2 19th December '99: wxWindows 2.1.12 released
4 Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc) that runs a 15 and/or
5 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this
6 person could help me by running a small testprogram and sending
9 Added support for multiple font and colour support to item in
10 list ctrls and tree ctrls.
12 Added support for multiple-selection file dialog.
14 Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is
15 also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that.
17 Enhanced wxMimeTypesManager to read GNOME and KDE file ending
18 bindings to MIME types and icons.
20 Corrected wxExecute to longer eat up all memory and crash under
21 certain circumstances (Karsten Ballueder).
23 wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog
24 before entering the main loop.
26 Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some
27 more string related things.
29 Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective
30 stream classes. Documented some more stream classes.
32 Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing,
33 history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc).
35 Corrected wxRegion::GetBox().
37 Added wxNotebookSizer for combining notebooks and sizers.
39 Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst()
42 Added wxStopWatch class.
44 wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject.
46 Added inlined classes for 2D geometry calculations.
48 wxSpinCtrl now has its own event, intercepted using EVT_SPINCTRL.
50 The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they
51 are to use forward-only cursors or not.
53 Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate
54 have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDatTime.
56 Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the
57 thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or
58 if the main thread must delete the C++ class.
60 Added TIFF reading code, PCX writing code.
62 Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures.
64 Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and
65 centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer.
67 Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool.
69 Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for
70 setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream.
72 Added code to send events from one thread to another and added
73 function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread
76 Corrected wrongly set flag in dialogs which broke its tab code.
77 Also corrected navigation on wxRadioBox.
79 Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using
80 several such canvasses.
82 Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem.
84 Speed-up for new encoding related font code.
86 Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by
87 the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message.
89 More minor changes and fixes.
91 Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner).
93 7st November '99: wxWindows 2.1.11 released
95 There is still an unresolved problem with bitmap to image
96 conversion on big-endian architectures (such as Solaris),
97 where color values get exchanged. I'd need help on this
98 one as I have no BE computer.
100 Enlightment has struck the majority of the developers and
101 they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme
102 for wxWindows from now on. This means that the next stable
103 release will be called wxWindows 2.2.X, development snapshots
104 will be called 2.1.X.
106 A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a
107 once released stable version. It was almost universally
108 agreed that only a commercial entity will have the motivation
109 ($$$) to do that - so far there is no wxWindows Inc.
111 Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. This version has
112 been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it might
113 not work with some other versions.
115 Rewritten the support for multiple-format Drag'n'Drop and
116 clipboard under both GTK and MSW. There are probably some
117 problems here and there left.
119 wxListBox and wxChoice can now handle only either void
120 client data (which it will not delete on destruction) or
121 client data of the wxClientData type (which it will delete),
122 instead of both at the same time. The same will happen
123 to wxComboBox some time. Also, wxListBox can now sort its
126 Many build fixes for various platforms have been applied,
127 try again, poor AIX, HP-UX and *BSD users, but don't reckon
128 with immediate success. Actually, when using GNU compilers,
129 your chances are quite good.
131 My rewrite of the wxWindows underlying GTK widget
132 has turned scrolling including subwindows from barely
133 functional to pretty and fast. I also added scrolling
134 of foreign windows to wxScrolledWindow.
136 Setting size hints for the window manager might work now.
138 wxSocket and Co. have been improved up to the point of
139 calling it a rewrite. It works on wxMSW now too and
140 seems pretty stable, but testing is still welcome.
142 The ODBC classes contributed by Remstar Inc. have been
143 overhauled (incl the sample) and have been tested with
144 all relevant SQL databases (even DBase). For that reason
145 I have reawakened the iODBC code from wxGTK 2.0 so you
146 can now use wxODBC from wxMSW and wxGTK.
148 Several printing things fixed. More work needs to be done
151 HTML widget and the wxWindows' help system based upon
152 it have been reorganized and improved for easier use
153 from Python and C++. Also HTML printing has been added.
155 wxSpinCtrl added. Like a wxSpinButton and a wxTextCtrl.
157 Changed the beaviour of the popular new wxFileDialog to
158 not forget the once typed file name when changing the
161 Implemented the wxSIMPLE_BORDER flag (simple black line
162 without shadow affect).
164 Michael is writing a complete rewrite of the antiquated
165 wxGrid. This is still work-in-progress and might not make
166 it into wxWindows 2.2, we'll see. Help would be welcome
169 Made wxMenu code lose less memory, also added wxMenu::Delete().
171 Added code to send wxActivateEvent to MDI windows.
173 Vadim added configure things to compile wxWindows without any
174 GUI library. This is probably work in progress. He'll also add
175 a wxFontEnumerator class and has enhanced wxFont to make use
178 wxSlider, wxWindow, wxScrollBar now emit the correct events
179 for scrolling (like page up, line up etc) instead of just
180 "thumb-track" as before.
182 Corrected Reparent() code, including the special case for
183 wxToolBar (as the toolbar sits in a different window than
186 Corrected key accelerator code for toplevel child windows
187 and added support for more key combinations - pretty much
190 Corrected cursor handling in a number of special cases.
192 wxGLCanvas now waits until all expose events have been sent
193 and then emits its own redraw event. Also removed flicker
194 for wxGLCanvas and in some other places.
196 A handler to read PCX file (in most variants) has been added.
198 A number of problems with compressed and socket streams have
201 Changed behavour of wxTextStream to make use of deliminators
202 and default to space as the standard C++ stream do.
204 Changes to tab traversal code to better reflect MSW code.
206 Corrected problems with wxGenericValidator and certain controls.
208 Made default button action work in more cases.
210 28th August '99: Ninth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
212 As the old makefile system didn't work, I trashed it and wrote
213 a new one - mo more GNU. This, of course, caused a lot of people
214 to start sing their song of complaints - any change is a good
215 opportunity to complain, but the effect of the change is that
216 we now have shared library support on Linux and Solaris (and
217 probably others as well) and that the Linux shared library no
218 longer depends on libstdc++, so that we can finally create an
219 RPM that works on different Linux distributions. Also, the
220 Unix make system is now much simpler and directly mirrors its
221 Windows counterparts, making it easier to understand and maintain.
222 As it is independent of the various GNU tools, the requirements
223 for using CVS versions are also much less (any make, any compiler,
226 Split RPMs into two, one for run-time requirements and one
227 for developement (mostly headers).
229 Addition of new layout classes that work like Java's, GTK's
230 or Qt`s - basically, you pack item in a box and let it tell
231 you how much space it needs. These class are called wxSizer
232 and I consider them a great addition as they make true cross-
233 platform dialogs a child's play and are very quick to write
234 and easy to read. Do consider using them.
236 Rewritten all dialogs to make use of the new sizers. Also
237 added a new wxFileDialog like Win95 and replaced the generic
238 wxFontDialog with GTK's native font selection dialog - this
239 probably isn't perfect though.
241 A few more fixes to wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, implemented
242 more options and modes like the wxMSW version.
244 New handler for PNM files. Added CanRead() function to image
245 handlers, updates to GIF handler for preparing the new wxAnimation
246 class. We'll also get a PCX and hopefully a TIFF handler so
247 that we support all common general-purpose file formats I know
248 about. PhotoShop and PhotoPaint images are not general purpose.
249 I also tried to correct a wxImage bug in connection with big-endian
250 vs. little-endian problems, but I have no Sparc to actually test
253 Inclusion of wxMultiMedia. Can play most sound formats on GTK
254 and MSW and (using xanim on Unix and Win95's MM functions)
255 display a video in a wxWindow. This will probably be moved to
258 Small updates to socket code. The MSW version is still missing.
260 Implemented wxBitmapDataObject class.
262 Added wxFFileStream using FILE* instead if file desrcriptor.
263 Useful for creating a "cerr" like class as in normal C++.
264 Also added "endl" for use with wxTextStream and fixed a few
265 minor problems with buffered streams etc.
267 Corrected Tabbing code in wxPanel and made it work with wxNotebook.
269 Small cursor fixes in connection with text control.
271 Added experimental wxWizard class. Work in progress.
273 A few more minor fixes.
275 6th August '99: Eight wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
277 The new makefile system is not able to produce shared libraries
278 on Unix with the exception of Linux - libtool is really great.
279 Therefore, the build system defaults to static libraries on
280 anything but Linux for now.
282 Work in wxPen, wxBrush and wxDC to match wxMSW more exactly and
283 to implement missing feature etc.
285 Reimplemented radio buttons. The first of a group of such buttons
286 is now marked by having the wxRB_GROUP style.
288 Complete redesign of all stream classes, including tests for them
291 Controls now send the same messages (or more importantly none if
292 changed programmatically) as per wxMSW.
294 New implementation of wxSocket using an intermediate library called
295 GSocket. This willl hopefully change in the future.
297 Reworked in-place editing of wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl.
299 Fixed bug reporting two refreshes when scrolling.
301 Corrected bug in wxComboBox client data code.
303 Corrected reported but unverified bug in BMP loading code.
305 Added a few more methods to wxStaticBitmap.
307 Integration of wxHTML code in the main library, including wxZIPStream,
308 wxFilesystem, wxHTMLHelpController and others.
310 Added a wrapper for ffile() etc functions.
312 Updates to wxDynamicLibrary.
316 New version of wxPython, of course.
318 Fixed in unenclosed number of other bugs...
320 25th June '99: Seventh wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
322 Many fixes to th new makefile system. The last version gave
323 immediate crashes on all Unices except Linux when linked
324 dynamically against an application. I reordered the object
325 files in the library as I guess that this was the cause.
327 Added icons to message box. This also slightly killed the
328 layout so this needs to be changed again.
330 wxGTK now chooses the best visual available on the display instead
333 Fixed wxProgressDialog again.
335 Some more corrections I forgot.
337 New wxPython (includes new layout system and printing).
339 15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
342 The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile
343 system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake
344 is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that
345 people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The
346 new makefile sytem also handles dependencies correctly, allows for
347 shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for
348 concurrent builds wihtin one source tree, uses libtool for greater
349 shared-library platform support, has a functinonal "make uninstall",
350 works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards
351 as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to
354 Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2.
356 Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping
357 with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample.
358 Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on
361 Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare
362 RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask,
363 corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible
364 to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't
365 make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.)
367 Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard
370 Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out
371 of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug).
373 Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions
376 Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal().
378 Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made
379 this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed
380 a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for
383 Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame
386 Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's
387 sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this
388 is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors
391 New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items.
393 Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections
394 and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not
395 exist in the native Win32 tree control.
397 Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed
398 another cursor misbehaviour.
400 Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes
401 in wxWindows 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of
402 cross-platform issues as well as platform differences.
404 Many other fixes, mainly by others...
406 Further compile fixes for different architectures.
410 25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
414 This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny
415 times to make wxGTK work well with different micro
416 versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible.
417 All versions give warnings, although their number might
418 vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get wanrnings in
419 one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in
420 GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings
421 getting spitted out for what seems like no reason.
423 This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of
424 headers, meaning that in the future all ports will
425 use the same headers and will share a lot more code.
426 We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and
427 hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported
428 primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin).
430 Rewritten char and key event propagation routines
431 to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK
432 as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars
433 and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you
434 are interested in which key actually got pressed,
435 intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer).
437 Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer
438 get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary
439 negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes.
441 wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the
442 wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent
443 so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders
444 or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur.
446 Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background
447 work such as printing.
449 Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of
450 which show some misbehaviours...
452 When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses
453 GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical
454 mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some
455 rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then
456 you should change wxINVERT.
458 Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation.
460 More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly
463 You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well,
464 at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look
465 at the threads sample.
467 wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists
468 over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker.
471 wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches
472 wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page
473 number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent
474 switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also,
475 wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty.
477 Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel).
479 Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when
480 given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser).
482 Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard,
483 wxString, wxThreads and many others.
485 Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release...
489 11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
492 This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread,
493 and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window
494 placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now.
496 Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finshed).
498 Updated wxPython to beta 9.
500 Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now...
502 wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't
503 yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows
504 (although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly
505 due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well).
509 Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard
510 handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow.
512 By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much
513 different in the final wxWindows 2.1 release. Please test as
516 The next release will have a new build system.
520 3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
523 Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt.
525 Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in
526 both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim.
528 Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental
529 wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS).
531 New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1.
532 This now includes a very comprensive test/demo suite. Thanks to
533 Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man...
535 More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets.
537 Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental).
538 Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux.
540 wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does,
541 indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys
542 such as in wxXt and wxMSW.
544 Rewritten MDI subsystem.
546 Correcetions and additions to the printing framework including
547 a paper type database (Julian).
549 Several controls now support more style flags for modifying
550 look (and feel) of the controls and windows.
552 New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle
553 event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which
554 is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly.
555 This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having
556 to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to
557 the application if desired.
559 wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWindows) now accepts keyboard input.
561 The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved.
565 21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
568 Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very
569 cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then
570 you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode".
572 More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible
575 Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging
576 and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite
577 good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing.
578 I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken
579 and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it.
581 I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been
582 added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In
583 the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on
584 the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will
585 ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading
586 of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten
587 different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the
588 PNG code to the newest PNG version.
590 wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by
591 GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics
594 Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed
595 to only with GTK 1.2.1 now.
597 wxPython still doesn't compile, I think.
601 12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
604 This is the first developers' version of wxWindows 2.1 for GTK. It's main
605 new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which
606 will make development within the GNOME evironment a lot easier.
608 Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were
609 required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been
610 made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard,
611 wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig)
612 and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with
613 scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab
614 traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets).
616 There have been slight changes to the priting dialogs and their
617 setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous
618 versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed
619 (actually not tested).
621 Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not
622 to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are,
623 pf course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate
626 I think I preserved backward compatility with GTK 1.0 and if not it
627 should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care.
629 Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently
630 doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to
633 Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure
634 system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duppah frame layout
635 stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME
636 gooddies, possibly world domination.
640 5th March '99: wxWindows 2.0 released
643 This is the final version of wxWindows 2.0 for GTK. The versions for
644 Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's
645 site. The Mac version is still under development.
649 19th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 5
652 This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
653 updates for documentation.
655 Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers).
659 12th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 4
662 This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
663 updates for documentation.
665 Tracked a few more cases, where the bahaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK
666 differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as
667 for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some
670 Most standard dialogs have been face-liftet a little.
672 Implememted default buttons for GTK.
674 Fixed many bugs. You guessed it.
678 29th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 3
681 This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes.
683 There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that
684 it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in
685 GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that
686 we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although
687 we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWindows 2.0 (being
688 based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support.
690 The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely
691 rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works
694 Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added.
696 There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and
697 Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying...
699 Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the
702 The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless.
704 A few member functions of wxString have been renamed.
706 For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which
707 now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK
708 now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the
709 generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times.
711 It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header
712 files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer
713 is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled
714 with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will not work in
715 SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package.
719 6th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 2
722 This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and
723 bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems,
724 commercial Unices and Windows.
728 20th December '98: wxWindows 2.0 beta 1
731 This is the first beta release and we have used the time before
732 this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from
733 now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility
734 for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of
735 the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent
736 conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release
737 we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any
738 program statically with wxGTK.
740 We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of
741 the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous
742 versions of wxWindows for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on.
744 As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different
745 development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll
746 wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting
749 wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on
750 Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't
751 as easy as it sounds...
753 Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWindows.
754 Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution.
755 Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say.
757 Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished
758 up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and
759 all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions
760 much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is fucntional but probably won't
761 be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features.
763 wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been
764 tested carefully yet.
766 wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars
767 etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to
768 include his very nice work later.
770 wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden).
772 The entite "tab traveral" system for moving from item to item in
773 a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the
774 not-so-well-done GTK native tab system.
776 Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now
777 available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related
778 to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale
779 bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context
782 Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have
783 received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible
784 to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc)
785 has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also
786 greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and
789 We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour)
790 which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users
791 resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these
794 As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples
795 is steadialy rising the core classes of wxWindows for MSW and GTK 1.0
796 can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't
797 seen a crash for weeks now and wxWindows' internal debug features also
798 have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost
799 completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself
800 (when in debug mode).