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Date: 08 May 96 10:52:38 EDT
From: Thomas -0S11 Heurung <HEURUN-T AT SiCaMISA DOT MHS DOT CompuServe DOT COM>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: wxWindows, again
Message-ID: <960508145237_555063.0_EHF54-1@CompuServe.COM>

My apologies. I thought it is a well known program, hence I didn't post any 
additional informations.
I've included part of the readme file that comes with wxWindows:

   =====                  Announcing wxWindows 1.66                  =====
   =====  A Free C++ GUI toolkit for Motif, Open Look, Windows 3.1,  =====
   =====                  Windows 95 and Windows NT                  =====
   =====                           --o--                             =====
   =====           http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jacs/wxwin.html         =====

   wxWindows is a C++ framework for developing multi-platform, graphical
   applications from the same body of C++ code. Currently supporting
   Motif, Open Look and MS Windows, a Mac port is under development.
   A third-party port supports development using Xt.

 Main features

   +   Simple-to-use, object-oriented API
   +   Graphics calls include splines, polylines, rounded rectangles, etc.
   +   Simple programmatic panel/dialog item layout
   +   Support for menu bars and status lines
   +   Toolbar class
   +   Pens, brushes, fonts, icons, cursors, bitmaps
   +   Easy, object-oriented interprocess communication (DDE subset) under
       MS Windows and UNIX
   +   Encapsulated PostScript generation and MS Windows printing
   +   Print/preview framework
   +   Document/view/undo framework
   +   Memory-checking and debugging features
   +   ODBC subset support
   +   Virtually automatic MDI support under MS Windows
   +   Support for MS Windows printer and file selector common dialogs, 
with
       equivalents for UNIX
   +   Under MS Windows, support for copying metafiles to the clipboard
   +   Programmatic form facility for building form-like screens fast,
       with constraints on values
   +   Applications can access MS Windows Help or wxHelp help system
   +   All source, examples
   +   Reference manual in PostScript, wxHelp, WinHelp, HTML, RTF forms

 Additional features

   +   Simple-to-use Windows program installation utility for delivering
       your applications
   +   wxCLIPS: an interface to NASA's CLIPS, for rapid GUI prototyping
       and application extension
   +   wxPython: an IDE for rapid object-oriented GUI development
   +   Tex2RTF utility for maintaining online and printed manuals
   +   Tree layout, graph layout, charting and grid classes
   +   Contributed advanced editor/hypertext classes
   +   Dialog Editor

 Compilers supported

   +   Most Windows compilers: MS Visual C++ 1.x/4.x, Borland 3.1/4.x,
       Symantec C++, Watcom C++ (WIN32 only)
   +   Most UNIX compilers, including GCC

Ciao
      Thomas

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