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<TITLE>wxWindows Book</TITLE>
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wxWindows Book
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<center>
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<a href="#about">About</a> |
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<a href="#participants">Participants</a> |
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<a href="#publication">Publication</a> |
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<a href="#suggestions">Suggestions</a> |
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<a href="#format">Format</a> |
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<a href="#contents">Contents</a>
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<H3><a name="about">About the wxWindows book</a></H3>
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Discussions have been taking place on the wxwin-developers list about
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collaboratively writing a wxWindows book. The concensus is to write a tutorial
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book for people with reasonable C++ experience, with the possibility of including the API reference either in a very compact
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form at the back of the book, or as a separate volume. The book would almost certainly
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contain a CD-ROM with wxWindows and its documentation. It would probably be available
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for free on-line, publisher permitting.<P>
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Goals for the book:<P>
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<ol>
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<li> to allow users to become accomplished wxWindows developers rapidly;
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<li> to be useful over a longer period than just the first few weeks, since
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there are a lot of complex areas to address and not all features will be
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used up-front in a project;
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<li> to promote wxWindows to a wider audience;
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<li> to make at least some money for the authors.
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Audience: beginners + experienced wxWindows users, but with reasonable C++
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knowledge.<P>
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It is suggested that any financial return from the book be allocated on a points system,
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with a predefined number of points for chapters, indexing, editing, proof-reading etc.<P>
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<H3><a name="participants">Participants</a></H3>
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So far, the following people are interested in taking part in this project:<P>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="mailto:bsimser@home.com">Bil Simser</a>. Bil would like to coordinate
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the book. He's currently writing a book for WordWare Publishing (about his CDX library)
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and also has contacts at Sams and the Waite Group. Bil is writing <a href="http://lightning.prohosting.com/~wxbuild" target=_new>
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wxBuilder</a>, an IDE for wxWindows.
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<li><a href="mailto:tomr@scitechsoft.com">Tom Ryan</a>, SciTech Software.
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<li><a href="mailto:robin@alldunn.com">Robin Dunn</a>. <i>Chapter on wxPython.</i>
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<li><a href="mailto:mheck@www.surveyorcorp.com">Matt Heck</a>, SurveyorCorp Inc.
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<i>
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<ol>
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<li>a case study of how and why we've used wxWindows at Surveyor Corp., and
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how it's worked out so far;
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<li>an appendix something similar about how to use wxLIVID for video capture and display;
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<li>proofreading
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</ol>
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</i>
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<li><a href="mailto:julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk">Julian Smart</a>.
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<li><a href="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">Vadim Zeitlin</a>.
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<li><a href="mailto:slavik2@czn.cz">Vaclav Slavik</a>. <i>wxHTML section</i>
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<li><a href="mailto:csomor@advancedconcepts.ch">Stefan Csomor</a>. <i>the sequence of events i.e. which action provokes which event sequence,
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this is implicit for the use on MSW, but very important for other systems; and porting to new platforms</i>
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<li><a href="mailto:karsten@phy.hw.ac.uk">Karsten Ballueder</a>. <i>short tutorials on some useful
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GNU tools, like autoconf/configure/make, programming
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strategies, etc.</i>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<H3><a name="publication">Publication</a></H3>
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Tom Ryan originally wrote:<P>
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<PRE>
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Hi Guys,
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I just wanted to let you know that I have spoken with officials here
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at California State University, Chico and they are potentially
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interested in publishing a book on wxWindows! A wxWindows
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book would give wxWindows a great deal of exposure.
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These discussions came out of the fact that CSUC wanted to
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switch from MFC to wxWindows in their GUI programming classes,
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but there was not a book available for students to work with.
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I was thinking that the first edition could be primarily the reference
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documentation combined with a basic wxTutorial and examples. In
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this case, it would be fairly straightforward to get something out
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initially and then we could take it from there.
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</PRE>
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<p>
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<a href="mailto:benles@powernet.net">Ben Allfree</a> has also expressed an interest
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in publishing a wxWindows book, and distributing it via Amazon. Ben was thinking
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in terms of a quickie job using the existing reference manual.<P>
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Another publishing name to think of is O'Reilly. They would probably give us a lot
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of guidance for style, formatting, etc.<P>
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<a href="mailto:Roald.Ribe@winlink.no">Roald Ribe</a> writes:
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"<a href="http://www.bruceeckel.com/javabook.html" target=_new>Thinking in Java</a>
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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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<H3><a name="suggestions">Suggestions and comments</a></H3>
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<li>Chapter on converting from MFC. (Julian Smart)
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<li>A chapter on why some inconsistencies are almost always going to show up in a
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multiplatform toolkit, how to avoid them, how to deal with when you have
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no choice, and (if wxBook explains the internals or philosophy of
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wxWindows at all) how wxWindows attempts to minimize the number we
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encounter. (Matt Heck)
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<li>Creating the shortest possible path to writing "Hello World" from scratch in wxWindows. (Matt Heck)
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<li>How will royalties for subsequent editions be shared out? (Tom Ryan)
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<li>"My personal feeling is that this project will wind up being developed
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by a small team, led by an editor that will wind up doing about half
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of the total amount of work." (Tom Ryan)
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</ul>
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<H3><a name="format">Text format</a></H3>
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This depends partly on the publisher, but one possibility is to target Word but have
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submissions in a number of formats including Latex. We should eventually write a style
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and formatting guide.<P>
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<H3><a name="contents">Contents</a></H3>
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This is open to suggestion.<P>
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Last year, <a href="mailto:mlorenz@visionx.com">Mike Lorenz</a> of <a href="http://www.visionx.com">VisionX</a>
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suggested this
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<a href="http://www.visionx.com/wx/tutorial_outline.htm">tutorial outline</a>, which could
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be a good starting point.<P>
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