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  1. wxWidgets 3.0.1 Release Notes
  2. =============================
  3. Welcome to the latest stable release of wxWidgets, a free and open
  4. source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI
  5. applications using native controls.
  6. wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for
  7. all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting
  8. the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free
  9. for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes
  10. with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive
  11. documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples.
  12. You can learn more about wxWidgets at
  13. http://www.wxwidgets.org/
  14. and read its documentation online at
  15. http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.1/
  16. wxWidgets sources and binaries for the selected platforms are
  17. available for download from
  18. https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.1/
  19. or
  20. ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.0.1/
  21. Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various
  22. files available at these locations.
  23. Changes in this release
  24. -----------------------
  25. This is a bug fix release with no significant new features compared to
  26. 3.0.0 and compatible with it at both the API and the ABI level (i.e.
  27. all applications linked against 3.0.0 DLLs or shared libraries will
  28. continue to work when using 3.0.1 libraries).
  29. There were more than a hundred bug fixes, please see docs/changes.txt
  30. for more details. The most important user-visible changes are:
  31. * In all ports:
  32. - wxHTML displays tables much faster now.
  33. - Double clicking wxGrid columns doesn't make them too small any more.
  34. - Fix bugs when dragging columns in wxGrid with hidden columns.
  35. - Loading ICO files with PNG data is now supported.
  36. * In wxGTK:
  37. - Mouse wheel scrolling in wxListCtrl works again.
  38. - wxStaticBoxSizer contents is not truncated any more.
  39. - AUI panels may now be re-docked after floating them.
  40. * In wxMSW:
  41. - wxBitmapComboBox works again and doesn't just remain blank.
  42. - Checkboxes in wxDataViewCtrl work again too now.
  43. - wxCheckListBox appears correctly when using large fonts.
  44. * In wxOSX:
  45. - Cancelling choice selection in wxDataViewCtrl doesn't crash any more.
  46. - ShowModal() doesn't use quite as much CPU now.
  47. There are also many other bug fixes, including many improvements to
  48. alpha transparency handling in different places (mostly in wxMSW, but
  49. also in wxGTK) and resource/memory leak fixes in all ports.
  50. Finally, this release includes Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 projects for
  51. building wxWidgets, in addition to the project files for the previous
  52. versions already provided in 3.0.0 release.
  53. Please make sure to read the section "Incompatible changes since 2.8"
  54. in docs/changes.txt if you are upgrading from wxWidgets 2.8 or earlier.
  55. Platforms supported
  56. -------------------
  57. wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
  58. - Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (32/64 bits).
  59. - Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
  60. - Mac OS X (10.5 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits) or Carbon (32 only)
  61. There is some support for the following platforms:
  62. - Most Unix variants with X11
  63. - Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
  64. - Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
  65. - OS/2
  66. - Windows CE (Pocket PC)
  67. Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
  68. file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) and
  69. http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Supported_Platforms for the most up to
  70. date status.
  71. Files
  72. -----
  73. wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats.
  74. ZIP and 7z archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the
  75. files with DOS/Windows line endings while the compressed tar archives
  76. for Unix systems users (including OS X) and contain the files with
  77. Unix line endings. Please notice that some Windows tools still don't
  78. accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling sources with
  79. DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct
  80. file for your system.
  81. In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB
  82. (wxWidgets help viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer
  83. for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile
  84. wxWidgets even when using the installer.
  85. We also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built with several
  86. versions of Microsoft Visual C++ and GNU g++ compiler for this
  87. release. They are available in the "binaries" subdirectory, see
  88. the description of the files in the README file there.
  89. Installation
  90. ------------
  91. Unless you have downloaded the binaries for your compiler, you
  92. will need to build wxWidgets before you can test out the samples
  93. or write your own applications. For installation information,
  94. please see the install.txt file in the docs subdirectory
  95. appropriate for the platform you use, e.g. docs/msw/install.txt.
  96. Licence information
  97. -------------------
  98. For licensing information, please see the files:
  99. docs/preamble.txt
  100. docs/licence.txt
  101. docs/licendoc.txt
  102. docs/gpl.txt
  103. docs/lgpl.txt
  104. docs/xserver.txt
  105. Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
  106. proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition
  107. to those writing GPL'ed applications. In summary, the licence is
  108. LGPL plus a clause allowing unrestricted distribution of
  109. application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't have to
  110. distribute any source if you wish to write commercial
  111. applications using wxWidgets.
  112. However, if you distribute wxGTK or wxMotif (with Lesstif)
  113. version of your application, don't forget that it is linked
  114. against GTK+ (or Lesstif) which is covered by LGPL *without*
  115. exception notice and so is bound by its requirements.
  116. If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT
  117. for libtiff licence details.
  118. If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program
  119. should contain following sentence: "This software is based in
  120. part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group". See
  121. src/jpeg/README for details.
  122. If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular
  123. expressions support (i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT
  124. file for Henry Spencer's regular expression library copyright.
  125. If you use wxXML classes or XRC, see src/expat/COPYING for licence
  126. details.
  127. Bug reporting
  128. -------------
  129. The wxWidgets bug tracker can be browsed at:
  130. http://trac.wxwidgets.org/report
  131. and new bugs can be opened from
  132. http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
  133. Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find
  134. any possibly relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please
  135. notice that often trying to correct the bug yourself is the
  136. quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do it, you may
  137. discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing
  138. it. We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches
  139. fixing the problems so this ensures that your report will be
  140. addressed sooner.
  141. Further information
  142. -------------------
  143. If you are looking for support, you can get it from
  144. - wxForum at http://forums.wxwidgets.org/
  145. - wx-users mailing list (http://www.wxwidgets.org/support/maillst2.htm)
  146. - #wxwidgets IRC channel
  147. - http://stackoverflow.com/ if you tag your question with "wxwidgets"
  148. Have fun!
  149. The wxWidgets Team, July 2014