) WXWINDOWS, GRAPHICS, Free C++ GUI toolkit     I    =====                  Announcing wxWindows 1.67                 ===== J    =====  A Free C++ GUI toolkit for Motif, Open Look, Windows 3.1,  =====J    =====                  Windows 95 and Windows NT                  =====J    =====                           --o--                             =====J    =====          http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin       =====  H    wxWindows is a C++ framework for developing multi-platform, graphicalD    applications from the same body of C++ code. Currently supportingD    Motif, Open Look and MS Windows, a Mac port is under development.4    A third-party port supports development using Xt.    Main features  )    +   Simple-to-use, object-oriented API J    +   Graphics calls include splines, polylines, rounded rectangles, etc.3    +   Simple programmatic panel/dialog item layout -    +   Support for menu bars and status lines     +   Toolbar class4    +   Pens, brushes, fonts, icons, cursors, bitmapsJ    +   Easy, object-oriented interprocess communication (DDE subset) under        MS Windows and UNIXA    +   Encapsulated PostScript generation and MS Windows printing     +   Print/preview framework#    +   Document/view/undo framework -    +   Memory-checking and debugging features     +   ODBC subset support7    +   Virtually automatic MDI support under MS Windows L    +   Support for MS Windows printer and file selector common dialogs, with        equivalents for UNIX G    +   Under MS Windows, support for copying metafiles to the clipboard F    +   Programmatic form facility for building form-like screens fast,!        with constraints on values D    +   Applications can access MS Windows Help or wxHelp help system    +   All source, examples G    +   Reference manual in PostScript, wxHelp, WinHelp, HTML, RTF forms     Additional features  H    +   Simple-to-use Windows program installation utility for delivering        your applicationsG    +   wxCLIPS: an interface to NASA's CLIPS, for rapid GUI prototyping          and application extensionA    +   wxPython: an IDE for rapid object-oriented GUI development A    +   Tex2RTF utility for maintaining online and printed manuals ;    +   Tree layout, graph layout, charting and grid classes 4    +   Contributed advanced editor/hypertext classes    +   Dialog Editor    Compilers supported  9    +   Most Windows compilers: MS Visual C++ 1.x/4.x/5.x, B        Borland 3.1/4.x/5.x, Symantec C++, Watcom C++ (WIN32 only),        GNU-WIN32)    +   Most UNIX compilers, including GCC     Platforms supported      +   All MS Windows variantsC    +   Most if not all UNIX variants, including Linux, Solaris 1.x, 3        Solaris 2.x, HP/UX, SGI IRIX, OSF/1, IBM AIX      +   VAX/VMS (partial support)@    +   Mac (68K and PPC) port in progress, with alphas available  M ============================================================================= M This kit is preconfigured for building under OpenVMS VAX & Alpha with DEC CXX I and DEC C compilers. Extra libraries compiled are xpm, image and wxstring   K The make processus is not able to include extra libraries into [.lib]wx.olb H (too long dcl line ...). I've put a small dcl script [.lib]extralibs.comN to complete the job. You can invoke it after the build if you want to have all modules into wx.olb.  ; Please, take allok at Stefean Hammes' VMS FAQ into the kit.    Patrick Moreau   pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr 