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------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: wxWindows Version: 1.50 beta (h) Date: 15 November 1993 Title: Portable C++ GUI toolkit for Motif, XView and Windows Authors(s): Julian Smart Contact: Julian Smart Subject Area(s): C++, graphics_vis_gui News Group or Email: wxwin-users@aiai.ed.ac.uk Bug reports to: J.Smart@ed.ac.uk Software Needed: C++ compiler, one or more of XView/Motif/Windows/NT Hardware Needed: Sun, SGI, HP, PC (various compilers, best tested on Sun); bout 8 MB of disk space. Access: Anonymous ftp from skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk (192.41.104.6), directory /pub/wxwin, /pub/wxwin/beta User Base: about 60 (darn difficult to tell!) Documentation: LaTeX, PostScript, Windows Help, wxHelp (RTF and HTML on request) Published References: none Abstract: wxWindows is a toolkit for developing multi-platform, graphical applications from the same body of C++ code. Since the source is provided, wxWindows allows the programmer to add features as needed. For many programmers, however, wxWindows should be adequate for a range of applications. Includes: development of applications for delivery on several platforms; single-platform development, as a high-level wrapper around XView, Motif or Windows. Included in this fourth release: * Simple-to-use, object-oriented API * Graphics calls include splines, polylines, rounded rectangles, etc. * XView-style programmatic panel/dialog item layout * Support for menu bars and status lines * Toolbar class * Pens, brushes, fonts, icons, cursors, bitmaps * Easy, object-oriented interprocess comms (DDE subset) under Windows 3 *and* UNIX * Encapsulated PostScript generation under UNIX, Windows 3 printing on PC * Virtually automatic MDI support under Windows * Support for Windows 3 printer and file selector common dialogs, with equivalents for UNIX * Under Windows 3, support for copying metafiles to the clipboard * Programmatic form facility for building form-like screens fast, with constraints on values * Applications can access Windows Help or wxHelp hypertext help system * Optional interface to NASA's CLIPS, so an interpreted GUI-building facility can be included in wxWindows programs, or used stand-alone. * Tex2RTF utility for maintaining online help and printed manuals from single LaTeX source * All source * Several examples * Comprehensive reference manual, with reference in wxHelp and WinHelp form the /pub/wxwin/beta directory for the latest version. Bugs: wxWindows, like most other software, has the occasional buglet. I would be grateful for bug reports (even better, fixes) though I can't guarantee to do anything about them. Future releases of wxWindows are likely to be more stable and more complete. Meanwhile, do send me your enhancements, and I will try to incorporate them in future releases. Here are some ideas for contributions: * more Xlib wrappers * an enhanced, editable text subwindow for Windows * an Xt-like constraint algorithm for laying out widgets * a Mac version In the pipeline: * Better clipboard support * Automated GUI testing facilities * DevGuide to wxWindows utility (user contribution, in beta testing) * Text-only CURSES version (user contribution, in alpha testing) See Also: InterViews, GINA++ ------------------------------------------------------------------