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Linux-Announce Digest #281
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Linux-Announce Digest #281, Volume #4 Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:13:03 EST
Contents:
wxWindows 2.4.0 (Julian Smart)
Version 1.7 update of "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" ("M. Leo Cooper")
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.11.9 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
RE COMMERCIAL: 1U 1.3Ghz internet server for $489 (sales)
Ann: EMacro 2.4.2 (Bruce Ingalls)
COMPETITION Guess the new LGP games and win them! (Michael Simms)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 6.3 ("Sanface Software")
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From: Julian Smart <julian.smart@btopenworld.com>
Subject: wxWindows 2.4.0
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:55:30 CST
Announcing wxWindows 2.4.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
================================================================
January 7th, 2003 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to announce
an official 2.4.0 release of the mature cross-platform C++
application framework.
The following platforms are supported:
- Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Linux/Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
- Linux/Unix with X11
- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif
- VMS with GTK+ 1.x
- MacOS 8.6, 9.x and 10.x
- OS/2 (alpha release)
A non-GUI subset of wxWindows called wxBase is also supported
on most of these platforms.
To get wxWindows, go to the Download page at:
http://www.wxwindows.org
This is the first official release to support the many
enhancements to wxWindows since the 2.2.x series.
Improvements have been made to many areas, including:
- better support for Windows XP
- a much fuller Mac port
- additional platforms (OS/2 and bare X11)
- further type-safe container classes
- improved build system
- Unicode support for GTK+ and WIN32
- improved wxBase support
- wxArtProvider class allows tailoring of standard
wxWindows images
- translations for more languages
- mousewheel support
- support for more ODBC databases
- numerous bug fixes
*** About wxWindows
wxWindows is a comprehensive open-source, multi-platform C++ GUI
framework, that can be used to build commercial and free
software. First released in 1992, it's increasingly used by
organisations and individuals all over the world due to its
winning combination of sophistication, wide platform coverage,
ease of use, unrestrictive licence and vibrant user community.
For most ports, wxWindows adopts the native look and feel of
each platform since it uses the native widget sets. There is also
a generic widget set, used for the wxX11 port - no other widget set
is required, giving the potential for embedded use.
An extraordinary range of classes is provided - but don't be put
off by this because most people find wxWindows easier to learn
and use than MFC and other frameworks.
As well as comprehensive support for the usual widgets, advanced
features include: HTML viewing/printing, wxImage class providing
handlers for eading and writing many image types, resizeable panels
and dialogs on all platforms, document/view, OpenGL support,
HTML-based and context-sensitive help, wizards, drag and drop,
a grid class, ODBC support, threads, sockets, container classes,
a styled text control, and much more. An 1800-page reference manual
is provided in HTML, MS HTML Help, WinHelp, wxWindows Help and PDF
formats, and there are over 70 samples and demos.
If you're an MFC user, you'll find many wxWindows concepts
reassuringly familiar, while often clearer and more consistent.
If you're not, you should still find it intuitive from the start.
wxWindows bindings for several other languages are available,
including Python, Perl, Basic, Lua, JavaScript and Eiffel.
If you're considering wxWindows, do check out some of these links:
http://www.wxwindows.org/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
http://www.wxwindows.org/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
http://www.wxwindows.org/users.htm ; A list of some of our
; users
Have fun!
Julian Smart and the wxWindows team
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A small selection of the comments from the Feedback page:
"wxWindows 2.xx has been an absolute dream; putting together a
nice interface has been quite easy, and I'm especially pleased
that I can do most of our development on *nix with confidence
that only minor issues will have to get cleaned up when we build
on Windows."
"I use wxWindows as a GUI Toolkit for Python. Its stability,
flexibility and speed are the base of industrial strength
cross-platform GUI application design with interpreted languages
like Python. Porting is child's play. Thanks for this great
piece of software!"
"Excellent, stable and intuitive API. Very straightforward to
learn and easy to port Java, X11 and Win32 code to."
"Thanks heaps for the best piece of software I've ever come
across (wxWindows)."
"I chose wxWindows for a very much Windows-only application
because of the simplicity of the API compared to MFC and Win32
GDI programming. Aside from some minor mistakes in the manual
which confused me for a while, wxWin has been really easy to use
and increased my productivity immensely compared to using
another framework."
"wxWindows is a great product. One of its best features, IMHO,
are all the language bindings. It's very easy to prototype your
app in wxPython, then convert to a C/C++ app later."
"Porting to wxWindows is easy - I recently ported an MFC project
at work to wxGTK on Solaris, and changing all the MFC calls to
wxWindows calls only took a couple of hours for a 2 man-month
project... I've never had an easier porting experience.
wxWindows was intentially built to work like MFC to make it easy
to port, and they most certainly succeeded, with the notable
exception of OLE support. I ported a several man month project
in a day or two, and none of it was hard or confusing, it just
amounted to looking up the equivalent functions in the help. I
could do the conversion much faster now because I wouldn't have
to keep glancing at the web page."
"I'd like to take the opportunity and say a big thank you to all
the wxWin developers and contributors. wxWindows is the best
piece of software I have been using so far, and I can't believe
that I haven't discovered it earlier. I never thought that
cross-platform development could be so easy and simply cool.
Great stuff :)"
"Just wanted to commend you on wxWindows. As I'm reading the
code samples (the checklistbox right now), I'm realizing that
this is so intuitive and so Java-like in some parts of it,
especially with the way the layout works... Very good work and
thank you."
"I have used wxWindows in the past very successfully on multiple
projects, and think it's the bee's knees. Thanks for everything!"
"Well, I'm using wxWindows since 2 days and I'm already in love
with it :) The sizers saved me from writing a complete layout
solution myself. Great work! You guys rock!"
"wxWindows is jaw dropping amazing. Community support from the
mailing list is extraordinary. Are you sure this is free?"
"I love wxWindows. I can program 10 times faster than with MFC,
and almost everything works the first time. And unlike MFC,
there are (useful) examples and documentation. Thanks to you
guys who did all the work to develop this framework. Big kudos."
"ImageLinks now uses the Open Source version of wxWindows for
all its current GUI development. Doing this ensures that
everything interfaces cleanly and also makes it easier in the
long run to add other GUIs along the way because ImageLinks has
access to all the source code."
=========================================================================
Julian Smart mailto:julian.smart@btopenworld.com
3 Water Street, Stamford, http://www.anthemion.co.uk
Lincs, U.K., PE9 2NJ +44 (0)1780 765976
StoryLines: an intuitive writing tool http://www.storylinescentral.com
HelpBlocks: easy HTML help authoring http://www.helpblocks.com
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From: "M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel@theriver.com>
Subject: Version 1.7 update of "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide"
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:31:36 CST
Announcing the version 1.7 release of the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide."
This e-book tutorial and reference is the equivalent of a 518-page print book.
With 260 illustrative examples, the book covers virtually every aspect of
scripting.
The author invites comparisons with *any* of the commercially printed books on
shell scripting. His aim was to write "best of category" documentation.
"This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an
intermediate/advanced level of instruction ...all the while
sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves
as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference
and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The
exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to really
learn scripting is to write scripts."
-- from the Introduction
License: Open Publication License
This means the book is *free* and freely distributable.
URLs:
----
Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#abs
Sunsite:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/
Author's home page:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.7.tar.bz2 [ 512k ]
(bzip2-ed tarball containing SGML source, all example scripts,
and rendered HTML)
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.11.9
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:23:34 CST
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
HI!
Find a new release of web2ldap on
http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html
with several minor fixes (see below).
About:
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed to
run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with
FastCGI or SCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi or mod_scgi).
Ciao, Michael.
web2ldap 0.11.9
Release Date: 2003-01-07
* Fixed displaying the search LDAP URL.
* Fixed UnicodeError raised in case of LDAP filter contains a
NON-ASCII character and [Refine Filter] is chosen.
* Additional checking for invalid commands with URL redirect instead
of handled exception.
* LDAPSession.unbind() is explicitly called to immediately close the
LDAP connection if [Disconnect] was chosen by the user.
* The URL generated for [Disconnect] link does not contain a //
(empty double slash) anymore to avoid compability problems with
Apache 2.x.
* Corrected names of SSL-related configuration options in module
w2lapp.conninfo and example configuration file web2ldapcnf.hosts.
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: RE COMMERCIAL: 1U 1.3Ghz internet server for $489
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:39:40 CST
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TO find out more go and check:
http://www.storeanywhere.com.
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MSI 6368 Lan or equivalent motherboard
256mb PC-133 SDRAM
40G Hard disk
Integrated vedio card
Integrated Sound card
Lan card built on motherboard
52X CD-Rom, 1.44Floppy drive
Keyboard,Mouse(3 button)
1U black nice rackmount chassis
Second ethernet card optional(add $25)
Pre-install Redhat 8.x or other open source OS
you specify.
for only $ 489!
To place the order you can do so directly on line or call
718-934-7313. Any queries send e-mail to :
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<title></title>
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New Year's promotions by Storeanywhere.com.<br>
TO find out more go and check:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.storeanywhere.com">http://www.storeanywhere.com</a>.<br>
<br>
Intel Celeron 1.3Ghz CPU/Copper fan<br>
MSI 6368 Lan or equivalent motherboard<br>
256mb PC-133 SDRAM<br>
40G Hard disk<br>
Integrated vedio card<br>
Integrated Sound card<br>
Lan card built on motherboard<br>
52X CD-Rom, 1.44Floppy drive<br>
Keyboard,Mouse(3 button)<br>
1U black nice rackmount chassis<br>
Second ethernet card optional(add $25)</font><br>
Pre-install Redhat 8.x or other open source OS<br>
you specify.<br>
<br>
for only $ 489!<br>
<br>
To place the order you can do so directly on line or call<br>
718-934-7313. Any queries send e-mail to :<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sales@storeanywhere.com">sales@storeanywhere.com</a>.<br>
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From: Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.com>
Subject: Ann: EMacro 2.4.2
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:39:46 CST
Tired of learning a new editor for each platform or task?
Tired of constantly rewriting .emacs from scratch?
4 out of 5 gnus prefer EMacro!
Ring in 2003 with EMacro, the easy, portable .emacs.
Now easily packaged, EMacro is GPL, just like Emacs & XEmacs, which it
supports.
Emacs can be the last editor your need to learn for almost all OSes and
languages, and EMacro fully configures it, without having to learn elisp.
Get yours at
<url: http://emacro.sf.net/ >
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From: Michael Simms <michael@linuxgamepublishing.com>
Subject: COMPETITION Guess the new LGP games and win them!
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:45:11 CST
Linux Game Publishing ( http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com ) is running
a short competition. Guess from the clues on our website the titles of
the two games we will be announcing on Friday. If you guess correctly,
you will be entered into a prize draw to win the FIRST copies of each
game to come off the production line, signed by the LGP staff. A
completely unique prize. There will only ever be one copy of each game
like it.
The closing date for the competition is Friday 10th Jan, so time is
short, get your entries in ASAP! Winners will be announced as soon as
the titles are announced.
Thanks
--
Michael Simms - CEO, Linux Game Publishing
http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com
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From: "Sanface Software" <sanface@sanface.com>
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 6.3
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 06:50:47 CST
We would like to announce txt2pdf 6.3 version.
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
txt2pdf is shareware; it is a very flexible and powerful Perl5 script
that converts text files to PDF format files, so you can use it in every
operating systems supported by Perl5, including Linux in every its
distribution on every processor (e.g. zaurus, os/390).
It's simple to design background like invoices, orders etc.
Here nice examples made using txt2pdf PRO
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/Purchase_Order.pdf
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/invoice.pdf
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/hfmus.pdf
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/heraldbill.pdf
If you prefer we also distribute executables for Windows, Linux,
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Mac OS X. Inside the Windows version is Visual
txt2pdf, a VB GUI.
What's new in this version
Korean font support
Updated FAQ
Test txt2pdf 6.3!
You can find it at http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
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