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In response to Re: WX Widgets Version  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Thank you both for your feedback.
I am assuming that I should be able to pick up the development sources from
GIT or similar and make it work (as well as it does at the moment).
Thanks again.
David

On Friday 27 February 2015 15:04:35 you wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Richard PALO <richard@netbsd.org> wrote:
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> > Le 26/02/15 17:47, Dave Page a écrit :
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Datatone Mail List
> >>
> >> <lists@datatone.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> I have WX Widgets 3.0.2, which includes WX Widgets 2.8 compatibility.
> >>>
> >>> My PGAdmin3 compilation (configuration) fails with:
> >>>
> >>> configure: error: The version of wxWidgets required (2.8) is not
> >>> supported by the installations in /usr.
> >>>
> >>> My WX Widgets configuration is:
> >>>
> >>> ======
> >>> Configured wxWidgets 3.0.2 for `x86_64-dt-linux-gnu'
> >>>
> >>>   Which GUI toolkit should wxWidgets use?                 GTK+ 2 with
> >>>   support
> >>>
> >>> for GTK+ printing libnotify
> >>>
> >>>   Should wxWidgets be compiled into single library?       no
> >>>   Should wxWidgets be linked as a shared library?         yes
> >>>   Should wxWidgets support Unicode?                       yes (using
> >>>   wchar_t)
> >>>   What level of wxWidgets compatibility should be enabled?
> >>>
> >>>                                        wxWidgets 2.6      no
> >>>                                        wxWidgets 2.8      yes
> >>>
> >>>   Which libraries should wxWidgets use?
> >>>
> >>>                                        STL                no
> >>>                                        jpeg               sys
> >>>                                        png                sys
> >>>                                        regex              builtin
> >>>                                        tiff               sys
> >>>                                        zlib               sys
> >>>                                        expat              sys
> >>>                                        libmspack          no
> >>>                                        sdl                no
> >>>
> >>> =======
> >>>
> >>> So that you can see that wxWidgets 2.8 IS supported (as a compatibility
> >>> mode).
> >>>
> >>> Is it the case that PGAdmin3 SHOULD compile and work with the latest WX
> >>> Widgets, provided that 2.8 compatibility is enabled?
> >>
> >> This has never been tested as far as I'm aware. It does work with 3.0
> >> in general, though there are a few glitches.
> >>
> >>> If so, is there a problem with the configuration that fails to detect
> >>> this
> >>> support?
> >>
> >> The config script certainly doesn't know how to use 3.0 in 2.8
> >> compatibility mode.
> >
> > I believe there are a few things to verify and test enabling this to be
> > possible: http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/overview_changes_since28.html
> >
> > It *would* be nice to migrate to the new wx Widgets code base, though.
>
> The vast majority of the work to support 3.0 (in non-compatibility
> mode) has been done. It just needs some tweaks. I tried it a couple of
> days ago as it happens, and the only issue I saw in a quick test was
> that the "Connecting to server" busy panel now sits on top of the
> "Enter password" dialogue, instead of the other way round. Patches
> welcome :-)




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