1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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9 Lots of fixes and updates to the AUI classes.
11 Added wx.CollapsiblePane. On wxGTK it uses a native expander widget,
12 on the other platforms a regular button is used to control the
13 collapsed/expanded state.
15 Added the wx.combo module, which contains the ComboCtrl and ComboPopup
16 classes. These classes allow you to implement a wx.ComboBox-like
17 widget where the popup can be nearly any kind of widget, and where you
18 have a lot of control over other aspects of the combo widget as well.
19 It works very well on GTK and MSW, using native renderers for drawing
20 the combo button, but is unfortunatly still a bit klunky on OSX...
22 Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4 by default.
24 Added wx.combo.OwnerDrawnComboBox, which is a ComboCtrl that delegates
25 the drawing of the items in the popup and in the control itself to
26 overridden methods of a derived class, similarly to how wx.VListBox
29 Added wx.combo.BitmapComboBox which is a combobox that displays a
30 bitmap in front of the list items.
32 Added the wx.lib.mixins.inspect module. It contains the InspectMixin
33 class which can be mixed with a wx.App class and provides a PyCrust
34 window that can be activated with a Ctrl-Alt-I keystroke (or Cmd-Alt-I
37 Added some modules from Riaan Booysen:
39 * wx.lib.flagart: contains icons of the flags of many countries.
41 * wx.lib.art.img2pyartprov: makes images embedded in a python file
42 with img2py available via the wx.ArtProvider.
44 * wx.lib.langlistctrl: A wx.ListCtrl for selecting a language,
45 which uses the country flag icons.
47 * An I18N sample for the demo.
49 wx.lib.masked: Patch from Will Sadkin. Includes Unicode fixes, plus
50 more helpful exceptions and ability to designate fields in mask
51 without intervening fixed characters.
53 Added wx.SearchCtrl, which is a composite of a wx.TextCtrl with optional
54 bitmap buttons and a drop-down menu. Controls like this can typically
55 be found on a toolbar of applications that support some form of search
56 functionality. On the Mac this control is implemented using the
57 native HISearchField control, on the other platforms a generic control
58 is used, although that may change in the future as more platforms
59 introduce native search widgets.
61 Added a set of button classes to wx.lib.buttons from David Hughes that
62 uses the native renderer to draw the button.
71 Patch [ 1583183 ] Fixes printing/print preview inconsistencies
73 Add events API to wxHtmlWindow (patch #1504493 by Francesco Montorsi)
75 Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot)
77 Added New Zealand NZST and NZDT timezone support to wx.DateTime.
79 wx.Window.GetAdjustedBestSize is deprecated. In every conceivable
80 scenario GetEffectiveMinSize is probably what you want to use instead.
82 wx.Image: Gained support for TGA image file format.
84 wx.aui: The classes in the wx.aui module have been renamed to be more
85 consistent with each other, and make it easier to recognize in the
86 docs and etc. that they belong together.
88 FrameManager --> AuiManager
89 FrameManagerEvent --> AuiManagerEvent
90 PaneInfo --> AuiPaneInfo
91 FloatingPane --> AuiFloatingPane
92 DockArt --> AuiDockArt
94 AuiMultiNotebook --> AuiNotebook
95 AuiNotebookEvent --> AuiNotebookEvent
97 wx.lib.customtreectrl: A patch from Frank Niessink which adds an
98 additional style (TR_AUTO_CHECK_PARENT) that (un)checks a parent when
99 all children are (un)checked.
101 wx.animate.AnimationCtrl fixed to display inactive bitmap at start
104 Patch from Dj Gilcrease adding the FNB_HIDE_ON_SINGLE_TAB style flag
105 for wx.lib.flatnotebook.
107 wx.Window.GetBestFittingSize has been renamed to GetEffectiveMinSize.
108 SetBestFittingSize has been renamed to SetInitialSize, since it is
109 most often used only to set the initial (and minimal) size of a
112 The QuickTime backend for wx.media.MediaCtrl on MS Windows works
113 again. Just pass szBackend=wx.media.MEDIABACKEND_QUICKTIME to the
114 constructor to use it instead of the default ActiveMovie backend,
115 (assuming the quicktime DLLs are available on the system.)
126 wxGTK: The wx.ALWAYS_SHOW_SB style is now supported.
128 Fixed name errors in the old wxPython package namespace. As a
129 reminder, use of this package is deprecated and you are encouraged to
130 switch your programs over to the wx package.
132 Fixed wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas.SetCurrent to be compatible with prevoius
135 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetTmpDir.
137 Bug fixes in the wx.ListCtrl on Mac from Kevin Olivier, allowing it to
138 send events properly again. There is also a new native implementation
139 of wx.ListCtrl available, which will be used for wx.LC_REPORT style
140 list controls if you set the "mac.listctrl.always_use_generic"
141 SystemOption to zero. In a future release this will be the default.
143 Added a sample to the demo that shows some of what can be done with
144 the new wx.GraphicsContext and wx.GraphicsPath classes.
153 Fixed a bug in the MaskedEdit controls caused by conflicting IsEmpty
156 Patch #1579280: Some mimetype optimizations on unix-like systems.
158 wxMac: Several wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl enhancements/fixes, including:
160 - new methods for increasing/decreasing text size, getting
161 selection, getting/setting scroll position, printing, enabling
162 editing, and running JavaScripts on the page.
164 - added new event (wx.webkit.WebKitBeforeLoadEvent) for catching, and
165 possibly vetoing, load events before they occur.
167 - wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl now fires mouse events for certain events
168 that it was eating before. This improves wxSplitterWindow
171 - refactoring of the sizing logic to move the Cocoa view. Tested
172 with splitter windows, panels, notebooks and all position
175 Some improvements to the drawing code in CustomTreeCtrl.
177 Fixed refcount leak in wx.Window.GetChildren.
187 The following deprecated items have been removed:
189 * wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
191 * The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
193 * wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
195 * wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
197 * The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
199 * wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
201 * wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
203 * wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
205 * wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
209 wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
211 Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
214 wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
215 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
216 empty stubs in wxPython.
218 Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
219 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
220 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
221 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
222 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
223 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
224 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
225 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
226 that is renaming the base class methods with a "base_*" prefix, for
227 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
228 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
229 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
230 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
231 your overridden methods like this::
233 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
235 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
237 You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this::
239 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
241 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
243 Or like this with super()::
245 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
247 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
249 Note that the old way with the "base_*" function still works, but you
250 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
251 classes affected by this are:
257 * wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
258 * wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
262 * wx.PreviewControlBar
266 * wx.PyScrolledWindow
269 * wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
270 * wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
271 * wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
272 * wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
274 * wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
277 Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
280 wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2
283 Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch 1446207
285 Bumped up to SWIG 1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance
286 boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new
289 Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the
290 position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is
291 not a top-level window.
293 Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to
296 Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can
297 use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the
298 source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which
299 of the component data objects to use to access the data.
301 Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.)
302 are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances
303 using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before
304 OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each object is initialized.
305 This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality
306 that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for
307 wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously
308 hidden under the covers.
310 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.
312 Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.
314 wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first
315 is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip
316 flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip
317 button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time
320 A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is
321 imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert
322 your code to use the new wx package instead.
324 Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in
325 wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more
326 work, but it is a great start.
328 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
329 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
330 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
331 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
332 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
335 wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it
336 will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.
338 Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.
340 Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so
341 far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.
343 Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item (i.e. the
344 column in report mode) that was hit (if any) in addition to the item
347 Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl,
348 wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.
350 Patch #1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha
353 Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.
355 Added the PseudoDC class from Paul Lanier. It provides a way to
356 record operations on a DC and then play them back later.
358 Upgraded to Scintilla 1.70 for wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl.
360 Added CanSetTransparent and SetTransparent methods to the
361 wx.TopLevelWindow class, with implementations (so far) for wxMSW and
364 SetDefaultItem() and GetDefaultItem() are now members of
365 wx.TopLevelWindow, not wx.Panel.
367 wxGTK: Stock items (icons) will be used for menu items with stock
370 Added wx.lib.combotreebox from Frank Niessink
372 Added wx.ImageFromBuffer, wx.BitmapFromBuffer and
373 wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA factory functions. They enable loading of an
374 image or bitmap directly from a Python object that implements the
375 buffer interface, such as strings, arrays, etc.
377 Added wx.App.IsDisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a
378 GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an
379 implementation for wxMSW...)
381 The wx.html.HTML_FONT_SIZE_x constants are no longer available as the
382 default sizes are now calculated at runtime based on the size of the
385 wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to
386 wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new
387 alpha blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing
388 with pens and brushes on a wx.DC.
390 Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator
391 and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access
392 to the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.
394 The beginnings of support for RTL languages has been added, thanks to
395 a Google SoC project.
397 Added wx.lib.dragscroller from Riaan Booysen. It provides a helper
398 class that can used to scroll a wx.ScrolledWindow in response to a
401 Applied patch 1551409: Adds support for indeterminate mode gauges.
403 wxMac: I've turned on the compile option for using the native toolbar
404 on the Mac now that it supports hosting of controls. If the toolbar
405 is managed by the frame via either CreateToolBar() or SetToolBar()
406 then the native toolbar will be used. Additional toolbars, or
407 toolbars that are not children of the frame, are managed by sizers or
408 what-not will still use the emulated toolbar because of platform
409 restrictions in how/where the native toolbar can be used.
411 Added Python properties for many of the getter/setter methods of wx
412 classes. In order for the names to be predicatble for somebody
413 already familiar with wxPython the property names are simply the name
414 of the getter with the "Get" dropped. For example, wx.Window has a
415 property named "Size" that maps to GetSize and SetSize. So far there
416 is only one known name conflict using this naming convention, and that
417 is wx.KeyEvent.KeyCode, however since KeyCode was formerly a
418 compatibility alias for GetKeyCode (and has been for a long time) it
419 was decided to just switch it to a property. If you want to use the
420 method then change your calls to event.KeyCode() to
421 event.GetKeyCode(), otherwise you can use it as a property just by
422 dropping the parentheses.
424 Updated the C++ code for wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl from the wxCode
425 project. This has resulted in some minor API changes, most of which
426 were worked around in the wrapper code.
428 Added wx.lib.delayedresult from Oliver Schoenborn.
430 Added wx.lib.expando, a multi-line textctrl that expands as more lines
433 wx.Image.Scale and Rescale methods now take an extra parameter
434 specifying type of method to use for resampling the image. It
435 defaults to the current behavior of just replicating pixels, if
436 wx.IMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH is passed then it uses bicubic and box averaging
437 resampling methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively.
439 Added the wx.lib.buttonpanel module, which is a tweaked version of
440 Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.
442 Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.
444 Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like
445 wx.CallAfter. wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater
446 for compatibility of older code.
448 Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl module from Andrea Gavana.
450 Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook
451 and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't
452 send the change events.
454 Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but
455 doesn't send the text changed event.
457 For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have
458 IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't
461 Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class. They
462 provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which
463 will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info
464 is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.
466 The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the core wxWidgets
467 library, and refactored a bit along the way. For wxPython it still
468 exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two
469 classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl. You load
470 the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats
471 in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the
472 AnimatedCtrl for display. See the demo for an example. There is also
473 still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards
474 compatibility with the old implementation.
476 wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a
477 Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default. This means that all
478 drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the
479 old Quick Draw API. There are, however, a few places where Quartz and
480 wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for
481 logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there is work in progress
482 to provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with
483 Quartz and also on the other platforms.
485 The first parts of a new 2D drawing API has been added with the
486 wx.GraphicsPath and wx.GraphicsContext classes. They wrap GDI+ on
487 Windows, Cairo on wxGTK and CoreGraphics on OS X. They allow path-based
488 drawing with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, and use a floating
489 point cooridnate system. Currently they can only target drawing to
490 windows, but other wx.DC backends are forthcoming. The APIs may
491 evolve a bit more before they are finalaized with the 2.8 release, but
492 there is enough there now to get a good feel for how things will work.
493 There is also a transitional wx.GCDC class that provides the wx.DC API
494 on top of wx.GraphicsContext. Docs and a demo are still MIA.
496 Added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC on
497 platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of
498 wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't. You can use this
499 class to help avoid the overhead of buffering when it is not
500 needed. There is also a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory function that
501 does a little more and actually tests if the window has
502 double-buffering enabled and then decides whether to return a
503 wx.PaintDC or wx.BufferedPaintDC. This uses the new
504 wx.Window.IsDoubleBuffered method.
516 wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn:
517 - fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects
518 - now supports listeners that use \*args as an argument
519 (listener(\*args) was not passing the validity test)
520 - corrected some mistakes in documentation
521 - added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time
523 - changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented
524 pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher
526 DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua:
527 New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to
528 the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in
529 the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging.
530 Not important for python development, but at least that means the
531 debugger framework is more generalized.
533 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
534 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
535 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
536 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
537 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
540 Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog.
542 Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python 2.5. There
543 may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and 64-bit
544 machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it
554 Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.
556 wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change
557 was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem
558 (contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a
559 wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being
562 wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the
565 Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on 64-bit platforms. Used
566 the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of
569 wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap
570 buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button
571 it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly
572 generic button style.
574 XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.
576 Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic
577 data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a
578 TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return
579 a boolean as expected. For example::
581 wx.Colour(64,0,64) == 123 ==> False
583 wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on
584 a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is
587 wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item
588 is selected only with the keyboard.
596 Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
597 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on
598 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
599 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
601 wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
602 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
603 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
604 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
605 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
606 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
607 column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.
609 Switched to using SWIG 1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
610 are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
611 wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
612 which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
613 need to modify any of the \*.i files or to add your own, then you will
614 want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
615 in the source tarball for details.
617 wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing
618 with the alpha channel.
620 wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
621 wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
623 wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
626 wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
627 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
629 wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
630 not available in the themed version.
632 Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
634 Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
636 Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
638 wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
640 wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
642 wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
644 wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
645 window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
646 flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
648 wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
649 into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to "timer.clock.seconds"
650 is the same as subscribing to ("timer", "clock", "seconds").
652 Applied patch #1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
654 Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
656 Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version 1.67 of Scintilla.
657 NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
658 you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
660 wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the
661 DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
663 Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
666 Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
667 Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
669 Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
670 scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
671 zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
673 XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
675 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch 1214360)
686 wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
689 wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
690 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
693 wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
694 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
696 Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
698 Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
700 Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
702 Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
703 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
704 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
705 can manage more than two child windows.
707 Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890
708 "Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features:
710 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
711 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
712 For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that
713 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad"
714 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
716 Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
718 XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
720 * Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
721 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
722 for an available parent control if no specific view
723 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
726 * Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
728 * Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
729 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100
732 Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
735 Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
736 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
739 Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
741 wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
743 wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.
745 wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
748 Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
749 it doesn't fill up too soon.
751 Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
753 Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
755 Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
756 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
758 Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
760 Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
761 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
762 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
763 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() &
764 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
765 to synchronize with a single timer.
767 Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
770 Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
771 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
773 Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"
775 Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager
776 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
778 Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
779 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
780 instead of a separate menu item.
782 Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
783 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
784 workaround a bug in MSLU!
786 wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
787 and other special keys properly.
789 Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
790 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
791 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
793 * The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
794 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
796 * In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
797 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
800 * Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
803 * Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
804 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
806 * F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
808 * switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
810 * Display of line numbers can be toggled.
812 * F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
813 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
814 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
815 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
818 * Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
820 * General code cleanup and fixes.
822 * Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
825 * Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
827 * Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
828 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
829 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
830 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
832 * All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
833 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
834 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
835 place to do anything.
837 * Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
838 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
839 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
841 * Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
842 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
844 * PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
845 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
846 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
848 * Added an option for whether to insert text for function
849 parameters when popping up the call tip.
851 * Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
852 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
855 Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
857 * Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
859 * Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
861 * Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
864 * Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
867 * Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
868 integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
870 * Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove
871 default sign key handlers if false, so that
872 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
874 * Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
875 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
876 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
877 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
878 rather than toggling the previous sign.
880 wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
881 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
884 Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
885 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
886 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
887 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
888 and the modifier keys.
890 Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
892 A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
893 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
894 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
896 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
897 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
898 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
899 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
900 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)
909 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
912 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
914 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
915 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
916 any unknown file type.
918 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
919 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
921 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
922 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
923 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
926 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
928 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
929 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
931 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
932 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
934 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
936 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
939 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
940 change will get written at the next flush.
950 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
951 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
952 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
954 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
957 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
958 both has an icon and is a submenu.
960 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
963 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
964 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
965 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
966 instead of current values.
968 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
969 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
971 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
973 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
974 extra null character at the end.
976 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
977 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
979 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
982 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
984 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
987 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
989 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
990 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
991 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
994 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
995 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
998 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
999 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
1000 default browser in response to the clicks.
1002 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
1003 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
1004 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
1005 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
1006 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
1007 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
1008 parameter, like this::
1011 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
1014 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
1015 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
1016 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
1018 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
1021 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
1022 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
1024 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
1026 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
1027 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
1029 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
1030 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
1033 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
1034 self.history is None.
1036 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
1037 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
1038 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
1040 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
1043 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
1044 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
1047 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
1048 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
1049 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
1050 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
1052 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
1054 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
1055 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
1058 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
1059 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
1061 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
1062 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
1065 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
1066 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
1068 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
1070 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
1072 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
1074 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
1075 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
1077 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
1078 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
1079 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
1080 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
1083 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
1084 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1086 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
1089 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
1091 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
1092 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
1095 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
1096 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
1107 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
1108 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
1111 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
1113 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
1115 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
1116 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
1117 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
1119 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
1120 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
1121 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
1122 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
1123 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
1124 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
1125 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
1126 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
1127 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
1128 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
1129 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
1131 =================== ====================
1132 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
1133 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
1134 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
1135 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
1136 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
1137 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
1138 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
1139 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
1140 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
1141 =================== ====================
1144 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
1145 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
1148 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
1149 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
1151 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
1153 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
1154 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
1155 * Hide command for test window.
1156 * Replacing classes works better.
1157 * Added Locate tool.
1166 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
1168 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
1169 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
1170 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
1171 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
1172 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
1174 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
1176 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
1179 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
1182 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
1183 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
1184 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
1185 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
1186 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
1189 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
1190 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
1193 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
1194 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
1196 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
1197 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
1198 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
1199 the width of any column.
1201 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
1204 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
1206 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
1208 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
1209 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
1211 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
1212 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
1213 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
1214 older generic file dialog is used.
1216 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
1219 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
1220 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
1221 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
1222 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
1224 Added MDI support to XRC
1226 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
1227 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
1229 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
1230 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
1232 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
1233 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
1235 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
1236 affecting the label.
1238 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
1239 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
1241 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
1242 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
1244 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
1247 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
1256 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
1257 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
1258 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
1260 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
1261 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
1263 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
1264 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
1265 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
1266 then calling GetValue().
1269 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
1270 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
1271 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
1272 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
1274 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
1277 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
1278 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
1279 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
1281 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
1283 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
1284 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
1286 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
1287 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
1289 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
1290 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
1291 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
1292 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
1293 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
1294 the origin of the canvas.
1296 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
1297 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
1298 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
1300 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
1301 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
1303 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
1304 internal scrollbar visible.
1306 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
1307 system paths for each platform.
1309 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
1310 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
1311 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
1312 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
1313 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
1315 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
1316 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
1317 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
1319 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
1320 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
1321 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
1323 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
1324 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
1325 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
1327 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
1329 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
1330 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
1331 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
1332 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
1334 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
1335 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
1336 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
1337 of how to use the control.
1339 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
1340 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
1342 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
1343 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
1346 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
1347 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
1349 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
1350 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
1351 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
1352 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
1353 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
1354 finished with the timer.
1356 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
1357 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
1358 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
1359 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
1360 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
1361 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
1362 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
1363 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
1364 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
1365 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
1367 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
1368 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
1369 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
1370 via the wxPython C API.
1372 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
1373 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
1374 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
1375 when docstrings are added for those items.
1377 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
1378 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
1379 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
1380 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
1381 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
1384 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
1385 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
1386 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
1387 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
1388 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
1389 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
1390 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
1391 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
1392 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
1393 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
1394 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
1397 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
1398 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
1399 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
1400 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
1401 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
1403 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
1404 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
1406 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
1407 lots of surplus events)
1409 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
1412 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
1413 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
1415 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
1416 and GTK+'s context menu code.
1418 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
1419 (not all actions are allowed).
1421 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
1423 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
1424 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
1425 when GetString is called from an event handler.
1427 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
1428 and max ends of the slider.
1430 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
1431 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
1432 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
1435 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
1436 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
1437 not with labels/sizers.
1438 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
1439 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
1442 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
1443 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
1445 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
1446 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
1449 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1450 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
1451 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
1452 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
1455 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
1456 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
1458 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
1460 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
1461 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
1462 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
1463 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
1465 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
1468 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
1469 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
1471 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
1473 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
1475 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
1476 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
1478 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
1481 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
1484 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
1485 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
1486 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
1487 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
1490 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
1492 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
1494 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
1495 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
1496 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
1497 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
1500 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
1501 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
1503 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
1504 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
1506 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
1507 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
1508 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
1509 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
1510 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
1511 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
1513 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
1516 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
1519 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
1522 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
1523 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
1524 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
1525 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
1534 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
1536 Updated internal PNG library.
1538 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
1540 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
1541 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
1543 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
1544 enabled (does an enable itself)
1546 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
1549 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
1550 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
1553 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
1554 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
1555 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
1556 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
1557 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
1558 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1559 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1560 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1561 also be an image of a red X::
1563 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1566 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
1568 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
1570 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
1572 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1573 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
1574 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
1575 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1576 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1577 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1578 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
1580 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1581 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1582 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1583 the wxPython modules.
1585 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1586 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1587 user that they should look at that window.
1589 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1590 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
1592 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
1594 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1595 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1596 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1597 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1598 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1599 and PyGetDate methods.
1601 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1602 also set the colour of the dropdown.
1604 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
1606 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
1608 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
1610 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1611 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1612 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
1614 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
1616 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
1618 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
1620 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1623 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1626 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
1628 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1629 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1632 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
1634 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1635 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1638 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1639 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1640 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
1642 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1643 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1644 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1645 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1646 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1647 should notice no difference.
1649 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1650 when a new one is selected.
1652 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
1654 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1655 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1656 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1657 more details and a warning.
1659 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1660 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
1662 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1663 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
1665 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
1667 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
1669 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
1671 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1672 holding down the mouse button.
1674 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1675 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
1677 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
1679 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
1680 - Added bar graph demo
1681 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
1682 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1684 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
1685 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
1686 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
1687 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
1688 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1689 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
1690 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1691 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1694 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
1695 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
1696 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
1697 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1699 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1701 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1702 reflect package's public contents.
1704 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1705 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1706 Migrarion Guide for more information.
1708 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
1709 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
1710 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
1711 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1713 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
1715 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1716 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1719 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1720 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
1730 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
1732 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
1734 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
1736 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1737 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
1739 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1740 flicker problems, and namespace use.
1742 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
1744 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
1746 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
1749 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
1751 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1752 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
1754 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1757 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1760 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
1762 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
1764 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
1775 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1776 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1777 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1778 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1779 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1780 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
1781 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1782 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1783 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
1785 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1786 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
1788 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
1789 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
1790 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1791 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1794 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1795 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
1797 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
1799 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1800 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
1802 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1803 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1804 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1805 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
1806 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1807 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1810 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1811 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1812 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1813 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1814 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1817 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1818 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1819 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
1821 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1822 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
1824 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1825 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
1827 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
1828 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1829 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1830 remaining compatible with "C".
1832 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1835 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1836 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1837 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1838 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1839 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1840 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1841 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1842 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1843 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
1845 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1847 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1848 Scintilla for several releases now.
1850 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1851 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1852 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1853 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
1855 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1856 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1857 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1860 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1861 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1862 with a more modern reimplementation.
1864 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1865 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
1867 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1868 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1869 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
1871 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1872 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1873 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1874 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1875 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
1877 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1878 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1879 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1880 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1883 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
1884 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
1887 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
1890 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
1895 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
1896 -----------------------------------------------
1899 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
1900 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1903 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1906 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1907 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1908 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1909 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1910 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1911 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1912 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1915 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1916 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1920 Added wxIconLocation
1922 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1923 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1925 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1928 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1931 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1932 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1933 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1935 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1936 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1937 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1938 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1939 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1940 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1941 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1942 distros please send me a patch.
1944 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1945 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1947 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1948 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1949 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1950 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1951 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1952 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1955 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1958 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1960 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1962 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1964 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1965 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1966 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1967 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1968 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1969 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1970 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1973 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1976 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1978 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1979 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1981 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1982 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1983 MigrationGuide for more details.
1985 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1986 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1987 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1988 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1989 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1990 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1991 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1992 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1993 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1994 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1995 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1996 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1997 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1998 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1999 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
2000 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
2001 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
2003 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
2005 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
2014 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
2016 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
2018 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
2019 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
2021 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
2023 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
2025 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
2033 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
2035 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
2037 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
2038 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
2039 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
2042 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
2043 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
2044 and wxWindows match.
2046 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
2047 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
2048 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
2049 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
2050 to the new namespace.
2052 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
2053 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
2054 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
2055 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
2057 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
2058 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
2059 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
2060 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
2061 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
2062 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
2063 package. These will be removed in a future release.
2065 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
2066 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
2067 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
2069 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
2071 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
2072 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
2074 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
2075 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
2077 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
2078 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
2080 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
2081 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
2084 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
2085 a call to any Python callable object.
2087 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
2088 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
2089 to override the C++ virtual methods.
2091 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
2092 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
2093 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
2094 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
2095 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
2097 Added wxCursorFromBits.
2107 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
2110 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
2111 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
2112 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
2114 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
2117 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
2120 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
2123 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
2125 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
2126 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
2127 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
2133 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
2134 ------------------------------------------
2137 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
2138 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
2139 think I am testing in the future...
2143 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
2144 ----------------------------------------------
2147 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
2149 Updated pycolourchooser.
2151 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
2159 Added missing wxRect methods
2161 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
2163 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
2165 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
2166 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
2167 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
2170 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
2173 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
2175 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
2176 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
2179 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
2181 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
2184 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
2186 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
2187 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
2188 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
2189 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
2190 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
2191 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
2192 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
2193 static stable in the C++ class.
2195 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
2196 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
2197 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
2198 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
2201 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
2202 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
2203 always call them. The functions are::
2205 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
2206 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2207 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
2208 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
2209 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
2210 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
2211 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
2212 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2213 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
2214 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
2215 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
2216 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
2218 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
2219 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
2221 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
2222 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
2223 doesn't have a standard place for them.
2225 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
2227 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
2229 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
2239 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2241 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
2250 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
2253 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
2254 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
2270 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
2272 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
2274 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
2278 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
2279 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
2280 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
2281 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
2282 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
2283 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
2284 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
2285 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
2286 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
2287 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
2288 you can use to play with this new feature.
2290 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
2291 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
2292 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
2293 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
2294 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
2295 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
2296 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
2297 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
2299 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
2302 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
2303 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
2306 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
2308 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
2309 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
2310 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
2311 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
2312 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
2314 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
2316 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
2318 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
2320 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
2321 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
2322 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
2324 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
2325 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
2326 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
2328 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
2329 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
2331 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
2332 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
2333 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
2334 windows when desired.
2336 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
2337 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
2338 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
2347 Added wxSplashScreen.
2349 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
2351 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
2353 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
2354 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
2355 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
2357 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
2358 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
2359 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
2361 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
2362 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
2363 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
2365 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
2366 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
2367 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
2368 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
2369 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
2372 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
2376 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
2377 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
2380 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
2381 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
2382 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
2383 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
2384 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
2385 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
2386 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
2388 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
2389 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
2390 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
2391 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
2392 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
2393 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
2394 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
2395 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
2396 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
2397 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
2398 unicode build on win95.
2400 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
2401 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
2402 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
2403 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
2404 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
2405 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
2406 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
2407 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
2408 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
2409 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
2412 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
2414 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
2416 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
2418 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
2419 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
2420 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
2421 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
2422 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
2423 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
2424 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
2425 for any class that is OOR aware.
2427 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
2428 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
2431 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
2432 the image data. (Patch #546009)
2434 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
2437 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
2438 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
2439 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
2452 TransferDataFromWindow
2453 TransferDataToWindow
2456 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
2461 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
2464 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
2465 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
2467 Added wxArtProvider.
2469 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
2470 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
2471 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
2472 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
2473 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
2475 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
2477 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
2478 creating a ScrolledPanel.
2480 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
2483 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
2484 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
2485 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
2486 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
2488 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
2489 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
2490 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
2491 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
2492 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
2494 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
2495 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
2496 respond to mouse events and etc.
2498 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
2499 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
2501 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
2502 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
2503 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
2504 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
2505 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
2506 started with just the "pycrust" command.
2508 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
2509 displays the details of the event.
2511 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
2513 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
2514 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
2517 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
2519 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2528 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
2529 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
2530 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
2532 Added some patches from library contributors.
2540 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
2541 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
2542 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2543 and a demo to show them in action.
2545 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
2546 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
2548 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
2550 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
2552 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
2555 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
2556 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
2557 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
2558 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2559 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2560 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2561 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
2562 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2565 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2566 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2567 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2568 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2569 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2570 wxSTC flag accordingly.
2572 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2573 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2574 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
2576 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
2578 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
2580 Added pySketch to the samples.
2582 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2583 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2584 multi-processor machine.
2586 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2587 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
2589 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
2591 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2592 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2593 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2594 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2595 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2596 original C++ pointer.
2598 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2601 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
2603 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2604 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
2606 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2607 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
2608 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2609 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
2610 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2615 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
2617 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2618 will now Disconnect the event.
2620 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
2622 Added wxFileHistory.
2624 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2625 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2626 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2629 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
2631 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2634 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
2635 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2636 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2637 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2638 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2639 also be useful by themselves.
2641 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2642 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2643 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2644 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2645 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2646 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2656 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2657 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2658 on a custom event handler for example.)
2660 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2661 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
2663 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2664 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
2666 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
2668 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
2670 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
2672 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
2680 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2681 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
2683 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2684 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2687 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
2689 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2690 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2693 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2694 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2695 access from non-GUI threads.
2697 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2698 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
2700 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
2702 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2703 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
2705 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2706 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
2708 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2709 it gobs faster in certain situations.
2711 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2712 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2713 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2714 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2715 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2716 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2717 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2718 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2719 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2722 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2723 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2726 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2727 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
2729 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
2731 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
2733 Added wxToggleButton.
2735 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
2737 Added some methods to wxGrid:
2738 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2739 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2740 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2741 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2743 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2744 GetGridColLabelWindow
2745 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
2747 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2748 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2749 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
2752 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2753 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2754 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2755 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2756 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2757 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2758 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2759 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2760 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2761 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2762 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
2763 use weak references.)
2765 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2766 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2767 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
2768 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2769 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2770 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2771 object-type related oddities to me.
2774 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2775 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2776 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2779 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2780 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
2782 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
2786 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2787 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2788 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2789 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2790 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2791 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
2793 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2794 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2804 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2805 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2813 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
2814 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2815 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2816 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
2818 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
2820 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
2822 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2823 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
2825 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2826 column in report mode.
2828 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2829 bar after 2 seconds.
2833 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2834 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2835 object, (usually a window.)
2837 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
2839 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
2841 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2842 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2843 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2844 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2845 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
2846 wxPython/src/export.h
2848 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2849 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2850 utils. Will probably add more later.
2852 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2853 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2856 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2857 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
2859 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
2861 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2862 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
2864 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2865 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2874 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2875 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2876 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2877 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2878 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2879 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2880 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2881 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2884 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2885 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
2886 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2887 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2888 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2889 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2890 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
2891 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2892 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
2894 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2895 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
2897 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2898 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2899 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2902 Removed the old python sizers.
2904 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2907 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2908 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2909 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2911 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2913 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2914 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2915 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2924 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2926 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2934 Added wxLog and friends.
2936 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2938 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2946 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2947 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2950 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2952 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2956 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2958 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2960 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2962 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2963 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2964 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2965 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2966 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2967 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2968 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2969 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2992 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2993 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2995 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2998 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2999 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
3001 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
3003 Plugged a memory leak.
3005 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
3006 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
3007 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
3008 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
3011 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
3012 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
3013 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
3015 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
3016 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
3017 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
3018 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
3019 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
3020 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
3021 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
3022 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
3025 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
3026 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
3027 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
3028 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
3030 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
3031 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
3032 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
3033 but I've included a very readable source file in the
3034 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
3035 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
3036 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
3037 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
3038 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
3043 What's new in 2.1.13
3044 --------------------
3047 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
3049 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
3050 and some flicker problems.
3052 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
3053 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
3055 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
3058 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
3060 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
3062 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
3063 with wxWindow.GetParent.
3065 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
3066 It is used like this:
3068 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
3070 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
3071 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
3073 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
3075 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
3077 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
3078 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
3079 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
3080 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
3081 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
3082 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
3084 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
3085 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
3086 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
3087 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
3088 methods look like this:
3092 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
3095 shortHelpString = "",
3096 longHelpString = "")
3098 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
3100 shortHelpString = "",
3101 longHelpString = "",
3105 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
3106 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
3108 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
3110 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
3112 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
3113 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
3114 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
3116 Added some missing EVT functions.
3118 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
3121 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
3123 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
3124 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
3125 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
3130 What's new in 2.1.11
3131 --------------------
3134 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
3137 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
3138 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
3141 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
3142 being added. This should remove the need for our
3143 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
3145 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
3146 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
3147 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
3148 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
3149 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
3151 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
3153 Added new HTML printing classes.
3155 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
3157 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
3158 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
3159 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
3162 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
3163 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
3164 thread from other threads.
3166 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
3168 Added wxFontEnumerator.
3170 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
3172 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
3173 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
3175 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
3177 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
3180 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
3189 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
3190 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
3199 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
3200 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
3201 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
3202 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
3203 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
3206 Now back to what's new...
3208 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
3210 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
3212 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
3213 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
3214 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
3215 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
3216 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
3219 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
3220 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
3223 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
3224 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
3225 example, the following are equivallent::
3227 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
3228 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
3230 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
3231 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
3232 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
3233 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
3234 pages. See the demo for an example.
3236 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
3237 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
3239 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
3241 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
3242 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
3243 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
3244 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
3245 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
3246 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
3247 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
3248 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
3249 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
3250 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
3251 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
3254 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
3255 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
3256 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
3257 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
3258 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
3259 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
3260 for more info and examples in future releases.
3262 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
3263 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
3264 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
3265 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
3266 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
3267 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
3270 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
3271 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
3272 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
3273 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
3274 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
3275 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
3276 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
3277 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
3278 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
3279 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
3280 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
3282 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
3283 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
3284 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
3285 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
3286 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
3287 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
3288 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
3289 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
3290 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
3291 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
3292 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
3293 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
3294 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
3295 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
3296 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
3297 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
3300 outputWindowClass = MyClass
3304 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
3307 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
3308 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
3309 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
3310 to really screw things up.
3312 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
3313 in the wxWindows docs...
3315 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
3316 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
3317 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
3318 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
3319 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
3320 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
3321 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
3328 --------------------
3331 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
3333 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
3334 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
3335 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
3336 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
3339 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
3340 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
3341 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
3343 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
3345 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
3346 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
3347 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
3348 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
3351 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
3352 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
3353 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
3354 see distrib/build.py for more details.
3356 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
3357 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
3358 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
3359 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
3369 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
3371 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
3372 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
3373 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
3374 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
3375 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
3377 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
3378 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
3379 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
3380 is being unloaded by Python.
3382 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
3383 make wxPython look bad.
3385 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
3386 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
3388 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
3390 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
3391 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
3393 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
3394 code to show how to use it.
3396 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
3399 Added wxGrid.GetCells
3401 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
3402 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
3404 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
3405 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
3407 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
3408 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
3410 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
3411 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
3412 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
3414 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
3417 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
3419 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
3422 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
3424 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
3435 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
3436 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
3437 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
3439 Added the Printing Framework.
3441 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
3442 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
3443 data after loading each extension module.
3445 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
3448 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
3449 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
3450 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
3452 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
3453 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
3454 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
3455 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
3463 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
3465 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
3466 wxPython application.
3468 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
3470 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
3471 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
3474 Added wxSafeYield function.
3476 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
3478 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
3481 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
3482 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
3484 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
3486 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
3487 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
3489 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
3491 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
3500 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
3502 Several missing methods from various classes.
3512 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
3514 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
3522 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
3523 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
3530 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
3531 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
3532 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
3533 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
3534 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
3536 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
3537 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
3538 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
3539 diverges from wxWindows.
3541 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
3542 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
3543 it should just work... More news on this later.
3545 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
3547 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
3550 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
3558 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
3560 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
3561 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
3567 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
3568 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
3569 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
3570 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
3572 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
3574 Made the events work for wxGrid.
3578 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
3580 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
3581 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
3583 Other assorted fixes and additions.
3592 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
3593 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
3594 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
3595 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
3596 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
3597 behavior was so different on different platforms.
3599 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
3600 must have been a different issue all along...
3608 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3609 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3610 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3611 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3612 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3613 version segfault shortly after starting up.
3615 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
3617 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
3626 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
3627 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory