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Date: 31 Aug 1998 14:17:41 -0000
From: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
To: wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de,
  wxwin-announce@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: New Xt-port release of wxWindows available

Hello,

After more than one year of continuous (though mostly minor) updates
and bugfixes, I have taken the liberty to advance the version number
of wxxt to 1.67.  The new release is available in source form from

  ftp://ftp.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de/pub/wmglo/wxxt-1.67.tar.gz

with the samples now in a separate package:

  ftp://ftp.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de/pub/wmglo/wxxt-1.67-samples.tar.gz

(most probably, you want to get the samples as well and unpack them in
the wxxt-1.67 directory before building).

For _new_ wxWin applications, I would probably go for wxWin-2.0 and
the Gtk-port at this stage.  However for backward compatibility and
interoperability with Xt widget code (while avoiding Motif), the Xt
port of wxWindows is still very viable IMHO.  Compatibility with
wxMotif-1.68 is improved, but probably still not perfect (all problem
reports are welcome!).

If it doesn't turn out that I've introduced ugly bugs in the new
release, I will upload it to the main wxWin ftp site and possibly also
create a binary package for Linux-libc6.  I'm appending a list of
changes from the previous 1.66d release made by Markus Holzem.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
* kept libwx_xt and libwx_xtwidgets as separate libraries instead of
  creating a single, large libwx

* added src/xt-glx and src/xt-thread additional libraries, generated
  when configuring with `--with-opengl' and `--with-threads' respectively

* GLCanvas is replaced with wxGLCanvas (incompatible change), which
  works well with non-default visuals, private colormaps and Mesa-2.6

* added disabling/enabling of cancellation in wxThread for POSIX threads;
  also there is doc++-structured documentation in APP_thread.h now
  (see my homepage for full HTML documentation)

* fixed makefiles and setup/* scripts to not depend on GNU find or
  old shells (e.g. bash-2.0 rejects `do (...) done')

* fixed sharedIrix and sharedLinux to include major version number in
  the soname

* improved `configure' for Irix 5.x and 6.x

* fixed focus bug in src/xt-widgets/Common.w (surfaced with WindowMaker)

* cleanup DEV_dc.h for use with glibc-2

* added colour allocation in private colourmaps

* closed memory leak in wxWindowDC::DrawBitmap8()

* switched from bcopy() to memcpy() in src/xt/IPC_{client,socket}.cpp

* fixed `distrib_base' target in the main Makefile

* use libtool for shared libraries generation

Release 1.67, Aug 1998

* wxTextWindow fixes thanks to Kari Grano <grano@cs.Helsinki.FI>

* focus fixes thanks to reports by Jon Woithe

* uninitialized variable in MultiList fixed (thanks to report from Jon
  Woithe)

* ScrollWin fixed for K&R compilers (thanks Kai Benndorf)

* use wxPostDelete for `close window' events too (thanks Kai Benndorf)

* fixed wxWindowDC::DrawBitmap8() for 24bit displays

* another minor leak in wxText plugged

* wxCursor constructor now includes `maskbits' parameter as in wx-1.67

* some additional member functions for compatibility with
  wx-1.67-Motif

* wxListBox shows and hides scrollbars automatically (thanks Kai Benndorf
  for suggestion and placeList() implementation)

Regards,
Wolfram Gloger
(wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de, http://www.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de/~wmglo/)