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	11	<div class="document" id="recent-changes-for-wxpython">
	12	<h1 class="title">Recent Changes for wxPython</h1>
	13	<div class="section" id="id1">
	14	<h1><a name="id1">2.6.0.1</a></h1>
	15	<p>Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
	16	Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
	17	wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.</p>
	18	<p>wxMSW: Fix for controls when the system text fg colour is not black.</p>
	19	<p>wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
	20	both has an icon and is a submenu.</p>
	21	<p>wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
	22	resized.</p>
	23	<p>wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
	24	in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
	25	DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
	26	instead of current values.</p>
	27	<p>Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
	28	wxArrayString so it uses the wxPy default encoding.</p>
	29	<p>Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.</p>
	30	</div>
	31	<div class="section" id="id2">
	32	<h1><a name="id2">2.6.0.0</a></h1>
	33	<ul class="simple">
	34	<li>26-Apr-2005</li>
	35	</ul>
	36	<p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
	37	auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
	38	supposed to.</p>
	39	<p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.</p>
	40	<p>wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.</p>
	41	<p>wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
	42	changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
	43	either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.</p>
	44	<p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
	45	to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
	46	to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
	47	through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
	48	methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
	49	wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
	50	build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
	51	will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
	52	able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
	53	the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
	54	encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)</p>
	55	<blockquote>
	56	<table border="1" class="docutils">
	57	<colgroup>
	58	<col width="49%" />
	59	<col width="51%" />
	60	</colgroup>
	61	<tbody valign="top">
	62	<tr><td>AddTextRaw</td>
	63	<td>AddTextUTF8</td>
	64	</tr>
	65	<tr><td>InsertTextRaw</td>
	66	<td>InsertTextUTF8</td>
	67	</tr>
	68	<tr><td>GetCurLineRaw</td>
	69	<td>GetCurLineUTF8</td>
	70	</tr>
	71	<tr><td>GetLineRaw</td>
	72	<td>GetLineUTF8</td>
	73	</tr>
	74	<tr><td>GetSelectedTextRaw</td>
	75	<td>GetSelectedTextUTF8</td>
	76	</tr>
	77	<tr><td>GetTextRangeRaw</td>
	78	<td>GetTextRangeUTF8</td>
	79	</tr>
	80	<tr><td>SetTextRaw</td>
	81	<td>SetTextUTF8</td>
	82	</tr>
	83	<tr><td>GetTextRaw</td>
	84	<td>GetTextUTF8</td>
	85	</tr>
	86	<tr><td>AppendTextRaw</td>
	87	<td>AppendTextUTF8</td>
	88	</tr>
	89	</tbody>
	90	</table>
	91	</blockquote>
	92	<p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
	93	method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
	94	a particular style.</p>
	95	<p>wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
	96	EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.</p>
	97	<p>wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.</p>
	98	<dl class="docutils">
	99	<dt>XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.</dt>
	100	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	101	<li>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).</li>
	102	<li>Hide command for test window.</li>
	103	<li>Replacing classes works better.</li>
	104	<li>Added Locate tool.</li>
	105	</ul>
	106	</dd>
	107	</dl>
	108	</div>
	109	<div class="section" id="id3">
	110	<h1><a name="id3">2.5.5.1</a></h1>
	111	<ul class="simple">
	112	<li>8-Apr-2005</li>
	113	</ul>
	114	<p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'</p>
	115	<p>wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
	116	activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
	117	so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
	118	value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
	119	provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.</p>
	120	<p>Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()</p>
	121	<p>wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
	122	available.</p>
	123	<p>Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
	124	wx.ImageHistogram.</p>
	125	<p>wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
	126	well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
	127	did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
	128	children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
	129	This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
	130	2.5.4.1.</p>
	131	<p>wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
	132	end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
	133	#1076226)</p>
	134	<p>wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
	135	crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)</p>
	136	<dl class="docutils">
	137	<dt>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:</dt>
	138	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	139	<li>Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled</li>
	140	<li>Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
	141	the width of any column.</li>
	142	</ul>
	143	</dd>
	144	</dl>
	145	<p>wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
	146	now possible.</p>
	147	<p>wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.</p>
	148	<p>wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox</p>
	149	<p>Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
	150	wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.</p>
	151	<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
	152	wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
	153	used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
	154	older generic file dialog is used.</p>
	155	<p>wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
	156	#1166587)</p>
	157	<p>wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
	158	alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
	159	still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
	160	this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.</p>
	161	<p>Added MDI support to XRC</p>
	162	<p>Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
	163	control that is able to display an animated GIF file.</p>
	164	<p>wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
	165	vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.</p>
	166	<p>wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
	167	upper line is not cliped when there is no label.</p>
	168	<p>wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
	169	affecting the label.</p>
	170	<p>wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
	171	events in a wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
	172	<p>Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
	173	list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.</p>
	174	<p>Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
	175	folks.</p>
	176	<p>Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.</p>
	177	</div>
	178	<div class="section" id="id4">
	179	<h1><a name="id4">2.5.4.1</a></h1>
	180	<ul class="simple">
	181	<li>16-Mar-2005</li>
	182	</ul>
	183	<p>wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
	184	wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
	185	GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.</p>
	186	<p>Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
	187	wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.</p>
	188	<p>wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
	189	consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
	190	out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
	191	then calling GetValue().</p>
	192	<dl class="docutils">
	193	<dt>Some XRC changes:</dt>
	194	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	195	<li>Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog</li>
	196	<li>No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms</li>
	197	<li>Notebook page bitmaps are now supported</li>
	198	<li>added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)</li>
	199	</ul>
	200	</dd>
	201	</dl>
	202	<p>wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
	203	bug.</p>
	204	<p>Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
	205	detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
	206	wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.</p>
	207	<p>OGL patch from Shane Holloway:</p>
	208	<blockquote>
	209	<p>Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
	210	the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:</p>
	211	<pre class="literal-block">
	212	dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
	213	dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
	214	</pre>
	215	<p>was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
	216	self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
	217	Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
	218	coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
	219	surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
	220	the origin of the canvas.</p>
	221	<p>The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
	222	that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
	223	Causes many problems when it's not. ;)</p>
	224	</blockquote>
	225	<p>Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
	226	the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.</p>
	227	<p>Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
	228	internal scrollbar visible.</p>
	229	<p>Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
	230	system paths for each platform.</p>
	231	<p>wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
	232	background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
	233	allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
	234	uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
	235	theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.</p>
	236	<p>wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
	237	non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
	238	method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.</p>
	239	<p>wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
	240	alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
	241	directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...</p>
	242	<p>Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
	243	various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
	244	system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.</p>
	245	<p>wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.</p>
	246	<p>Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
	247	floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
	248	sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
	249	how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.</p>
	250	<p>wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
	251	maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
	252	also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
	253	of how to use the control.</p>
	254	<p>wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
	255	focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)</p>
	256	<p>Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
	257	the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
	258	running.</p>
	259	<p>wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
	260	control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.</p>
	261	<p>Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
	262	completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
	263	is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
	264	your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
	265	reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
	266	finished with the timer.</p>
	267	<p>Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
	268	the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
	269	added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
	270	original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
	271	patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
	272	directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
	273	should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
	274	wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
	275	etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
	276	morbidly curious, here are a few more details:</p>
	277	<blockquote>
	278	<ul class="simple">
	279	<li>Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
	280	tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
	281	runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
	282	via the wxPython C API.</li>
	283	<li>The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
	284	it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
	285	These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
	286	when docstrings are added for those items.</li>
	287	<li>The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
	288	string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
	289	built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
	290	the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
	291	value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
	292	using long().</li>
	293	</ul>
	294	</blockquote>
	295	<p>Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
	296	will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
	297	unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
	298	Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
	299	sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
	300	errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
	301	SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
	302	be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
	303	value of <cite>locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]</cite> when wxPython is first
	304	imported. Please see <a class="reference" href="http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html">http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html</a>
	305	for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
	306	encodings.</p>
	307	<p>Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
	308	how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
	309	current platform's standards. You simply need to add each <cite>wx.Button</cite>
	310	to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
	311	ID's. Then call <cite>Realize</cite> and the sizer will take care of the rest.</p>
	312	<p>wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
	313	EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler</p>
	314	<p>wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
	315	lots of surplus events)</p>
	316	<p>wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
	317	wx.SystemSettings.</p>
	318	<p>wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
	319	events based on intercepting the mouse down events.</p>
	320	<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
	321	and GTK+'s context menu code.</p>
	322	<p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
	323	(not all actions are allowed).</p>
	324	<p>Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)</p>
	325	<p>For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
	326	each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
	327	when GetString is called from an event handler.</p>
	328	<p>Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
	329	and max ends of the slider.</p>
	330	<p>Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
	331	make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
	332	conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
	333	<dl class="docutils">
	334	<dt>XRCed:</dt>
	335	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	336	<li>Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
	337	Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
	338	not with labels/sizers.</li>
	339	<li>Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
	340	line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
	341	better.</li>
	342	</ul>
	343	</dd>
	344	</dl>
	345	<p>wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
	346	hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.</p>
	347	<p>wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
	348	that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
	349	class.</p>
	350	<p>The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
	351	the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
	352	borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
	353	added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
	354	changed.</p>
	355	<p>Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
	356	setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.</p>
	357	<p>wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.</p>
	358	<p>Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
	359	eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
	360	erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
	361	a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.</p>
	362	<p>wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
	363	buttons.</p>
	364	<p>wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
	365	internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.</p>
	366	<p>Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.</p>
	367	<p>wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.</p>
	368	<p>Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
	369	using Mouse Gestures in an application.</p>
	370	<p>wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
	371	controls.</p>
	372	<p>wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
	373	WXK_MENU</p>
	374	<p>Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
	375	Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
	376	base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
	377	extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
	378	samples/docview.</p>
	379	<p>Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.</p>
	380	<p>wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.</p>
	381	<p>wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
	382	undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
	383	lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
	384	managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
	385	for Add, and etc.</p>
	386	<p>The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
	387	the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.</p>
	388	<p>The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
	389	wx.lib.iewin version instead.</p>
	390	<p>Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
	391	buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
	392	the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
	393	area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
	394	indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
	395	style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.</p>
	396	<p>wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
	397	event.</p>
	398	<p>Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
	399	wx.Image.</p>
	400	<p>Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty</p>
	401	<dl class="docutils">
	402	<dt>wxGTK:</dt>
	403	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	404	<li>Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling</li>
	405	<li>Corrected default button size handling for different themes</li>
	406	<li>Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes</li>
	407	<li>Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys</li>
	408	</ul>
	409	</dd>
	410	</dl>
	411	</div>
	412	<div class="section" id="id5">
	413	<h1><a name="id5">2.5.3.1</a></h1>
	414	<ul class="simple">
	415	<li>9-Nov-2004</li>
	416	</ul>
	417	<p>wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.</p>
	418	<p>Updated internal PNG library.</p>
	419	<p>wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.</p>
	420	<p>wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
	421	(which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)</p>
	422	<p>wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
	423	enabled (does an enable itself)</p>
	424	<p>Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
	425	OGL.</p>
	426	<p>Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
	427	for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
	428	XRCed.</p>
	429	<p>It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
	430	that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
	431	empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
	432	button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
	433	automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
	434	concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
	435	button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
	436	button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
	437	also be an image of a red X:</p>
	438	<pre class="literal-block">
	439	b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
	440	</pre>
	441	<p>Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.</p>
	442	<p>Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.</p>
	443	<p>Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.</p>
	444	<p>Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
	445	I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
	446	longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
	447	on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
	448	incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
	449	has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
	450	x86_64 or Chandler's build.</p>
	451	<p>Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
	452	in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
	453	of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
	454	the wxPython modules.</p>
	455	<p>Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
	456	will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
	457	user that they should look at that window.</p>
	458	<p>"Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
	459	them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.</p>
	460	<p>Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.</p>
	461	<p>Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
	462	a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
	463	2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
	464	PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
	465	PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
	466	and PyGetDate methods.</p>
	467	<p>wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
	468	also set the colour of the dropdown.</p>
	469	<p>wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style</p>
	470	<p>wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window</p>
	471	<p>wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips</p>
	472	<p>wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
	473	the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
	474	and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.</p>
	475	<p>wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame</p>
	476	<p>wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events</p>
	477	<p>Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)</p>
	478	<p>Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
	479	1001271)</p>
	480	<p>Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
	481	(patch 1030021)</p>
	482	<p>Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)</p>
	483	<p>wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
	484	WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
	485	1019440)</p>
	486	<p>Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.</p>
	487	<p>wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
	488	MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
	489	button.</p>
	490	<p>Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
	491	wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
	492	how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.</p>
	493	<p>The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
	494	is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
	495	accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
	496	modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
	497	it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
	498	should notice no difference.</p>
	499	<p>wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
	500	when a new one is selected.</p>
	501	<p>wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls</p>
	502	<p>wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
	503	app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
	504	merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
	505	more details and a warning.</p>
	506	<p>Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
	507	dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.</p>
	508	<p>Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
	509	size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.</p>
	510	<p>Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61</p>
	511	<p>Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.</p>
	512	<p>Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.</p>
	513	<p>wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
	514	holding down the mouse button.</p>
	515	<p>wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
	516	native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.</p>
	517	<p>FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker</p>
	518	<dl class="docutils">
	519	<dt>PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:</dt>
	520	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	521	<li>Added bar graph demo</li>
	522	<li>Modified line end shape from round to square.</li>
	523	<li>Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
	524	arguments</li>
	525	<li>Imported modules given leading underscore to name.</li>
	526	<li>Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.</li>
	527	<li>Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.</li>
	528	<li>Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.</li>
	529	<li>Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
	530	PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.</li>
	531	<li>Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
	532	(only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
	533	coords.</li>
	534	</ul>
	535	</dd>
	536	<dt>MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:</dt>
	537	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	538	<li>Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)</li>
	539	<li>Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg</li>
	540	<li>Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
	541	creation</li>
	542	<li>Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
	543	epydoc support</li>
	544	<li>lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
	545	reflect package's public contents.</li>
	546	</ul>
	547	</dd>
	548	</dl>
	549	<p>Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
	550	multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
	551	Migrarion Guide for more information.</p>
	552	<dl class="docutils">
	553	<dt>Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:</dt>
	554	<dd><ul class="first last simple">
	555	<li>wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)</li>
	556	<li>wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)</li>
	557	<li>wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
	558	TextEditMixin)</li>
	559	<li>wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)</li>
	560	</ul>
	561	</dd>
	562	</dl>
	563	<p>Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
	564	OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
	565	it.</p>
	566	<p>wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
	567	version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.</p>
	568	</div>
	569	<div class="section" id="id6">
	570	<h1><a name="id6">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
	571	<ul class="simple">
	572	<li>27-Aug-2004</li>
	573	</ul>
	574	<p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.</p>
	575	<blockquote>
	576	<ul class="simple">
	577	<li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.</li>
	578	<li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl</li>
	579	<li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
	580	nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.</li>
	581	<li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
	582	flicker problems, and namespace use.</li>
	583	<li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask</li>
	584	<li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs</li>
	585	<li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
	586	parameter.</li>
	587	<li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl</li>
	588	<li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
	589	of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.</li>
	590	<li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
	591	wxScrolledWindow.</li>
	592	<li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
	593	wxCheckListBox.</li>
	594	<li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.</li>
	595	<li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing</li>
	596	<li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.</li>
	597	<li>etc.</li>
	598	</ul>
	599	</blockquote>
	600	</div>
	601	<div class="section" id="id7">
	602	<h1><a name="id7">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
	603	<ul class="simple">
	604	<li>14-Aug-2004</li>
	605	</ul>
	606	<p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
	607	sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
	608	be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
	609	be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
	610	flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
	611	that it will <em>not</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
	612	size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
	613	(or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
	614	see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.</p>
	615	<p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
	616	now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.</p>
	617	<p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
	618	have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
	619	implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
	620	that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
	621	parameters.</p>
	622	<p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
	623	all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.</p>
	624	<p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.</p>
	625	<p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
	626	as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.</p>
	627	<p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
	628	reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
	629	all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
	630	buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
	631	inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
	632	should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
	633	done.</p>
	634	<p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
	635	exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
	636	automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
	637	are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
	638	a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
	639	problems.</p>
	640	<p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
	641	track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
	642	Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.</p>
	643	<p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
	644	there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.</p>
	645	<p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
	646	detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.</p>
	647	<p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
	648	running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
	649	to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
	650	remaining compatible with "C".</p>
	651	<p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
	652	wxCode project.</p>
	653	<p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
	654	leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
	655	of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
	656