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+IMPORTANT!
+=========
+Guichan is currently in a beta stage. This means that the API is not fixed and
+may change in the future. Every API change will break compatibility between
+older versions of Guichan.
+
+INTRODUCTON TO GUICHAN
+======================
+Guichan is a C++ GUI library designed for games. It comes with a standard set
+of 'widgets' and can use several different objects for displaying graphics and
+capturing user input.  Guichan has an abstract design which allows users of
+Guichan to use different objects for displaying of graphics and grabbing of
+user input. Guichan comes with three implemented graphics objects (SDLGraphics,
+OpenGLGraphics and AllegroGraphics) and two implemented input objects (SDLInput
+and AllegroInput). Due to Guichan's extendible nature, new objects can also be
+created by the developer to suit their needs.  As Guichan is designed for
+games, Guichan lacks many features of more advanced GUI libraries (such as GTK
+and QT). However, a game developer may not normally require all the advanced
+features of the larger GUI libraries. Guichan aims to keep small and simple,
+thus avoiding the complication and large dependencies found with some other GUI
+libraries. Guichan is small but contains all basic GUI features making it ideal
+for games.
+
+Guichan allows the developer control over the initialization of external
+libraries, giving a degree of freedom which is almost required in game
+development, but not provided by some GUI libraries. Guichan should not be
+considered a full GUI library but rather a tool or helper library for game
+development.
+
+The basic nature of Guichan means that it comes with a small number of default
+widgets. There exists no themes or theme handling for Guichan, as their
+implementation would increase the size and complexity of the library
+unnecessarily.  Instead, the developer creates their own new widgets by
+inheriting from the standard widgets or by overloading standard widget
+functions. This makes Guichan much more flexible for customisation than theme
+based GUIs, and more natural to use for C++ developers, as they need only learn
+the API instead of a whole new theming system.
+
+FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DOWNLOADS
+==================================
+For more general information about Guichan and/or downloads related to Guichan
+please visit the Guichan homepage at http://guichan.sourceforge.net.
+
+GETTING HELP WITH GUICHAN
+=========================
+If you need help with Guichan, the best way to proceed is to ask questions
+either by joining the users mailing list or by joining our forum. Information
+about Guichan's mailing lists and our forum is found at the Guichan homepate at
+http://guichan.sourceforge.net.
+
+
+GETTING INVOLVED WITH GUICHAN DEVELOPMENT
+=========================================
+If you want to get involved with Guichan development, the best way to proceed
+is to suggest improvements to Guichan either by joining the developers mailing
+list or by joining our forum. Information about Guichan's mailing lists and our
+forum is found at the Guichan homepate at http://guichan.sourceforge.net.
+
+By Olof Naessén 2006-06-30.