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wxWidgets 3.0-RC2 Release Notes
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===============================
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wxWidgets 3.0.0 Release Notes
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=============================
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Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++
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framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
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Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free and open source
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cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications
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using native controls.
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In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames,
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scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts,
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printing, splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common
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file operations, facilities for writing network applications,
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thread handling, and so on. You can learn more about wxWidgets at
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wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for
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all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting
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the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free
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for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes
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with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive
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documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples.
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You can learn more about wxWidgets at
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http://www.wxwidgets.org/
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and read its documentation online at
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wxWidgets sources are available for download from
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0-rc2/
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wxWidgets sources and binaries for the selected platforms are
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available for download from
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0/
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or
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.0.0-rc2/
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.0.0/
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Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various
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files available at these locations.
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A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for various
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topics is supplied in various formats and can be accessed online at
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/
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Changes in this release
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-----------------------
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This release contains several years worth of improvements compared
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to 2.8 version. Notably, Unicode support has been completely
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overhauled and made much easier to use. Debugging support, including
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when using a release build of the library, was much improved making
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when using a release build of the library, was greatly improved making
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it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Dynamic event
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handling was made much more comfortable. Many new GUI and base classes
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have been added or improved and all ports, and especially wxOSX/Cocoa
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wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
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- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
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- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (32/64 bits).
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- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
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- Mac OS X (10.5 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa
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- Mac OS X (10.5 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits) or Carbon (32 only)
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There is some support for the following platforms:
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for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile
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wxWidgets even when using the installer.
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Experimentally, we also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built
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with several versions of Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for this
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We also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built with several
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versions of Microsoft Visual C++ and GNU g++ compiler for this
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release. They are available in the "binaries" subdirectory, see
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the description of the files in the README file there.
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Installation
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------------
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wxWidgets needs to be compiled before you can test out the samples
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or write your own applications. For installation information, please
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see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory appropriate for
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the platform you use.
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Unless you have downloaded the binaries for your compiler, you
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will need to build wxWidgets before you can test out the samples
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or write your own applications. For installation information,
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please see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory
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appropriate for the platform you use.
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Licence information
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However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
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version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
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against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
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exception notice. Under Linux systems your app is probably linked
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against LGPL glibc as well. Please read carefully LGPL, section
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6. which describes conditions for distribution of closed source
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applications linked against LGPL library. Basically you should
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link dynamically and include source code of LGPL libraries with
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your product (unless it is already present in user's system -
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like glibc usually is).
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exception notice and so is bound by its requirements.
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If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
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for libtiff licence details.
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expressions support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT
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file for Henry Spencer's regular expression library copyright.
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If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence details.
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If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence
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details.
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Documentation
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-------------
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wxWidgets documentation is available online at
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/ and can also be downloaded in HTML
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format. To generate documentation in other formats (PDF, CHM, ...)
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please use the scripts in docs/doxygen directory.
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http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/ and can also be downloaded in
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HTML format. To generate documentation in other formats (PDF, CHM,
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...) please use the scripts in docs/doxygen directory.
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Bug reporting
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Further information
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-------------------
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The wxWidgets Web site is located at:
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If you are looking for support, you can get it from
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http://www.wxwidgets.org/
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- wxForum at http://forums.wxwidgets.org/
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- wx-users mailing list (http://www.wxwidgets.org/support/maillst2.htm)
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- #wxwidgets IRC channel
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- http://stackoverflow.com/ if you tag your question with "wxwidgets"
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The main wxWidgets ftp site is at:
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/
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A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML
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front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other
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material may be ordered from the CD-ROM page: see the wxWidgets
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web site.
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Have fun!
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The wxWidgets Team, October 2013
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The wxWidgets Team, November 2013
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