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14 <h1><a name=
"id1">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
15 <p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.
</p>
18 <li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
</li>
19 <li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
</li>
20 <li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
21 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
</li>
22 <li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
23 flicker problems, and namespace use.
</li>
24 <li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
</li>
25 <li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
</li>
26 <li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented
2nd
28 <li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
</li>
29 <li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
30 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
</li>
31 <li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
32 wxScrolledWindow.
</li>
33 <li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
35 <li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
</li>
36 <li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
</li>
37 <li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
</li>
42 <div class=
"section" id=
"id2">
43 <h1><a name=
"id2">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
44 <p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
45 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
46 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
47 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
48 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
49 that it will
<em>not
</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
50 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
51 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
52 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
</p>
53 <p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
54 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
</p>
55 <p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in
2.5.1.5
56 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the
2.4
57 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
58 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
60 <p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
61 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
</p>
62 <p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
</p>
63 <p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
64 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
</p>
65 <p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
66 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
67 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
68 buttons.py to handle attribute (font
& colour) defaults and
69 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
70 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
72 <p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
73 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
74 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
75 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
76 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
78 <p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
79 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
80 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
</p>
81 <p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
82 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
</p>
83 <p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
84 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
</p>
85 <p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to
"C
" (compatibility) when
86 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
87 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
88 remaining compatible with
"C
".
</p>
89 <p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
91 <p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
92 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
93 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
94 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
95 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
96 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
97 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
98 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
99 <a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details.
</p>
100 <p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
101 Scintilla for several releases now.
</p>
102 <p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
103 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
104 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
105 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
</p>
106 <p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
107 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
108 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
109 after construction.
</p>
110 <p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
111 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
112 with a more modern reimplementation.
</p>
113 <p>Added a new version (
0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
114 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
</p>
115 <p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
116 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
117 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
</p>
118 <p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
119 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:svip123@fastmail.fm">svip123
@fastmail.fm
</a>> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
120 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
121 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
122 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
</p>
123 <p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
124 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
125 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
126 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
128 <pre class=
"literal-block">
129 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[
0]
130 >>> for x in range(
0,
500,
10):
133 ... wx.MilliSleep(
10)
136 <div class=
"section" id=
"id3">
137 <h1><a name=
"id3">2.5.1.5</a></h1>
138 <p>(See also the
<a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details about some of the
139 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
140 adapt your code.)
</p>
141 <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
142 see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm
</a> for more details. This won't
143 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
144 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
145 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
146 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
147 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
</p>
148 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
149 to wxWidgets
2.5 that I have forgotten about.
</p>
150 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.
</p>
151 <p>Added wxIconLocation
</p>
152 <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
153 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
</p>
154 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
156 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
157 wx.lib.plot module.
</p>
158 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
159 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
160 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
</p>
161 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
162 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
163 also installing icons and
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">*.desktop
</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
164 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
165 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
166 RH-
9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
167 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
168 distros please send me a patch.
</p>
169 <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-
9 box, and I have tested
170 installing them also on my main Mandrake
9.2 box.
</p>
171 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
172 Installer package now
<em>only
</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
173 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
174 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
175 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
176 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
177 want to put them.
</p>
178 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
180 <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
</p>
181 <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
</p>
182 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version
1.58 of Scintilla.
</p>
183 <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
184 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
185 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
186 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
187 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
188 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
189 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
191 <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
192 "Adi
" Sieker.
</p>
193 <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
</p>
194 <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
195 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
</p>
196 <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
197 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
198 MigrationGuide for more details.
</p>
199 <p>Created a new extension module
"activex
" from Lindsay Mathieson's
200 newest
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX
</a> class. (The existing iewin module used an older
201 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
202 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
203 controls in a wx.Window,
<strong>without
</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
204 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
205 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
206 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
207 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
208 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
209 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
210 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
211 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
212 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
213 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
214 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
215 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
</p>
216 <p>Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
</p>
218 <div class=
"section" id=
"id5">
219 <h1><a name=
"id5">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
220 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
</p>
221 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
</p>
222 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
223 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
</p>
224 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
</p>
225 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
</p>
226 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
</p>
228 <div class=
"section" id=
"id6">
229 <h1><a name=
"id6">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
230 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
</p>
231 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
</p>
232 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
233 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">spam(*args,
</span> <span class=
"pre">**kw)
</span></tt> syntax
234 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
236 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
237 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
238 and wxWindows match.
</p>
239 <p>Added the new wx
"renamer
" package that will dynamically import from
240 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --
> FooBar. That means that
241 people can do imports without
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> and can use names like
242 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase
1 of a full transition
243 to the new namespace.
</p>
244 <p>Updated Scintilla to
1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
245 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
246 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
247 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
</p>
248 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
249 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
250 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as
"from wxPython
251 import py
" (or
"from wx import py
" using the new namespace.) There
252 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
253 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
254 package. These will be removed in a future release.
</p>
255 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
256 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
257 code like
"if obj: ...
" to be the same as
"if obj.IsOk(): ...
"</p>
258 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
</p>
259 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
260 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
</p>
261 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
262 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
</p>
263 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
264 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
</p>
265 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
266 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
268 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
269 a call to any Python callable object.
</p>
270 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
271 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
272 to override the C++ virtual methods.
</p>
273 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
274 the
"option
" parameter to
"proportion
" to match the docs (
"option
" is
275 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
276 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter,
277 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter
</p>
278 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.
</p>
280 <div class=
"section" id=
"id7">
281 <h1><a name=
"id7">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
282 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
283 TRUE/FALSE values.
</p>
284 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
285 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
286 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a
16-bit value.
</p>
287 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
289 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
291 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
293 <p>Updated PyCrust to version
0.9</p>
294 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
295 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
296 default behavior) is enough. See below in the
2.3.4.1 notes for more
299 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">
300 <h1><a name=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
</a></h1>
301 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
302 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
303 think I am testing in the future...
</p>
305 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">
306 <h1><a name=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
</a></h1>
307 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.
</p>
308 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.
</p>
309 <p>Updated to
0.9b of PyCrust.
</p>
311 <div class=
"section" id=
"id8">
312 <h1><a name=
"id8">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
313 <p>Added missing wxRect methods
</p>
314 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
</p>
315 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
</p>
316 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
317 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
318 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
320 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
322 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
</p>
323 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
324 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
325 the parent window.
</p>
326 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
</p>
327 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
329 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
</p>
330 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
331 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
332 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
333 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
334 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
335 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
336 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
337 static stable in the C++ class.
</p>
338 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
339 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
340 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
341 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
343 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
344 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
345 always call them. The functions are:
</p>
347 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
348 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
349 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
350 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
351 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
352 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
353 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
354 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
355 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
356 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
357 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
358 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
</blockquote>
359 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
360 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
</p>
361 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
362 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
363 doesn't have a standard place for them.
</p>
364 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
</p>
365 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
</p>
366 <p>Updated to the
0.9a version of PyCrust
</p>
368 <div class=
"section" id=
"id9">
369 <h1><a name=
"id9">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
370 <p>Several bug fixes.
</p>
371 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
372 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
</p>
374 <div class=
"section" id=
"id10">
375 <h1><a name=
"id10">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
376 <p>No major new features since
2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
378 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
379 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
</p>
381 <div class=
"section" id=
"id11">
382 <h1><a name=
"id11">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
383 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
385 <div class=
"section" id=
"id12">
386 <h1><a name=
"id12">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
387 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
</p>
388 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
</p>
389 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
</p>
390 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.
</p>
391 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
392 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
393 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
394 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
395 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
396 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
397 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
398 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
399 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
400 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
401 you can use to play with this new feature.
</p>
402 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
403 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
404 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
405 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
406 the old
"final
" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
407 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
408 2.3.3.1 and prior
"hybrid
" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
409 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
</p>
410 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
411 derived from wxApp.
</p>
412 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
413 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
415 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
</p>
416 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
417 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
418 they did before
2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
419 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
420 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
</p>
421 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
</p>
422 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
</p>
423 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
</p>
424 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
425 "Pythonic
" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
426 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
</p>
427 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
428 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
429 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
</p>
430 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
431 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
</p>
432 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
433 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
434 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
435 windows when desired.
</p>
436 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
437 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
438 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
</p>
440 <div class=
"section" id=
"id13">
441 <h1><a name=
"id13">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
442 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.
</p>
443 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
</p>
444 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
</p>
445 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
446 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
447 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
</p>
448 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
449 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
450 be loaded from any Python
"file-like
" object.
</p>
451 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
452 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
453 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
</p>
454 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
455 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
456 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
457 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
458 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
460 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
</p>
461 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.
</p>
462 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla
1.40 to Scintilla
1.45, and then again
463 to version
1.47, and one more time to
1.48!
<wink
></p>
466 <dd><p class=
"first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
467 disabled. Previous to wxPython
2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
468 used. Starting with
2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
469 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
470 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
471 the recent release of GTK+
2.0 it is only a matter of time until
472 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
</p>
473 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
474 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
475 same unicode binaries on win95/
98/ME platforms as well! This is
476 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
477 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
478 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
479 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
480 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
481 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
482 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
483 unicode build on win95.
</p>
484 <p class=
"last">So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
485 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
486 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
487 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
488 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
489 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
490 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
491 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
492 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
493 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
497 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
</p>
498 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
</p>
499 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
</p>
500 <p>A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
501 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
502 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
503 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
504 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
505 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
506 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
507 for any class that is OOR aware.
</p>
508 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
509 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
511 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
512 the image data. (Patch #
546009)
</p>
513 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
515 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
516 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
517 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
530 TransferDataFromWindow
534 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
538 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
539 please let me know.
</p>
541 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
542 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
</p>
543 <p>Added wxArtProvider.
</p>
544 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
545 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
546 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
547 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
548 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
</p>
549 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
</p>
550 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
551 creating a ScrolledPanel.
</p>
552 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
553 other menu stuff.
</p>
554 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
555 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
556 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
557 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
</p>
558 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
559 modules make a
"callback
" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
560 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
561 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
562 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
</p>
563 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
564 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
565 respond to mouse events and etc.
</p>
566 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -
1
567 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
</p>
568 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
569 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
570 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
571 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
572 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
573 started with just the
"pycrust
" command.
</p>
574 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
575 displays the details of the event.
</p>
576 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
</p>
577 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
578 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
580 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
</p>
581 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
583 <div class=
"section" id=
"id14">
584 <h1><a name=
"id14">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
585 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
586 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
587 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
</p>
588 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.
</p>
590 <div class=
"section" id=
"id15">
591 <h1><a name=
"id15">2.3.2</a></h1>
592 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
593 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
594 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
595 and a demo to show them in action.
</p>
596 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
597 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/
</a>. )
</p>
598 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
</p>
599 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
</p>
600 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
602 <p>Added a new
"constructor
" to most of the window classes that calls the
603 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
604 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a
2-step
605 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
606 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
607 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
608 resource. The name of the new
"constructor
" is the original name of
609 the class with a
"Pre
" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
611 <p>Updated to version
1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
612 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
613 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
614 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
615 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
616 wxSTC flag accordingly.
</p>
617 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
618 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
619 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
</p>
620 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
</p>
621 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
</p>
622 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.
</p>
623 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
624 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
625 multi-processor machine.
</p>
626 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
627 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
</p>
628 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
</p>
629 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
630 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
631 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
632 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
633 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
634 original C++ pointer.
</p>
635 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
637 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
</p>
638 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
639 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
</p>
640 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
641 and from web browsers. It's still not
100% bullet-proof for all types
642 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
643 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape
4.x works,
644 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
646 <p>Added wxStopWatch.
</p>
647 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
</p>
648 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
649 will now Disconnect the event.
</p>
650 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
</p>
651 <p>Added wxFileHistory.
</p>
652 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
653 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
654 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
656 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
</p>
657 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
659 <p>Added the
"SplitTree gizmos
" which are a collection of classes that
660 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
661 additional columns for each item. The classes are
662 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
663 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
664 also be useful by themselves.
</p>
665 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
666 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
667 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
668 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
669 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
670 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
673 <div class=
"section" id=
"id16">
674 <h1><a name=
"id16">2.3.1</a></h1>
675 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
676 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
677 on a custom event handler for example.)
</p>
678 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
679 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
680 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
681 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
</p>
682 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
</p>
683 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
</p>
684 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python
2.1.
</p>
685 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
</p>
687 <div class=
"section" id=
"id17">
688 <h1><a name=
"id17">2.3.0</a></h1>
689 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
690 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
</p>
691 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
692 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
694 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
</p>
695 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
696 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
698 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
699 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
700 access from non-GUI threads.
</p>
701 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
702 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
</p>
703 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
</p>
704 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
705 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
</p>
706 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
707 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
</p>
708 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
709 it gobs faster in certain situations.
</p>
710 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
711 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
712 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
713 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
714 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
715 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
716 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
717 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
718 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
719 the implementation.
</p>
720 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
721 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
723 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
724 the distutils that comes with Python
2.1.
</p>
725 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
</p>
726 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
</p>
727 <p>Added wxToggleButton.
</p>
728 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
</p>
730 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:
</dt>
731 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
732 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
733 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
734 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
736 GetGridRowLabelWindow
737 GetGridColLabelWindow
738 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
</dd>
740 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
741 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
742 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
</p>
745 <dd><p class=
"first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
746 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
747 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
748 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
749 "proper type
" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
750 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
751 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
752 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
753 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
754 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
755 will probably only work on Python
2.1 and beyond because it will
756 use weak references.)
</p>
757 <p class=
"last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
758 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
759 be transparent to you, however I'm not
100% sure that it didn't
760 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
761 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
762 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
763 object-type related oddities to me.
</p>
766 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
767 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
768 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
769 finally got done.
</p>
770 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
771 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
</p>
772 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
</p>
774 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
775 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
776 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
777 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
778 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
779 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
</p>
780 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
781 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
782 wxPython/samples.
</p>
784 <div class=
"section" id=
"id18">
785 <h1><a name=
"id18">2.2.6</a></h1>
786 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
787 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
</p>
789 <div class=
"section" id=
"id19">
790 <h1><a name=
"id19">2.2.5</a></h1>
791 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python
2.0 and beyond
792 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
793 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
794 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
</p>
795 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
</p>
796 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
</p>
797 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
798 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
</p>
799 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
800 column in report mode.
</p>
801 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
802 bar after
2 seconds.
</p>
803 <p>Added wxJoystick.
</p>
804 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
805 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
806 object, (usually a window.)
</p>
807 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
</p>
808 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
</p>
809 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
810 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
811 the
"export
" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
812 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
813 libraries. Should also be usable from
3rd party code, just include
814 wxPython/src/export.h
</p>
815 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
816 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
817 utils. Will probably add more later.
</p>
818 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
819 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
820 wxPrinterDC2 name.
</p>
821 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
822 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
</p>
823 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
</p>
824 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
825 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
</p>
826 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
827 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
830 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-2">
831 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-2">New in
2.2.2</a></h1>
832 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
833 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
834 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
835 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
836 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
837 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
838 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
839 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
841 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
842 of the distribution files. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
</a>)
843 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
844 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
845 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
846 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
847 wxPython for Python
1.5.2 or for
1.6, then you will need to get and
848 install version
1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
849 using Python
2.0 then you already have it.
</p>
850 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
851 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
</p>
852 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
853 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
854 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
856 <p>Removed the old python sizers.
</p>
857 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
859 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
860 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
861 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
</p>
862 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.
</p>
863 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
864 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
865 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
</p>
867 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-1">
868 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-1">New in
2.2.1</a></h1>
869 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
</p>
870 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
</p>
872 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-0">
873 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-0">New in
2.2.0</a></h1>
874 <p>Added wxLog and friends.
</p>
875 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
</p>
876 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
</p>
878 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-16">
879 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-16">New in
2.1.16</a></h1>
880 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
881 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
883 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
</p>
884 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
</p>
885 <p>Added wxDragImage.
</p>
886 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.
</p>
887 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
</p>
888 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.
</p>
889 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
890 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
891 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
892 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
893 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
894 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
895 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
896 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
</p>
908 OnScroll
</blockquote>
909 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.
</p>
911 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-15">
912 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-15">New in
2.1.15</a></h1>
913 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
914 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
</p>
915 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
917 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
918 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
</p>
919 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
</p>
920 <p>Plugged a memory leak.
</p>
921 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
922 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
923 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
924 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
926 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
927 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
928 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
</p>
929 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
930 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
931 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
932 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
933 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
934 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
935 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
936 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
938 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
939 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
940 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
941 "#RRGGBB
". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
</p>
942 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
943 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
944 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
945 but I've included a very readable source file in the
946 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
947 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
948 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
</a> to help fill in the gaps
949 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
950 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
</p>
952 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">
953 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in
2.1.13</a></h1>
954 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
</p>
955 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
956 and some flicker problems.
</p>
957 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
958 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/
</a>)
</p>
959 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
960 "which
" parameter.
</p>
961 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
962 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
963 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
964 with wxWindow.GetParent.
</p>
965 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
966 It is used like this:
</p>
968 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
</blockquote>
969 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
970 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
</p>
971 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
</p>
972 <p>Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
</p>
973 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
974 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
975 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
976 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
977 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
978 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
</p>
979 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
980 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
981 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
982 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
983 methods look like this:
</p>
986 <dt>def AddTool(ID,
</dt>
988 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
991 shortHelpString =
"",
992 longHelpString =
"")
</dd>
993 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,
</dt>
995 shortHelpString =
"",
996 longHelpString =
"",
1000 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1001 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
</p>
1002 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
</p>
1003 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
</p>
1004 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1005 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
1006 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:
9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL
</a>.
</p>
1007 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.
</p>
1008 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1010 <p>Changed all the
"LIST
" parameter names to
"choices
" to match the docs.
</p>
1011 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1012 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1013 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
</p>
1015 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">
1016 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in
2.1.11</a></h1>
1017 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1019 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1020 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1022 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1023 being added. This should remove the need for our
1024 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
</p>
1025 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1026 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
1027 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1028 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1029 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
</p>
1030 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
</p>
1031 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.
</p>
1032 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle
</p>
1033 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
1034 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1035 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1037 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1038 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1039 thread from other threads.
</p>
1040 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
</p>
1041 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.
</p>
1042 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
</p>
1043 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1044 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
</p>
1045 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
</p>
1046 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1048 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
</p>
1050 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">
1051 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in
2.1.5</a></h1>
1052 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1053 crept in at the last minute before
2.1.4 was called done. No new
1056 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">
1057 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in
2.1.4</a></h1>
1058 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1059 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1060 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1061 wxGTK from CVS. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm
</a>)
1062 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1063 the wxPy-
2-
1-
4 tag.
</p>
1064 <p>Now back to what's new...
</p>
1065 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
</p>
1066 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
</p>
1067 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a
<em>copy
</em>
1068 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1069 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1070 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1071 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1073 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1074 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1075 default sort order.
</p>
1076 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1077 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1078 example, the following are equivallent:
</p>
1080 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(
100,
100))
1081 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (
100,
100))
</blockquote>
1082 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1083 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1084 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1085 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1086 pages. See the demo for an example.
</p>
1087 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1088 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
</p>
1089 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
</p>
1090 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1091 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
1092 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1093 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1094 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1095 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1096 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1097 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1098 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1099 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1100 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1101 further details.
</p>
1102 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1103 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1104 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1105 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1106 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1107 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1108 for more info and examples in future releases.
</p>
1109 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1110 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1111 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1112 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1113 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1114 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1116 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1117 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1118 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1119 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1120 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1121 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1122 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1123 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1124 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1125 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1126 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
</p>
1127 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1128 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1129 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1130 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1131 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1132 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1133 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1134 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1135 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1136 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1137 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1138 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1139 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1140 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1141 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1142 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
</p>
1145 <dt>class MyApp(wxApp):
</dt>
1146 <dd><p class=
"first">outputWindowClass = MyClass
</p>
1148 <dt>def OnInit(self):
</dt>
1149 <dd>frame = MyFrame()
1150 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1156 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1157 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1158 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1159 to really screw things up.
</p>
1160 <p>Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1161 in the wxWindows docs...
</p>
1162 <p>Some new
3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1163 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1164 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1165 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1166 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1167 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1168 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1171 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">
1172 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in
2.1b3
</a></h1>
1173 <p>This release is syncronized with release
2.1 snapshot
9 of wxWindows.
</p>
1174 <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html
</a>)
1175 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1176 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1177 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1181 <li><p class=
"first">Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1182 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1183 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
</p>
1185 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -
1, style = mystyle)
</p>
1188 <li><p class=
"first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1189 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1190 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1191 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
</p>
1195 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1196 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1197 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1198 see distrib/build.py for more details.
</p>
1199 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1200 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1201 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1202 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
</p>
1204 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">
1205 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in
2.1b2
</a></h1>
1206 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
</p>
1207 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1208 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1209 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1210 It was only a
1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1211 line
496 if you want to do it by hand.
</p>
1212 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1213 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1214 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1215 is being unloaded by Python.
</p>
1216 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1217 make wxPython look bad.
</p>
1218 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1219 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
</p>
1220 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
</p>
1221 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1222 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
</p>
1223 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1224 code to show how to use it.
</p>
1225 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1227 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells
</p>
1228 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1229 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
</p>
1230 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1231 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
</p>
1233 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
</dt>
1234 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth =
1)
</dd>
1236 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1237 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1238 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
</p>
1239 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1241 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
</p>
1242 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1243 for unix systems.
</p>
1244 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
</p>
1245 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
1248 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">
1249 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in
2.1b1
</a></h1>
1250 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1251 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1252 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
</p>
1253 <p>Added the Printing Framework.
</p>
1254 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1255 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1256 data after loading each extension module.
</p>
1257 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1258 wxWindows classes.
</p>
1259 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1260 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1261 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
</p>
1262 <p>wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1263 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1264 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1265 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
</p>
1267 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">
1268 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in
2.0b9
</a></h1>
1269 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
</p>
1270 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1271 wxPython application.
</p>
1272 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
</p>
1273 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1274 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1275 this feature off.
</p>
1276 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.
</p>
1277 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
</p>
1278 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1279 how it all works.
</p>
1280 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1281 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
</p>
1282 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.
</p>
1283 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1284 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
</p>
1285 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
1286 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1289 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">
1290 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in
2.0b8
</a></h1>
1291 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
</p>
1292 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.
</p>
1293 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
1295 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">
1296 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in
2.0b7
</a></h1>
1297 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
</p>
1298 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
</p>
1300 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">
1301 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in
2.0b6
</a></h1>
1302 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1303 Python
1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
</p>
1305 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">
1306 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in
2.0b5
</a></h1>
1307 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1308 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1309 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1310 wxWindows
1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1311 with the
2.0 version of wxWindows.
</p>
1312 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1313 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1314 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1315 diverges from wxWindows.
</p>
1316 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1317 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1318 it should just work... More news on this later.
</p>
1319 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
</p>
1320 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1321 wxRegConfig class.
</p>
1322 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
</p>
1324 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">
1325 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in
0.5.3</a></h1>
1326 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
</p>
1327 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1328 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
</p>
1330 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">
1331 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in
0.5.0</a></h1>
1332 <p>Changed the import semantics from
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> to
1333 <tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython.wx
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> This is for people who are worried about
1334 namespace pollution, they can use
"from wxPython import wx
" and then
1335 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with
"wx.
"</p>
1336 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
</p>
1337 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.
</p>
1338 <p>Added wxConfig.
</p>
1339 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
</p>
1340 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1341 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
</p>
1342 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.
</p>
1344 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">
1345 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in
0.4.2</a></h1>
1346 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1347 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1348 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl">H.v.d.Heijden
@phys.tue.nl
</a>> for his astute detective work on tracking
1349 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1350 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1351 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
</p>
1352 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1353 must have been a different issue all along...
</p>
1355 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">
1356 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in
0.4</a></h1>
1357 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1358 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1359 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1360 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1361 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1362 version segfault shortly after starting up.
</p>
1363 <ol class=
"arabic simple" start=
"2">
1364 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
</li>
1365 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
</li>
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