1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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7 The following deprecated items have been removed:
9 * wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
11 * The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
13 * wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
15 * wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
17 * The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
19 * wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
21 * wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
23 * wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
25 * wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
29 wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
31 Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
34 wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
35 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
36 empty stubs in wxPython.
38 Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
39 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
40 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
41 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
42 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
43 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
44 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
45 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
46 that is renaming the base class methods with a "base_" prefix, for
47 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
48 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
49 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
50 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
51 your overridden methods like this::
53 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
55 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
57 You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this::
59 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
61 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
63 Or like this with super()::
65 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
67 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
70 Note that the old way with the "base_" function still works, but you
71 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
72 classes affected by this are:
78 * wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
79 * wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
83 * wx.PreviewControlBar
90 * wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
91 * wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
92 * wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
93 * wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
95 * wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
98 Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
107 Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
108 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on
109 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
110 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
112 wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
113 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
114 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
115 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
116 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
117 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
118 column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.
127 wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
130 wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
131 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
134 wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
135 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
137 Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
139 Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
141 Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
143 Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
144 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
145 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
146 can manage more than two child windows.
148 Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890
149 "Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features::
151 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
152 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
153 For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that
154 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad"
155 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
157 Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
159 XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
161 * Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
162 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
163 for an available parent control if no specific view
164 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
167 * Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
169 * Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
170 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100
173 Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
176 Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
177 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
180 Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
182 wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
184 wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.
186 wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
189 Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
190 it doesn't fill up too soon.
192 Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
194 Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
196 Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
197 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
199 Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
201 Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
202 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
203 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
204 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() &
205 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
206 to synchronize with a single timer.
208 Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
211 Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
212 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
214 Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"
216 Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager
217 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
219 Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
220 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
221 instead of a separate menu item.
223 Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
224 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
225 workaround a bug in MSLU!
227 wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
228 and other special keys properly.
230 Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
231 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
232 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
234 * The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
235 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
237 * In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
238 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
241 * Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
244 * Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
245 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
247 * F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
249 * switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
251 * Display of line numbers can be toggled.
253 * F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
254 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
255 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
256 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
259 * Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
261 * General code cleanup and fixes.
263 * Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
266 * Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
268 * Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
269 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
270 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
271 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
273 * All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
274 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
275 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
276 place to do anything.
278 * Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
279 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
280 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
282 * Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
283 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
285 * PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
286 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
287 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
289 * Added an option for whether to insert text for function
290 parameters when popping up the call tip.
292 * Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
293 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
296 Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
298 * Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
300 * Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
302 * Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
305 * Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
308 * Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
309 integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
311 * Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove
312 default sign key handlers if false, so that
313 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
315 * Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
316 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
317 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
318 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
319 rather than toggling the previous sign.
321 wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
322 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
325 Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
326 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
327 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
328 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
329 and the modifier keys.
331 Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
333 A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
334 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
335 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
337 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
338 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
339 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
340 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
341 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)
350 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
353 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
355 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
356 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
357 any unknown file type.
359 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
360 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
362 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
363 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
364 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
367 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
369 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
370 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
372 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
373 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
375 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
377 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
380 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
381 change will get written at the next flush.
391 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
392 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
393 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
395 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
398 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
399 both has an icon and is a submenu.
401 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
404 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
405 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
406 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
407 instead of current values.
409 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
410 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
412 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
414 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
415 extra null character at the end.
417 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
418 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
420 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
423 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
425 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
428 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
430 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
431 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
432 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
435 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
436 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
439 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
440 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
441 default browser in response to the clicks.
443 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
444 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
445 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
446 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
447 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
448 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
449 parameter, like this::
452 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
455 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
456 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
457 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
459 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
462 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
465 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
467 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
468 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
470 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
471 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
474 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
475 self.history is None.
477 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
478 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
479 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
481 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
484 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
485 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
488 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
489 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
490 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
491 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
493 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
495 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
496 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
499 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
500 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
502 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
503 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
506 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
507 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
509 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
511 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
513 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
515 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
516 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
518 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
519 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
520 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
521 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
524 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
525 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
527 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
530 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
532 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
533 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
536 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
537 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
548 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
549 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
552 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
554 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
556 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
557 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
558 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
560 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
561 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
562 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
563 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
564 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
565 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
566 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
567 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
568 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
569 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
570 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
572 =================== ====================
573 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
574 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
575 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
576 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
577 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
578 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
579 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
580 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
581 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
582 =================== ====================
585 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
586 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
589 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
590 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
592 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
594 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
595 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
596 * Hide command for test window.
597 * Replacing classes works better.
607 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
609 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
610 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
611 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
612 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
613 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
615 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
617 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
620 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
623 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
624 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
625 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
626 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
627 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
630 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
631 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
634 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
635 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
637 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
638 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
639 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
640 the width of any column.
642 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
645 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
647 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
649 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
650 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
652 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
653 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
654 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
655 older generic file dialog is used.
657 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
660 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
661 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
662 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
663 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
665 Added MDI support to XRC
667 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
668 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
670 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
671 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
673 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
674 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
676 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
679 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
680 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
682 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
683 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
685 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
688 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
697 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
698 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
699 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
701 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
702 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
704 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
705 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
706 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
707 then calling GetValue().
710 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
711 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
712 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
713 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
715 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
718 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
719 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
720 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
722 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
724 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
725 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
727 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
728 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
730 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
731 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
732 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
733 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
734 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
735 the origin of the canvas.
737 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
738 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
739 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
741 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
742 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
744 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
745 internal scrollbar visible.
747 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
748 system paths for each platform.
750 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
751 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
752 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
753 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
754 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
756 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
757 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
758 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
760 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
761 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
762 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
764 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
765 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
766 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
768 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
770 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
771 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
772 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
773 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
775 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
776 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
777 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
778 of how to use the control.
780 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
781 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
783 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
784 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
787 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
788 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
790 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
791 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
792 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
793 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
794 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
795 finished with the timer.
797 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
798 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
799 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
800 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
801 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
802 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
803 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
804 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
805 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
806 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
808 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
809 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
810 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
811 via the wxPython C API.
813 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
814 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
815 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
816 when docstrings are added for those items.
818 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
819 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
820 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
821 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
822 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
825 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
826 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
827 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
828 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
829 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
830 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
831 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
832 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
833 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
834 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
835 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
838 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
839 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
840 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
841 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
842 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
844 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
845 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
847 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
848 lots of surplus events)
850 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
853 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
854 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
856 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
857 and GTK+'s context menu code.
859 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
860 (not all actions are allowed).
862 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
864 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
865 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
866 when GetString is called from an event handler.
868 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
869 and max ends of the slider.
871 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
872 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
873 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
876 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
877 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
878 not with labels/sizers.
879 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
880 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
883 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
884 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
886 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
887 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
890 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
891 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
892 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
893 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
896 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
897 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
899 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
901 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
902 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
903 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
904 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
906 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
909 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
910 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
912 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
914 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
916 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
917 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
919 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
922 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
925 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
926 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
927 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
928 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
931 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
933 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
935 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
936 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
937 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
938 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
941 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
942 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
944 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
945 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
947 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
948 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
949 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
950 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
951 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
952 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
954 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
957 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
960 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
963 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
964 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
965 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
966 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
975 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
977 Updated internal PNG library.
979 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
981 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
982 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
984 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
985 enabled (does an enable itself)
987 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
990 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
991 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
994 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
995 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
996 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
997 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
998 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
999 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1000 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1001 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1002 also be an image of a red X::
1004 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1007 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
1009 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
1011 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
1013 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1014 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
1015 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
1016 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1017 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1018 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1019 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
1021 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1022 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1023 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1024 the wxPython modules.
1026 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1027 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1028 user that they should look at that window.
1030 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1031 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
1033 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
1035 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1036 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1037 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1038 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1039 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1040 and PyGetDate methods.
1042 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1043 also set the colour of the dropdown.
1045 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
1047 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
1049 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
1051 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1052 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1053 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
1055 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
1057 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
1059 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
1061 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1064 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1067 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
1069 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1070 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1073 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
1075 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1076 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1079 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1080 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1081 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
1083 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1084 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1085 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1086 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1087 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1088 should notice no difference.
1090 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1091 when a new one is selected.
1093 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
1095 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1096 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1097 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1098 more details and a warning.
1100 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1101 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
1103 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1104 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
1106 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
1108 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
1110 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
1112 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1113 holding down the mouse button.
1115 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1116 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
1118 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
1120 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
1121 - Added bar graph demo
1122 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
1123 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1125 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
1126 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
1127 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
1128 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
1129 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1130 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
1131 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1132 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1135 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
1136 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
1137 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
1138 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1140 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1142 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1143 reflect package's public contents.
1145 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1146 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1147 Migrarion Guide for more information.
1149 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
1150 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
1151 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
1152 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1154 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
1156 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1157 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1160 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1161 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
1171 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
1173 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
1175 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
1177 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1178 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
1180 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1181 flicker problems, and namespace use.
1183 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
1185 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
1187 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
1190 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
1192 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1193 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
1195 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1198 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1201 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
1203 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
1205 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
1216 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1217 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1218 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1219 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1220 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1221 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
1222 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1223 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1224 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
1226 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1227 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
1229 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
1230 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
1231 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1232 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1235 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1236 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
1238 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
1240 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1241 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
1243 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1244 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1245 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1246 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
1247 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1248 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1251 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1252 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1253 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1254 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1255 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1258 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1259 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1260 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
1262 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1263 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
1265 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1266 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
1268 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
1269 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1270 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1271 remaining compatible with "C".
1273 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1276 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1277 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1278 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1279 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1280 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1281 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1282 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1283 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1284 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
1286 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1288 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1289 Scintilla for several releases now.
1291 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1292 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1293 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1294 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
1296 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1297 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1298 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1301 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1302 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1303 with a more modern reimplementation.
1305 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1306 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
1308 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1309 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1310 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
1312 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1313 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1314 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1315 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1316 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
1318 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1319 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1320 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1321 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1324 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
1325 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
1328 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
1331 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
1336 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
1337 -----------------------------------------------
1340 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
1341 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1344 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1347 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1348 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1349 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1350 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1351 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1352 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1353 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1356 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1357 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1361 Added wxIconLocation
1363 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1364 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1366 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1369 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1372 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1373 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1374 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1376 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1377 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1378 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1379 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1380 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1381 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1382 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1383 distros please send me a patch.
1385 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1386 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1388 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1389 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1390 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1391 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1392 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1393 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1396 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1399 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1401 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1403 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1405 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1406 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1407 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1408 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1409 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1410 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1411 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1414 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1417 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1419 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1420 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1422 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1423 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1424 MigrationGuide for more details.
1426 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1427 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1428 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1429 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1430 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1431 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1432 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1433 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1434 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1435 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1436 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1437 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1438 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1439 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1440 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1441 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1442 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
1444 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
1446 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
1455 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
1457 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
1459 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1460 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
1462 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
1464 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
1466 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
1474 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
1476 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
1478 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1479 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
1480 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1483 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1484 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1485 and wxWindows match.
1487 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
1488 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
1489 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
1490 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
1491 to the new namespace.
1493 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1494 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1495 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1496 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
1498 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1499 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1500 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
1501 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
1502 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1503 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1504 package. These will be removed in a future release.
1506 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1507 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1508 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
1510 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
1512 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1513 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
1515 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1516 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
1518 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1519 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
1521 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1522 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1525 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1526 a call to any Python callable object.
1528 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1529 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1530 to override the C++ virtual methods.
1532 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1533 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
1534 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1535 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
1536 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
1538 Added wxCursorFromBits.
1548 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1551 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1552 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1553 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
1555 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1558 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1561 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1564 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
1566 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1567 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1568 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
1574 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
1575 ------------------------------------------
1578 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1579 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1580 think I am testing in the future...
1584 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
1585 ----------------------------------------------
1588 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
1590 Updated pycolourchooser.
1592 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
1600 Added missing wxRect methods
1602 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
1604 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
1606 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1607 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1608 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1611 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1614 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
1616 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1617 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1620 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
1622 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1625 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
1627 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1628 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1629 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1630 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1631 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1632 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1633 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1634 static stable in the C++ class.
1636 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1637 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1638 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1639 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1642 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1643 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1644 always call them. The functions are::
1646 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1647 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1648 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1649 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1650 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1651 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1652 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1653 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1654 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1655 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1656 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1657 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1659 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1660 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
1662 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1663 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1664 doesn't have a standard place for them.
1666 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
1668 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
1670 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
1680 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1682 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
1691 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1694 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1695 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
1711 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
1713 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
1715 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
1719 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1720 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1721 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1722 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1723 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
1724 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1725 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
1726 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1727 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1728 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1729 you can use to play with this new feature.
1731 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1732 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
1733 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1734 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1735 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1736 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1737 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1738 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
1740 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1743 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1744 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1747 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
1749 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1750 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
1751 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1752 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1753 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
1755 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
1757 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
1759 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
1761 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1762 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1763 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
1765 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1766 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
1767 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
1769 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1770 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
1772 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
1773 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
1774 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
1775 windows when desired.
1777 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
1778 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
1779 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
1788 Added wxSplashScreen.
1790 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
1792 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
1794 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
1795 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
1796 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
1798 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
1799 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
1800 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
1802 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
1803 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
1804 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
1806 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1807 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1808 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1809 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1810 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1813 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
1817 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
1818 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
1821 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
1822 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
1823 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
1824 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
1825 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
1826 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
1827 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
1829 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
1830 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
1831 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
1832 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
1833 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
1834 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
1835 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
1836 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
1837 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
1838 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
1839 unicode build on win95.
1841 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
1842 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
1843 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
1844 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
1845 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
1846 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
1847 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
1848 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
1849 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
1850 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
1853 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
1855 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
1857 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
1859 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
1860 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1861 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
1862 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1863 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1864 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1865 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
1866 for any class that is OOR aware.
1868 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1869 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1872 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1873 the image data. (Patch #546009)
1875 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1878 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1879 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1880 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
1893 TransferDataFromWindow
1894 TransferDataToWindow
1897 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1902 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1905 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1906 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
1908 Added wxArtProvider.
1910 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1911 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1912 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
1913 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
1914 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
1916 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
1918 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1919 creating a ScrolledPanel.
1921 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1924 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1925 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1926 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1927 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
1929 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
1930 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1931 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
1932 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1933 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
1935 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
1936 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1937 respond to mouse events and etc.
1939 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1940 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
1942 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1943 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
1944 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
1945 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1946 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
1947 started with just the "pycrust" command.
1949 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1950 displays the details of the event.
1952 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
1954 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1955 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
1958 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
1960 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1969 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1970 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
1971 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
1973 Added some patches from library contributors.
1981 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1982 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1983 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1984 and a demo to show them in action.
1986 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1987 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
1989 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
1991 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
1993 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1996 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
1997 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1998 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
1999 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2000 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2001 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2002 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
2003 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2006 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2007 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2008 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2009 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2010 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2011 wxSTC flag accordingly.
2013 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2014 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2015 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
2017 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
2019 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
2021 Added pySketch to the samples.
2023 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2024 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2025 multi-processor machine.
2027 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2028 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
2030 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
2032 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2033 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2034 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2035 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2036 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2037 original C++ pointer.
2039 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2042 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
2044 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2045 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
2047 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2048 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
2049 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2050 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
2051 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2056 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
2058 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2059 will now Disconnect the event.
2061 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
2063 Added wxFileHistory.
2065 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2066 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2067 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2070 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
2072 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2075 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
2076 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2077 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2078 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2079 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2080 also be useful by themselves.
2082 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2083 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2084 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2085 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2086 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2087 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2097 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2098 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2099 on a custom event handler for example.)
2101 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2102 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
2104 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2105 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
2107 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
2109 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
2111 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
2113 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
2121 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2122 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
2124 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2125 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2128 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
2130 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2131 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2134 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2135 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2136 access from non-GUI threads.
2138 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2139 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
2141 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
2143 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2144 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
2146 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2147 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
2149 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2150 it gobs faster in certain situations.
2152 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2153 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2154 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2155 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2156 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2157 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2158 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2159 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2160 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2163 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2164 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2167 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2168 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
2170 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
2172 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
2174 Added wxToggleButton.
2176 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
2178 Added some methods to wxGrid:
2179 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2180 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2181 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2182 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2184 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2185 GetGridColLabelWindow
2186 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
2188 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2189 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2190 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
2193 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2194 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2195 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2196 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2197 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2198 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2199 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2200 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2201 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2202 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2203 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
2204 use weak references.)
2206 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2207 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2208 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
2209 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2210 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2211 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2212 object-type related oddities to me.
2215 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2216 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2217 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2220 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2221 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
2223 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
2227 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2228 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2229 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2230 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2231 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2232 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
2234 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2235 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2245 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2246 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2254 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
2255 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2256 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2257 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
2259 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
2261 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
2263 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2264 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
2266 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2267 column in report mode.
2269 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2270 bar after 2 seconds.
2274 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2275 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2276 object, (usually a window.)
2278 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
2280 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
2282 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2283 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2284 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2285 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2286 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
2287 wxPython/src/export.h
2289 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2290 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2291 utils. Will probably add more later.
2293 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2294 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2297 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2298 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
2300 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
2302 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2303 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
2305 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2306 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2315 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2316 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2317 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2318 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2319 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2320 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2321 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2322 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2325 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2326 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
2327 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2328 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2329 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2330 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2331 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
2332 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2333 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
2335 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2336 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
2338 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2339 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2340 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2343 Removed the old python sizers.
2345 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2348 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2349 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2350 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2352 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2354 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2355 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2356 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2365 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2367 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2375 Added wxLog and friends.
2377 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2379 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2387 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2388 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2391 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2393 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2397 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2399 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2401 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2403 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2404 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2405 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2406 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2407 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2408 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2409 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2410 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2433 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2434 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2436 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2439 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2440 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2442 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
2444 Plugged a memory leak.
2446 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2447 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2448 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2449 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2452 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2453 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2454 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
2456 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2457 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2458 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2459 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2460 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2461 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2462 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2463 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2466 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2467 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2468 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2469 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
2471 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2472 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2473 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2474 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2475 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2476 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2477 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
2478 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2479 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
2484 What's new in 2.1.13
2485 --------------------
2488 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
2490 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2491 and some flicker problems.
2493 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2494 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
2496 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2499 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
2501 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
2503 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2504 with wxWindow.GetParent.
2506 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2507 It is used like this:
2509 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
2511 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2512 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
2514 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
2516 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
2518 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2519 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2520 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2521 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2522 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2523 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
2525 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2526 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2527 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2528 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2529 methods look like this:
2533 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2536 shortHelpString = "",
2537 longHelpString = "")
2539 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
2541 shortHelpString = "",
2542 longHelpString = "",
2546 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2547 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
2549 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
2551 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
2553 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2554 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2555 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
2557 Added some missing EVT functions.
2559 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2562 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
2564 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2565 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2566 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
2571 What's new in 2.1.11
2572 --------------------
2575 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2578 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2579 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2582 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2583 being added. This should remove the need for our
2584 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
2586 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2587 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2588 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2589 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2590 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
2592 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
2594 Added new HTML printing classes.
2596 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
2598 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2599 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2600 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2603 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2604 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2605 thread from other threads.
2607 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
2609 Added wxFontEnumerator.
2611 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
2613 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2614 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
2616 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
2618 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2621 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
2630 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2631 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
2640 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2641 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2642 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2643 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
2644 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2647 Now back to what's new...
2649 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
2651 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
2653 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
2654 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2655 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2656 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2657 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2660 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2661 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2664 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2665 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2666 example, the following are equivallent::
2668 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
2669 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
2671 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2672 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2673 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2674 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2675 pages. See the demo for an example.
2677 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2678 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
2680 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
2682 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2683 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2684 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2685 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2686 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2687 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2688 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2689 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2690 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2691 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2692 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2695 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2696 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2697 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2698 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2699 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2700 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2701 for more info and examples in future releases.
2703 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2704 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2705 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2706 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2707 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2708 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2711 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2712 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2713 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2714 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2715 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2716 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2717 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2718 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2719 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2720 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2721 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
2723 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2724 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2725 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2726 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2727 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2728 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2729 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2730 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2731 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2732 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2733 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2734 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2735 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2736 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2737 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2738 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
2741 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2745 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2748 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2749 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2750 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2751 to really screw things up.
2753 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2754 in the wxWindows docs...
2756 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2757 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2758 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2759 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2760 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2761 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2762 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2769 --------------------
2772 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
2774 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
2775 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2776 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2777 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2780 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2781 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2782 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
2784 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
2786 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2787 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2788 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2789 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
2792 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2793 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2794 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2795 see distrib/build.py for more details.
2797 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2798 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2799 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2800 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
2810 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
2812 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
2813 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
2814 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
2815 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
2816 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
2818 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
2819 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
2820 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
2821 is being unloaded by Python.
2823 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
2824 make wxPython look bad.
2826 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
2827 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
2829 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
2831 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2832 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
2834 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2835 code to show how to use it.
2837 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2840 Added wxGrid.GetCells
2842 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2843 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
2845 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2846 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
2848 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
2849 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
2851 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2852 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2853 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
2855 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2858 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
2860 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2863 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
2865 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2876 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2877 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2878 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
2880 Added the Printing Framework.
2882 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2883 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2884 data after loading each extension module.
2886 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2889 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2890 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2891 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
2893 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2894 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2895 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2896 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
2904 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
2906 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2907 wxPython application.
2909 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
2911 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2912 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2915 Added wxSafeYield function.
2917 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
2919 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2922 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2923 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
2925 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
2927 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2928 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
2930 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
2932 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2941 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
2943 Several missing methods from various classes.
2953 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
2955 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
2963 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2964 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
2971 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2972 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2973 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2974 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2975 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
2977 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2978 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2979 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2980 diverges from wxWindows.
2982 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2983 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2984 it should just work... More news on this later.
2986 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
2988 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2991 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
2999 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
3001 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
3002 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
3008 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
3009 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
3010 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
3011 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
3013 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
3015 Made the events work for wxGrid.
3019 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
3021 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
3022 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
3024 Other assorted fixes and additions.
3033 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
3034 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
3035 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
3036 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
3037 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
3038 behavior was so different on different platforms.
3040 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
3041 must have been a different issue all along...
3049 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3050 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3051 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3052 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3053 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3054 version segfault shortly after starting up.
3056 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
3058 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
3067 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
3068 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory