Update and condense wxGTK README
Remove obsolete information and parts already documented elsewhere. Also remove the part about wxWidgets crashing your harddisk or destroying your monitor because I'm a killjoy.
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Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK+
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Welcome to wxWidgets for GTK
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You have downloaded the GTK+ port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
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You have downloaded the GTK port of the wxWidgets GUI library.
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It is required to use at least GTK+ 2.6 and some features are
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only available when using GTK+ 2.10 or higher. Note that even if
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you compile wxWidgets against a later GTK+ version, your application
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will still work with older GTK+ version down to version 2.6 as wxWidgets
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tests for the presence of newer features at run-time and it
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will fall back to a generic implementation if these features
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are not present in the GTK+ version used.
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This port works best with GTK 3, but also supports versions as
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old as GTK 2.6 (although some features are only available when
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using GTK+ 2.10 or higher). Note that even if you compile
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wxWidgets against a later GTK version, your application will
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still work with older GTK versions with the same major version
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as wxWidgets tests for the presence of newer features at run-time
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and it will fall back to a generic implementation if these
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features are not present in the GTK version used.
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wxWidgets 2.9.4 adds support for GTK+ 3, which can be enabled
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with configure option --with-gtk=3.
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wxWidgets 2.8 still supports GTK+ 1.2, but no development
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is done on that port anymore and support for GTK+ 1.2 will
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probably be dropped entirely. Indeed, one of the major steps
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in the development cycle leading up to wxWidgets 2.8 was
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that the codebase for GTK+ 1.2 and GTK+ 2.0 were separated
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so that improvements and clean-ups to the GTK+ 2.0 port
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could be done without caring for GTK+ 1.2.
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More info about the wxWidgets project (including all the
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More information about the wxWidgets project (including all the
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other ports and version of wxWidgets) can be found at the
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main wxWidgets homepage at:
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https://www.wxwidgets.org/
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Information on how to install can be found in the file
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INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
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install.md, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
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many systems:
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mkdir build_gtk
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make install
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ldconfig
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In order to use wxGTK with GTK 1.2 you need to use --with-gtk=1
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configure option. To build the library in Unicode mode (all
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strings will be wide strings and so on) you need to configure
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with GTK 2.0 and add --enable-unicode.
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In order to use wxGTK with GTK 2 you need to use --with-gtk=2
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configure option.
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Please note that it is strongly advised to build the library in
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a separate directory, as shown above, as it allows you to have
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parallel. If you build in the source directory, don't forget to
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do "make clean" before changing the configuration!
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When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
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follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
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please send a bug report to one of our mailing list, INCLUDING
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A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR
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VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR
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WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
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Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests,
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bug reports or comments to the wxWidgets users list. These can
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be found at https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/
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wxWidgets doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It
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might crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't
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claim to be suitable for any special or general purpose.
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Regards,
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Robert Roebling
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Please see the manual for further information.
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