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Purpose: Gateway to wxWidgets Documentation and Resources
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<!-- INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES -->
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<h1>Installation and Release Notes</h1>
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<p>Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux
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using your distro's package manager), you will probably have to
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<strong>compile</strong> the wxWidgets library before you can start use
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<p>Please read the platform-specific <tt>readme.txt</tt> and
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<tt>install.txt</tt> for how to do this:</p>
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<a href="readme.txt"><b>General ReadMe</b></a>,
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<a href="msw/readme.txt">wxMSW</a> (<a href="msw/winxp.txt">wxMSW for WinXP</a>),
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<a href="gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK</a>,
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<a href="mac/readme.txt">wxMac</a>,
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<a href="cocoa/readme.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
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<a href="motif/readme.txt">wxMotif</a>,
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<a href="x11/readme.txt">wxX11</a>,
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<a href="univ/readme.txt">Univ</a>
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<a href="msw/install.txt">wxMSW</a>,
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<a href="gtk/install.txt">wxGTK</a>,
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<a href="motif/install.txt">wxMotif</a>,
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<a href="x11/install.txt">wxX11</a>,
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<a href="mac/install.txt">wxMac</a>,
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<a href="cocoa/install.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
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<a href="os2/install.txt">wxOS2</a>
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<li><a href="changes.txt"><b>General change log</b></a></li>
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<a href="preamble.txt">Preamble</a>,
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<a href="licence.txt">Licence</a>,
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<a href="licendoc.txt">Documentation Licence</a>,
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<a href="lgpl.txt">L-GPL</a>,
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<a href="gpl.txt">GPL</a>
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<!-- FIXME: FAQs are very out-of-date; should be moved in the wx docs or
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to the website or to the wiki...
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<li><a href="faq.htm"><b>FAQ</b></a>:</font>
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<li><a href="faqgen.htm">General questions</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqcmn.htm">Questions common to all platforms</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqmsw.htm">wxWidgets for Windows</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqgtk.htm">wxWidgets for GTK+</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqmot.htm">wxWidgets for Motif</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqx11.htm">wxWidgets for X11</a></font></li>
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<li><a href="faqmac.htm">wxWidgets for Mac</a></font></li>
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<!-- DOCUMENTATION -->
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<h1>Documentation</h1>
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<p>The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of
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the following formats depends on what you've downloaded from the
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<a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets website</a>:</p>
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<li><a href="doxygen/out/html/index.html">HTML</a></li>
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<li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.chm">MS HTML Help (CHM)</a></li>
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<li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.htb">wxHTML Help (HTB)</a></li>
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<li><a href="doxygen/out/rtf/refman.rtf">Rich Text Format (RTF)</a></li>
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<li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF)</a></li>
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<p>To use the manual in the <b>wxHTML Help</b> format (extension
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<tt>htb</tt>), you can use the <b>HelpView</b> application, compiling it
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from the <tt>utils/helpview</tt> folder in the wxWidgets
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<p>Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other
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<strong>resources</strong> which can help to learn wxWidgets
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<li><a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">The wxWidgets website</a>: Contains
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FAQs, tutorials, info about the mailing lists, and in general
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everything related to the wxWidgets world is linked here.</li>
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<li><a href="http://wxforum.shadonet.com/">The wxWidgets forum</a>:
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Provides a discussion board about various wxWidgets topics (contains
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also <em>localized</em> forums).</li>
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<li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/">The wxWiki</a>: A user-editable
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website with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources,
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<h1>Technical Notes</h1>
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<p>Technical notes contains informations useful only to wxWidgets developers
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for the maintainance of the project:</p>
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<li><a href="tech/index.txt">Index of Technical Notes</a></li>
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<li><a href="tech/">Technical Notes</a></li>
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<p>Todo List for wxWidgets:</p>
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<li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_Todo_List">wxWiki Todo List</a></li>
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<li><a href="doxygen/out/html/todo.html">Documentation Todo List</a></li>
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<p>The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some
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features of wxWidgets (for a list of the 70+ samples please look at the
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<li><a href="../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.</li>
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<li><a href="../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.</li>
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<li><a href="../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.</li>
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<li><a href="../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway,
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implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.</li>
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<li><a href="../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.</li>
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