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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
6 ================================
7
8 Unicode-related changes
9 -----------------------
10
11 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
12 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
13 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
14 changes:
15
16 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
17 either "const wxString&" so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings.
18 and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
19 ANSI but may be NULL. This change is normally backwards compatible except:
20
21 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
22 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
23 base class version.
24
25 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
26 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
27 should be replaced with an empty string.
28
29
30 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
31 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
32 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
33 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
34
35 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
36 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
37 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
38 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
39 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
40
41
42 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
43 ------------------------------------
44
45 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
46 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
47 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
48
49 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
50 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
51 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
52 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
53 open for futher development by volunteers.
54
55 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
56 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
57
58
59 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
60 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
61
62 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
63 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
64
65 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
66 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
67 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
68
69 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
70 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
71 instead.
72
73 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
74 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
75 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
76 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
77 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
78 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
79
80 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
81 your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
82
83
84 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
85 -----------------------------------------------------------
86
87 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
88 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
89
90 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
91 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
92 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
93
94 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
95 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
96 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
97 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
98
99 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
100 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
101 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
102 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
103 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
104
105 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
106 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
107 this won't compile:
108 switch (str[i]) { ... }
109 and has to be replaced with this:
110 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
111
112 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
113 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
114 const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
115 convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
116 don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
117 compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
118 to const wxChar*:
119 wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
120
121 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
122 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
123
124 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
125 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
126 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
127 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
128 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
129 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
130
131 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
132
133 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
134 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
135 must be used instead.
136
137 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
138 with void pointers.
139
140 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
141
142 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
143 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
144
145 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
146 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
147 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
148
149 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
150 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
151 necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
152 next/previous control sibling instead.
153
154
155 Deprecated methods and their replacements
156 -----------------------------------------
157
158 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
159 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
160 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
161 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
162 specified so this style should simply be removed
163 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
164 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
165 to use
166 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
167 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
168 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
169 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
170 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
171
172
173 Major new features in this release
174 ----------------------------------
175
176 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
177 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
178 past.
179
180 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
181 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
182
183 - Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
184
185
186 2.9.0
187 -----
188
189 All:
190
191 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
192 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
193 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
194 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
195 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
196 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
197 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
198 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
199 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
200 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
201 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
202 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
203 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
204 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
205 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
206 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
207 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
208 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
209 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
210 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
211 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
212 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
213 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
214 Linnakangas).
215 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
216 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
217 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
218 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
219
220 All (Unix):
221
222 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
223
224 All (GUI):
225
226 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
227 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
228 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
229 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
230 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
231 - Added wxWrapSizer
232 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
233 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
234 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
235 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
236 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
237 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
238 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
239 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
240 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
241 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
242 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
243 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
244 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
245 - Slovak translation added.
246 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
247 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
248 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
249 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
250 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
251 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
252 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
253 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
254 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
255 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
256 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
257 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
258 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
259 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
260 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
261 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
262 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
263 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
264 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
265 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
266 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
267 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
268 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
269 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
270 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
271 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski)
272 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
273 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new wxDialogLayoutAdapter
274 class and various new wxDialog functions. See the topic "Automatic Scrolling
275 Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
276 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
277 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
278 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
279 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
280 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
281 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
282 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
283 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
284
285 wxGTK:
286
287 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
288 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
289 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
290 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
291 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
292 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
293 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
294 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
295 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
296 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
297 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
298 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
299 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
300
301 wxMac:
302
303 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
304 - Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
305 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
306 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
307 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
308 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
309 - Added native wxCollapsiblePane
310
311 wxMSW:
312
313 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
314 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
315 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
316 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
317 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
318 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
319 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
320
321 wxX11:
322
323 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
324 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
325
326
327 2.8.8
328 -----
329
330 All:
331
332 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
333 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
334
335 All (GUI):
336
337 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
338 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
339 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
340 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
341 charset in ANSI build.
342
343 wxMSW:
344
345 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
346 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
347 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
348 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
349 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK
350
351 wxGTK:
352
353 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
354 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
355
356
357 2.8.7
358 -----
359
360 All:
361
362 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
363
364 wxMSW:
365
366 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
367 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
368
369 wxGTK:
370
371 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
372 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
373 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
374
375
376 2.8.6
377 -----
378
379 All:
380
381 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
382 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
383
384
385 2.8.5
386 -----
387
388 All (GUI):
389
390 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
391 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
392 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
393 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
394 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
395 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
396 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
397 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
398 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
399 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
400
401 wxMSW:
402
403 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
404 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
405 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
406 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
407 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
408 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
409 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
410
411 wxGTK:
412
413 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
414 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
415 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
416 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
417 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
418 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
419 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
420 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
421 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
422 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
423 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
424
425
426 2.8.4
427 -----
428
429 All:
430
431 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
432 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
433 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
434 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
435
436 All (Unix):
437
438 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
439
440 All (GUI):
441
442 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
443 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
444 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
445 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
446
447 wxMSW:
448
449 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
450 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
451 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
452 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
453 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
454 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
455 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
456 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
457 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
458
459 wxGTK:
460
461 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
462 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
463 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
464
465 wxMac:
466
467 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
468
469 wxUniv:
470
471 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
472 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
473 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
474
475
476 2.8.3
477 -----
478
479 All:
480
481 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
482 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
483
484 wxMac:
485
486 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
487
488 wxMSW:
489
490 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
491
492 wxGTK:
493
494 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
495
496
497 2.8.2
498 -----
499
500 All:
501
502 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
503 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
504 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
505 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
506 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
507 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
508 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
509 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
510 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
511
512 Unix Ports:
513
514 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
515
516 wxMSW
517
518 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
519 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
520
521 wxGTK
522
523 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
524
525 wxMac
526
527 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
528 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
529
530 wxX11:
531
532 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
533
534 wxUniv:
535
536 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
537
538
539 2.8.1
540 -----
541
542 All:
543
544 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
545 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
546 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
547 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
548 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
549 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
550
551 wxMSW:
552
553 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
554 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
555
556 wxGTK:
557
558 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
559
560 wxUniv:
561
562 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
563
564
565 2.8.0
566 -----
567
568 All:
569
570 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
571 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
572 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
573 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
574 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
575 a stream that is seekable.
576 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
577 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
578 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
579
580 wxMSW:
581
582 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
583 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
584 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
585 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
586
587 wxGTK:
588
589 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
590 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
591
592
593 2.7.2
594 -----
595
596 All:
597
598 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
599 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
600 - Added wxTar streams.
601 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
602 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
603
604 All (GUI):
605
606 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
607 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
608 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
609 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
610 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
611 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
612 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
613 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
614 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
615 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
616 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
617 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
618 formatting.
619 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
620 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
621 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
622 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
623
624 Unix Ports:
625
626 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
627 program (Francesco Montorsi).
628
629 wxGTK:
630
631 - More RTL work.
632 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
633 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
634 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
635 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
636
637
638 2.7.1
639 -----
640
641 All:
642
643 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
644 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
645 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
646 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
647 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
648 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
649 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
650 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
651 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
652 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
653 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
654 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
655 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
656 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
657 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
658
659 All (GUI):
660
661 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
662 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
663 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
664 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
665 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
666 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
667 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
668 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
669 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
670 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
671 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
672 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
673 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
674 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
675
676 wxMSW:
677
678 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
679 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
680 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
681 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
682 high-contrast theme).
683 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
684
685 wxMac:
686
687 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
688 to the SDK.
689
690 wxGTK:
691
692 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
693 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
694 - Implemented right-to-left support.
695 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
696 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
697
698 wxUniv:
699
700 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
701
702
703 2.7.0
704 -----
705
706 All:
707
708 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
709 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
710 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
711 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
712 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
713 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
714 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
715 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
716 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
717 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
718 during a search and replace.
719 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
720 are both used in the same program.
721 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
722 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
723 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
724 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
725 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
726 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
727 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
728 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
729 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
730 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
731 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
732 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
733 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
734 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
735 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
736 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
737 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
738 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
739 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
740 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
741 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
742 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
743 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
744 the first time it was called.
745 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
746 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
747 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
748 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
749 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
750 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
751 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
752 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
753 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
754 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
755
756 All (GUI):
757
758 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
759 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
760 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
761 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
762 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
763 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
764 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
765 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
766 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
767 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
768 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
769 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
770 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
771 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
772 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
773 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
774 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
775 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
776 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
777 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
778 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
779 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
780 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
781 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
782 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
783 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
784 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
785 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
786 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
787 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
788 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
789 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
790 by Sandro Sigala).
791 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
792 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
793 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
794 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
795 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
796 best size.
797 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
798 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
799 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
800 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
801 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
802 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
803 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
804 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
805 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
806 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
807 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
808 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
809 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
810 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
811 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
812 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
813 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
814 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
815 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
816 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
817 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
818 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
819 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
820 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
821 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
822 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
823 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
824 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
825 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
826 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
827 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
828 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
829 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
830 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
831 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
832 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
833 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
834 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
835 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
836 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
837
838 wxMSW:
839
840 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
841 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
842 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
843 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
844 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
845 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
846 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
847 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
848 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
849 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
850 wxMSW faq for details).
851 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
852 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
853 to the link command.
854 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
855 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
856 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
857 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
858 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
859 show.
860 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
861 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
862 initial construction.
863 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
864 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
865 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
866 events).
867 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
868 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
869 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
870 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
871 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
872 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
873 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
874 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
875 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
876 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
877 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
878 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
879 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
880 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
881 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
882 changes the system font.
883 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
884 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
885 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
886 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
887 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
888 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
889
890 wxGTK:
891
892 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
893 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
894 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
895 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
896 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
897 implementation.
898 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
899 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
900 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
901 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
902 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
903 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
904 previously unable to be focused before.
905 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
906 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
907 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
908 class was used.
909 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
910 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
911 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
912 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
913 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
914 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
915 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
916 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
917 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
918
919 wxMac:
920
921 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
922 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
923 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
924 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
925 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
926 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
927 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
928 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
929 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
930 - Corrected idle wake-up.
931 - Corrected wxExecute.
932 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
933 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
934 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
935 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
936 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
937 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
938 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
939 were found.
940 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
941 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
942 under Mach-O.
943 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
944 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
945 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
946 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
947 end of file with an error.
948 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
949 binaries.
950 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
951 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
952 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
953 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
954 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
955 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
956 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
957
958 wxCocoa:
959
960 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
961
962 wxWinCE:
963
964 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
965 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
966 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
967 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
968 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
969 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
970 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
971 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
972 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
973 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
974 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
975 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
976 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
977 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
978 directly, however.
979 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
980 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
981 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
982 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
983 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
984
985 wxUniv:
986
987 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
988 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
989 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
990
991 wxX11:
992
993 - Invisible text problem fixed.
994 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
995 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
996 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
997
998 Unix:
999
1000 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
1001
1002 wxMGL:
1003
1004 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
1005 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
1006
1007
1008 2.6.2
1009 -----
1010
1011 All:
1012
1013 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
1014 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
1015 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
1016 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
1017 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
1018 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
1019 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
1020 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
1021 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
1022 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
1023 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
1024 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
1025
1026 All (GUI):
1027
1028 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
1029 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
1030 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
1031 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
1032 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
1033 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
1034 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1035 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
1036 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
1037 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
1038 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
1039 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
1040
1041 wxMSW:
1042
1043 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
1044 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
1045 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
1046 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
1047 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
1048 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
1049 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1050 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
1051 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
1052 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
1053 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1054 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1055 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1056 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1057 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1058
1059 wxGTK:
1060
1061 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1062 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1063 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1064 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1065 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1066 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1067 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1068 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1069 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1070 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1071 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1072
1073 wxMac:
1074
1075 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1076 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1077 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1078 - Various text control bug fixes.
1079 - Automatic menu management improved.
1080 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1081 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1082 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1083 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1084 showing modally).
1085
1086 wxOS2
1087
1088 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1089
1090 wxUniv:
1091
1092 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1093 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1094
1095 wxMotif:
1096
1097 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1098 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1099 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1100 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1101 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1102 flag has been specified.
1103 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1104 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1105 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1106 showing modally).
1107
1108 wxMGL:
1109
1110 - Fixed crash on exit.
1111 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1112
1113 wxX11:
1114
1115 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1116
1117
1118 2.6.1
1119 -----
1120
1121 All:
1122
1123 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1124 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1125
1126 All (GUI):
1127
1128 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1129 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1130 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1131 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1132 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1133 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1134 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1135 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1136 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1137 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1138
1139 wxMSW:
1140
1141 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1142 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1143 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1144 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1145 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1146 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1147 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1148 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1149 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1150 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1151 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1152 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1153 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1154 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1155 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1156 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1157 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1158 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1159 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1160 - Winelib compilation now works.
1161 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
1162 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1163 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
1164 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
1165 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
1166 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
1167 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
1168 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
1169 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
1170 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
1171 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
1172 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1173 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1174
1175 wxWinCE:
1176
1177 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1178
1179 wxGTK:
1180
1181 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1182 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1183 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1184 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1185
1186 wxMac:
1187
1188 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1189 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1190 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1191 incorrect state.
1192 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1193 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1194 - Window menu now added automatically.
1195 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1196 - Modified function key support fixed.
1197 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1198
1199 wxX11:
1200
1201 - Menu problems fixed.
1202 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1203 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1204 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1205
1206
1207 2.6.0
1208 -----
1209
1210 All:
1211
1212 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1213 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1214
1215 All (GUI):
1216
1217 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1218 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1219
1220 wxMSW:
1221
1222 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1223 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1224 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1225
1226 wxWinCE:
1227
1228 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1229
1230 wxGTK:
1231 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1232 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1233 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1234 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1235 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1236 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1237 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1238
1239 wxMac:
1240 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1241
1242 2.5.5
1243 -----
1244
1245 All:
1246
1247 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1248 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1249 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1250 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1251 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1252 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1253 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1254 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1255 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1256
1257 All (GUI):
1258
1259 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1260 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1261 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1262 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1263 the whole virtual area.
1264 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1265 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1266 isn't used to set the window size.
1267 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1268 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1269 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1270 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1271
1272 Unix:
1273
1274 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1275
1276 wxMSW:
1277
1278 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1279 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1280 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1281 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1282 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1283 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1284
1285 wxGTK:
1286
1287 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1288 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1289 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1290 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1291 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1292 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1293 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1294 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1295
1296 wxMac:
1297
1298 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1299
1300 wxPalmOS:
1301
1302 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1303
1304 wxWinCE:
1305
1306 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1307 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1308 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1309 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1310 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1311 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1312 with correct titlebar style.
1313 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1314 PocketPC guidelines
1315 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1316 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1317 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1318 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1319 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1320 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1321 to the dialog's toolbar.
1322
1323 2.5.4
1324 -----
1325
1326 All:
1327
1328 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1329 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1330 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1331 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1332 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1333 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1334 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1335 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1336 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1337 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1338 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1339 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1340 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1341 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1342 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1343 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1344 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1345 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1346 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1347 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1348 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1349 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1350 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1351 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1352 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1353 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1354 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1355 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1356 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1357 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1358 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1359 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1360 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1361 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1362 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1363 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1364 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1365 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1366 due to a rounding error.
1367 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1368 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1369 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1370 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1371 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1372 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1373 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1374 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1375
1376
1377 All (GUI):
1378
1379 - added wxMediaCtrl
1380 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1381 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1382 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1383 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1384 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1385 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1386 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1387 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1388 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1389 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1390 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1391 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1392 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1393 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1394 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1395 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1396 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1397
1398 Unix:
1399
1400 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1401
1402 wxGTK:
1403
1404 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1405 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1406 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1407 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1408 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1409 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1410 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1411 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1412 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1413 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1414 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1415 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1416 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1417 errors otherwise.
1418 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1419 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1420 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1421 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1422 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1423
1424 wxMac:
1425
1426 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1427 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1428 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1429 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1430
1431 wxMSW:
1432
1433 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1434 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1435 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1436 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1437 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1438
1439 wxWinCE:
1440 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1441 but not mentioned anywhere.
1442 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1443
1444 wxUniv:
1445
1446 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1447 - vertical notebook orientation support
1448 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1449 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1450
1451 wxPalmOS:
1452
1453 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1454 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1455 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1456 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1457 - enumeration of available volumes
1458 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1459 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1460 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1461 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1462 - native wxButton implementation
1463 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1464 - native wxSlider implementation
1465 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1466 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1467 - native wxStaticText implementation
1468 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1469
1470
1471 2.5.3
1472 -----
1473
1474 All:
1475
1476 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1477 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1478 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1479 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1480 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1481 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1482 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1483 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1484 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1485 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1486 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1487 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1488 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1489 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1490 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1491 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1492
1493 All (GUI):
1494
1495 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1496 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1497 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1498 is discouraged
1499 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1500 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1501 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1502 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1503 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1504 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1505 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1506 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1507 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1508 - added samples/splash
1509 - added support for stock buttons
1510 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1511 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1512 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1513 - added wxChoicebook control
1514 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1515 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1516 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1517 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1518 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1519 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1520 supported, instead of zero.
1521 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1522
1523 Unix:
1524
1525 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1526 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1527 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1528 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1529 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1530
1531 wxCocoa:
1532
1533 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1534 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1535 - Tooltips now supported
1536 - wxSound now supported
1537 - wxDisplay now supported
1538 - Some stock cursors now supported
1539
1540 wxMac:
1541
1542 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1543 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1544 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1545 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1546
1547 wxGTK:
1548
1549 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1550 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1551 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1552 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1553 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1554 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1555 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1556 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1557 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1558 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1559 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1560 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1561 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1562 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1563 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1564 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1565 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1566 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1567 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1568
1569 wxMotif:
1570
1571 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1572
1573 wxMSW:
1574
1575 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1576 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1577 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1578 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1579 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1580 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1581 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1582 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1583 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1584 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1585 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1586 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1587 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1588 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1589
1590 wxUniv/X11:
1591
1592 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1593
1594 wxWinCE:
1595
1596 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1597 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1598 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1599 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1600
1601 wxHTML:
1602
1603 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1604 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1605
1606
1607 2.5.2
1608 -----
1609
1610 All:
1611
1612 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1613 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1614 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1615 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1616 of run-time) now
1617 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1618 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1619 to forward declare these classes.
1620
1621 All (GUI):
1622
1623 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1624 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1625 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1626 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1627 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1628 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1629 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1630 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1631 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1632 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1633 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1634 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1635 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1636 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1637 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1638
1639 wxMSW:
1640
1641 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1642 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1643 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1644 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1645 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1646 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1647 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1648 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1649 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1650 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1651 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1652 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1653
1654 wxGTK:
1655
1656 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1657
1658 wxMotif:
1659
1660 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1661 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1662 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1663 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1664
1665 wxUniv/X11:
1666
1667 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1668
1669 wxHTML:
1670
1671 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1672 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1673
1674 Unix:
1675
1676 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1677 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1678
1679 wxODBC:
1680
1681 - Full Unicode support is now available
1682 - BLOB support is working
1683
1684
1685 2.5.1
1686 -----
1687
1688 All:
1689
1690 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1691 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1692 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1693 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1694 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1695 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1696 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1697 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1698 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1699 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1700 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1701 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1702 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1703 (as in 2.5.0).
1704 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1705 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1706 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1707 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1708 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1709 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1710 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1711 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1712 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1713 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1714 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1715 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1716
1717 All (GUI):
1718
1719 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1720 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1721 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1722 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1723 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1724 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1725 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1726 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1727 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1728 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1729 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1730 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1731 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1732 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1733 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1734 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1735 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1736 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1737 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1738 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1739 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1740 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1741 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1742 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1743 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1744 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1745
1746 wxMSW:
1747
1748 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1749 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1750 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1751 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1752 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1753 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1754 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1755 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1756 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1757 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1758 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1759 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1760 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1761 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1762 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1763 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1764 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1765 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1766 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1767 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1768 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1769 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1770 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1771 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1772 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1773 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1774 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1775 than the specified default size
1776 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1777
1778 wxGTK:
1779
1780 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1781 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1782 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1783 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1784 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1785 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1786 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1787 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1788 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1789
1790 wxMac:
1791
1792 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1793 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1794 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1795 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1796
1797 wxMotif:
1798
1799 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1800
1801 wxHTML:
1802
1803 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1804 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1805
1806 Unix:
1807
1808 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1809 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1810 addition to existing OSS one
1811 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1812
1813
1814 2.5.0
1815 -----
1816
1817 All:
1818
1819 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1820 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1821 separately compiled library
1822 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1823 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1824 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1825 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1826 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1827 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1828 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1829 by default in Unicode mode
1830 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1831 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1832 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1833 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1834 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1835 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1836 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1837 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1838 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1839 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1840 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1841 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1842 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1843 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1844 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1845 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1846 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1847 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1848 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1849 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1850
1851 wxBase:
1852
1853 - added Watcom makefiles
1854 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1855
1856 All GUI ports:
1857
1858 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1859 - added wxListbook control
1860 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1861 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1862 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1863 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1864 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1865 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1866 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1867 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1868 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1869 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1870 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1871 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1872 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1873 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1874 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1875 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1876 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1877 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1878 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1879 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1880 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1881 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1882 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1883 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1884 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1885 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1886 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1887 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1888 default extension for the template
1889 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1890 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1891 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1892 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1893 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1894 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1895 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1896 to allow better rich text support.
1897 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1898 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1899 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1900 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1901 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1902 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1903 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1904 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1905 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1906 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1907 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1908 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1909 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1910 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1911 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1912 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1913 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1914 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1915 - added wxMirrorDC class
1916 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1917 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1918 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1919 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1920 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1921 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1922 improved
1923
1924 Unix:
1925
1926 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1927 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1928 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1929 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1930 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1931
1932 Generic controls:
1933
1934 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1935 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1936 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1937 to contrib/src/deprecated
1938
1939 wxGTK:
1940
1941 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1942 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1943 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1944 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1945 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1946 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1947 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1948 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1949 be appended to filenames with no extension
1950 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1951 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1952 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1953 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1954
1955 wxMac:
1956
1957 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1958 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1959
1960 wxMSW:
1961
1962 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1963 - added wxCrashReport
1964 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1965 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1966 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1967 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1968 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1969 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1970 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1971 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1972 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1973 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1974 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1975 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1976 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1977 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1978 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1979 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1980 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1981 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1982 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1983 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1984 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1985 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1986 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1987 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1988 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1989
1990 wxMotif:
1991
1992 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1993 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1994 documentation for a detailed explanation
1995 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1996 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1997 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1998 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1999 - implemented wxToggleButton
2000 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
2001 instead of a sunken border
2002 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
2003 - finished wxClipboard implementation
2004
2005 wxUniv:
2006
2007 - controls in toolbars now supported
2008
2009 wxHTML:
2010
2011 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
2012 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
2013 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
2014 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
2015 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
2016
2017
2018 OLD CHANGES
2019 ===========
2020
2021 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
2022 ================================
2023
2024 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
2025 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
2026 with '!' in the first column.
2027
2028 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
2029 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
2030 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
2031 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
2032 2.6 release.
2033
2034 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
2035 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
2036 (see the documentation) useful.
2037
2038
2039 wxBase:
2040
2041 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
2042 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
2043 code.
2044
2045 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
2046 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
2047 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
2048 arrays containing non-pointers.
2049
2050 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
2051 simply don't make sense for all objects
2052
2053 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2054 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2055 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2056
2057 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2058
2059 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2060 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2061 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2062 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2063 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2064
2065 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2066 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2067 the default assert handling.
2068
2069 All (GUI):
2070
2071 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2072 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2073 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2074
2075 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2076 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2077 instead!
2078
2079 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2080 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2081 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2082
2083 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2084 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2085 you want to get OnChar() as well
2086
2087 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2088 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2089 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2090
2091 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2092 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2093 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2094 will *NOT* work any longer:
2095
2096 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2097 ... do something ...
2098 if ( flags & wxYES )
2099 ... do something else ...
2100
2101 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2102 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2103 the ctor
2104
2105 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2106
2107 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2108 if you derived any classes from it
2109
2110 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2111 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2112
2113 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2114 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2115
2116 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2117 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2118
2119 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2120 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2121 from happening
2122
2123 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2124 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2125 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2126
2127 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2128 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2129 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2130 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2131
2132 wxMSW:
2133
2134 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2135 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2136 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2137 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2138 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2139 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2140 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2141 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2142 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2143 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2144
2145 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2146 style to avoid it
2147
2148 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2149 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2150
2151 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2152 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2153 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2154
2155 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2156 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2157
2158
2159 Unix ports:
2160
2161 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
2162 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
2163 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
2164 to compile pure C files.
2165
2166
2167 wxThread and related classes:
2168
2169 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
2170 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
2171 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
2172 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2173
2174 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2175 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2176 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2177 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2178
2179 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2180 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2181 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2182
2183 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2184 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2185
2186
2187 OTHER CHANGES
2188 =============
2189
2190 2.4.0
2191 -----
2192
2193 wxMSW:
2194
2195 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2196
2197 2.3.4
2198 -----
2199
2200 All:
2201
2202 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2203 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2204 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2205
2206 Unix (Base/GUI):
2207
2208 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2209 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2210 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2211
2212 wxGTK:
2213 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2214 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2215
2216 wxX11:
2217 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2218
2219 wxMSW:
2220
2221 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2222 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2223
2224 wxHTML:
2225
2226 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2227
2228 2.3.3
2229 -----
2230
2231 wxBase:
2232
2233 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2234 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2235 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2236 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2237 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2238 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2239 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2240 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2241 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2242 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2243 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2244 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2245 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2246 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2247 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2248 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2249
2250 Unix (Base/GUI):
2251
2252 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2253 programs and not only GNU make
2254 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2255 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2256 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2257 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2258 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2259
2260 All (GUI):
2261
2262 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2263 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2264 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2265 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2266 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2267 wxWidgets dialogs
2268 - significantly improved native font support
2269 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2270 wxHashTable
2271 - added IFF image handler
2272 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2273 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2274 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2275 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2276 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2277 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2278 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2279 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2280 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2281 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2282 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2283 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2284 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2285 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2286 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2287 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2288 - wxMessageOutput class added
2289 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2290 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2291 table fills up
2292 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2293 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2294 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2295 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2296 (Rene Rivera).
2297 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2298 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2299 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2300
2301 wxMSW:
2302
2303 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2304 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2305 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2306 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2307 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2308 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2309 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2310 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2311 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2312 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2313 are changed
2314 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2315 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2316 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2317 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2318 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2319 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2320 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2321 recursion any more
2322 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2323 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2324 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2325 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2326 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2327 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2328 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2329 has the capture before release it.
2330 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2331 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2332 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2333 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2334 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2335 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2336 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2337 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2338 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2339 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2340 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2341 provided in wxFontData
2342 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2343 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2344
2345 wxGTK:
2346
2347 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2348 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2349 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2350 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2351 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2352 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2353 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2354 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2355 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2356 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2357 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2358 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2359 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2360
2361 wxMotif:
2362
2363 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2364 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2365 - improved toolbar control alignment
2366 - implemented wxSpinButton
2367 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2368 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2369 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2370
2371 wxX11:
2372
2373 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2374 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2375
2376 wxMac:
2377
2378 - Many improvements
2379
2380 wxOS2:
2381
2382 - First alpha-quality release
2383
2384 wxHTML:
2385
2386 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2387 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2388 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2389 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2390 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2391
2392 2.3.2
2393 -----
2394
2395 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2396
2397 wxBase:
2398
2399 - wxRegEx class added
2400 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2401 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2402 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2403 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2404 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2405
2406 All (GUI):
2407
2408 - support for virtual list control added
2409 - column images in report mode of the list control
2410 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2411 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2412 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2413 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2414 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2415 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2416 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2417 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2418 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2419 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2420 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2421 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2422
2423 wxMSW:
2424
2425 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2426 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2427 project files
2428
2429 wxGTK:
2430
2431 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2432 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2433 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2434 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2435
2436 wxMac:
2437
2438 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2439 Tools
2440
2441 wxHTML:
2442
2443 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2444 to tags parsing
2445 - added support for animated GIFs
2446
2447 2.3.1
2448 -----
2449
2450 wxBase:
2451
2452 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
2453 - Fixed new charset detection code
2454 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2455 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2456 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2457 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2458 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2459 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2460
2461 All (GUI):
2462
2463 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2464 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2465 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2466 push on a custom event handler for example)
2467 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2468 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2469 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2470 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2471 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2472 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2473 first-time saved
2474 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2475 - Various wxXML enhancements
2476 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2477 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2478 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2479 instead of GetId()
2480 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2481 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2482
2483 wxMSW:
2484
2485 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2486 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2487 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2488 alt or shift) now work
2489 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2490 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2491 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2492 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2493 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2494 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2495 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2496 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2497 - We now send iconize events
2498 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2499 - Added mousewheel processing
2500 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2501 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2502 in wxDC
2503 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2504 child frame styles are honoured
2505
2506 wxGTK:
2507
2508 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2509 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2510 - We now send iconize events
2511 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2512 GetSelection() results
2513
2514 2.3.0
2515 -----
2516
2517 wxBase:
2518
2519 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2520 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2521 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2522 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2523 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2524 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2525 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2526 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2527 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2528 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2529
2530 All (GUI):
2531
2532 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2533 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2534 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2535 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2536 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2537 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2538 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2539 wxImage methods and ctor)
2540 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2541 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2542 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2543 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2544 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2545 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2546
2547 wxMSW:
2548
2549 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2550 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2551 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2552 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2553
2554 wxGTK:
2555
2556 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2557
2558 wxHTML:
2559
2560 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2561 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2562
2563 2.2.0
2564 -----
2565
2566 wxBase:
2567
2568 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2569 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2570 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2571 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2572 - Completed Czech translations
2573 - Some stream corrections
2574 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2575 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2576 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2577 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2578
2579 All (GUI):
2580
2581 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2582 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2583 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2584 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2585 - Paper names now translated
2586 - wxGrid fixes
2587 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2588 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2589 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2590 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2591 File dialog.
2592 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2593 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2594 writing code
2595 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2596 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2597 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2598 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2599
2600 wxMSW:
2601
2602 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2603 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2604 backward compatibility, please set
2605 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2606 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2607 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2608 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2609 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2610 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2611 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2612 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2613 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2614 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2615 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2616 - wxFrame restores focus better
2617 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2618 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2619 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2620 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2621 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2622 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2623 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2624 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2625 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2626 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2627
2628 wxGTK:
2629
2630 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2631
2632 wxMotif:
2633
2634 - Small compilation fixes
2635
2636 Documentation:
2637
2638 - wxCaret documented
2639
2640 2.1.16
2641 ------
2642
2643 wxBase:
2644
2645 All (GUI):
2646
2647 wxMSW:
2648
2649 - Various bug fixes
2650 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2651 files. This works under VC++ only
2652 - Modal dialog handling improved
2653 - Printer dialog now modal
2654
2655 wxGTK:
2656
2657 - Various bug fixes
2658
2659 wxMotif:
2660
2661 - Various bug fixes
2662
2663 2.1.15
2664 ------
2665
2666 Documentation:
2667
2668 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2669
2670 File hierarchy:
2671
2672 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2673 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2674
2675 wxBase:
2676
2677 - wxSocket support
2678 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2679 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2680 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2681 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2682 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2683 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2684 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2685 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2686 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2687 only so far)
2688 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2689 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2690 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2691 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2692 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2693 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2694 is available)
2695 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2696
2697 all (GUI):
2698
2699 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2700 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2701 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2702 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2703 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2704 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2705 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2706 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2707 John Norris)
2708 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2709 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2710 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2711 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2712 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2713 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2714 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2715 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2716 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2717 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2718 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2719 - wxDragImage class added
2720 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2721 controllers, as well as native help
2722 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2723
2724 wxMSW:
2725
2726 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2727 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2728 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2729 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2730 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2731 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2732 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2733 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2734 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2735 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2736 Unix ports
2737 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2738 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2739 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2740
2741 wxGTK:
2742
2743 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2744 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2745 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2746
2747 wxMotif:
2748
2749 - wxMenu::Enable works
2750 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2751 - OGL samples made to work again
2752
2753 wxHTML:
2754
2755 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2756 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2757 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2758 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2759 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2760 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2761 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2762 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2763 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2764 - improved HTML printing
2765 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2766 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2767 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2768 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2769
2770
2771 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2772 change log.
2773
2774 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2775 -----------------------
2776
2777 wxGTK:
2778
2779 - JPEG support added.
2780 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2781
2782 wxMSW:
2783
2784 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2785 SetTabSize added.
2786 - JPEG support added.
2787 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2788 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2789 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2790
2791 wxMotif:
2792
2793
2794 General:
2795
2796 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2797
2798
2799 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2800 -------------------------------
2801
2802 wxGTK:
2803
2804 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2805 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2806
2807 wxMSW:
2808
2809 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2810 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2811 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2812 - Some makefile fixes.
2813
2814 wxMotif:
2815
2816 - None.
2817
2818 General:
2819
2820 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2821 - More topic overviews.
2822 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2823 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2824 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2825
2826
2827 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2828 --------------------------
2829
2830 wxGTK:
2831
2832 - wxExecute improved.
2833
2834 wxMSW:
2835
2836 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2837 expected).
2838 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2839 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2840 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2841 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2842 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2843 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2844
2845 wxMotif:
2846
2847 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2848 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2849
2850 General:
2851
2852 - wxLocale documented.
2853 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2854 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2855 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2856 (though doesn't display help yet).
2857
2858 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2859 --------------------------
2860
2861 wxGTK:
2862
2863 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2864
2865 wxMSW:
2866
2867 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2868 rationalised.
2869 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2870
2871 wxMotif:
2872
2873 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2874 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2875 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2876 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2877 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2878 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2879 crashes for some reason).
2880 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2881 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2882
2883 General:
2884
2885 - Further doc improvements.
2886 - wxGenericValidator added.
2887 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2888 automatically.
2889
2890 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2891 -------------------------
2892
2893 wxGTK:
2894
2895 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2896 - wxToolTip class added.
2897 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2898
2899 wxMSW:
2900
2901 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2902 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2903 - TWIN32 support added.
2904 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2905 factored out program/library settings.
2906 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2907
2908 wxMotif:
2909
2910 - A few more colour fixes.
2911 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2912 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2913 - wxChoice crash fix.
2914 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2915
2916 General:
2917
2918 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2919 - Added samples/dde.
2920 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2921
2922 Beta 2, January 1999
2923 --------------------
2924
2925 wxGTK:
2926
2927 wxMSW:
2928
2929 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2930
2931 wxMotif:
2932
2933 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2934 the right place.
2935 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2936 - Added thread support (Robert).
2937 - wxPoem sample now works.
2938
2939 General:
2940
2941 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2942 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2943 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2944 or below).
2945 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2946 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2947 sample.
2948 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2949
2950 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2951 --------------------------
2952
2953 wxGTK:
2954
2955 - Various
2956
2957 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2958
2959
2960 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2961 ----------------------------
2962
2963 wxMSW:
2964
2965 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2966 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2967 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2968 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2969 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2970 on a tab.
2971 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2972 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2973 of Stefan Csomor.
2974
2975 wxMotif:
2976
2977 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2978 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2979 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2980 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2981 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2982 colours correctly.
2983 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2984 when any button was pressed.
2985 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2986 have a white background.
2987 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2988 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2989 they have sensible colours by default.
2990 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2991 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2992 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2993 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2994 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2995
2996 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2997 ----------------------------
2998
2999 wxMSW:
3000
3001 - More documentation updates, especially for
3002 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
3003 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
3004 of wxTrace.
3005 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
3006 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
3007 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
3008 position.
3009 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
3010
3011 wxMotif:
3012
3013 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
3014 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
3015 child frames).
3016 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
3017 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
3018 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
3019 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
3020 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
3021 the debugging implementation.
3022 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
3023 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
3024 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
3025 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
3026 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
3027 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
3028 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
3029
3030 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
3031
3032 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
3033 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
3034 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
3035 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
3036 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
3037 - wxNotebook almost done.
3038 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
3039 to vertical toolbars).
3040
3041 More recently:
3042
3043 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
3044 to scrollbars).
3045 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
3046 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
3047 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
3048
3049 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
3050 ----------------------------
3051
3052 wxMSW:
3053
3054 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3055 sample.
3056 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3057 - A few more makefiles added.
3058 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3059 - Further doc updates.
3060 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3061
3062 wxMotif:
3063
3064 - First start at Motif port.
3065 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3066 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3067 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3068 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3069
3070 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3071 --------------------------
3072
3073 wxMSW:
3074
3075 - wxBitmap debugged.
3076 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3077 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3078 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3079 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3080 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3081 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3082 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3083
3084 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3085 ------------------------
3086
3087 wxMSW:
3088
3089 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3090 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3091 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3092 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3093 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3094 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3095 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3096 changes, wxNotebook.
3097 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3098
3099 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3100 -----------------------
3101
3102 wxMSW:
3103
3104 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3105 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3106 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3107 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3108 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3109 don't support it.
3110 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3111 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3112
3113 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3114 -----------------------
3115
3116 wxMSW:
3117
3118 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3119 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3120
3121 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3122 -----------------------
3123
3124 wxMSW:
3125
3126 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3127 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3128 wxMenuBar.
3129 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3130 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3131 wxMenuItem accessors.
3132 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3133 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3134 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3135 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3136 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3137 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3138 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3139 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3140 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3141 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3142 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3143 first, then doing the assignment.
3144 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3145 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3146
3147 Generic:
3148
3149 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3150 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3151
3152 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3153 ----------------------
3154
3155 wxMSW:
3156
3157 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3158 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3159 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3160 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
3161 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
3162 require application-supplied positioning code though.
3163 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
3164 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
3165 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
3166
3167 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
3168 ------------------------
3169
3170 wxMSW:
3171
3172 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3173 fields were used.
3174 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3175 compilation and pragmas.
3176 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3177 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3178
3179 Generic:
3180
3181 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3182 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3183 compilation and pragmas.
3184 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3185
3186 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3187 ------------------------
3188
3189 wxMSW:
3190
3191 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3192 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3193 some reason :-(
3194 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3195 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3196 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3197 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3198 startup/exit.
3199 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3200 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3201 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3202 VADIM'S CHANGES:
3203 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3204 compatibility functions.
3205 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3206 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3207 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3208 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3209 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3210 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3211 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3212
3213 Generic:
3214
3215 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3216 - Added samples/png.
3217 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3218 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3219 header files.
3220 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3221
3222 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3223 ------------------------
3224
3225 wxMSW:
3226
3227 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3228 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3229 cleaned up properly before exit.
3230 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3231 automatically.
3232 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3233 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3234 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3235 unresolved issues.
3236 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3237 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3238 tray area.
3239 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3240 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3241 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3242 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3243
3244 Generic:
3245
3246 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3247 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3248 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3249 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3250 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3251 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3252 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3253 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3254 allow better control of memory.
3255 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3256 checking.
3257 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3258 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3259
3260 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3261 ------------------------
3262
3263 wxMSW:
3264
3265 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3266 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3267 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3268 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3269 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3270 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3271 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3272 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3273 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3274 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3275 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3276 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3277 IUnknown.
3278 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3279 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3280 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3281 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3282 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3283 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3284 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3285 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3286 internal implementation.
3287 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3288 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3289 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3290
3291 Generic:
3292
3293 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3294 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3295 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3296 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3297 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3298
3299 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3300 --------------------------
3301
3302 wxMSW:
3303
3304 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3305 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3306 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3307 changes.
3308 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3309 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3310 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3311 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3312 again.
3313 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3314 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3315 e.g. wxDC.
3316
3317 Generic:
3318
3319 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3320 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3321 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3322 changes.
3323 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3324 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3325 docs/gtk.
3326 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3327 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3328 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3329 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3330 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3331 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3332 - Added gcc pragmas.
3333 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3334 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3335 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3336 added a few references to wxTransString.
3337 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3338 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3339 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3340 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3341 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3342 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3343 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3344 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3345 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3346 MoreRequested.
3347
3348 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3349 --------------------------
3350
3351 All:
3352
3353 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3354 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3355 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3356 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3357 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3358 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3359 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3360 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3361 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3362 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3363 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3364 scrolling toolbars.
3365 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3366 to help printing with multiple pages.
3367 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3368 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3369 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3370 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3371 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3372 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3373 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3374 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3375 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3376 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3377 New files from Vadim:
3378 include\wx\string.h
3379 include\wx\debug.h
3380 include\wx\file.h
3381 include\wx\log.h
3382 include\wx\intl.h
3383 src\common\string.cpp
3384 src\common\log.cpp
3385 src\common\intl.cpp
3386 src\common\file.cpp
3387 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3388 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3389 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3390 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3391 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3392 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3393 including changes to defs.h.
3394 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3395 introduced.
3396 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3397 hidden).
3398 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3399 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3400 trick).
3401 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3402
3403 Alpha 3, September 1997
3404 -----------------------
3405
3406 All:
3407
3408 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3409 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3410 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3411 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3412 - Started documentation.
3413
3414 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3415 ------------------------
3416
3417 All:
3418
3419 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3420 with MetroWerks compiler.
3421 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3422 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3423 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3424 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3425 for testing purposes.
3426 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3427 handlers.
3428 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3429 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3430 fully).
3431 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3432 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3433 a separate file.
3434
3435 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3436 -----------------------
3437
3438 Generic:
3439
3440 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3441
3442 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3443 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3444 wxString instead of char *.
3445 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3446 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3447 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3448 as wxbWindow now removed.
3449 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3450 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3451 - PrologIO revised.
3452 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3453 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3454 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3455 Windows settings.
3456 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3457 settings mucho rationalised.
3458 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3459 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3460 classes removed.
3461 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3462 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3463 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3464 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3465 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3466 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3467 of event handlers.
3468 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3469 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3470 wxToolBarBase
3471 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3472 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3473 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3474 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3475 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3476 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3477 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3478 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3479 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3480 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3481 in the future.
3482 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3483 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3484 variables instead.
3485 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3486 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3487 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3488 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3489 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3490 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3491 Win95.
3492 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3493 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3494 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3495 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3496 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3497 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).