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wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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2.6.1
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All:

- Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.

wxMSW:

- Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox.

wxMac:

- Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
  .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
- Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
  incorrect state.

2.6.0
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All:

- wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
- Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.

All (GUI):

- Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
  non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.

wxMSW:

- Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
- Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
- wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.

wxWinCE:

- Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.

wxGTK:
- New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
    --with-gtk             Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
    --with-gtk=1           Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
    --with-gtk=2           Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
    --with-gtk=any         Use any available GTK
- wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
- Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.

wxMac:
- Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions

2.5.5
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All:

- wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
  user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
- Added wxDebugReport class.
- Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
- Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
- Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
- Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
- Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)

All (GUI):

- Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
  GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
- Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
- Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
  the whole virtual area.
- Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
- Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
  isn't used to set the window size.
- Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
- wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
  splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
- Added wxImage::IsTransparent().

Unix:

- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.

wxMSW:

- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
- fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
- wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
- Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
  handling (Jamie Gadd).

wxGTK:

- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
- Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
- Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
- Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
- GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
  and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).

wxMac:

- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.

wxPalmOS:

- Native wxRadioBox implementation.

wxWinCE:

- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
  You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
  with correct titlebar style.
- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
  PocketPC guidelines
- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
  to the dialog's toolbar.

2.5.4
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All:

- wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
  use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
- new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
- large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)