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294 <h1 class=
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295 <div class=
"section">
296 <h1><a id=
"id1" name=
"id1">2.7.1.1</a></h1>
300 <p>The following deprecated items have been removed:
</p>
303 <li>wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
</li>
304 <li>The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
</li>
305 <li>wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
</li>
306 <li>wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
</li>
307 <li>The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
</li>
308 <li>wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
</li>
309 <li>wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
</li>
310 <li>wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
</li>
311 <li>wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
312 GetIndexCnt methods
</li>
315 <p>wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
</p>
316 <p>Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
318 <p>wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
319 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
320 empty stubs in wxPython.
</p>
321 <p>Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
322 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
323 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
324 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
325 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
326 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
327 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
328 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
329 that is renaming the base class methods with a
"base_*
" prefix, for
330 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
331 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
332 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
333 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
334 your overridden methods like this:
</p>
335 <pre class=
"literal-block">
336 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
338 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
340 <p>You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this:
</p>
341 <pre class=
"literal-block">
342 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
344 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
346 <p>Or like this with super():
</p>
347 <pre class=
"literal-block">
348 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
350 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
352 <p>Note that the old way with the
"base_*
" function still works, but you
353 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
354 classes affected by this are:
</p>
357 <li>wx.DropSource
</li>
358 <li>wx.DropTarget
</li>
359 <li>wx.TextDropTarget
</li>
360 <li>wx.FileDropTarget
</li>
361 <li>wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
</li>
362 <li>wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
</li>
364 <li>wx.PyPrintPreview
</li>
365 <li>wx.PyPreviewFrame
</li>
366 <li>wx.PreviewControlBar
</li>
368 <li>wx.PyControl
</li>
370 <li>wx.PyScrolledWindow
</li>
373 <li>wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
</li>
374 <li>wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
</li>
375 <li>wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
</li>
376 <li>wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
</li>
377 <li>wx.html.HtmlWindow
</li>
378 <li>wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
</li>
381 <p>Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
383 <p>wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2
385 <p>Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch
1446207</p>
386 <p>Bumped up to SWIG
1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance
387 boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new
389 <p>Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the
390 position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is
391 not a top-level window.
</p>
392 <p>Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to
393 wx.StandardPaths.
</p>
394 <p>Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can
395 use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the
396 source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which
397 of the component data objects to use to access the data.
</p>
398 <p>Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.)
399 are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances
400 using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before
401 OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each obhect is initialized.
402 This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality
403 that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for
404 wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously
405 hidden under the covers.
</p>
406 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.
</p>
407 <p>Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.
</p>
408 <p>wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first
409 is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip
410 flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip
411 button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time
412 Update is called.
</p>
413 <p>A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is
414 imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert
415 your code to use the new wx package instead.
</p>
416 <p>Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in
417 wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more
418 work, but it is a great start.
</p>
419 <p>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
420 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
421 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
422 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
423 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
425 <p>wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it
426 will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.
</p>
427 <p>Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.
</p>
428 <p>Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so
429 far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.
</p>
430 <p>Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item (i.e. the
431 column in report mode) that was hit (if any) in addition to the item
433 <p>Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl,
434 wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.
</p>
435 <p>Patch #
1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha
437 <p>Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.
</p>
438 <p>Added the PseudoDC class from Paul Lanier. It provides a way to
439 record operations on a DC and then play them back later.
</p>
440 <p>Upgraded to Scintilla
1.70 for wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl.
</p>
441 <p>Added CanSetTransparent and SetTransparent methods to the
442 wx.TopLevelWindow class, with implementations (so far) for wxMSW and
444 <p>SetDefaultItem() and GetDefaultItem() are now members of
445 wx.TopLevelWindow, not wx.Panel.
</p>
446 <p>wxGTK: Stock items (icons) will be used for menu items with stock
448 <p>Added wx.lib.combotreebox from Frank Niessink
</p>
449 <p>Added wx.ImageFromBuffer, wx.BitmapFromBuffer and
450 wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA factory functions. They enable loading of an
451 image or bitmap directly from a Python object that implements the
452 buffer interface, such as strings, arrays, etc.
</p>
453 <p>Added wx.App.IsDisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a
454 GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an
455 implementation for wxMSW...)
</p>
456 <p>The wx.html.HTML_FONT_SIZE_x constants are no longer available as the
457 default sizes are now calculated at runtime based on the size of the
459 <p>wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to
460 wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new
461 alpha blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing
462 with pens and brushes on a wx.DC.
</p>
463 <p>Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator
464 and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access
465 to the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.
</p>
466 <p>The beginnings of support for RTL languages has been added, thanks to
467 a Google SoC project.
</p>
468 <p>Added wx.lib.dragscroller from Riaan Booysen. It provides a helper
469 class that can used to scroll a wx.ScrolledWindow in response to a
471 <p>Applied patch
1551409: Adds support for indeterminate mode gauges.
</p>
472 <p>wxMac: I've turned on the compile option for using the native toolbar
473 on the Mac now that it supports hosting of controls. If the toolbar
474 is managed by the frame via either CreateToolBar() or SetToolBar()
475 then the native toolbar will be used. Additional toolbars, or
476 toolbars that are not children of the frame, are managed by sizers or
477 what-not will still use the emulated toolbar because of platform
478 restrictions in how/where the native toolbar can be used.
</p>
479 <p>Added Python properties for many of the getter/setter methods of wx
480 classes. In order for the names to be predicatble for somebody
481 already familiar with wxPython the property names are simply the name
482 of the getter with the
"Get
" dropped. For example, wx.Window has a
483 property named
"Size
" that maps to GetSize and SetSize. So far there
484 is only one known name conflict using this naming convention, and that
485 is wx.KeyEvent.KeyCode, however since KeyCode was formerly a
486 compatibility alias for GetKeyCode (and has been for a long time) it
487 was decided to just switch it to a property. If you want to use the
488 method then change your calls to event.KeyCode() to
489 event.GetKeyCode(), otherwise you can use it as a property just by
490 dropping the parentheses.
</p>
491 <p>Updated the C++ code for wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl from the wxCode
492 project. This has resulted in some minor API changes, most of which
493 were worked around in the wrapper code.
</p>
494 <p>Added wx.lib.delayedresult from Oliver Schoenborn.
</p>
495 <p>Added wx.lib.expando, a multi-line textctrl that exands as more lines
497 <p>wx.Image.Scale and Rescale methods now take an extra parameter
498 specifying type of method to use for resampling the image. It
499 defaults to the current behavior of just replicating pixels, if
500 wx.IMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH is passed then it uses bicubic and box averaging
501 resampling methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively.
</p>
502 <p>Added the wx.lib.buttonpanel module, which is a tweaked version of
503 Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.
</p>
504 <p>Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.
</p>
505 <p>Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like
506 wx.CallAfter. wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater
507 for compatibility of older code.
</p>
508 <p>Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl the from Andrea Gavana.
</p>
509 <p>Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook
510 and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't
511 send the change events.
</p>
512 <p>Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but
513 doesn't send the text changed event.
</p>
514 <p>For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have
515 IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't
516 been deprecated yet
</p>
517 <p>Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class. They
518 provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which
519 will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info
520 is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.
</p>
521 <p>The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the code wxWidgets
522 library, and refactored a bit along the way. For wxPython it still
523 exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two
524 classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl. You load
525 the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats
526 in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the
527 AnimatedCtrl for display. See the demo for an example. There is also
528 still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards
529 compatibility with the old implementation.
</p>
530 <p>wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a
531 Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default. This means that all
532 drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the
533 old Quick Draw API. There are, however, a few places where Quartz and
534 wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for
535 logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there is work in progress
536 to provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with
537 Quartz and also on the other platforms.
</p>
538 <p>The first parts of a new
2D drawing API has been added with the
539 wx.GraphicsPath and wx.GraphicsContext classes. They wrap GDI+ on
540 Windows, Cairo on wxGTK and CoreGraphics on OS X. They allow path-based
541 drawing with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, and use a floating
542 point cooridnate system. Currently they can only target drawing to
543 windows, but other wx.DC backends are forthcoming. The APIs may
544 evolve a bit more before they are finalaized with the
2.8 release, but
545 there is enough there now to get a good feel for how things will work.
546 There is also a transitional wx.GCDC class that provides the wx.DC API
547 on top of wx.GraphicsContext. Docs and a demo are still MIA.
</p>
548 <p>Added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC on
549 platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of
550 wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't. You can use this
551 class to help avoid the overhead of buffering when it is not
552 needed. There is also a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory function that
553 does a little more and actually tests if the window has
554 double-buffering enabled and then decides whether to return a
555 wx.PaintDC or wx.BufferedPaintDC. This uses the new
556 wx.Window.IsDoubleBuffered method.
</p>
558 <div class=
"section">
559 <h1><a id=
"id2" name=
"id2">2.6.3.3</a></h1>
561 <li>15-July-
2006</li>
563 <dl class=
"docutils">
564 <dt>wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn:
</dt>
565 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
566 <li>fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects
</li>
567 <li>now supports listeners that use *args as an argument
568 (listener(*args) was not passing the validity test)
</li>
569 <li>corrected some mistakes in documentation
</li>
570 <li>added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time
572 <li>changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented
573 pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher
</li>
576 <dt>DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua:
</dt>
577 <dd>New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to
578 the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in
579 the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging.
580 Not important for python development, but at least that means the
581 debugger framework is more generalized.
</dd>
583 <p>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
584 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
585 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
586 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
587 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
589 <p>Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog.
</p>
590 <p>Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python
2.5. There
591 may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and
64-bit
592 machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it
593 have been resolved.
</p>
595 <div class=
"section">
596 <h1><a id=
"id3" name=
"id3">2.6.3.2</a></h1>
598 <li>3-April-
2006</li>
600 <p>Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.
</p>
601 <p>wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change
602 was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem
603 (contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a
604 wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being
606 <p>wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the
608 <p>Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on
64-bit platforms. Used
609 the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of
611 <p>wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap
612 buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button
613 it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly
614 generic button style.
</p>
615 <p>XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.
</p>
616 <p>Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic
617 data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a
618 TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return
619 a boolean as expected. For example:
</p>
620 <pre class=
"literal-block">
621 wx.Colour(
64,
0,
64) ==
123 ==
> False
623 <p>wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on
624 a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is
626 <p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item
627 is selected only with the keyboard.
</p>
629 <div class=
"section">
630 <h1><a id=
"id4" name=
"id4">2.6.3.0</a></h1>
632 <li>27-March-
2006</li>
634 <p>Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
635 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -
1. This ensures that on
636 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
637 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
</p>
638 <p>wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
639 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
640 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
641 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
642 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
643 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
644 column zero, or returns -
1 for other columns.
</p>
645 <p>Switched to using SWIG
1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
646 are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
647 wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
648 which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
649 need to modify any of the *.i files or to add your own, then you will
650 want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
651 in the source tarball for details.
</p>
652 <p>wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing
653 with the alpha channel.
</p>
654 <p>wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
655 wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
</p>
656 <p>wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
658 <p>wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
659 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
</p>
660 <p>wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
661 not available in the themed version.
</p>
662 <p>Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
</p>
663 <p>Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
</p>
664 <p>Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
</p>
665 <p>wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
</p>
666 <p>wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
</p>
667 <p>wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
</p>
668 <p>wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
669 window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
670 flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
</p>
671 <p>wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
672 into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to
"timer.clock.seconds
"
673 is the same as subscribing to (
"timer
",
"clock
",
"seconds
").
</p>
674 <p>Applied patch #
1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
</p>
675 <p>Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
</p>
676 <p>Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version
1.67 of Scintilla.
677 NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
678 you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
</p>
679 <p>wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #
1436503. Delay the start of the
680 DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
</p>
681 <p>Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
683 <p>Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
684 Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
</p>
685 <p>Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
686 scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
687 zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
</p>
688 <p>XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
</p>
689 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch
1214360)
</p>
691 <div class=
"section">
692 <h1><a id=
"id5" name=
"id5">2.6.2.1</a></h1>
696 <p>wxMSW: Fix for bug #
1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
698 <p>wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
699 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
701 <p>wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
702 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
</p>
703 <p>Fixes for bug #
1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
</p>
704 <p>Fix for bug #
1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
</p>
705 <p>Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
</p>
706 <p>Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
707 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
708 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
709 can manage more than two child windows.
</p>
710 <p>Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #
1217890
711 "Closing view crashes Python
" plus some new features:
</p>
713 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
714 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
715 For example you can add a
"Notepad
" extension (under windows) that
716 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new
"Notepad
"
717 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
</blockquote>
718 <p>Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
</p>
719 <p>XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
</p>
722 <li>Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
723 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
724 for an available parent control if no specific view
725 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
726 'stick' anymore).
</li>
727 <li>Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
</li>
728 <li>Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
729 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default
0/
100
730 is not always good).
</li>
733 <p>Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
735 <p>Fix for Bug #
1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
736 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
738 <p>Fix for Bug #
1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
</p>
739 <p>wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
</p>
740 <p>wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #
1384440.
</p>
741 <p>wxMSW: Fix for Bug #
1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
743 <p>Fix for Bug #
1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
744 it doesn't fill up too soon.
</p>
745 <p>Applied Patch #
1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
</p>
746 <p>Applied Patch #
1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
</p>
747 <p>Applied Patch # #
1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
748 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
</p>
749 <p>Applied patch #
1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
</p>
750 <p>Applied patch #
1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
751 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
752 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
753 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement()
&
754 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
755 to synchronize with a single timer.
</p>
756 <p>Fix for bug #
1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
758 <p>Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
759 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
</p>
760 <p>Applied patch #
1326241: Supporting
"setup.py install --install-headers=path
"</p>
761 <p>Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #
1219423: CommandManager
762 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
</p>
763 <p>Applied patch #
1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
764 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
765 instead of a separate menu item.
</p>
766 <p>Fix for bug #
1266745 and #
1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
767 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
768 workaround a bug in MSLU!
</p>
769 <p>wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
770 and other special keys properly.
</p>
771 <p>Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
772 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
773 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
</p>
776 <li>The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
777 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
</li>
778 <li>In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
779 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
781 <li>Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
783 <li>Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
784 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
</li>
785 <li>F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
</li>
786 <li>switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
</li>
787 <li>Display of line numbers can be toggled.
</li>
788 <li>F12 toggles a
"free edit
" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
789 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
790 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
791 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
792 non-flashing caret.
</li>
793 <li>Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
</li>
794 <li>General code cleanup and fixes.
</li>
795 <li>Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
797 <li>Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
</li>
798 <li>Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
799 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
800 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
801 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
</li>
802 <li>All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
803 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
804 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
805 place to do anything.
</li>
806 <li>Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
807 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
808 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
</li>
809 <li>Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
810 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
</li>
811 <li>PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
812 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
813 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
</li>
814 <li>Added an option for whether to insert text for function
815 parameters when popping up the call tip.
</li>
816 <li>Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
817 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
</li>
820 <p>Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
</p>
823 <li>Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
</li>
824 <li>Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
</li>
825 <li>Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
827 <li>Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
829 <li>Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
830 integerwidth=
1 numctrl, if the current value was
0.
</li>
831 <li>Fixed logic involving processing of
"_signOk
" flag, to remove
832 default sign key handlers if false, so that
833 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
</li>
834 <li>Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
835 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
836 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
837 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
838 rather than toggling the previous sign.
</li>
841 <p>wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
842 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
843 will use by default.
</p>
844 <p>Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
845 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
846 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
847 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
848 and the modifier keys.
</p>
849 <p>Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
</p>
850 <p>A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
851 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
852 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
</p>
854 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
855 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
856 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
857 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
858 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---
> (...(x,y), ...)
</blockquote>
860 <div class=
"section">
861 <h1><a id=
"id6" name=
"id6">2.6.1.0</a></h1>
865 <p>wx.ListCtrl: patch #
1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
866 wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.
</p>
867 <p>Applied patch #
208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
</p>
868 <p>DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
869 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
870 any unknown file type.
</p>
871 <p>wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
872 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
</p>
873 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
874 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
875 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
877 <p>wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
</p>
878 <p>wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
879 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
</p>
880 <p>wxMSW: Applied patch #
1213290 incorrect logic in
881 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
</p>
882 <p>Applied patch #
1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
</p>
883 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
885 <p>wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
886 change will get written at the next flush.
</p>
888 <div class=
"section">
889 <h1><a id=
"id7" name=
"id7">2.6.0.1</a></h1>
893 <p>Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
894 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
895 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
</p>
896 <p>wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
898 <p>wxGTK: Patch #
1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
899 both has an icon and is a submenu.
</p>
900 <p>wxMSW: Patch #
1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
902 <p>wxMSW: Patch #
1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
903 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
904 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
905 instead of current values.
</p>
906 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
907 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
</p>
908 <p>Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
</p>
909 <p>wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
910 extra null character at the end.
</p>
911 <p>Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
912 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
</p>
913 <p>wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
915 <p>Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
</p>
916 <p>wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
918 <p>wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
</p>
919 <p>Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
920 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
921 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
923 <p>Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
924 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
926 <p>Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
927 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
928 default browser in response to the clicks.
</p>
929 <p>Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
930 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
931 required. For example, if you ask for
"2.6-unicode
" but only the ansi
932 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
933 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
934 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
935 parameter, like this:
</p>
936 <pre class=
"literal-block">
938 wxversion.select(
"2.6-unicode
", True)
941 <p>Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
942 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
943 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
</p>
944 <p>wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
946 <p>Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
947 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
</p>
948 <p>wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
</p>
949 <p>wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
950 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
</p>
951 <p>XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
952 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
954 <p>wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
955 self.history is None.
</p>
956 <p>wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
957 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
958 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
</p>
959 <p>wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
961 <p>More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
962 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
964 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
965 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
966 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
967 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
</p>
968 <p>wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch
1206023]
</p>
969 <p>wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
970 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
972 <p>wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
973 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #
1204069)
</p>
974 <p>Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
975 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
977 <p>wxMac: Applied patch for bug #
1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
978 also applied patch for bug #
1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
</p>
979 <p>wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
</p>
980 <p>wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
</p>
981 <p>wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
</p>
982 <p>Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
983 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
</p>
984 <p>The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
985 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
986 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
987 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
989 <p>wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
990 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
</p>
991 <p>Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
992 _setCallbackInfo.
</p>
993 <p>wxMSW: patch #
1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
</p>
994 <p>wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #
1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
995 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
997 <p>Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
998 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
999 of a wx.TextCtrl.)
</p>
1001 <div class=
"section">
1002 <h1><a id=
"id8" name=
"id8">2.6.0.0</a></h1>
1004 <li>26-Apr-
2005</li>
1006 <p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
1007 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
1009 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #
1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
</p>
1010 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
</p>
1011 <p>wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+
1.2.x or
2.x has
1012 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
1013 either '
1', '
2' or 'any'. The default is '
2'.
</p>
1014 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
1015 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
1016 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
1017 through the same string/unicode
<--
> wxString conversions. The
"Raw
"
1018 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
1019 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-
8 encoding and in an ansi
1020 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The
"UTF8
" functions
1021 will attempt to always get/set utf-
8 text, which it will always be
1022 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
1023 the content of the utf-
8 used being compatible with the current
1024 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
</p>
1026 <table border=
"1" class=
"docutils">
1031 <tbody valign=
"top">
1032 <tr><td>AddTextRaw
</td>
1033 <td>AddTextUTF8
</td>
1035 <tr><td>InsertTextRaw
</td>
1036 <td>InsertTextUTF8
</td>
1038 <tr><td>GetCurLineRaw
</td>
1039 <td>GetCurLineUTF8
</td>
1041 <tr><td>GetLineRaw
</td>
1042 <td>GetLineUTF8
</td>
1044 <tr><td>GetSelectedTextRaw
</td>
1045 <td>GetSelectedTextUTF8
</td>
1047 <tr><td>GetTextRangeRaw
</td>
1048 <td>GetTextRangeUTF8
</td>
1050 <tr><td>SetTextRaw
</td>
1051 <td>SetTextUTF8
</td>
1053 <tr><td>GetTextRaw
</td>
1054 <td>GetTextUTF8
</td>
1056 <tr><td>AppendTextRaw
</td>
1057 <td>AppendTextUTF8
</td>
1062 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
1063 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
1064 a particular style.
</p>
1065 <p>wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
1066 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
</p>
1067 <p>wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
</p>
1068 <dl class=
"docutils">
1069 <dt>XRCed: Updated to version
0.1.5.
</dt>
1070 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1071 <li>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
</li>
1072 <li>Hide command for test window.
</li>
1073 <li>Replacing classes works better.
</li>
1074 <li>Added Locate tool.
</li>
1079 <div class=
"section">
1080 <h1><a id=
"id9" name=
"id9">2.5.5.1</a></h1>
1084 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #
1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
</p>
1085 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #
1163384. Moved the code that handles
1086 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
1087 so the character inserted into the editor will be the
"cooked
" char
1088 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
1089 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
</p>
1090 <p>Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
</p>
1091 <p>wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit
4.1 if
1093 <p>Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
1094 wx.ImageHistogram.
</p>
1095 <p>wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
1096 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
1097 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
1098 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
1099 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
1101 <p>wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
1102 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
1104 <p>wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
1105 crash when using nVidia cards (patch
1155132)
</p>
1106 <dl class=
"docutils">
1107 <dt>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
</dt>
1108 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1109 <li>Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
</li>
1110 <li>Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
1111 the width of any column.
</li>
1115 <p>wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
1117 <p>wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a
2nd time.
</p>
1118 <p>wxMSW: Applied patch #
1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
</p>
1119 <p>Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
1120 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
</p>
1121 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
1122 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
1123 used on GTK2
>=
2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
1124 older generic file dialog is used.
</p>
1125 <p>wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
1127 <p>wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
1128 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
1129 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
1130 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
</p>
1131 <p>Added MDI support to XRC
</p>
1132 <p>Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
1133 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
</p>
1134 <p>wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
1135 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
</p>
1136 <p>wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
1137 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
</p>
1138 <p>wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
1139 affecting the label.
</p>
1140 <p>wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
1141 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
</p>
1142 <p>Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
1143 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
</p>
1144 <p>Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
1146 <p>Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
</p>
1148 <div class=
"section">
1149 <h1><a id=
"id10" name=
"id10">2.5.4.1</a></h1>
1151 <li>16-Mar-
2005</li>
1153 <p>wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
1154 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
1155 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
</p>
1156 <p>Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
1157 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
</p>
1158 <p>wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
1159 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
1160 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
1161 then calling GetValue().
</p>
1162 <dl class=
"docutils">
1163 <dt>Some XRC changes:
</dt>
1164 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1165 <li>Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
</li>
1166 <li>No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
</li>
1167 <li>Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
</li>
1168 <li>added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #
1038207)
</li>
1172 <p>wxMSW: fix for [
1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
1174 <p>Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
1175 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
1176 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
</p>
1177 <p>OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
</p>
1179 <p>Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
1180 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:
</p>
1181 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1182 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
1183 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
1185 <p>was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
1186 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
1187 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
1188 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
1189 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
1190 the origin of the canvas.
</p>
1191 <p>The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
1192 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
1193 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
</p>
1195 <p>Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
1196 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
</p>
1197 <p>Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
1198 internal scrollbar visible.
</p>
1199 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
1200 system paths for each platform.
</p>
1201 <p>wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
1202 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
1203 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
1204 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
1205 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
</p>
1206 <p>wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
1207 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
1208 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
</p>
1209 <p>wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
1210 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
1211 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
</p>
1212 <p>Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
1213 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
1214 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
</p>
1215 <p>wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
</p>
1216 <p>Added
"gravity
" for splitter window (patch
1046105). Gravity is a
1217 floating-point factor between
0.0 and
1.0 which controls position of
1218 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
1219 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
</p>
1220 <p>wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
1221 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
1222 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
1223 of how to use the control.
</p>
1224 <p>wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
1225 focus (a slightly modified patch
1084592.)
</p>
1226 <p>Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
1227 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
1229 <p>wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
1230 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
</p>
1231 <p>Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
1232 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
1233 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
1234 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
1235 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
1236 finished with the timer.
</p>
1237 <p>Updated to
1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
1238 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
1239 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
1240 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
1241 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
1242 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG
1.3.24 plus this patch
1243 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
1244 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
1245 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
1246 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
</p>
1249 <li>Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
1250 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
1251 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
1252 via the wxPython C API.
</li>
1253 <li>The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
1254 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
1255 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
1256 when docstrings are added for those items.
</li>
1257 <li>The
"this
" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
1258 string containing a
"swigified pointer
", but rather a custom
1259 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
1260 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
1261 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
1265 <p>Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
1266 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
1267 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
1268 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
1269 sitecustomize.py file it is always
"ascii
", which would result in
1270 errors if the strings contained character codes
>=
128.
1271 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
1272 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
1273 value of
<cite>locale.getdefaultlocale()[
1]
</cite> when wxPython is first
1274 imported. Please see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html">http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
</a>
1275 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
1277 <p>Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
1278 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
1279 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each
<cite>wx.Button
</cite>
1280 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
1281 ID's. Then call
<cite>Realize
</cite> and the sizer will take care of the rest.
</p>
1282 <p>wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -
1) to the
1283 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
</p>
1284 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
1285 lots of surplus events)
</p>
1286 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
1287 wx.SystemSettings.
</p>
1288 <p>wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #
1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
1289 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
</p>
1290 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
1291 and GTK+'s context menu code.
</p>
1292 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
1293 (not all actions are allowed).
</p>
1294 <p>Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch
1104355)
</p>
1295 <p>For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
1296 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
1297 when GetString is called from an event handler.
</p>
1298 <p>Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
1299 and max ends of the slider.
</p>
1300 <p>Several patches applied, such as #
1111174, #
1110252 and others, that
1301 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
1302 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
</p>
1303 <dl class=
"docutils">
1305 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1306 <li>Edit-
>Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
1307 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
1308 not with labels/sizers.
</li>
1309 <li>Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
1310 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
1315 <p>wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
1316 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
</p>
1317 <p>wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
1318 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
1320 <p>The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1321 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
1322 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
1323 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
1325 <p>Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
1326 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to
0.
</p>
1327 <p>wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla
1.62.
</p>
1328 <p>Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to
1 to
1329 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
1330 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
1331 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before
2.6.
</p>
1332 <p>wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
1334 <p>wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
1335 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
</p>
1336 <p>Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
</p>
1337 <p>wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
</p>
1338 <p>Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
1339 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
</p>
1340 <p>wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
1342 <p>wxMSW:
"Alt
" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
1344 <p>Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
1345 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
1346 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
1347 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
1348 samples/docview.
</p>
1349 <p>Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
</p>
1350 <p>wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
</p>
1351 <p>wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
1352 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
1353 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
1354 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
1355 for Add, and etc.
</p>
1356 <p>The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
1357 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
</p>
1358 <p>The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
1359 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
</p>
1360 <p>Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
1361 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
1362 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
1363 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
1364 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
1365 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
</p>
1366 <p>wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
1368 <p>Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
1370 <p>Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
</p>
1371 <dl class=
"docutils">
1373 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1374 <li>Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
</li>
1375 <li>Corrected default button size handling for different themes
</li>
1376 <li>Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
</li>
1377 <li>Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
</li>
1382 <div class=
"section">
1383 <h1><a id=
"id11" name=
"id11">2.5.3.1</a></h1>
1387 <p>wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
</p>
1388 <p>Updated internal PNG library.
</p>
1389 <p>wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
</p>
1390 <p>wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
1391 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
</p>
1392 <p>wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
1393 enabled (does an enable itself)
</p>
1394 <p>Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
1396 <p>Added support to XRC and XRCed for the
3-state checkbox flags and also
1397 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
1399 <p>It is now possible to create
"stock
" buttons. Basically this means
1400 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
1401 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
1402 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
1403 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
1404 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1405 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1406 button with
"Cancel
" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1407 also be an image of a red X:
</p>
1408 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1409 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1411 <p>Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
</p>
1412 <p>Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
</p>
1413 <p>Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
</p>
1414 <p>Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1415 I am no longer doing builds on Python
2.1 the newest distutils is no
1416 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python
2.2 distutils
1417 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1418 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1419 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1420 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
</p>
1421 <p>Updated to SWIG
1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1422 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1423 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1424 the wxPython modules.
</p>
1425 <p>Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1426 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1427 user that they should look at that window.
</p>
1428 <p>"Fixed
" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1429 them register the editor or renderer for the
"string
" data type.
</p>
1430 <p>Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
</p>
1431 <p>Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1432 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1433 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1434 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1435 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1436 and PyGetDate methods.
</p>
1437 <p>wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1438 also set the colour of the dropdown.
</p>
1439 <p>wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
</p>
1440 <p>wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
</p>
1441 <p>wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
</p>
1442 <p>wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1443 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1444 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
</p>
1445 <p>wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
</p>
1446 <p>wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
</p>
1447 <p>Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch
992813)
</p>
1448 <p>Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1450 <p>Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1452 <p>Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch
910272)
</p>
1453 <p>wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1454 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1456 <p>Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
</p>
1457 <p>wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1458 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1460 <p>Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1461 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1462 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
</p>
1463 <p>The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1464 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1465 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1466 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1467 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1468 should notice no difference.
</p>
1469 <p>wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1470 when a new one is selected.
</p>
1471 <p>wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
</p>
1472 <p>wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1473 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1474 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1475 more details and a warning.
</p>
1476 <p>Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1477 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
</p>
1478 <p>Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1479 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
</p>
1480 <p>Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version
1.61</p>
1481 <p>Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
</p>
1482 <p>Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
</p>
1483 <p>wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1484 holding down the mouse button.
</p>
1485 <p>wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1486 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
</p>
1487 <p>FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
</p>
1488 <dl class=
"docutils">
1489 <dt>PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
</dt>
1490 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1491 <li>Added bar graph demo
</li>
1492 <li>Modified line end shape from round to square.
</li>
1493 <li>Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1495 <li>Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
</li>
1496 <li>Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
</li>
1497 <li>Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
</li>
1498 <li>Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
</li>
1499 <li>Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1500 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
</li>
1501 <li>Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1502 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1506 <dt>MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
</dt>
1507 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1508 <li>Added '*' mask char that means
"all ansii chars
" (ords
32-
255)
</li>
1509 <li>Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
</li>
1510 <li>Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1512 <li>Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1514 <li>lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1515 reflect package's public contents.
</li>
1519 <p>Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1520 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1521 Migrarion Guide for more information.
</p>
1522 <dl class=
"docutils">
1523 <dt>Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies
4 files:
</dt>
1524 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1525 <li>wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
</li>
1526 <li>wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
</li>
1527 <li>wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1529 <li>wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
</li>
1533 <p>Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1534 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1536 <p>wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1537 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
</p>
1539 <div class=
"section">
1540 <h1><a id=
"id12" name=
"id12">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
1542 <li>27-Aug-
2004</li>
1544 <p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.
</p>
1547 <li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
</li>
1548 <li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
</li>
1549 <li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1550 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
</li>
1551 <li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1552 flicker problems, and namespace use.
</li>
1553 <li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
</li>
1554 <li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
</li>
1555 <li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented
2nd
1557 <li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
</li>
1558 <li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1559 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
</li>
1560 <li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1561 wxScrolledWindow.
</li>
1562 <li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1563 wxCheckListBox.
</li>
1564 <li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
</li>
1565 <li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
</li>
1566 <li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
</li>
1571 <div class=
"section">
1572 <h1><a id=
"id13" name=
"id13">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
1574 <li>14-Aug-
2004</li>
1576 <p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1577 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1578 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1579 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1580 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1581 that it will
<em>not
</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
1582 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1583 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1584 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
</p>
1585 <p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1586 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
</p>
1587 <p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in
2.5.1.5
1588 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the
2.4
1589 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1590 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1592 <p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1593 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
</p>
1594 <p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
</p>
1595 <p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1596 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
</p>
1597 <p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1598 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1599 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1600 buttons.py to handle attribute (font
& colour) defaults and
1601 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1602 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1604 <p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1605 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1606 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1607 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1608 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1610 <p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1611 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1612 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
</p>
1613 <p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1614 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
</p>
1615 <p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1616 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
</p>
1617 <p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to
"C
" (compatibility) when
1618 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1619 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1620 remaining compatible with
"C
".
</p>
1621 <p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1623 <p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1624 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1625 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1626 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1627 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1628 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1629 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1630 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1631 <a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details.
</p>
1632 <p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1633 Scintilla for several releases now.
</p>
1634 <p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1635 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1636 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1637 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
</p>
1638 <p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1639 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1640 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1641 after construction.
</p>
1642 <p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1643 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1644 with a more modern reimplementation.
</p>
1645 <p>Added a new version (
0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1646 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
</p>
1647 <p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1648 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1649 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
</p>
1650 <p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1651 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:svip123@fastmail.fm">svip123
@fastmail.fm
</a>> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1652 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1653 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1654 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
</p>
1655 <p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1656 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1657 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1658 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1660 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1661 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[
0]
1662 >>> for x in range(
0,
500,
10):
1665 ... wx.MilliSleep(
10)
1667 <p>wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#
1098374) for text control and combo
1670 <div class=
"section">
1671 <h1><a id=
"the-this-is-not-a-joke-release" name=
"the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">2.5.1.5 (the 'this is
<em>not
</em> a joke' release)
</a></h1>
1675 <p>(See also the
<a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details about some of the
1676 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1677 adapt your code.)
</p>
1678 <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1679 see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm
</a> for more details. This won't
1680 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1681 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1682 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1683 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1684 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
</p>
1685 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1686 to wxWidgets
2.5 that I have forgotten about.
</p>
1687 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.
</p>
1688 <p>Added wxIconLocation
</p>
1689 <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1690 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
</p>
1691 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1692 from wxBookCtrl.
</p>
1693 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1694 wx.lib.plot module.
</p>
1695 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1696 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1697 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
</p>
1698 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1699 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1700 also installing icons and
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">*.desktop
</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
1701 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1702 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1703 RH-
9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1704 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1705 distros please send me a patch.
</p>
1706 <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-
9 box, and I have tested
1707 installing them also on my main Mandrake
9.2 box.
</p>
1708 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1709 Installer package now
<em>only
</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1710 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1711 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1712 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1713 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1714 want to put them.
</p>
1715 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1717 <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
</p>
1718 <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
</p>
1719 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version
1.58 of Scintilla.
</p>
1720 <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1721 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1722 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1723 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1724 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1725 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1726 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1728 <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1729 "Adi
" Sieker.
</p>
1730 <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
</p>
1731 <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1732 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
</p>
1733 <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1734 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1735 MigrationGuide for more details.
</p>
1736 <p>Created a new extension module
"activex
" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1737 newest
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX
</a> class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1738 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1739 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1740 controls in a wx.Window,
<strong>without
</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
1741 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1742 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1743 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1744 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1745 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1746 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1747 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1748 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1749 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1750 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1751 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1752 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
</p>
1753 <p>Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
</p>
1755 <div class=
"section">
1756 <h1><a id=
"id15" name=
"id15">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
1760 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
</p>
1761 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
</p>
1762 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1763 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
</p>
1764 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
</p>
1765 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
</p>
1766 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
</p>
1768 <div class=
"section">
1769 <h1><a id=
"id16" name=
"id16">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
1771 <li>19-Jun-
2003</li>
1773 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
</p>
1774 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
</p>
1775 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1776 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">spam(*args,
</span> <span class=
"pre">**kw)
</span></tt> syntax
1777 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1779 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1780 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1781 and wxWindows match.
</p>
1782 <p>Added the new wx
"renamer
" package that will dynamically import from
1783 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --
> FooBar. That means that
1784 people can do imports without
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">"import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> and can use names like
1785 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase
1 of a full transition
1786 to the new namespace.
</p>
1787 <p>Updated Scintilla to
1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1788 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1789 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1790 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
</p>
1791 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1792 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1793 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as
"from wxPython
1794 import py
" (or
"from wx import py
" using the new namespace.) There
1795 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1796 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1797 package. These will be removed in a future release.
</p>
1798 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1799 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1800 code like
"if obj: ...
" to be the same as
"if obj.IsOk(): ...
"</p>
1801 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
</p>
1802 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1803 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
</p>
1804 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1805 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
</p>
1806 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1807 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
</p>
1808 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1809 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1811 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1812 a call to any Python callable object.
</p>
1813 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1814 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1815 to override the C++ virtual methods.
</p>
1816 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1817 the
"option
" parameter to
"proportion
" to match the docs (
"option
" is
1818 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1819 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter,
1820 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter
</p>
1821 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.
</p>
1823 <div class=
"section">
1824 <h1><a id=
"id17" name=
"id17">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
1826 <li>24-Mar-
2003</li>
1828 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1829 TRUE/FALSE values.
</p>
1830 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1831 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1832 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a
16-bit value.
</p>
1833 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1835 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1837 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1839 <p>Updated PyCrust to version
0.9</p>
1840 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1841 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1842 default behavior) is enough. See below in the
2.3.4.1 notes for more
1845 <div class=
"section">
1846 <h1><a id=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release" name=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
</a></h1>
1848 <li>11-Mar-
2003</li>
1850 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1851 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1852 think I am testing in the future...
</p>
1854 <div class=
"section">
1855 <h1><a id=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release" name=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
</a></h1>
1859 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.
</p>
1860 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.
</p>
1861 <p>Updated to
0.9b of PyCrust.
</p>
1863 <div class=
"section">
1864 <h1><a id=
"id18" name=
"id18">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
1868 <p>Added missing wxRect methods
</p>
1869 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
</p>
1870 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
</p>
1871 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1872 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1873 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1875 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1877 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
</p>
1878 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1879 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1880 the parent window.
</p>
1881 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
</p>
1882 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1884 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
</p>
1885 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1886 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1887 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1888 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1889 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1890 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1891 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1892 static stable in the C++ class.
</p>
1893 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1894 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1895 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1896 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1898 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1899 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1900 always call them. The functions are:
</p>
1901 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1902 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1903 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1904 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1905 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1906 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1907 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1908 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1909 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1910 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1911 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1912 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1913 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1915 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1916 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
</p>
1917 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1918 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1919 doesn't have a standard place for them.
</p>
1920 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
</p>
1921 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
</p>
1922 <p>Updated to the
0.9a version of PyCrust
</p>
1924 <div class=
"section">
1925 <h1><a id=
"id19" name=
"id19">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
1927 <li>23-Jan-
2003</li>
1929 <p>Several bug fixes.
</p>
1930 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
1931 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
</p>
1933 <div class=
"section">
1934 <h1><a id=
"id20" name=
"id20">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
1936 <li>10-Jan-
2003</li>
1938 <p>No major new features since
2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1940 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1941 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
</p>
1943 <div class=
"section">
1944 <h1><a id=
"id21" name=
"id21">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
1946 <li>21-Dec-
2002</li>
1948 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
1950 <div class=
"section">
1951 <h1><a id=
"id22" name=
"id22">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
1953 <li>18-Dec-
2002</li>
1955 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
</p>
1956 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
</p>
1957 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
</p>
1958 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.
</p>
1959 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1960 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1961 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1962 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1963 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
1964 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1965 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
1966 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1967 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1968 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1969 you can use to play with this new feature.
</p>
1970 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1971 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
1972 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1973 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1974 the old
"final
" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1975 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1976 2.3.3.1 and prior
"hybrid
" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1977 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
</p>
1978 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1979 derived from wxApp.
</p>
1980 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1981 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1983 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
</p>
1984 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1985 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
1986 they did before
2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1987 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1988 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
</p>
1989 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
</p>
1990 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
</p>
1991 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
</p>
1992 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1993 "Pythonic
" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1994 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
</p>
1995 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1996 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
1997 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
</p>
1998 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1999 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
</p>
2000 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
2001 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
2002 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
2003 windows when desired.
</p>
2004 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
2005 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
2006 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
</p>
2008 <div class=
"section">
2009 <h1><a id=
"id23" name=
"id23">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
2011 <li>19-Sep-
2002</li>
2013 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.
</p>
2014 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
</p>
2015 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
</p>
2016 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
2017 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
2018 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
</p>
2019 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
2020 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
2021 be loaded from any Python
"file-like
" object.
</p>
2022 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
2023 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
2024 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
</p>
2025 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
2026 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
2027 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
2028 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
2029 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
2030 wxFlexGridSizer.
</p>
2031 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
</p>
2032 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.
</p>
2033 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla
1.40 to Scintilla
1.45, and then again
2034 to version
1.47, and one more time to
1.48!
<wink
></p>
2035 <dl class=
"docutils">
2037 <dd><p class=
"first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
2038 disabled. Previous to wxPython
2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
2039 used. Starting with
2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
2040 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
2041 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
2042 the recent release of GTK+
2.0 it is only a matter of time until
2043 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
</p>
2044 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
2045 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
2046 same unicode binaries on win95/
98/ME platforms as well! This is
2047 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
2048 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
2049 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
2050 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
2051 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
2052 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
2053 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
2054 unicode build on win95.
</p>
2055 <p class=
"last">So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
2056 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
2057 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
2058 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
2059 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
2060 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
2061 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
2062 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
2063 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
2064 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
2068 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
</p>
2069 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
</p>
2070 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
</p>
2071 <p>A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
2072 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
2073 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
2074 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
2075 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
2076 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
2077 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
2078 for any class that is OOR aware.
</p>
2079 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
2080 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
2081 derived classes.
</p>
2082 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
2083 the image data. (Patch #
546009)
</p>
2084 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
2086 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
2087 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
2088 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
2101 TransferDataFromWindow
2102 TransferDataToWindow
2105 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
2109 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
2110 please let me know.
</p>
2112 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
2113 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
</p>
2114 <p>Added wxArtProvider.
</p>
2115 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
2116 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
2117 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
2118 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
2119 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
</p>
2120 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
</p>
2121 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
2122 creating a ScrolledPanel.
</p>
2123 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
2124 other menu stuff.
</p>
2125 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
2126 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
2127 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
2128 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
</p>
2129 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
2130 modules make a
"callback
" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
2131 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
2132 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
2133 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
</p>
2134 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
2135 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
2136 respond to mouse events and etc.
</p>
2137 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -
1
2138 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
</p>
2139 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
2140 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
2141 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
2142 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
2143 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
2144 started with just the
"pycrust
" command.
</p>
2145 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
2146 displays the details of the event.
</p>
2147 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
</p>
2148 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
2149 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
2151 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
</p>
2152 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
2154 <div class=
"section">
2155 <h1><a id=
"id24" name=
"id24">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
2157 <li>20-Dec-
2001</li>
2159 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
2160 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
2161 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
</p>
2162 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.
</p>
2164 <div class=
"section">
2165 <h1><a id=
"id25" name=
"id25">2.3.2</a></h1>
2167 <li>11-Dec-
2001</li>
2169 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
2170 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
2171 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2172 and a demo to show them in action.
</p>
2173 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
2174 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/
</a>. )
</p>
2175 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
</p>
2176 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
</p>
2177 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
2179 <p>Added a new
"constructor
" to most of the window classes that calls the
2180 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
2181 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a
2-step
2182 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2183 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2184 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2185 resource. The name of the new
"constructor
" is the original name of
2186 the class with a
"Pre
" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2188 <p>Updated to version
1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2189 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2190 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2191 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2192 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2193 wxSTC flag accordingly.
</p>
2194 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2195 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2196 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
</p>
2197 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
</p>
2198 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
</p>
2199 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.
</p>
2200 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2201 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2202 multi-processor machine.
</p>
2203 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2204 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
</p>
2205 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
</p>
2206 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2207 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2208 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2209 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2210 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2211 original C++ pointer.
</p>
2212 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2214 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
</p>
2215 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2216 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
</p>
2217 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2218 and from web browsers. It's still not
100% bullet-proof for all types
2219 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2220 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape
4.x works,
2221 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2223 <p>Added wxStopWatch.
</p>
2224 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
</p>
2225 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2226 will now Disconnect the event.
</p>
2227 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
</p>
2228 <p>Added wxFileHistory.
</p>
2229 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2230 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2231 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2233 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
</p>
2234 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2236 <p>Added the
"SplitTree gizmos
" which are a collection of classes that
2237 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2238 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2239 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2240 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2241 also be useful by themselves.
</p>
2242 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2243 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2244 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2245 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2246 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2247 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2250 <div class=
"section">
2251 <h1><a id=
"id26" name=
"id26">2.3.1</a></h1>
2253 <li>10-Jul-
2001</li>
2255 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2256 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2257 on a custom event handler for example.)
</p>
2258 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2259 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
2260 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2261 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
</p>
2262 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
</p>
2263 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
</p>
2264 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python
2.1.
</p>
2265 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
</p>
2267 <div class=
"section">
2268 <h1><a id=
"id27" name=
"id27">2.3.0</a></h1>
2270 <li>22-May-
2001</li>
2272 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2273 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
</p>
2274 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2275 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2277 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
</p>
2278 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2279 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2280 colour database.
</p>
2281 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2282 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2283 access from non-GUI threads.
</p>
2284 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2285 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
</p>
2286 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
</p>
2287 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2288 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
</p>
2289 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2290 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
</p>
2291 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2292 it gobs faster in certain situations.
</p>
2293 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2294 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2295 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2296 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2297 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2298 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2299 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2300 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2301 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2302 the implementation.
</p>
2303 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2304 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2306 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2307 the distutils that comes with Python
2.1.
</p>
2308 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
</p>
2309 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
</p>
2310 <p>Added wxToggleButton.
</p>
2311 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
</p>
2312 <dl class=
"docutils">
2313 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:
</dt>
2314 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2315 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2316 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2317 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2319 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2320 GetGridColLabelWindow
2321 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
</dd>
2323 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2324 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2325 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
</p>
2326 <dl class=
"docutils">
2328 <dd><p class=
"first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2329 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2330 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2331 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2332 "proper type
" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2333 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2334 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2335 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2336 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2337 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2338 will probably only work on Python
2.1 and beyond because it will
2339 use weak references.)
</p>
2340 <p class=
"last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2341 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2342 be transparent to you, however I'm not
100% sure that it didn't
2343 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2344 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2345 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2346 object-type related oddities to me.
</p>
2349 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2350 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2351 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2352 finally got done.
</p>
2353 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2354 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
</p>
2355 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
</p>
2356 <p>Added wxWave.
</p>
2357 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2358 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2359 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2360 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2361 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2362 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
</p>
2363 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2364 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2365 wxPython/samples.
</p>
2367 <div class=
"section">
2368 <h1><a id=
"id28" name=
"id28">2.2.7</a></h1>
2370 <li>19-Jun-
2001</li>
2372 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2373 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
</p>
2375 <div class=
"section">
2376 <h1><a id=
"id29" name=
"id29">2.2.5</a></h1>
2378 <li>30-Jan-
2001</li>
2380 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python
2.0 and beyond
2381 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2382 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2383 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
</p>
2384 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
</p>
2385 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
</p>
2386 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2387 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
</p>
2388 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2389 column in report mode.
</p>
2390 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2391 bar after
2 seconds.
</p>
2392 <p>Added wxJoystick.
</p>
2393 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2394 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2395 object, (usually a window.)
</p>
2396 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
</p>
2397 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
</p>
2398 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2399 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2400 the
"export
" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2401 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2402 libraries. Should also be usable from
3rd party code, just include
2403 wxPython/src/export.h
</p>
2404 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2405 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2406 utils. Will probably add more later.
</p>
2407 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2408 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2409 wxPrinterDC2 name.
</p>
2410 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2411 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
</p>
2412 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
</p>
2413 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2414 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
</p>
2415 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2416 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2419 <div class=
"section">
2420 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-2-2" name=
"new-in-2-2-2">New in
2.2.2</a></h1>
2422 <li>26-Oct-
2000</li>
2424 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2425 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2426 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2427 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2428 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2429 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2430 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2431 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2432 how things work.
</p>
2433 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2434 of the distribution files. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
</a>)
2435 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2436 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2437 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2438 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2439 wxPython for Python
1.5.2 or for
1.6, then you will need to get and
2440 install version
1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2441 using Python
2.0 then you already have it.
</p>
2442 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2443 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
</p>
2444 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2445 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2446 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2448 <p>Removed the old python sizers.
</p>
2449 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2450 and wxRealPoint.
</p>
2451 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2452 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2453 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
</p>
2454 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.
</p>
2455 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2456 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2457 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
</p>
2459 <div class=
"section">
2460 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-2-1" name=
"new-in-2-2-1">New in
2.2.1</a></h1>
2462 <li>22-Aug-
2000</li>
2464 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
</p>
2465 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
</p>
2467 <div class=
"section">
2468 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-2-0" name=
"new-in-2-2-0">New in
2.2.0</a></h1>
2470 <li>17-Jul-
2000</li>
2472 <p>Added wxLog and friends.
</p>
2473 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
</p>
2474 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
</p>
2476 <div class=
"section">
2477 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-1-16" name=
"new-in-2-1-16">New in
2.1.16</a></h1>
2479 <li>12-Jun-
2000</li>
2481 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2482 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2483 depressed state.
</p>
2484 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
</p>
2485 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
</p>
2486 <p>Added wxDragImage.
</p>
2487 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.
</p>
2488 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
</p>
2489 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.
</p>
2490 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2491 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2492 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2493 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2494 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2495 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2496 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2497 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
</p>
2509 OnScroll
</blockquote>
2510 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.
</p>
2512 <div class=
"section">
2513 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-1-15" name=
"new-in-2-1-15">New in
2.1.15</a></h1>
2515 <li>25-Apr-
2000</li>
2517 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2518 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
</p>
2519 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2521 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2522 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
</p>
2523 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
</p>
2524 <p>Plugged a memory leak.
</p>
2525 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2526 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2527 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2528 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2530 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2531 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2532 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
</p>
2533 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2534 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2535 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2536 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2537 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2538 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2539 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2540 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2542 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2543 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2544 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2545 "#RRGGBB
". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
</p>
2546 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2547 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2548 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2549 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2550 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2551 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2552 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
</a> to help fill in the gaps
2553 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2554 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
</p>
2556 <div class=
"section">
2557 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in
2.1.13</a></h1>
2561 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
</p>
2562 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2563 and some flicker problems.
</p>
2564 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2565 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/
</a>)
</p>
2566 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2567 "which
" parameter.
</p>
2568 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
2569 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
2570 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2571 with wxWindow.GetParent.
</p>
2572 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2573 It is used like this:
</p>
2575 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
</blockquote>
2576 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2577 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
</p>
2578 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
</p>
2579 <p>Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
</p>
2580 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2581 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2582 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2583 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2584 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2585 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
</p>
2586 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2587 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2588 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2589 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2590 methods look like this:
</p>
2592 <dl class=
"docutils">
2593 <dt>def AddTool(ID,
</dt>
2595 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2598 shortHelpString =
"",
2599 longHelpString =
"")
</dd>
2600 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,
</dt>
2602 shortHelpString =
"",
2603 longHelpString =
"",
2607 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2608 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
</p>
2609 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
</p>
2610 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
</p>
2611 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2612 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2613 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:
9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL
</a>.
</p>
2614 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.
</p>
2615 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2617 <p>Changed all the
"LIST
" parameter names to
"choices
" to match the docs.
</p>
2618 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2619 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2620 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
</p>
2622 <div class=
"section">
2623 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in
2.1.11</a></h1>
2625 <li>13-Nov-
1999</li>
2627 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2629 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2630 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2632 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2633 being added. This should remove the need for our
2634 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
</p>
2635 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2636 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2637 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2638 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2639 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
</p>
2640 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
</p>
2641 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.
</p>
2642 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle
</p>
2643 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2644 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2645 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2647 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2648 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2649 thread from other threads.
</p>
2650 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
</p>
2651 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.
</p>
2652 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
</p>
2653 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2654 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
</p>
2655 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
</p>
2656 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2658 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
</p>
2660 <div class=
"section">
2661 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in
2.1.5</a></h1>
2663 <li>12-Oct-
1999</li>
2665 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2666 crept in at the last minute before
2.1.4 was called done. No new
2669 <div class=
"section">
2670 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in
2.1.4</a></h1>
2674 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2675 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2676 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2677 wxGTK from CVS. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm
</a>)
2678 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2679 the wxPy-
2-
1-
4 tag.
</p>
2680 <p>Now back to what's new...
</p>
2681 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
</p>
2682 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
</p>
2683 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a
<em>copy
</em>
2684 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2685 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2686 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2687 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2689 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2690 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2691 default sort order.
</p>
2692 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2693 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2694 example, the following are equivallent:
</p>
2695 <pre class=
"literal-block">
2696 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(
100,
100))
2697 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (
100,
100))
2699 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2700 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2701 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2702 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2703 pages. See the demo for an example.
</p>
2704 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2705 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
</p>
2706 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
</p>
2707 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2708 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2709 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2710 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2711 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2712 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2713 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2714 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2715 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2716 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2717 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2718 further details.
</p>
2719 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2720 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2721 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2722 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2723 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2724 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2725 for more info and examples in future releases.
</p>
2726 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2727 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2728 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2729 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2730 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2731 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2733 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2734 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2735 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2736 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2737 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2738 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2739 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2740 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2741 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2742 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2743 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
</p>
2744 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2745 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2746 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2747 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2748 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2749 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2750 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2751 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2752 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2753 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2754 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2755 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2756 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2757 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2758 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2759 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
</p>
2760 <pre class=
"literal-block">
2762 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2766 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2769 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2770 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2771 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2772 to really screw things up.
</p>
2773 <p>Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2774 in the wxWindows docs...
</p>
2775 <p>Some new
3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2776 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2777 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2778 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2779 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2780 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2781 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2784 <div class=
"section">
2785 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in
2.1b3
</a></h1>
2789 <p>This release is syncronized with release
2.1 snapshot
9 of wxWindows.
</p>
2790 <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html
</a>)
2791 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2792 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2793 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2797 <li><p class=
"first">Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2798 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2799 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
</p>
2801 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -
1, style = mystyle)
</p>
2804 <li><p class=
"first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2805 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2806 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2807 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
</p>
2811 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2812 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2813 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2814 see distrib/build.py for more details.
</p>
2815 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2816 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2817 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2818 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
</p>
2820 <div class=
"section">
2821 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in
2.1b2
</a></h1>
2825 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
</p>
2826 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
2827 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
2828 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
2829 It was only a
1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
2830 line
496 if you want to do it by hand.
</p>
2831 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
2832 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
2833 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
2834 is being unloaded by Python.
</p>
2835 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
2836 make wxPython look bad.
</p>
2837 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
2838 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
</p>
2839 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
</p>
2840 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2841 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
</p>
2842 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2843 code to show how to use it.
</p>
2844 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2846 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells
</p>
2847 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2848 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
</p>
2849 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2850 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
</p>
2851 <dl class=
"docutils">
2852 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
</dt>
2853 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth =
1)
</dd>
2855 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2856 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2857 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
</p>
2858 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2860 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
</p>
2861 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2862 for unix systems.
</p>
2863 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
</p>
2864 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2867 <div class=
"section">
2868 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in
2.1b1
</a></h1>
2870 <li>28-Jun-
1999</li>
2872 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2873 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2874 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
</p>
2875 <p>Added the Printing Framework.
</p>
2876 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2877 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2878 data after loading each extension module.
</p>
2879 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2880 wxWindows classes.
</p>
2881 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2882 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2883 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
</p>
2884 <p>wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2885 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2886 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2887 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
</p>
2889 <div class=
"section">
2890 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in
2.0b9
</a></h1>
2894 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
</p>
2895 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2896 wxPython application.
</p>
2897 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
</p>
2898 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2899 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2900 this feature off.
</p>
2901 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.
</p>
2902 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
</p>
2903 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2904 how it all works.
</p>
2905 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2906 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
</p>
2907 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.
</p>
2908 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2909 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
</p>
2910 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
2911 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2914 <div class=
"section">
2915 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in
2.0b8
</a></h1>
2917 <li>28-Mar-
1999</li>
2919 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
</p>
2920 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.
</p>
2921 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
2923 <div class=
"section">
2924 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in
2.0b7
</a></h1>
2926 <li>15-Mar-
1999</li>
2928 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
</p>
2929 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
</p>
2931 <div class=
"section">
2932 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in
2.0b6
</a></h1>
2936 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2937 Python
1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
</p>
2939 <div class=
"section">
2940 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in
2.0b5
</a></h1>
2942 <li>25-Feb-
1999</li>
2944 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2945 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2946 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2947 wxWindows
1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2948 with the
2.0 version of wxWindows.
</p>
2949 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2950 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2951 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2952 diverges from wxWindows.
</p>
2953 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2954 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2955 it should just work... More news on this later.
</p>
2956 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
</p>
2957 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2958 wxRegConfig class.
</p>
2959 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
</p>
2961 <div class=
"section">
2962 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in
0.5.3</a></h1>
2964 <li>30-Jan-
1999</li>
2966 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
</p>
2967 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2968 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
</p>
2970 <div class=
"section">
2971 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in
0.5.0</a></h1>
2972 <p>Changed the import semantics from
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> to
2973 <tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython.wx
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> This is for people who are worried about
2974 namespace pollution, they can use
"from wxPython import wx
" and then
2975 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with
"wx.
"</p>
2976 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
</p>
2977 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.
</p>
2978 <p>Added wxConfig.
</p>
2979 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
</p>
2980 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2981 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
</p>
2982 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.
</p>
2984 <div class=
"section">
2985 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in
0.4.2</a></h1>
2987 <li>21-Oct-
1998</li>
2989 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2990 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
2991 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
2992 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
2993 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
2994 behavior was so different on different platforms.
</p>
2995 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2996 must have been a different issue all along...
</p>
2998 <div class=
"section">
2999 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in
0.4</a></h1>
3003 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3004 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3005 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3006 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3007 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3008 version segfault shortly after starting up.
</p>
3009 <ol class=
"arabic simple" start=
"2">
3010 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
</li>
3011 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
</li>
3014 <div class=
"section">
3015 <h1><a id=
"wxpython-0-3" name=
"wxpython-0-3">wxPython
0.3</a></h1>
3019 <p>The first
"modern
" version of wxPython. See
3020 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory">http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory
</a></p>
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