Lit Window Productions Newschannel

wxWindows changes its name

info@litwindow.com — 23 Feb 2004 15:30:00 GMT

Following a lengthy and sometimes intense debate in the wxWindows community, the open source, cross platform GUI library wxWindows will change its name to wxWidgets after Microsoft last year approached founder and project leader Julian Smart and domain holder Robin Dunn asking them to change the name to avoid infringing on their Windows trademark. Microsoft has pledged some money in return, which will be used to fund further development of wxWidgets after all costs associated with the name change have been covered.

Read the official announcement...

Anthemion DialogBlocks and wxVisualSetup Bundle

info@litwindow.com — 28 Jan 2004 07:05:00 GMT

Anthemion Software Ltd and Lit Window Productions have agreed to bundle their products together. Customers buying wxVisualSetup and DialogBlocks together save € 25 / $ 25. (Offer valid through March 31st, 2004)

Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows.

wxVisualSetup is a tool that integrates the Open Source Crossplatform Library wxWindows into the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET product line. It enables Intellisense, integrates the wxWindows documentation into the Visual Studio Help Collection and features a project wizard that makes creating new wxWindows projects easy and simple.

Lit Window Productions releases wxVisualSetup 1.0

info@litwindow.com — 4 Jan 2004 12:54:00 GMT

wxVisualSetup is a collection of enhancements for Microsoft Visual Studio which makes programming with wxWindows fun and productive. It contains a wizard for creating new wxWindows projects, makes intellisense work with wxWindows, integrates the wxWindows documentation into the Visual Studio help collection and sets up most of the "Tips&Tricks" documented on the Lit Window Productions website.

C++BuilderX announced.

julian@anthemion.co.uk — 22 Nov 2003

November 22nd, 2003. Borland have announced C++BuilderX, a C++ cross-platform development environment with a technology preview of wxWindows support. Anthemion Software is working closely with Borland and other wxWindows developers to integrate the best native C++ GUI framework with the Borland product.

Welcome to the Lit Window Productions News Feed.

Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:42:00 GMT

This feed will list interesting tidbits around wxWindows and other programming and software engineering news as well as carry announcements from Lit Window Productions and other associated websites (such as Anthemion Software). The update frequency will probably be quite low, no more than one or two new articles a month, but that is what makes RSS such a good thing. You can keep up to date with whats happening without having to check the website or cluttering your inbox with numerous 'Newsletters'.

I wish you all a happy and successful 2004.

Best regards, Hajo Kirchhoff (Lit Window Productions)