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wxWidgets 3.1.1 Release Notes
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Welcome to the latest development release of wxWidgets, a free and open source
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cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native
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controls.
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wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major
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desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI
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aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial
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applications, comes 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. You can learn
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more about wxWidgets at:
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* https://www.wxwidgets.org/
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Documentation is available online at:
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* http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1.1/
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wxWidgets sources and binaries for the selected platforms are available for
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download from:
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* https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.1.1/
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Changes
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Compared to the stable 3.0.x series, this version brings many
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improvements and even more bug fixes, please see the change log
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.0.2/docs/changes.txt
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for the incomplete list of the most important ones. Here is the
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maximally condensed summary:
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- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl,
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wxAppProgressIndicator, wxNativeWindow, wxPowerResourceBlocker.
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- And methods: wxDateTime::GetWeekBasedYear(), wxListBox::GetTopItem(),
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wxProcess::Activate(), wxTextEntry::ForceUpper(), several ones in
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wxRendererNative, wxStandardPaths::GetUserDir(), wxUIActionSimulator
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::Select() and many others. Also new wxEVT_MAGNIFY event.
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- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxNotificationMessage.
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- All around better support for high DPI monitors.
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- Much newer versions of bundled 3rd party libraries (notably libpng)
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and support for GStreamer 1.0 under Unix.
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- Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+).
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- Further C++11 support improvements.
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- Support for latest compilers: MSVS 2015, g++ 5.3, clang 3.8.
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- A lot of bug fixes in wxGTK3 and wxOSX/Cocoa ports.
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- New experimental wxQt port.
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Platforms Supported
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wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
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* Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (32/64 bits).
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* Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
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* OS X (10.7 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits)
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There is some support for the following platforms:
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* Most Unix variants with X11
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* Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
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* Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
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* Most Unix variants with Qt 5 or newer (experimental)
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Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt file for each
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platform (following the links from docs/index.htm).
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Files
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wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats. ZIP and 7z
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archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the files with DOS/Windows
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line endings while the compressed tar archives are for Unix systems (including
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OS X) and contain the files with Unix line endings. Please notice that some
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Windows tools still don't accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling
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sources with DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct
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file for your system.
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In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB (wxWidgets help
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viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer for Microsoft Windows.
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Notice that you will still need to compile wxWidgets even when using the
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installer.
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We also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built with several versions of
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Microsoft Visual C++ and GNU g++ compiler for this release.
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Installation
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Unless you have downloaded the binaries for your compiler, you will need to
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build wxWidgets before you can test out the samples or write your own
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applications. For installation information, please see the install.txt file in
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the docs subdirectory appropriate for the platform you use.
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Licence
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For licensing information, please see the files:
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* docs/preamble.txt
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* docs/licence.txt
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* docs/licendoc.txt
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* docs/gpl.txt
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* docs/lgpl.txt
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* docs/xserver.txt
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Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of proprietary,
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commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition to those writing GPL'ed
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applications. In summary, the licence is LGPL plus a clause allowing
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unrestricted distribution of application binaries. To answer a FAQ, you don't
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have to distribute any source if you wish to write commercial applications using
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wxWidgets.
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However, if you distribute wxGTK, wxQt or wxMotif (with Lesstif) version of your
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application, don't forget that it is linked against GTK+, Qt or Lesstif, which
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are covered by LGPL *without* exception notice and so is bound by its
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requirements.
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If you use TIFF image handler, please see src/tiff/COPYRIGHT for libtiff licence
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details.
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If you use JPEG image handler, documentation for your program should contain
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following sentence: "This software is based in part on the work of the
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Independent JPEG Group". See src/jpeg/README for details.
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If you use wxRegEx class on a system without native regular expressions support
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(i.e. MS Windows), see src/regex/COPYRIGHT file for Henry Spencer's regular
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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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Reporting Bugs
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The wxWidgets bug tracker can be found here:
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* http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
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Please use the search function of our Trac installation to find any possibly
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relevant bugs before reporting new ones. Also please notice that often trying to
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correct the bug yourself is the quickest way to fix it. Even if you fail to do
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it, you may discover valuable information allowing us to fix it while doing it.
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We also give much higher priority to bug reports with patches fixing the
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problems so this ensures that your report will be addressed sooner.
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Further Information
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-------------------
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If you are looking for support, you can get it from
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* Mailing Lists: https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/
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* Discussion Forums: https://forums.wxwidgets.org/
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* #wxwidgets IRC Channel: https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/irc/
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* Stack Overflow (tag your questions with "wxwidgets"):
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wxwidgets
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Have fun!
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The wxWidgets Team, February 2016
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