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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++
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