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wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
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- wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour
- wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
  even compile)


2.7.0
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All:

- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
- Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation
- wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated. Use wxGetCwd() instead.

All (GUI):

- Added wxTreeBook.
- 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)

wxMSW:

- wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
- Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
- Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
- Fixed MDI context menu problem.
- Removed __WIN95__ define

wxGTK:

- wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated
- Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support
- wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK
- Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
  lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
- Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
  class was used.

wxMac:

- Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
- Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
- Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
  Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
- Improved support for help and application menu items.
- Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
- Added support for 10.4 context menu.
- Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
- Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
- Corrected idle wake-up.
- Corrected wxExecute.
- Now makes use of full printer resolution.
- Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
- Now uses simple hide/how transition for top-level windows.
- Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
- Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
  if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
- Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
  were found.
- Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
- Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
  under Mach-O.
- wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
  specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
- Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).

wxWinCE:

- Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
- Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
- All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
- ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
- wxDisplay enumeration support.
- Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.

Unix:

- NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.


2.6.2
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All:

- Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
- Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
- Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
- Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
- Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
- Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
- Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
- wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
- Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
- Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
- Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
- Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.

All (GUI):

- Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
- wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
  added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
- Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
- Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
- Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).