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Added important information about the status of MDI support to the readme. Also some other minor changes.
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1 This is a stable release of Dynamic Windows version 2.0.0.
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3 The current Dynamic Windows source base is stable on
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4 OS/2, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. The Mac (Cocoa)
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5 version appears stable but has not undergone harsh testing.
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7 Known problems:
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9 Boxes don't adhere to ratios on Unix.
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10 MDI does not work on GTK3 and is not implemented the same on Mac.
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11 At this time we cannot recommend using MDI in new code,
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12 but it will be supported for existing code on OS/2, Win and GTK2.
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13 If support for MDI improves on GTK3/Mac this status may change.
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15 Known limitations:
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17 It is not safe on all platforms to operate on widgets before they
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18 are packed. For portability pack widgets before operating on them.
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20 On Windows a slider control will only work properly if it is the
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21 only slider in a box. If there is more than one slider control
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22 in a box then signals may get misdirected to the wrong control.
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24 On Unix (GTK) the window manager border is not a constant value
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25 so environment variables DW_BORDER_WIDTH and DW_BORDER_HEIGHT
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26 are used for proper positioning.
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28 On Mac if performing Dynamic Windows operations on secondary
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29 threads which do not terminate, it may be required to call
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30 a Mac specific DW function _dw_pool_drain() at the end of the
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31 thread's loop to prevent memory leaks.
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35 OS/2 is currently missing the Calendar and HTML widgets because
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36 the system does not support them by default. Looking into writing
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37 custom ones or importing functionality from available libraries.
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39 Changes from version 1.1:
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40 Added support for MacOS 10.5 and higher Intel and PPC via Cocoa.
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41 Added initial (unstable) support for GTK version 3.
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42 Added support for Windows themes on XP and higher.
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43 Added scrollbox widgets, which function like boxes but...
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44 scrollbars allow you to pack more into them than the visible area.
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45 Added dw_window_get_font() for checking the font used on a widget.
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46 Added dw_container_change_row_title() for changing a row pointer after insert.
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47 Added clipboard support on OS/2.
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48 Added HICN data type for icon handles an changed icon functions to use it.
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49 Added DW_RESOURCE() macro for casting to HICN when using resource IDs.
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50 Added support for borderless buttons except on Windows (DW_BS_NOBORDER).
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51 Changed the return codes of dw_container_setup, dw_filesystem_setup and
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52 dw_event_wait(). Please check any code that use these functions.
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53 Changed GTK2+ now supports font name styles like the other platforms.
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54 Enhanced transparent bitblt on OS/2 and Windows. OS/2 now supports
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55 transparent color and Windows now supports 32bit alpha bitblt.
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56 Removed thread limits on Windows and GTK using thread local storage.
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58 Dynamic Windows Documentation is available at:
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62 If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at:
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