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<a href="#about">About</a> |
<a href="#participants">Participants</a> |
<a href="#publication">Publication</a> |
<a href="#suggestions">Suggestions</a> |
<!-- <a href="#suggestions">Suggestions</a> | -->
<a href="#format">Format</a> |
<a href="#style">Style guide</a> |
<a href="#titles">Titles</a> |
<a href="#contents">Contents</a>
</center>
<p>
<hr>
<p>
<H3><a name="about">About the wxWindows book</a></H3>
Discussions have been taking place on the wxwin-developers list
about collaboratively writing a wxWindows book. The book will
August 2000: the 'wxBook' project is getting going again,
with a good response from potential contributors.<P>
Robin Dunn has set up a <a href="http://wxwindows.org/mailman/listinfo/wxbook">wxBook mailing list</a>.<P>
The book will comprise 30 or so chapters dealing with progressively
more advanced areas of wxWindows; each chapter will be as stand-alone as
possible. The book will
not include the API reference, though this could be a
separate project. The book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM with
wxWindows and its documentation. The book will initially be
wxWindows and its documentation. It will initially be
available on-line, and when enough is done we will look for a
publisher.<P>
@@ -66,7 +76,9 @@ knowledge.<P>
It is suggested that any financial return from the book be allocated on a points system,
with a predefined number of points for chapters, indexing, editing, proof-reading etc.<P>
<p>
<hr>
<p>
<H3><a name="participants">Participants</a></H3>
@@ -80,7 +92,8 @@ chapters.
communication classes (wxSocket, wxXXXServer, some protocol stuff); timing and timers.
<li><a href="mailto:robin@alldunn.com">Robin Dunn</a> - wxPython chapter.
</i>
<li><a href="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">Vadim Zeitlin</a> - drag and drop chapter?
<li><a href="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">Vadim Zeitlin</a> - drag and drop, several other chapters.
<li><a href="mailto:roebling@uni-freiburg.de">Robert Roebling</a> - not known.
<li><a href="mailto:slavik2@czn.cz">Vaclav Slavik</a> - wxHTML section.
<li><a href="mailto:gtasker@fastpicsystems.com">George Tasker</a> - database chapter.
<li><a href="mailto:moreno@mochima.com">Carlos Moreno</a> - wxImage, wxBitmap.
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</ul>
<P>
Others welcome! Please contact <a href="mailto:julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk">Julian Smart</a>
if you would like to contribute.
<p>
<hr>
<p>
<H3><a name="publication">Publication</a></H3>
We should have a substantial chunk of wxBook done before we approach a publisher,
because with the risks of multiple author
We wll investigate publishers, especially O'Reilly. We will have to get together
several sample chapters to convince a publisher that the many-author approach will
work.<P>
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Tom Ryan originally wrote:<P>
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is published both as a PDF for internet (by the author) and in print by Prentice Hall."<P>
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<hr>
<P>
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<H3><a name="suggestions">Suggestions and comments</a></H3>
@@ -172,24 +197,115 @@ by a small team, led by an editor that will wind up doing about half
of the total amount of work." (Tom Ryan)
</ul>
<P>
<hr>
<P>
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<H3><a name="format">Text format</a></H3>
<H3><a name="format">File format</a></H3>
This depends partly on the publisher, but one possibility is to target Word but have
submissions in a number of formats including Latex. We should eventually write a style
and formatting guide.<P>
Possible formats:
<ul>
<li>Word
<li><a href="http://www.abisource.com" target=_top>Abiword</a>: possibly not developed enough yet, but
it can output Latex which would make conversion to Tex2RTF format quite simple
<li>Latex: favoured format so far. The LyX near-WYSIWYG word processor (Unix only) can output Latex.
See also <a href="http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~minten/NTTeXing/NTTeXing.html" target=_top>NTTex</a>
which uses EMACS as an editor. For an introduction to Latex, see <a href="ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort" target=_top>here</a>.
A free TeX for Windows: see <a href="http://www.miktex.org/" target=_top>MikTex</a>. More TeX info: <a href="http://www.tug.org/" target=_top>TUG</a>.
<li>XML: hard to read/write
<li>SGML: ditto
<li>DocBook: don't have any information about this, but <a href="http://www.LinuxNinja.com/linux-admin/" target=_top>Linux Admin Made Easy</a>
uses it.
<li><a href="http://www.zope.org//Members/jim/StructuredTextWiki/StructuredTextNG" target=_top>Structured text</a> -
plain text with indentation and other elements to provide structure. The tools seem under-developed and there
doesn't seem to be a simple way of getting them without using the CVS Zope archive.
<li>troff - favoured by O'Reilly
</ul>
<P>
<hr>
<P>
<H3><a name="style">Style guide</a></H3>
We should write a style and formatting guide.<P>
<P>
<hr>
<P>
<H3><a name="titles">Book Titles</a></H3>
It would be good to include certain buzzwords such as Linux and open source, to get
a publisher's (and the potential reader's) attention. The trick is to do that and
not narrow the scope unduly.<P>
Suggestions for the main book:<P>
<ul>
<li>Multiplatform GUI development with wxWindows
<li>wxWindows: an open source multiplatform toolkit
<li>wxWindows: GUI development for Linux and other platforms
</ul>
<P>
Other book titles that a publisher might be interested (but would be distinct projects):<P>
<ul>
<li>Writing GTK+ Application Using wxWindows
<li>Migrating MFC Apps to Linux Using wxWindows
</ul>
<P>
<hr>
<P>
<H3><a name="contents">Contents</a></H3>
This is open to suggestion.<P>
The following is open to discussion.<P>
Last year, <a href="mailto:mlorenz@visionx.com">Mike Lorenz</a> of <a href="http://www.visionx.com">VisionX</a>
suggested this
<a href="http://www.visionx.com/wx/tutorial_outline.htm">tutorial outline</a>, which could
be a good starting point.<P>
<ul>
<li>Chapter 01: Introduction to wxWindows: history, advocacy, future developments
<li>Chapter 02: Installing wxWindows (and what tools to use)
<li>Chapter 03: C++ and wxWindows. Summarises the sorts of constructs used/not used, plus wxString class,
some conventions. Vadim suggests putting it in 1st chapter but I think it deserves a chapter of its own.
<li>Chapter 04: Getting started: Hello World. Introduces app class, frames, menus, status bar, message box
<li>Chapter 05: Basic event handling
<li>Chapter 06: Frames and menubars. The components of a frame, menubars.
<li>Chapter 07: Toolbars and status bars
<li>Chapter 08: Basic controls
<li>Chapter 09: Common dialogs
<li>Chapter 10: Custom dialogs and resources (XML + WXR)
<li>Chapter 11: Drawing on device contexts
<li>Chapter 12: Handling input (mouse, keyboard, joystick)
<li>Chapter 14: Sizers
<li>Chapter 15: Images and bitmaps
<li>Chapter 16: Clipboard and drag and drop
<li>Chapter 17: Advanced controls (list,tree,notebook,splitter,wxWizard,wxCalCtrl...)
<li>Chapter 18: Document/view classes
<li>Chapter 19: Scrolling
<li>Chapter 20: MDI
<li>Chapter 21: Printing
<li>Chapter 22: Providing help in your applications
<li>Chapter 23: Strings and internationalization
<li>Chapter 24: Memory management and debugging (including wxLog)
<li>Chapter 25: Run-time class information
<li>Chapter 26: Advanced event handling (user-defined events, ...)
<li>Chapter 27: Communication classes, including wxSocket
<li>Chapter 28: Database classes
<li>Chapter 29: File and stream classes
<li>Chapter 30: Configuration classes
<li>Chapter 31: Time, timers and idle processing
<li>Chapter 32: Writing multithreading applications
<li>Chapter 33: Perfecting your UI (Adapting to system settings, accelerators, ...)
<li>Chapter 34: Platform-specific programming (metafiles, OLE automation, taskbar, ...)
<li>Chapter 35: Using wxHTML
<li>Chapter 36: Using wxPython
<li>Chapter 37: wxBase?
<li>Appendix: Comparison with other toolkits: MFC, Qt etc.
</ul>
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