Documentation

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 wxWindows bug database can be browsed at:

http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863

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 main wxWindows ftp site is at:

ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub

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.

Have fun!

The wxWindows Team, November 2002

2.3.3

wxWindows 2.3.3

*** 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 1800-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.

Platforms supported

wxWindows currently supports the following platforms:

• Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Most Unix variants with GTK+
• Most Unix variants with X11
• Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
• MacOS 9.x and 10.x
• OS/2 (alpha)

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

The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
In the following, x.y.z represents the current version number.

wxWindows for GTK+ distribution

wxGTK-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK source distribution. You will
need the HTML, HTB and/or PDF documentation
(see below)
wxGTK-demos-x.y.z.tar.gz wxGTK demos source
wxGTK-samples-x.y.z.tar.gz 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
wxGTK-gl-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm Add-on OpenGL binary as an RPM

wxWindows for X11 and Motif distribution

wxX11-x.y.z.tar.gz wxX11 and wxMotif source distribution, without
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

setup.exe, setup-*.bin Setup files 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

As well as the core source, the wxMSW distribution contains:

• Windows HTML Help versions of the documentation (docs/htmlhelp);
• a Dialog Editor binary;
• a Tex2RTF binary;
• Life! sample binary.

wxWindows for MacOS distribution

wxMac-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation)
wxMac-x.y.z.tar.gz Gzipped tar archive containing all
source files (excludes documentation).
You might prefer this format if building on
MacOS X, since it preserves file permissions.

wxWindows for OS/2 distribution

wxOS2-x.y.z.zip Zip archive containing all source files
(excludes documentation)

Documentation files

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)

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
docs/mac
docs/x11
docs/mgl
docs/os2

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 carefully LGPL, section 6.
which describes conditions for distribution of closed source applications
linked against LGPL library. Basically you should link dynamically 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.

If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
regular expression library copyright.

Documentation

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 wxWindows bug database can be browsed at:

http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=9863

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 main wxWindows ftp site is at:

ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub

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.

Have fun!

The wxWindows Team, September 2002

2.2.9

wxWindows 2.2.9

README

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

Please see changes.txt for details.

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)

Additionally, the wxBase library containing only the non GUI classes can be
built under Unix/Win32 and (with some limitation) BeOS.

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.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.

Files

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 (for example, 2.2.3).

wxWindows for GTK distribution

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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.

wxBase (wxWindows without GUI) distribution

wxBase-x.y.z.tgz wxBase source distribution (the same files
wxBase-x.y.z.zip but compressed using different formats)

wxBase-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase Linux binaries as an RPM
wxBase-x.y.z-0.src.rpm source for the i386 RPM above
wxBase-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase headers (requires wxBase.rpm)

wxBase doesn't include the documentation as you are likely to already have it
from either wxGTK or wxMSW distributions. If you don't, please download the
manual separately.

NB: you can also build wxBase from the files included in either wxMSW or wxGTK
distribution (follow the same instructions as for wxBase distribution in
doc/base/install.txt)

Documentation files

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

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

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/base
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 julian.smart@btopenworld.com.

Good luck!

The wxWindows Team, September, 2001

2.3.2

wxWindows 2.3.2

*** 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 1700-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.

Platforms supported

wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms:

• Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (see msw/winxp.txt)
• 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

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

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions
support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's
regular expression library copyright.

Documentation

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.

Have fun!

The wxWindows Team, 10th June, 2001

2.3.1

wxWindows 2.3.1

*** 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

Please see changes.txt for details.

Platforms supported

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

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

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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

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

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

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

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/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.

Have fun!

The wxWindows Team, 10th June, 2001

2.2.7

wxWindows 2.2.7

README

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

Please see changes.txt for details.

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)

Additionally, the wxBase library containing only the non GUI classes can be
built under Unix/Win32 and (with some limitation) BeOS.

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.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.

Files

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 (for example, 2.2.3).

wxWindows for GTK distribution

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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.

wxBase (wxWindows without GUI) distribution

wxBase-x.y.z.tgz wxBase source distribution (the same files
wxBase-x.y.z.zip but compressed using different formats)

wxBase-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase Linux binaries as an RPM
wxBase-x.y.z-0.src.rpm source for the i386 RPM above
wxBase-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase headers (requires wxBase.rpm)

wxBase doesn't include the documentation as you are likely to already have it
from either wxGTK or wxMSW distributions. If you don't, please download the
manual separately.

NB: you can also build wxBase from the files included in either wxMSW or wxGTK
distribution (follow the same instructions as for wxBase distribution in
doc/base/install.txt)

Documentation files

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

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

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/base
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 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk.

Good luck!

The wxWindows Team, 18th May, 2001

2.2.6

wxWindows 2.2.6

README

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

Please see changes.txt for details.

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)

Additionally, the wxBase library containing only the non GUI classes can be
built under Unix/Win32 and (with some limitation) BeOS.

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.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.

Files

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 (for example, 2.2.3).

wxWindows for GTK distribution

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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.

wxBase (wxWindows without GUI) distribution

wxBase-x.y.z.tgz wxBase source distribution (the same files
wxBase-x.y.z.zip but compressed using different formats)

wxBase-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase Linux binaries as an RPM
wxBase-x.y.z-0.src.rpm source for the i386 RPM above
wxBase-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase headers (requires wxBase.rpm)

wxBase doesn't include the documentation as you are likely to already have it
from either wxGTK or wxMSW distributions. If you don't, please download the
manual separately.

NB: you can also build wxBase from the files included in either wxMSW or wxGTK
distribution (follow the same instructions as for wxBase distribution in
doc/base/install.txt)

Documentation files

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

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

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/base
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 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk.

Good luck!

The wxWindows Team, 28th January, 2001

2.2.5

wxWindows 2.2.5

README

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

Please see changes.txt for details.

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)

Additionally, the wxBase library containing only the non GUI classes can be
built under Unix/Win32 and (with some limitation) BeOS.

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.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.

Files

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 (for example, 2.2.3).

wxWindows for GTK distribution

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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.

wxBase (wxWindows without GUI) distribution

wxBase-x.y.z.tgz wxBase source distribution (the same files
wxBase-x.y.z.zip but compressed using different formats)

wxBase-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase Linux binaries as an RPM
wxBase-x.y.z-0.src.rpm source for the i386 RPM above
wxBase-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase headers (requires wxBase.rpm)

wxBase doesn't include the documentation as you are likely to already have it
from either wxGTK or wxMSW distributions. If you don't, please download the
manual separately.

NB: you can also build wxBase from the files included in either wxMSW or wxGTK
distribution (follow the same instructions as for wxBase distribution in
doc/base/install.txt)

Documentation files

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

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

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/base
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 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk.

Good luck!

The wxWindows Team, 28th January, 2001

2.2.1

wxWindows 2.2.1

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

Please see changes.txt for details.

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)

Additionally, the wxBase library containing only the non GUI classes can be
built under Unix/Win32 and (with some limitation) BeOS.

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.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.

Files

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 (for example, 2.2.1).

wxWindows for GTK distribution

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

wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz wxMotif source distribution. Contains
TIFF, JPEG, Tex2RTF source plus HTML
documentation.

wxWindows for MS Windows distribution

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

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.

wxBase (wxWindows without GUI) distribution

wxBase-x.y.z.tgz wxBase source distribution (the same files
wxBase-x.y.z.zip but compressed using different formats)

wxBase-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase Linux binaries as an RPM
wxBase-x.y.z-0.src.rpm source for the i386 RPM above
wxBase-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm wxBase headers (requires wxBase.rpm)

wxBase doesn't include the documentation as you are likely to already have it
from either wxGTK or wxMSW distributions. If you don't, please download the
manual separately.

NB: you can also build wxBase from the files included in either wxMSW or wxGTK
distribution (follow the same instructions as for wxBase distribution in
doc/base/install.txt)

Documentation files

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

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

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/base
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 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk.

Good luck!

The wxWindows Team, 13th August, 2000