From 6e206a04b6ce5e043bca0c98bc46e749ce9ba057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Smart Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:32:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Tweaks to announcement git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/branches/WX_2_4_BRANCH@18584 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- docs/publicity/announce.txt | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/publicity/announce.txt b/docs/publicity/announce.txt index 820c71126e..5c9a8593ac 100644 --- a/docs/publicity/announce.txt +++ b/docs/publicity/announce.txt @@ -1,26 +1,44 @@ -Announcing wxWindows 2.3.4: a cross-platform GUI toolkit +Announcing wxWindows 2.4.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit ---------------------------------------------------------------- -September 15th, 2002 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to -announce the release of a development snapshot of the mature -cross-platform C++ application framework. +January 6th, 2003 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to announce +an official 2.4.0 release of the mature cross-platform C++ +application framework. The following platforms are supported: - Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP -- Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0 -- Unix with X11 -- Unix with Motif/Lesstif +- Linux/Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0 +- Linux/Unix with X11 +- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif - VMS with GTK+ 1.x - MacOS 8.6, 9.x and 10.x -- OS/2 (alpha) +- OS/2 (alpha release) + +A non-GUI subset of wxWindows called wxBase is also supported +on most of these platforms. To get wxWindows, go to the Download page at: http://www.wxwindows.org -This is likely to be the last development snapshot in the -2.3.x series, before the release of the stable 2.4.x series. +This is the first official release to support the many +enhancements to wxWindows since the 2.2.x series. +Improvements have been made to many areas, including: + +- better support for Windows XP +- a much fuller Mac port +- additional platforms (OS/2 and bare X11) +- further type-safe container classes +- improved build system +- Unicode support for GTK+ and WIN32 +- improved wxBase support +- wxArtProvider class allows tailoring of standard + wxWindows images +- translations for more languages +- mousewheel support +- support for more ODBC databases +- numerous bug fixes *** About wxWindows