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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
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8 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour.
9 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon.
14 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
15 length of the converted string in all cases now.
16 - wxHtmlWindow::OnCellClicked() now returns bool.
17 - wxHtmlCell::OnMouseClick() was deprecated and replaced with
18 wxHtmlCell::ProcessMouseClick(); old code overriding OnMouseClick() will
19 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
20 use ProcessMouseClick().
21 - wxHtmlCell::GetCursor() was deprecated and replaced with
22 wxHtmlCell::GetMouseCursor(); old code overriding GetCursor() will
23 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
25 - wxHtmlCell::AdjustPagebreak() signature has changed, update your code if you
27 - wxFontEnumerator::GetFacenames() and GetEncodings() now return arrays and
28 not pointers to arrays.
29 - wxStaticBoxSizer now deletes the associated wxStaticBox when it is deleted.
30 - Windows calling CaptureMouse() are now required to handle
31 the wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event.
32 - SetDefaultItem() method was moved from wxPanel to wxTopLevelWindow
35 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
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38 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd().
39 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, just don't use them.
42 Major changes in 2.7 release
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45 - New AUI library supporting docking windows and much more
53 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
54 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
55 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
56 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
57 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
58 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
59 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
60 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
61 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
62 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
63 during a search and replace.
64 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
65 are both used in the same program.
66 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
67 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
68 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
69 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
70 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
71 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
72 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
73 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
74 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
75 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
76 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
77 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
78 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
79 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
80 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
81 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
82 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
83 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
84 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
85 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
86 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
87 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
88 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
89 the first time it was called.
90 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
91 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
92 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
93 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
94 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
95 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
96 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty)
97 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta)
98 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans
99 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi)
103 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more
104 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
105 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
106 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
107 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
108 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
109 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
110 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
111 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
112 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
113 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
114 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
115 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
116 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
117 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
118 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
119 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
120 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
121 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
122 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
123 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
124 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
125 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
126 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
127 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
128 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
129 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
130 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
131 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
132 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
133 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
134 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
136 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
137 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
138 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
139 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
140 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
142 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
143 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
144 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
145 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
146 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
147 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
148 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
149 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
150 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
151 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
152 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
153 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
154 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
155 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
156 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
157 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
158 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
159 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
160 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
161 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
162 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
163 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
164 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
165 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
166 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
167 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
168 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
169 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
170 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
171 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
172 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
173 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
174 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
175 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
176 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
177 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
178 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen)
179 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts)
180 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
181 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
185 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
186 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
187 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
188 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
189 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
190 - Removed __WIN95__ define
191 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
192 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
193 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
194 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
195 wxMSW faq for details).
196 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
197 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
199 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
200 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
201 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
202 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
203 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
205 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
206 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
207 initial construction.
208 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
209 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
210 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
212 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
213 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
214 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
215 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
216 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
217 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
218 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
219 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
220 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
221 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
222 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
223 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
224 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
225 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
226 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
227 changes the system font.
228 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
229 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
230 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
231 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
232 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
233 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
237 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
238 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
239 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
240 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
241 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
243 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
244 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
245 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
246 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
247 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
248 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
249 previously unable to be focused before.
250 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
251 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
252 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
254 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
255 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
256 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
257 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
258 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
259 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
260 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
261 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
262 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
266 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
267 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
268 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
269 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
270 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
271 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
272 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
273 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
274 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
275 - Corrected idle wake-up.
276 - Corrected wxExecute.
277 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
278 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
279 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
280 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
281 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
282 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
283 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
285 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
286 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
288 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
289 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
290 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
291 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
292 end of file with an error.
293 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
295 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
296 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
297 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
298 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
299 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
300 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
301 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
305 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
309 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
310 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
311 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
312 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
313 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
314 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
315 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
316 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
317 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
318 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
319 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
320 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
321 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
322 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
324 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
325 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
326 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
327 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
328 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
332 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
333 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
334 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
338 - Invisible text problem fixed.
339 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
340 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
341 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
345 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
349 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
350 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
358 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
359 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
360 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
361 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
362 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
363 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
364 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
365 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
366 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
367 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
368 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
369 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
373 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
374 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
375 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
376 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
377 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
378 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
379 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
380 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
381 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
382 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
383 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
384 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
388 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
389 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
390 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
391 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
392 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
393 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
394 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
395 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
396 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
397 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
398 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
399 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
400 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
401 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
402 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
406 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
407 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
408 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
409 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
410 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
411 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
412 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
413 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
414 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
415 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
416 - Fixed domain socket handling.
420 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
421 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
422 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
423 - Various text control bug fixes.
424 - Automatic menu management improved.
425 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
426 due to dangling cycle pointers.
427 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
428 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
433 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
437 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
438 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
442 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
443 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
444 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
445 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
446 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
447 flag has been specified.
448 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
449 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
450 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
455 - Fixed crash on exit.
456 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
460 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
468 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
469 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
473 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
474 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
475 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
476 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
477 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
478 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
479 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
480 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
481 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
482 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
486 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
487 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
488 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
489 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
490 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
491 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
492 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
493 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
494 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
495 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
496 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
497 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
498 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
499 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
500 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
501 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
502 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
503 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
504 - Compiles again with WIN64.
505 - Winelib compilation now works.
506 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
507 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
508 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
509 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
510 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
511 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
512 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
513 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
514 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
515 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
516 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
517 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
518 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
522 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
526 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
527 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
528 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
529 - Added bitmap support in menus.
533 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
534 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
535 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
537 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
538 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
539 - Window menu now added automatically.
540 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
541 - Modified function key support fixed.
542 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
546 - Menu problems fixed.
547 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
548 - Fixed a font memory leak.
549 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
557 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
558 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
562 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
563 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
567 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
568 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
569 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
573 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
576 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
577 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
578 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
579 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
580 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
581 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
582 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
585 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
592 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
593 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
594 - Added wxDebugReport class.
595 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
596 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
597 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
598 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
599 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
600 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
604 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
605 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
606 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
607 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
608 the whole virtual area.
609 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
610 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
611 isn't used to set the window size.
612 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
613 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
614 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
615 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
619 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
623 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
624 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
625 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
626 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
627 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
628 handling (Jamie Gadd).
632 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
633 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
634 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
635 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
636 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
637 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
638 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
639 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
643 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
647 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
651 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
652 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
653 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
654 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
655 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
656 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
657 with correct titlebar style.
658 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
660 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
661 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
662 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
663 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
664 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
665 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
666 to the dialog's toolbar.
673 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
674 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
675 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
676 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
677 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
678 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
679 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
680 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
681 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
682 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
683 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
684 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
685 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
686 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
687 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
688 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
689 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
690 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
691 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
692 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
693 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
694 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
695 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
696 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
697 printing stuff in the GTK port.
698 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
699 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
700 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
701 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
702 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
703 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
704 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
705 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
706 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
707 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
708 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
709 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
710 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
711 due to a rounding error.
712 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
713 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
714 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
715 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
716 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
717 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
718 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
719 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
725 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
726 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
727 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
728 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
729 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
730 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
731 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
732 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
733 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
734 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
735 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
736 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
737 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
738 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
739 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
740 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
741 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
745 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
749 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
750 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
751 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
752 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
753 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
754 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
755 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
756 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
757 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
758 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
759 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
760 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
761 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
763 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
764 - Added wxRawBitmap support
765 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
766 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
767 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
771 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
772 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
773 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
774 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
778 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
779 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
780 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
781 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
782 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
785 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
786 but not mentioned anywhere.
787 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
791 - wxBU_... button align flags support
792 - vertical notebook orientation support
793 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
794 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
798 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
799 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
800 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
801 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
802 - enumeration of available volumes
803 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
804 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
805 - native wxColourDialog implementation
806 - native wxSystemSettings colours
807 - native wxButton implementation
808 - native wxCheckBox implementation
809 - native wxSlider implementation
810 - native wxToggleButton implementation
811 - native wxRadioButton implementation
812 - native wxStaticText implementation
813 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
821 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
822 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
823 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
824 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
825 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
826 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
827 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
828 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
829 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
830 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
831 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
832 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
833 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
834 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
835 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
836 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
840 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
841 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
842 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
844 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
845 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
846 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
847 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
848 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
849 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
850 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
851 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
852 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
853 - added samples/splash
854 - added support for stock buttons
855 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
856 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
857 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
858 - added wxChoicebook control
859 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
860 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
861 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
862 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
863 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
864 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
865 supported, instead of zero.
866 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
870 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
871 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
872 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
873 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
874 - wx-config has new --version-full option
878 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
879 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
880 - Tooltips now supported
881 - wxSound now supported
882 - wxDisplay now supported
883 - Some stock cursors now supported
887 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
888 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
889 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
890 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
894 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
895 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
896 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
897 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
898 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
899 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
900 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
901 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
902 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
903 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
904 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
905 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
906 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
907 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
908 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
909 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
910 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
911 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
912 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
916 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
920 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
921 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
922 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
923 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
924 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
925 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
926 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
927 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
928 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
929 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
930 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
931 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
932 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
933 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
937 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
941 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
942 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
943 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
944 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
948 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
949 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
957 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
958 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
959 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
960 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
962 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
963 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
964 to forward declare these classes.
968 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
969 resulting in much better display of scaled images
970 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
971 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
972 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
973 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
974 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
975 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
976 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
977 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
978 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
979 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
980 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
981 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
982 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
986 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
987 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
988 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
989 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
990 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
991 even try to do it by default -- now it does
992 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
993 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
994 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
995 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
996 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
997 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1001 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1005 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1006 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1007 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1008 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1012 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1016 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1017 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1021 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1022 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1026 - Full Unicode support is now available
1027 - BLOB support is working
1035 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1036 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1037 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1038 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1039 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1040 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1041 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1042 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1043 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1044 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1045 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1046 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1047 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1049 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1050 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1051 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1052 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1053 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1054 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1055 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1056 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1057 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1058 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1059 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1060 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1064 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1065 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1066 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1067 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1068 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1069 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1070 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1071 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1072 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1073 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1074 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1075 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1076 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1077 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1078 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1079 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1080 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1081 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1082 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1083 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1084 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1085 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1086 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1087 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1088 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1089 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1093 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1094 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1095 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1096 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1097 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1098 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1099 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1100 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1101 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1102 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1103 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1104 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1105 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1106 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1107 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1108 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1109 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1110 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1111 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1112 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1113 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1114 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1115 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1116 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1117 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1118 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1119 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1120 than the specified default size
1121 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1125 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1126 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1127 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1128 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1129 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1130 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1131 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1132 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1133 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1137 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1138 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1139 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1140 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1144 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1148 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1149 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1153 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1154 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1155 addition to existing OSS one
1156 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1164 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1165 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1166 separately compiled library
1167 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1168 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1169 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1170 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1171 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1172 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1173 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1174 by default in Unicode mode
1175 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1176 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1177 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1178 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1179 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1180 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1181 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1182 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1183 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1184 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1185 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1186 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1187 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1188 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1189 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1190 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1191 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1192 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1193 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1194 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1198 - added Watcom makefiles
1199 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1203 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1204 - added wxListbook control
1205 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1206 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1207 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1208 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1209 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1210 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1211 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1212 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1213 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1214 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1215 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1216 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1217 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1218 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1219 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1220 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1221 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1222 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1223 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1224 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1225 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1226 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1227 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1228 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1229 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1230 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1231 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1232 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1233 default extension for the template
1234 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1235 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1236 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1237 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1238 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1239 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1240 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1241 to allow better rich text support.
1242 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1243 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1244 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1245 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1246 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1247 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1248 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1249 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1250 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1251 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1252 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1253 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1254 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1255 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1256 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1257 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1258 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1259 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1260 - added wxMirrorDC class
1261 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1262 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1263 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1264 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1265 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1266 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1271 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1272 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1273 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1274 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1275 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1279 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1280 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1281 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1282 to contrib/src/deprecated
1286 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1287 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1288 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1289 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1290 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1291 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1292 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1293 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1294 be appended to filenames with no extension
1295 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1296 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1297 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1298 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1302 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1303 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1307 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1308 - added wxCrashReport
1309 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1310 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1311 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1312 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1313 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1314 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1315 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1316 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1317 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1318 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1319 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1320 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1321 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1322 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1323 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1324 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1325 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1326 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1327 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1328 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1329 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1330 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1331 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1332 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1333 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1337 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1338 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1339 documentation for a detailed explanation
1340 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1341 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1342 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1343 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1344 - implemented wxToggleButton
1345 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1346 instead of a sunken border
1347 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1348 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1352 - controls in toolbars now supported
1356 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1357 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1358 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1359 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1360 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1366 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1367 ================================
1369 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1370 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1371 with '!' in the first column.
1373 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1374 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1375 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1376 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1379 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1380 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1381 (see the documentation) useful.
1386 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1387 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1390 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1391 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1392 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1393 arrays containing non-pointers.
1395 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1396 simply don't make sense for all objects
1398 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1399 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1400 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1402 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1404 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1405 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1406 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1407 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1408 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1410 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1411 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1412 the default assert handling.
1416 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1417 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1418 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1420 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1421 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1424 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1425 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1426 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1428 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1429 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1430 you want to get OnChar() as well
1432 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1433 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1434 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1436 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1437 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1438 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1439 will *NOT* work any longer:
1441 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1442 ... do something ...
1443 if ( flags & wxYES )
1444 ... do something else ...
1446 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1447 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1450 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1452 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1453 if you derived any classes from it
1455 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1456 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1458 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1459 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1461 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1462 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1464 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1465 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1468 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1469 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1470 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1472 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1473 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1474 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1475 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1479 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1480 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1481 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1482 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1483 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1484 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1485 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1486 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1487 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1488 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1490 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1493 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1494 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1496 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1497 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1498 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1500 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1501 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1506 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1507 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1508 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1509 to compile pure C files.
1512 wxThread and related classes:
1514 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1515 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1516 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1517 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1519 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1520 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1521 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1522 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1524 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1525 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1526 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1528 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1529 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1540 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1547 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1548 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1549 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1553 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1554 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1555 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1558 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1559 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1562 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1566 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1567 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1571 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1578 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1579 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1580 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1581 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1582 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1583 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1584 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1585 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1586 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1587 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1588 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1589 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1590 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1591 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1592 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1593 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1597 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1598 programs and not only GNU make
1599 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1600 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1601 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1602 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1603 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1607 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1608 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1609 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1610 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1611 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1613 - significantly improved native font support
1614 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1616 - added IFF image handler
1617 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1618 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1619 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1620 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1621 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1622 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1623 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1624 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1625 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1626 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1627 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1628 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1629 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1630 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1631 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1632 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1633 - wxMessageOutput class added
1634 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1635 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1637 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1638 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1639 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1640 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1642 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1643 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1644 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1648 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1649 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1650 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1651 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1652 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1653 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1654 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1655 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1656 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1657 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1659 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1660 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1661 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1662 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1663 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1664 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1665 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1667 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1668 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1669 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1670 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1671 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1672 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1673 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1674 has the capture before release it.
1675 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1676 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1677 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1678 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1679 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1680 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1681 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1682 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1683 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1684 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1685 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1686 provided in wxFontData
1687 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1688 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1692 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1693 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1694 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1695 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1696 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1697 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1698 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1699 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1700 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1701 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1702 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1703 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1704 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1708 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1709 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1710 - improved toolbar control alignment
1711 - implemented wxSpinButton
1712 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1713 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1714 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1718 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1719 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1727 - First alpha-quality release
1731 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1732 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1733 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1734 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1735 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1740 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1744 - wxRegEx class added
1745 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1746 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1747 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1748 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1749 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1753 - support for virtual list control added
1754 - column images in report mode of the list control
1755 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1756 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1757 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1758 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1759 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1760 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1761 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1762 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1763 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1764 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1765 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1766 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1770 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1771 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1776 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1777 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1778 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1779 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1783 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1788 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1790 - added support for animated GIFs
1798 - Fixed new charset detection code
1799 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1800 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1801 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1802 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1803 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1804 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1808 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1809 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1810 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1811 push on a custom event handler for example)
1812 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1813 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1814 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1815 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1816 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1817 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1819 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1820 - Various wxXML enhancements
1821 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1822 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1823 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1825 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1826 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1830 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1831 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1832 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1833 alt or shift) now work
1834 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1835 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1836 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1837 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1838 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1839 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1840 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1841 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1842 - We now send iconize events
1843 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1844 - Added mousewheel processing
1845 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1846 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1848 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1849 child frame styles are honoured
1853 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1854 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1855 - We now send iconize events
1856 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1857 GetSelection() results
1864 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1865 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1866 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1867 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1868 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1869 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1870 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1871 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1872 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1873 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1877 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1878 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1879 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1880 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1881 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1882 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1883 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1884 wxImage methods and ctor)
1885 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1886 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1887 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1888 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1889 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1890 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1894 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1895 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1896 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1897 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1901 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1905 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1906 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1913 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1914 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1915 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1916 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1917 - Completed Czech translations
1918 - Some stream corrections
1919 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1920 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1921 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1922 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1926 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1927 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1928 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1929 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1930 - Paper names now translated
1932 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1933 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1934 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1935 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1937 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1938 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1940 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1941 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1942 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1943 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1947 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1948 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1949 backward compatibility, please set
1950 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1951 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1952 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1953 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1954 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1955 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1956 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1957 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1958 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1959 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1960 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1961 - wxFrame restores focus better
1962 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1963 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1964 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1965 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1966 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1967 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1968 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1969 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1970 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1971 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1975 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1979 - Small compilation fixes
1983 - wxCaret documented
1995 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1996 files. This works under VC++ only
1997 - Modal dialog handling improved
1998 - Printer dialog now modal
2013 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2017 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2018 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2023 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2024 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2025 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2026 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2027 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2028 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2029 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2030 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2031 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2033 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2034 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2035 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2036 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2037 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2038 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2040 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2044 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2045 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2046 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2047 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2048 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2049 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2050 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2051 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2053 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2054 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2055 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2056 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2057 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2058 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2059 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2060 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2061 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2062 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2063 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2064 - wxDragImage class added
2065 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2066 controllers, as well as native help
2067 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2071 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2072 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2073 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2074 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2075 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2076 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2077 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2078 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2079 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2080 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2082 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2083 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2084 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2088 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2089 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2090 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2094 - wxMenu::Enable works
2095 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2096 - OGL samples made to work again
2100 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2101 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2102 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2103 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2104 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2105 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2106 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2107 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2108 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2109 - improved HTML printing
2110 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
2111 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2112 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2113 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2116 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2119 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2120 -----------------------
2124 - JPEG support added.
2125 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2129 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2131 - JPEG support added.
2132 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2133 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2134 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2141 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2144 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2145 -------------------------------
2150 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2154 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2155 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2156 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2157 - Some makefile fixes.
2165 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2166 - More topic overviews.
2167 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2168 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2169 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2172 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2173 --------------------------
2177 - wxExecute improved.
2181 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2183 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2184 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2185 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2186 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2187 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2188 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2192 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2193 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2197 - wxLocale documented.
2198 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2199 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2200 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2201 (though doesn't display help yet).
2203 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2204 --------------------------
2208 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2212 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2214 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2218 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2219 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2220 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2221 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2222 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2223 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2224 crashes for some reason).
2225 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2226 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2230 - Further doc improvements.
2231 - wxGenericValidator added.
2232 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2235 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2236 -------------------------
2240 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2241 - wxToolTip class added.
2242 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2246 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2247 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2248 - TWIN32 support added.
2249 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2250 factored out program/library settings.
2251 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2255 - A few more colour fixes.
2256 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2257 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2258 - wxChoice crash fix.
2259 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2263 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2264 - Added samples/dde.
2265 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2267 Beta 2, January 1999
2268 --------------------
2274 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2278 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2280 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2281 - Added thread support (Robert).
2282 - wxPoem sample now works.
2286 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2287 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2288 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2290 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2291 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2293 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2295 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2296 --------------------------
2302 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2305 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2306 ----------------------------
2310 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2311 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2312 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2313 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2314 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2316 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2317 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2322 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2323 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2324 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2325 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2326 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2328 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2329 when any button was pressed.
2330 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2331 have a white background.
2332 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2333 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2334 they have sensible colours by default.
2335 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2336 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2337 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2338 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2339 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2341 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2342 ----------------------------
2346 - More documentation updates, especially for
2347 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2348 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2350 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2351 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2352 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2354 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2358 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2359 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2361 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2362 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2363 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2364 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2365 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2366 the debugging implementation.
2367 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2368 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2369 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2370 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2371 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2372 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2373 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2375 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2377 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2378 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2379 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2380 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2381 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2382 - wxNotebook almost done.
2383 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2384 to vertical toolbars).
2388 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2390 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2391 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2392 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2394 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2395 ----------------------------
2399 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2401 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2402 - A few more makefiles added.
2403 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2404 - Further doc updates.
2405 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2409 - First start at Motif port.
2410 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2411 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2412 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2413 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2415 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2416 --------------------------
2420 - wxBitmap debugged.
2421 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2422 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2423 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2424 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2425 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2426 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2427 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2429 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2430 ------------------------
2434 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2435 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2436 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2437 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2438 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2439 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2440 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2441 changes, wxNotebook.
2442 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2444 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2445 -----------------------
2449 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2450 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2451 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2452 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2453 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2455 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2456 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2458 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2459 -----------------------
2463 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2464 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2466 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2467 -----------------------
2471 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2472 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2474 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2475 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2476 wxMenuItem accessors.
2477 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2478 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2479 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2480 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2481 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2482 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2483 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2484 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2485 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2486 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2487 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2488 first, then doing the assignment.
2489 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2490 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2494 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2495 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2497 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2498 ----------------------
2502 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2503 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2504 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2505 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2506 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2507 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2508 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2509 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2510 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2512 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2513 ------------------------
2517 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2519 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2520 compilation and pragmas.
2521 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2522 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2526 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2527 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2528 compilation and pragmas.
2529 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2531 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2532 ------------------------
2536 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2537 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2539 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2540 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2541 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2542 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2544 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2545 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2546 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2548 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2549 compatibility functions.
2550 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2551 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2552 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2553 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2554 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2555 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2556 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2560 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2561 - Added samples/png.
2562 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2563 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2565 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2567 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2568 ------------------------
2572 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2573 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2574 cleaned up properly before exit.
2575 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2577 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2578 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2579 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2581 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2582 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2584 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2585 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2586 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2587 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2591 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2592 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2593 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2594 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2595 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2596 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2597 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2598 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2599 allow better control of memory.
2600 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2602 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2603 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2605 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2606 ------------------------
2610 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2611 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2612 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2613 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2614 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2615 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2616 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2617 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2618 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2619 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2620 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2621 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2623 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2624 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2625 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2626 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2627 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2628 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2629 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2630 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2631 internal implementation.
2632 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2633 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2634 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2638 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2639 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2640 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2641 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2642 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2644 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2645 --------------------------
2649 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2650 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2651 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2653 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2654 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2655 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2656 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2658 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2659 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2664 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2665 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2666 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2668 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2669 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2671 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2672 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2673 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2674 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2675 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2676 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2677 - Added gcc pragmas.
2678 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2679 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2680 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2681 added a few references to wxTransString.
2682 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2683 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2684 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2685 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2686 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2687 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2688 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2689 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2690 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2693 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2694 --------------------------
2698 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2699 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2700 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2701 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2702 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2703 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2704 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2705 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2706 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2707 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2708 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2710 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2711 to help printing with multiple pages.
2712 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2713 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2714 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2715 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2716 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2717 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2718 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2719 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2720 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2721 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2722 New files from Vadim:
2728 src\common\string.cpp
2732 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2733 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2734 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2735 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2736 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2737 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2738 including changes to defs.h.
2739 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2741 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2743 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2744 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2746 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2748 Alpha 3, September 1997
2749 -----------------------
2753 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2754 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2755 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2756 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2757 - Started documentation.
2759 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2760 ------------------------
2764 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2765 with MetroWerks compiler.
2766 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2767 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2768 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2769 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2770 for testing purposes.
2771 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2773 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2774 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2776 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2777 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2780 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2781 -----------------------
2785 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2787 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2788 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2789 wxString instead of char *.
2790 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2791 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2792 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2793 as wxbWindow now removed.
2794 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2795 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2797 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2798 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2799 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2801 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2802 settings mucho rationalised.
2803 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2804 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2806 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2807 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2808 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2809 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2810 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2811 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2813 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2814 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2816 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2817 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2818 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2819 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2820 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2821 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2822 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2823 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2824 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2825 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2827 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2828 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2830 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2831 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2832 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2833 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2834 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2835 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2837 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2838 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2839 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2840 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2841 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2842 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).