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- Welcome to wxWindows Version 1.40
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- Hello, and welcome to wxWindows, a portable GUI
- toolkit for X and Windows 3.1.
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- This program demonstrates the following features:
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- * Main frame window with menu bar
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- * Panel with various widgets
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- * Status line with help on menu items
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- * Scrolling text window with this file loaded
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- * Scrolling canvas with text and graphics displayed
- (use the mouse and left button to doodle)
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- * Icon and cursor setting
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- * Canvas scaling
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- * Printing (Windows printing on PC, PostScript under UNIX)
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- * Copying a metafile to the clipboard (Windows only)
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- * Timer (prints to this text window occasionally)
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- Other features include:
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- * Interprocess communication (DDE on both platforms)
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- * File browser dialog box
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- * Form construction facility
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- wxWindows provides a common core of GUI facilities across several
- platforms (two at present). XView programmers will be familiar with
- the frame/subwindow principles, whilst appreciating the simpler and
- object-oriented interface. Windows programmers should also find it
- much simpler than the native API. Motif programmers should never again
- have to experiment to avoid constraint contradictions. And,
- synchronous interprocess communications are now a doddle on all
- supported platforms.
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- This software is available free of charge from:
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- Dr Julian Smart
- Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
- University of Edinburgh
- 80, South Bridge
- Edinburgh
- EH1 1HN
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- Email J.Smart@ed.ac.uk
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- Please feel free to send me suggestions - and code - for the next
- release. Areas which currently need attention include:
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- - Bitmaps
- - More widgets
- - Other platforms e.g. Mac
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