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Android: During dw_file_browse() request read/write access to external storage. Was hoping this would fix the file access problem in DWIB but sadly it did not, however I still think we need this permission so leaving the code changes. It also required updating the androidx libraries and adding the activity library. After updating there were some reported code errors so those are fixed in this commit as well.
author bsmith@81767d24-ef19-dc11-ae90-00e081727c95
date Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:09:08 +0000
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This is a stable release of Dynamic Windows version 3.3.

The current Dynamic Windows source base is considered stable on:
OS/2, Mac, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.
The source base is considered beta on: iOS, Android and GTK4.

Build Recommendations:
MacOS:
    11-12: configure --with-arch=modern --with-minver=10.14
        64bit Intel and Apple Silicon (ARM64) with Dark Mode.
    10.13-10.15: configure --with-minver=10.8
        64bit Intel with Notifications, Dark Mode for 10.14-15.
    10.8-10.12: configure --with-arch=intel --with-minver=10.8
        64 and 32bit Intel with Notifications but no Dark Mode.
    10.5-10.6: configure --with-arch=classic --with-minver=10.5
        32bit PowerPC, 64bit and 32bit Intel classic support.
        No Notifications, Dark Mode nor NSView container/trees.
Windows:
    7-11: Visual Studio 2017-2022, WebView2 and WinToast.
        Should run on Vista and later, supports domain sockets
        on Windows 10, oldsockpipe() on older versions.
    XP: Visual Studio 2010.
        Should run on XP and later, with Aero on Vista and 7.
        No Notifications nor WebView2 and oldsockpipe() on all.
    2000: Visual Studio 2005. Remove -DAEROGLASS from CFLAGS.
        Should run on 2000 and later, no Aero, Notifications, 
        WebView2 and oldsockpipe() on all versions.

Known problems:

Boxes with no expandable items will have their contents centered on 
    GTK2 instead of top or left justified on the other platforms.
GTK3/4 due to changes in the core architecture does not support
    widgets that are smaller than what is contained within them,
    unless they use scrolled windows. GTK2 and other platforms do.
    Therefore windows or other elements may expand their size to 
    fit the contents, overriding requested size settings.
In Unicode mode on OS/2 there are some bugs in the input controls,
    minor bugs in entryfield based controls and major bugs in the MLE.
    The text displays properly but the cursor and selection jumps
    around oddly when passing over multibyte characters.

Known limitations:

It is not safe on all platforms to operate on widgets before they
are packed.  For portability pack widgets before operating on them.

Future features:

OS/2 is currently missing the HTML widget because the system does 
not support it by default. Looking into importing functionality 
from available libraries (Firefox, Webkit, Qt, etc).
OS/2 is also missing a notification system, so the new notification
APIs are not yet supported on OS/2.  May implement our own system 
if a popular notification system is not already in existance.

Changes from version 3.2:
Added tree widget/control support for iOS and Android.
Removed the lib and dll directories previously used on Windows and OS/2.
    On Windows x86 and x64 subdirectories are created automatically
    This allows platform specific versions to be accessible without a 
    rebuild. Also removed the DWDLLDIR variable on Windows. If you have
    DWLIBDIR pointing to the "lib" subdirectly please remove "\lib".


Dynamic Windows Documentation is available at:

http://dbsoft.org/dw_help.php

If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at:

brian@dbsoft.org

Thanks!

Brian Smith