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2 wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
6 ================================
8 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
9 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
10 with '!' in the first column.
12 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
13 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
16 ! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
17 wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE stll
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
21 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
22 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
23 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
24 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
25 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
26 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
27 - wxColourDatabase doesn't derive from wxList anymore: use AddColour to add
29 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
30 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
33 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
34 ==============================
36 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
37 versions, please update your code to not use them.
39 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
40 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
41 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
42 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
43 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
44 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
45 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
46 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
47 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
48 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
49 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: no replacement
50 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
51 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
52 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
53 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
54 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
64 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
65 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
66 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
67 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
68 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
69 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
70 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
71 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
72 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
73 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
77 - added wxListBook control
78 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
79 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
80 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
81 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
82 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
83 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
84 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
85 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
89 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
90 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
91 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
92 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
93 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
94 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
95 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
96 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
100 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
101 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
102 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
106 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
107 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
115 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
116 huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
117 separately compiled library
118 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
119 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
120 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
121 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
122 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
123 - added wxArray::SetCount()
124 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
125 by default in Unicode mode
126 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
127 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
128 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
129 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
130 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
131 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
132 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
133 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
134 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
135 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
136 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
137 - added wxRecursionGuard class
138 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
139 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
140 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
141 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
142 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
143 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
144 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
145 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
149 - added Watcom makefiles
150 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
154 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
156 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
157 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
158 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
159 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
160 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
161 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
162 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
163 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
164 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
165 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
166 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
167 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
168 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
169 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
170 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
171 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
172 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
173 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
174 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
175 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
176 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
177 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
178 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
179 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
180 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
181 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
182 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
183 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
184 default extension for the template
185 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
186 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
187 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
188 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
189 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
190 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
191 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
192 to allow better rich text support.
193 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
194 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
195 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
196 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
197 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
198 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
199 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
200 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
201 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
202 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
203 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
204 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
205 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
206 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
207 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
208 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
209 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
210 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
211 - added wxMirrorDC class
212 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
213 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
214 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
215 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
216 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
217 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
222 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
223 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
224 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
225 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
226 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
230 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
231 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
232 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
233 to contrib/src/deprecated
237 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
238 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
239 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
240 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
241 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
242 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
243 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
244 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
245 be appended to filenames with no extension
246 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
247 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
248 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
249 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
253 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
254 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
258 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
259 - added wxCrashReport
260 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
261 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
262 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
263 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
264 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
265 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
266 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
267 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
268 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
269 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
270 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
271 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
272 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
273 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
274 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
275 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
276 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
277 - improved border handling under Windows XP
278 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
279 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
280 wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
281 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
282 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
283 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
284 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
288 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
289 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
290 documentation for a detailed explanation
291 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
292 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
293 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
294 with Motif 1.x compatibility
295 - implemented wxToggleButton
296 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
297 instead of a sunken border
298 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
299 - finished wxClipboard implementation
303 - controls in toolbars now supported
307 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
308 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
309 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
310 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
311 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
317 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
318 ================================
320 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
321 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
322 with '!' in the first column.
324 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
325 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
326 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
327 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
330 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
331 of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
332 (see the documentation) useful.
337 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
338 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
341 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
342 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
343 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
344 arrays containing non-pointers.
346 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
347 simply don't make sense for all objects
349 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
350 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
351 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
353 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
355 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
356 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
357 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
358 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
359 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
361 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
362 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
363 the default assert handling.
367 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
368 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
369 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
371 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
372 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
375 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
376 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
377 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
379 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
380 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
381 you want to get OnChar() as well
383 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
384 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
385 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
387 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
388 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
389 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
390 will *NOT* work any longer:
392 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
395 ... do something else ...
397 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
398 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
401 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
403 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
404 if you derived any classes from it
406 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
407 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
409 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
410 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
412 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
413 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
415 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
416 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
419 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
420 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
421 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
423 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
424 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
425 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
426 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
430 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
431 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
432 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
433 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
434 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
435 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
436 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
437 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
438 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
439 is only present for the DLLs builds.
441 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
444 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
445 previously selected one instead of replacing it
447 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
448 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
449 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
451 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
452 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
457 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
458 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
459 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
460 to compile pure C files.
463 wxThread and related classes:
465 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
466 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
467 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
468 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
470 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
471 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
472 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
473 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
475 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
476 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
477 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
479 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
480 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
491 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
498 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
499 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
500 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
504 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
505 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
506 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
509 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
510 - Addition of native frame site grip.
513 - Unicode support through Pango library.
517 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
518 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
522 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
529 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
530 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
531 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
532 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
533 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
534 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
535 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
536 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
537 after (non standard) STL hash_map
538 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
539 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
540 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
541 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
542 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
543 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
544 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
548 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
549 programs and not only GNU make
550 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
551 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
552 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
553 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
554 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
558 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
559 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
560 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
561 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
562 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
564 - significantly improved native font support
565 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
567 - added IFF image handler
568 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
569 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
570 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
571 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
572 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
573 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
574 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
575 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
576 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
577 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
578 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
579 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
580 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
581 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
582 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
583 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
584 - wxMessageOutput class added
585 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
586 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
588 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
589 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
590 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
591 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
593 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
594 whether a label edit was cancelled.
595 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
599 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
600 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
601 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
602 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
603 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
604 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
605 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
606 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
607 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
608 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
610 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
611 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
612 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
613 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
614 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
615 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
616 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
618 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
619 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
620 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
621 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
622 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
623 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
624 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
625 has the capture before release it.
626 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
627 - default button handling is now closer to expected
628 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
629 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
630 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
631 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
632 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
633 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
634 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
635 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
636 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
637 provided in wxFontData
638 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
639 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
643 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
644 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
645 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
646 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
647 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
648 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
649 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
650 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
651 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
652 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
653 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
654 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
655 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
659 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
660 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
661 - improved toolbar control alignment
662 - implemented wxSpinButton
663 - implemented wxCheckListBox
664 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
665 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
669 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
670 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
678 - First alpha-quality release
682 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
683 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
684 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
685 - fixed alignment handling in tables
686 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
691 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
695 - wxRegEx class added
696 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
697 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
698 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
699 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
700 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
704 - support for virtual list control added
705 - column images in report mode of the list control
706 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
707 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
708 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
709 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
710 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
711 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
712 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
713 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
714 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
715 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
716 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
717 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
721 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
722 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
727 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
728 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
729 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
730 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
734 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
739 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
741 - added support for animated GIFs
749 - Fixed new charset detection code
750 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
751 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
752 - Added wxDir::Traverse
753 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
754 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
755 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
759 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
760 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
761 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
762 push on a custom event handler for example)
763 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
764 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
765 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
766 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
767 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
768 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
770 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
771 - Various wxXML enhancements
772 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
773 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
774 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
776 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
777 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
781 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
782 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
783 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
784 alt or shift) now work
785 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
786 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
787 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
788 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
789 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
790 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
791 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
792 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
793 - We now send iconize events
794 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
795 - Added mousewheel processing
796 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
797 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
799 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
800 child frame styles are honoured
804 - Fixed slider rounding bug
805 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
806 - We now send iconize events
807 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
808 GetSelection() results
815 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
816 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
817 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
818 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
819 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
820 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
821 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
822 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
823 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
824 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
828 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
829 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
830 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
831 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
832 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
833 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
834 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
835 wxImage methods and ctor)
836 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
837 - ODBC documentation complete!!
838 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
839 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
840 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
841 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
845 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
846 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
847 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
848 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
852 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
856 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
857 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
864 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
865 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
866 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
867 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
868 - Completed Czech translations
869 - Some stream corrections
870 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
871 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
872 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
873 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
877 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
878 flicker-free dragging is now possible
879 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
880 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
881 - Paper names now translated
883 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
884 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
885 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
886 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
888 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
889 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
891 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
892 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
893 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
894 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
898 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
899 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
900 backward compatibility, please set
901 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
902 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
903 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
904 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
905 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
906 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
907 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
908 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
909 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
910 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
911 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
912 - wxFrame restores focus better
913 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
914 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
915 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
916 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
917 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
918 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
919 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
920 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
921 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
922 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
926 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
930 - Small compilation fixes
946 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
947 files. This works under VC++ only
948 - Modal dialog handling improved
949 - Printer dialog now modal
964 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
968 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
969 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
974 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
975 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
976 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
977 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
978 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
979 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
980 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
981 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
982 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
984 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
985 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
986 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
987 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
988 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
989 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
991 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
995 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
996 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
997 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
998 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
999 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1000 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1001 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1002 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1004 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1005 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1006 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1007 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1008 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1009 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1010 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1011 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1012 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1013 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1014 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1015 - wxDragImage class added
1016 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1017 controllers, as well as native help
1018 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1022 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1023 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1024 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1025 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1026 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1027 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1028 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1029 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1030 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1031 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1033 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1034 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1035 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1039 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1040 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1041 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1045 - wxMenu::Enable works
1046 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1047 - OGL samples made to work again
1051 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1052 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1053 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1054 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1055 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1056 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1057 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1058 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1059 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1060 - improved HTML printing
1061 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1062 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1063 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1064 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1067 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1070 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1071 -----------------------
1075 - JPEG support added.
1076 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1080 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1082 - JPEG support added.
1083 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1084 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1085 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1092 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1095 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1096 -------------------------------
1101 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1105 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1106 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1107 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1108 - Some makefile fixes.
1116 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1117 - More topic overviews.
1118 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1119 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1120 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1123 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1124 --------------------------
1128 - wxExecute improved.
1132 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1134 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1135 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1136 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1137 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1138 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1139 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1143 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1144 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1148 - wxLocale documented.
1149 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1150 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1151 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1152 (though doesn't display help yet).
1154 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1155 --------------------------
1159 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1163 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1165 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
1169 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1170 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1171 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1172 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1173 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1174 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1175 crashes for some reason).
1176 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1177 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1181 - Further doc improvements.
1182 - wxGenericValidator added.
1183 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1186 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1187 -------------------------
1191 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1192 - wxToolTip class added.
1193 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1197 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1198 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1199 - TWIN32 support added.
1200 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1201 factored out program/library settings.
1202 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1206 - A few more colour fixes.
1207 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1208 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1209 - wxChoice crash fix.
1210 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1214 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1215 - Added samples/dde.
1216 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1218 Beta 2, January 1999
1219 --------------------
1225 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1229 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1231 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1232 - Added thread support (Robert).
1233 - wxPoem sample now works.
1237 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1238 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1239 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1241 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1242 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1244 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1246 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1247 --------------------------
1253 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1256 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1257 ----------------------------
1261 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1262 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1263 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1264 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1265 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1267 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1268 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1273 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1274 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1275 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1276 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1277 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1279 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1280 when any button was pressed.
1281 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1282 have a white background.
1283 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1284 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1285 they have sensible colours by default.
1286 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1287 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1288 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1289 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1290 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1292 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1293 ----------------------------
1297 - More documentation updates, especially for
1298 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1299 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1301 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1302 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1303 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1305 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1309 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1310 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1312 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1313 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1314 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1315 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1316 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1317 the debugging implementation.
1318 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1319 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1320 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1321 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1322 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1323 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1324 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1326 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1328 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1329 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1330 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1331 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1332 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1333 - wxNotebook almost done.
1334 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1335 to vertical toolbars).
1339 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1341 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1342 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1343 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1345 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1346 ----------------------------
1350 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1352 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1353 - A few more makefiles added.
1354 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1355 - Further doc updates.
1356 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1360 - First start at Motif port.
1361 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1362 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1363 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1364 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1366 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1367 --------------------------
1371 - wxBitmap debugged.
1372 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1373 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1374 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1375 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1376 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1377 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1378 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1380 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1381 ------------------------
1385 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1386 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1387 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1388 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1389 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1390 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1391 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1392 changes, wxNotebook.
1393 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1395 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1396 -----------------------
1400 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1401 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1402 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1403 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1404 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1406 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1407 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1409 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1410 -----------------------
1414 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1415 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1417 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1418 -----------------------
1422 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1423 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1425 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1426 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1427 wxMenuItem accessors.
1428 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1429 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1430 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1431 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1432 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1433 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1434 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1435 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1436 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1437 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1438 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1439 first, then doing the assignment.
1440 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1441 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1445 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1446 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1448 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1449 ----------------------
1453 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1454 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1455 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1456 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1457 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1458 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1459 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1460 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1461 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1463 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1464 ------------------------
1468 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1470 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1471 compilation and pragmas.
1472 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1473 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1477 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1478 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1479 compilation and pragmas.
1480 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1482 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1483 ------------------------
1487 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1488 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1490 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1491 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1492 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1493 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1495 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1496 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1497 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1499 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1500 compatibility functions.
1501 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1502 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1503 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1504 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1505 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1506 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1507 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1511 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1512 - Added samples/png.
1513 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1514 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1516 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1518 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1519 ------------------------
1523 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1524 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1525 cleaned up properly before exit.
1526 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1528 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1529 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1530 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1532 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1533 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1535 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1536 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1537 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1538 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1542 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1543 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1544 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1545 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1546 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1547 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1548 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1549 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1550 allow better control of memory.
1551 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1553 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1554 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1556 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1557 ------------------------
1561 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1562 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1563 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1564 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1565 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1566 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1567 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1568 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1569 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1570 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1571 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1572 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1574 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1575 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1576 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1577 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1578 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1579 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1580 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1581 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1582 internal implementation.
1583 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1584 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1585 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1589 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1590 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1591 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1592 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1593 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1595 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1596 --------------------------
1600 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1601 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1602 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1604 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1605 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1606 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1607 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1609 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1610 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1615 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1616 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1617 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1619 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1620 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1622 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1623 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1624 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1625 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1626 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1627 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1628 - Added gcc pragmas.
1629 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1630 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1631 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1632 added a few references to wxTransString.
1633 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1634 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1635 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1636 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1637 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1638 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1639 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1640 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1641 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1644 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1645 --------------------------
1649 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1650 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1651 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1652 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1653 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1654 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1655 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1656 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1657 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1658 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1659 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1661 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1662 to help printing with multiple pages.
1663 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1664 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1665 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1666 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1667 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1668 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1669 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1670 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1671 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1672 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1673 New files from Vadim:
1679 src\common\string.cpp
1683 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1684 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1685 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1686 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1687 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1688 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1689 including changes to defs.h.
1690 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1692 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1694 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1695 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1697 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1699 Alpha 3, September 1997
1700 -----------------------
1704 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1705 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1706 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1707 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1708 - Started documentation.
1710 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1711 ------------------------
1715 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1716 with MetroWerks compiler.
1717 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1718 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1719 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1720 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1721 for testing purposes.
1722 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1724 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1725 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1727 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1728 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1731 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1732 -----------------------
1736 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1738 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1739 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1740 wxString instead of char *.
1741 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1742 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1743 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1744 as wxbWindow now removed.
1745 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1746 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1748 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1749 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1750 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1752 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1753 settings mucho rationalised.
1754 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1755 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1757 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1758 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1759 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1760 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1761 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1762 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1764 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1765 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1767 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1768 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1769 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1770 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1771 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1772 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1773 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1774 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1775 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1776 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1778 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1779 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1781 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1782 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1783 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1784 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1785 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1786 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1788 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1789 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1790 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1791 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1792 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1793 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).