Mercurial > dwindows
changeset 1011:ea15fee48da8
Updates to the readme file for the upcoming 2.0 release.
| author | bsmith@81767d24-ef19-dc11-ae90-00e081727c95 |
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| date | Sun, 15 May 2011 20:17:22 +0000 |
| parents | 9af693aafa93 |
| children | 09c84a9aefe3 |
| files | readme |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/readme Sat May 14 06:40:27 2011 +0000 +++ b/readme Sun May 15 20:17:22 2011 +0000 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -This is an beta release of dynamic windows version 1.0.0. +This is a stable release of Dynamic Windows version 2.0.0. -The current Dynamic Windows source base is relatively stable on -OS/2, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. When the beta -feature set is stable I will release a final. +The current Dynamic Windows source base is stable on +OS/2, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. The Mac (Cocoa) +version appears stable but has not undergone harsh testing. Known problems: @@ -20,22 +20,28 @@ On OS/2 and Windows MLE controls scrolled position may get corrupted when resizing. -On Unix the window manager border is not a constant value so -environment variables DW_BORDER_WIDTH and DW_BORDER_HEIGHT +On Unix (GTK) the window manager border is not a constant value +so environment variables DW_BORDER_WIDTH and DW_BORDER_HEIGHT are used for proper positioning. +On Mac if performing Dynamic Windows operations on secondary +threads which do not terminate, it may be required to call +a Mac specific DW function _dw_pool_drain() at the end of the +thread's loop to prevent memory leaks. + Future features: -Implementing a full set of controls. Most controls common to OS/2, Windows and -GTK have been implemented. Although not all the functionality of the native -controls have been integrated into Dynamic Windows. +OS/2 is currently missing the Calendar and HTML widgets because +the system does not support them by default. Looking into writing +custom ones or importing functionality from available libraries. + +Dynamic Windows Documentation is available at: -Documentation, I have all the functions relatively well documented in the -source code but a developer's manual and online API reference will need to -be written. +http://dbsoft.org/help_functions.php -If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at -dbsoft@technologist.com +If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at: + +brian@dbsoft.org Thanks!