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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / changes.txt

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                             wxWidgets Change Log
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INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
================================


        Notice that these changes are described in more details in
        the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
        please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.


Unicode-related changes
-----------------------

The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
changes:

- Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
  either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
  the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
  strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
  backwards compatible except:

  a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
     "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
     base class version.

  b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
     wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
     should be replaced with an empty string.


- Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
  wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
  type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
  to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).

- wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
  but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
  to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
  also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
  bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
  Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
  their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.


wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
------------------------------------

wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
source ODBC libraries in the future projects.

Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
open for futher development by volunteers.

The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
"official" library stc and in the core lib.


Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
  need to update your code if you access these files directly.

- wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
  necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
  with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.

- Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
  other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
  instead.

- Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
  according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
  new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
  on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
  sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
  proportions to return to the old behaviour.

- wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
  your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.

- wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
  than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
  can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
  you need the extra features.

- wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
  reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
  your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
  derived classes to use const reference as well.


Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
-----------------------------------------------------------

- WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
  you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4

- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
  need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
  uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.

- Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
  longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
  in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
  code that depends on the result being wxChar.

- The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
  or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
  char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
  (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
  available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.

- The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
  used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
  this won't compile:
     switch (str[i]) { ... }
  and has to be replaced with this:
     switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }

- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
  const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
  and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
  apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
  
  + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
    take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
    between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
    matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
    explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.

    Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
    Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
    of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
    some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.

  + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
    convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
    error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
    wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")

- wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
  build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.

- DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
  wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
  conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
     for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
  This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
     for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )

- Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.

- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
  are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
  must be used instead.

- wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
  with void pointers.

- Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.

- Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
  wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.

- wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
  derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
  can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.

- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
  implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
  necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
  next/previous control sibling instead.

- Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
  wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
  The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.

- Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
  have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
  wxBitmapType in your code.

Deprecated methods and their replacements
-----------------------------------------

- wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
- wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
  or wxStringBufferLength instead.
- wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
  specified so this style should simply be removed
- wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
  wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
  to use
- wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
  terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
  "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
  use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText 
- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
  respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
  use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
  of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
  use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
- wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
  There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
  not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
- wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
  different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
  passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
  it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
  code.



Major new features in this release
----------------------------------

- wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
  simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
  past.

- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
  depending on what is optimal for the target platform.

- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.


2.9.0
-----

All:

- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
- Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
- Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
- Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
- Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
- Allow using  wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
- Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
- Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
- Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
- wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
  wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
- Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
- Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
- wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
  Linnakangas).
- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
  if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
- Added wxVector<T> class templates
- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
  wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
  now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
- Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
- Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
- Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
- Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).

All (Unix):

- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).

All (GUI):

- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
- Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
- Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
- Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
- Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
- Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
- Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
- Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
- New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
- Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
- Slovak translation added.
- Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
- Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
- Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
- Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
- Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
- Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
- Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
- Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
- Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
- Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
- Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
- Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
- Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
- Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
- Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
  behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
- Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
  to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
  (Szczepan Holyszewski).
- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
  wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
  topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
  via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
  Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
- Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
- Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
  from any window class, not just wxPanel.
- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
- Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
- Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
- Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
- Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).

wxGTK:

- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
- Native keyboard navigation implementation.
- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
- Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
- wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
- wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
- wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
- Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
- Added support for GTK+ print backend
- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).

wxMac:

- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
- Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
- Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
- Added native wxCollapsiblePane

wxMSW:

- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
- Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
- Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko)
- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk)
- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox.

wxX11:

- Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
- Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).


2.8.8
-----

All:

- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()

All (GUI):

- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
- Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
  charset in ANSI build.

wxMSW:

- Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
- Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
- Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
- Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK

wxGTK:

- Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
  so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)


2.8.7
-----

All:

- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).

wxMSW:

- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
  by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).

wxGTK:

- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
  a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.


2.8.6
-----

All:

- Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
- Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)


2.8.5
-----

All (GUI):

- Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
- Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
- Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
  enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
- Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
  embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
- Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
- Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
  invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
- Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.

wxMSW:

- Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
- Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
- Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
- Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
- Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
- Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
- Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)

wxGTK:

- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
- More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
- Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
- Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
- Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
- Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
- Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
- Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
- Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)


2.8.4
-----

All:

- Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
- Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
  overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
- Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()

All (Unix):

- Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)

All (GUI):

- Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
- Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
- Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)

wxMSW:

- Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
  it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
- Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
- Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
- Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
- Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
- Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
- Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
- Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)

wxGTK:

- Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
- Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
- Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)

wxMac:

- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)

wxUniv:

- Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
- Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background


2.8.3
-----

All:

- Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
- Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)

wxMac:

- Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)

wxMSW:

- Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files

wxGTK:

- Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys


2.8.2
-----

All:

- Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
- Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
- Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
- Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
- Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
- Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
- Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
- Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
- Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)

Unix Ports:

- Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build

wxMSW

- Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
- Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.

wxGTK

- Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build

wxMac

- Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
- Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.

wxX11:

- Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.

wxUniv:

- Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.


2.8.1
-----

All:

- Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
- wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
- Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
- Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
- Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).

wxMSW:

- Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
- Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.

wxGTK:

- Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).

wxUniv:

- It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.


2.8.0
-----

All:

- Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
- wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
- wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
- Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
- New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
  a stream that is seekable.
- Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
- Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
  for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).

wxMSW:

- Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
- Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
- Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
- Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).

wxGTK:

- Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
- Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.


2.7.2
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All:

- Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
- Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
- Added wxTar streams.
- Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
- Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().

All (GUI):

- wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
  calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
- Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
  wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
- Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
- Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
- Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
  wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
  easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
- Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
  formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
  formatting.
- Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
- Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
- wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
- wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.

Unix Ports:

- Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
  program (Francesco Montorsi).

wxGTK:

- More RTL work.
- Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
- Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
  GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
- wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.


2.7.1
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All:

- Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
- Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
- Added reference counting for wxVariant.
- For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
  of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
- Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
- wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
  event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
  "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
  in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.

All (GUI):

- Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
  Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
- wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
- Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
- Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
- Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
- Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
  consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
- wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
  fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
- Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
- Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).

wxMSW:

- Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
- wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
- Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
  parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
  high-contrast theme).
- Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).

wxMac:

- Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
  to the SDK.

wxGTK:

- Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
- Setting cursor now works for all controls.
- Implemented right-to-left support.
- Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
- Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).

wxUniv:

- Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().


2.7.0
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All:

- Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
- wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
- Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
- Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
- Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
- Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
- Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
- Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
- Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
  during a search and replace.
- Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
  are both used in the same program.
- Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
- wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
- Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
- Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
- Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
- Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
- wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
- Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
- Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
- Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
- Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
- Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
- wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
- Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
- Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
- Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
- wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
- Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
- The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
  and WXK*PAGEDOWN.  If you have switch statements that use both
  constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
  versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
- Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
  the first time it was called.
- Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
- Added wxString::EndsWith().
- wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
  Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
- Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
- Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
- Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
- Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
- Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
- Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).

All (GUI):

- New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
- Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
- Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
- Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
- Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
- Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
- Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
- Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
- Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
- Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
- Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
- Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
- wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
  wxComboBox and wxChoice).
- wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
- Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
  based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
- Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
- All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
  options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
  wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
- Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
  and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
- wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
- Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
- Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
  windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
- Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
- Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
- Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
- Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
  by Sandro Sigala).
- Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
- Added wxGetMouseState function.
- Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
  allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
- wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
  best size.
- wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
- wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
- More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
- Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
- Added ability to use templates with static event tables
  with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
- Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
- Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
- Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
- Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
  behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
- Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
- Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
- Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
- UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
- More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
- Added wxListBox::HitTest().
- Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
- Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
- Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
  wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
- Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
- wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
- Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
- Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
- Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
- Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
- Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
- Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
- Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
- Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
- Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
- Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
- wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
- Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
  implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.