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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
11 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
12 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
13 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
14 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
15 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
16 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
17 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
18 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
19 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
20 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars
21 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
22 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
23 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
24 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
25 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey ODonnell)
26 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
27 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
28 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
29 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
30 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
31 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
32 printing stuff in the GTK port.
33 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
34 - The samples\db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
35 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
39 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
40 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
41 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
42 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
43 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
44 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
45 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
46 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
47 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
48 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
49 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
50 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
51 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
55 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
59 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
60 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
61 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
62 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
63 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
64 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
65 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
66 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
67 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
68 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
69 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
70 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
71 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
76 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
77 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
81 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
82 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
83 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
84 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
85 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
88 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
89 but not mentioned anywhere.
93 - wxBU_... button align flags support
94 - vertical notebook orientation support
95 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
96 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
100 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
101 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
102 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
103 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
104 - enumeration of available volumes
105 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
106 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
107 - native wxSystemSettings colours
115 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
116 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
117 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
118 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
119 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
120 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
121 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
122 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
123 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
124 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
125 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
126 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
127 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
128 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
129 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
130 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
134 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
135 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
136 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
138 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
139 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
140 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
141 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
142 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
143 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
144 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
145 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
146 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
147 - added samples/splash
148 - added support for stock buttons
149 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
150 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
151 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
152 - added wxChoicebook control
153 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
154 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
155 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
156 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
157 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
158 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
159 supported, instead of zero.
160 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
164 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
165 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
166 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
167 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
168 - wx-config has new --version-full option
172 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
173 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
174 - Tooltips now supported
175 - wxSound now supported
176 - wxDisplay now supported
177 - Some stock cursors now supported
181 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
182 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
183 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
184 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
188 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
189 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
190 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
191 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
192 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
193 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
194 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
195 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
196 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
197 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
198 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
199 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
200 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
201 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
202 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
203 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
204 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
205 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
206 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
210 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
214 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
215 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
216 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
217 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
218 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
219 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
220 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
221 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
222 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
223 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
224 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
225 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
226 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
227 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
231 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
235 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
236 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
237 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
238 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
242 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
243 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
251 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
252 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
253 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
254 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
256 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
257 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
258 to forward declare these classes.
262 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
263 resulting in much better display of scaled images
264 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
265 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
266 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
267 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
268 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
269 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
270 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
271 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
272 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
273 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
274 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
275 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
276 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
280 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
281 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
282 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
283 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
284 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
285 even try to do it by default -- now it does
286 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
287 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
288 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
289 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
290 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
291 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
295 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
299 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
300 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
301 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
302 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
306 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
310 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
311 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
315 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
316 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
320 - Full Unicode support is now available
321 - BLOB support is working
329 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
330 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
331 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
332 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
333 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
334 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
335 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
336 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
337 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
338 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
339 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
340 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
341 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
343 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
344 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
345 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
346 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
347 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
348 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
349 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
350 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
351 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
352 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
353 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
354 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
358 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
359 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
360 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
361 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
362 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
363 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
364 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
365 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
366 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
367 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
368 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
369 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
370 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
371 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
372 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
373 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
374 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
375 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
376 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
377 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
378 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
379 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
380 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
381 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
382 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
383 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
387 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
388 - fixed DDE memory leaks
389 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
390 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
391 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
392 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
393 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
394 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
395 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
396 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
397 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
398 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
399 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
400 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
401 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
402 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
403 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
404 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
405 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
406 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
407 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
408 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
409 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
410 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
411 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
412 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
413 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
414 than the specified default size
415 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
419 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
420 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
421 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
422 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
423 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
424 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
425 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
426 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
427 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
431 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
432 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
433 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
434 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
438 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
442 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
443 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
447 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
448 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
449 addition to existing OSS one
450 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
458 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
459 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
460 separately compiled library
461 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
462 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
463 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
464 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
465 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
466 - added wxArray::SetCount()
467 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
468 by default in Unicode mode
469 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
470 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
471 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
472 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
473 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
474 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
475 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
476 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
477 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
478 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
479 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
480 - added wxRecursionGuard class
481 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
482 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
483 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
484 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
485 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
486 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
487 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
488 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
492 - added Watcom makefiles
493 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
497 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
498 - added wxListbook control
499 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
500 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
501 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
502 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
503 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
504 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
505 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
506 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
507 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
508 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
509 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
510 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
511 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
512 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
513 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
514 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
515 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
516 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
517 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
518 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
519 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
520 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
521 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
522 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
523 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
524 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
525 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
526 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
527 default extension for the template
528 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
529 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
530 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
531 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
532 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
533 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
534 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
535 to allow better rich text support.
536 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
537 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
538 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
539 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
540 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
541 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
542 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
543 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
544 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
545 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
546 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
547 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
548 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
549 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
550 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
551 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
552 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
553 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
554 - added wxMirrorDC class
555 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
556 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
557 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
558 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
559 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
560 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
565 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
566 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
567 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
568 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
569 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
573 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
574 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
575 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
576 to contrib/src/deprecated
580 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
581 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
582 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
583 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
584 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
585 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
586 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
587 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
588 be appended to filenames with no extension
589 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
590 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
591 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
592 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
596 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
597 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
601 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
602 - added wxCrashReport
603 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
604 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
605 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
606 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
607 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
608 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
609 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
610 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
611 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
612 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
613 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
614 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
615 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
616 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
617 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
618 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
619 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
620 - improved border handling under Windows XP
621 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
622 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
623 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
624 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
625 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
626 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
627 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
631 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
632 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
633 documentation for a detailed explanation
634 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
635 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
636 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
637 with Motif 1.x compatibility
638 - implemented wxToggleButton
639 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
640 instead of a sunken border
641 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
642 - finished wxClipboard implementation
646 - controls in toolbars now supported
650 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
651 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
652 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
653 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
654 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
660 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
661 ================================
663 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
664 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
665 with '!' in the first column.
667 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
668 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
669 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
670 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
673 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
674 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
675 (see the documentation) useful.
680 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
681 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
684 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
685 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
686 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
687 arrays containing non-pointers.
689 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
690 simply don't make sense for all objects
692 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
693 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
694 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
696 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
698 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
699 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
700 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
701 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
702 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
704 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
705 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
706 the default assert handling.
710 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
711 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
712 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
714 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
715 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
718 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
719 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
720 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
722 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
723 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
724 you want to get OnChar() as well
726 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
727 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
728 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
730 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
731 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
732 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
733 will *NOT* work any longer:
735 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
738 ... do something else ...
740 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
741 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
744 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
746 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
747 if you derived any classes from it
749 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
750 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
752 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
753 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
755 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
756 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
758 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
759 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
762 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
763 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
764 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
766 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
767 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
768 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
769 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
773 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
774 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
775 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
776 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
777 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
778 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
779 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
780 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
781 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
782 is only present for the DLLs builds.
784 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
787 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
788 previously selected one instead of replacing it
790 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
791 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
792 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
794 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
795 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
800 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
801 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
802 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
803 to compile pure C files.
806 wxThread and related classes:
808 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
809 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
810 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
811 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
813 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
814 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
815 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
816 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
818 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
819 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
820 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
822 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
823 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
834 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
841 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
842 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
843 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
847 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
848 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
849 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
852 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
853 - Addition of native frame site grip.
856 - Unicode support through Pango library.
860 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
861 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
865 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
872 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
873 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
874 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
875 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
876 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
877 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
878 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
879 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
880 after (non standard) STL hash_map
881 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
882 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
883 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
884 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
885 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
886 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
887 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
891 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
892 programs and not only GNU make
893 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
894 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
895 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
896 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
897 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
901 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
902 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
903 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
904 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
905 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
907 - significantly improved native font support
908 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
910 - added IFF image handler
911 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
912 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
913 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
914 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
915 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
916 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
917 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
918 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
919 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
920 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
921 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
922 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
923 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
924 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
925 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
926 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
927 - wxMessageOutput class added
928 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
929 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
931 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
932 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
933 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
934 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
936 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
937 whether a label edit was cancelled.
938 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
942 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
943 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
944 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
945 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
946 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
947 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
948 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
949 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
950 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
951 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
953 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
954 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
955 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
956 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
957 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
958 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
959 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
961 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
962 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
963 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
964 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
965 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
966 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
967 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
968 has the capture before release it.
969 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
970 - default button handling is now closer to expected
971 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
972 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
973 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
974 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
975 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
976 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
977 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
978 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
979 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
980 provided in wxFontData
981 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
982 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
986 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
987 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
988 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
989 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
990 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
991 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
992 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
993 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
994 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
995 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
996 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
997 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
998 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1002 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1003 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1004 - improved toolbar control alignment
1005 - implemented wxSpinButton
1006 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1007 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1008 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1012 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1013 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1021 - First alpha-quality release
1025 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1026 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1027 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1028 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1029 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1034 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1038 - wxRegEx class added
1039 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1040 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1041 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1042 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1043 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1047 - support for virtual list control added
1048 - column images in report mode of the list control
1049 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1050 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1051 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1052 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1053 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1054 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1055 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1056 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1057 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1058 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1059 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1060 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1064 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1065 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1070 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1071 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1072 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1073 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1077 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1082 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1084 - added support for animated GIFs
1092 - Fixed new charset detection code
1093 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1094 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1095 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1096 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1097 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1098 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1102 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1103 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1104 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1105 push on a custom event handler for example)
1106 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1107 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1108 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1109 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1110 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1111 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1113 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1114 - Various wxXML enhancements
1115 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1116 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1117 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1119 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1120 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1124 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1125 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1126 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1127 alt or shift) now work
1128 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1129 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1130 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1131 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1132 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1133 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1134 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1135 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1136 - We now send iconize events
1137 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1138 - Added mousewheel processing
1139 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1140 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1142 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1143 child frame styles are honoured
1147 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1148 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1149 - We now send iconize events
1150 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1151 GetSelection() results
1158 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1159 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1160 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1161 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1162 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1163 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1164 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1165 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1166 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1167 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1171 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1172 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1173 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1174 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1175 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1176 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1177 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1178 wxImage methods and ctor)
1179 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1180 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1181 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1182 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1183 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1184 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1188 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1189 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1190 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1191 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1195 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1199 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1200 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1207 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1208 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1209 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1210 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1211 - Completed Czech translations
1212 - Some stream corrections
1213 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1214 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1215 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1216 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1220 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1221 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1222 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1223 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1224 - Paper names now translated
1226 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1227 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1228 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1229 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1231 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1232 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1234 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1235 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1236 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1237 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1241 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1242 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1243 backward compatibility, please set
1244 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1245 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1246 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1247 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1248 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1249 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1250 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1251 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1252 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1253 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1254 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1255 - wxFrame restores focus better
1256 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1257 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1258 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1259 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1260 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1261 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1262 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1263 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1264 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1265 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1269 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1273 - Small compilation fixes
1277 - wxCaret documented
1289 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1290 files. This works under VC++ only
1291 - Modal dialog handling improved
1292 - Printer dialog now modal
1307 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1311 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1312 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1317 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1318 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1319 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1320 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1321 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1322 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1323 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1324 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1325 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1327 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1328 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1329 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1330 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1331 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1332 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1334 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1338 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1339 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1340 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1341 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1342 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1343 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1344 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1345 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1347 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1348 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1349 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1350 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1351 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1352 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1353 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1354 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1355 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1356 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1357 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1358 - wxDragImage class added
1359 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1360 controllers, as well as native help
1361 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1365 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1366 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1367 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1368 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1369 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1370 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1371 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1372 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1373 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1374 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1376 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1377 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1378 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1382 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1383 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1384 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1388 - wxMenu::Enable works
1389 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1390 - OGL samples made to work again
1394 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1395 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1396 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1397 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1398 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1399 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1400 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1401 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1402 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1403 - improved HTML printing
1404 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1405 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1406 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1407 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1410 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1413 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1414 -----------------------
1418 - JPEG support added.
1419 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1423 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1425 - JPEG support added.
1426 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1427 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1428 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1435 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1438 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1439 -------------------------------
1444 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1448 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1449 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1450 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1451 - Some makefile fixes.
1459 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1460 - More topic overviews.
1461 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1462 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1463 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1466 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1467 --------------------------
1471 - wxExecute improved.
1475 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1477 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1478 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1479 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1480 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1481 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1482 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1486 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1487 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1491 - wxLocale documented.
1492 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1493 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1494 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1495 (though doesn't display help yet).
1497 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1498 --------------------------
1502 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1506 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1508 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1512 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1513 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1514 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1515 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1516 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1517 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1518 crashes for some reason).
1519 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1520 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1524 - Further doc improvements.
1525 - wxGenericValidator added.
1526 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1529 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1530 -------------------------
1534 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1535 - wxToolTip class added.
1536 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1540 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1541 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1542 - TWIN32 support added.
1543 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1544 factored out program/library settings.
1545 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1549 - A few more colour fixes.
1550 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1551 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1552 - wxChoice crash fix.
1553 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1557 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1558 - Added samples/dde.
1559 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1561 Beta 2, January 1999
1562 --------------------
1568 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1572 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1574 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1575 - Added thread support (Robert).
1576 - wxPoem sample now works.
1580 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1581 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1582 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1584 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1585 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1587 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1589 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1590 --------------------------
1596 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1599 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1600 ----------------------------
1604 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1605 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1606 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1607 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1608 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1610 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1611 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1616 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1617 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1618 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1619 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1620 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1622 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1623 when any button was pressed.
1624 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1625 have a white background.
1626 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1627 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1628 they have sensible colours by default.
1629 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1630 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1631 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1632 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1633 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1635 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1636 ----------------------------
1640 - More documentation updates, especially for
1641 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1642 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1644 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1645 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1646 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1648 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1652 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1653 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1655 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1656 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1657 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1658 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1659 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1660 the debugging implementation.
1661 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1662 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1663 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1664 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1665 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1666 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1667 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1669 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1671 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1672 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1673 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1674 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1675 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1676 - wxNotebook almost done.
1677 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1678 to vertical toolbars).
1682 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1684 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1685 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1686 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1688 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1689 ----------------------------
1693 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1695 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1696 - A few more makefiles added.
1697 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1698 - Further doc updates.
1699 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1703 - First start at Motif port.
1704 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1705 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1706 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1707 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1709 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1710 --------------------------
1714 - wxBitmap debugged.
1715 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1716 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1717 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1718 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1719 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1720 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1721 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1723 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1724 ------------------------
1728 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1729 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1730 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1731 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1732 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1733 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1734 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1735 changes, wxNotebook.
1736 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1738 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1739 -----------------------
1743 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1744 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1745 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1746 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1747 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1749 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1750 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1752 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1753 -----------------------
1757 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1758 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1760 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1761 -----------------------
1765 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1766 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1768 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1769 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1770 wxMenuItem accessors.
1771 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1772 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1773 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1774 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1775 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1776 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1777 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1778 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1779 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1780 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1781 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1782 first, then doing the assignment.
1783 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1784 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1788 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1789 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1791 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1792 ----------------------
1796 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1797 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1798 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1799 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1800 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1801 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1802 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1803 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1804 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1806 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1807 ------------------------
1811 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1813 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1814 compilation and pragmas.
1815 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1816 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1820 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1821 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1822 compilation and pragmas.
1823 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1825 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1826 ------------------------
1830 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1831 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1833 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1834 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1835 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1836 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1838 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1839 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1840 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1842 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1843 compatibility functions.
1844 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1845 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1846 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1847 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1848 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1849 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1850 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1854 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1855 - Added samples/png.
1856 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1857 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1859 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1861 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1862 ------------------------
1866 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1867 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1868 cleaned up properly before exit.
1869 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1871 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1872 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1873 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1875 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1876 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1878 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1879 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1880 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1881 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1885 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1886 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1887 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1888 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1889 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1890 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1891 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1892 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1893 allow better control of memory.
1894 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1896 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1897 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1899 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1900 ------------------------
1904 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1905 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1906 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1907 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1908 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1909 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1910 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1911 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1912 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1913 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1914 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1915 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1917 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1918 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1919 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1920 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1921 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1922 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1923 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1924 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1925 internal implementation.
1926 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1927 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1928 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1932 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1933 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1934 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1935 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1936 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1938 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1939 --------------------------
1943 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1944 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1945 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1947 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1948 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1949 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1950 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1952 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1953 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1958 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1959 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1960 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1962 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1963 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1965 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1966 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1967 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1968 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1969 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1970 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1971 - Added gcc pragmas.
1972 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1973 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1974 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1975 added a few references to wxTransString.
1976 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1977 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1978 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1979 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1980 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1981 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1982 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1983 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1984 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1987 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1988 --------------------------
1992 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1993 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1994 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1995 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1996 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1997 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1998 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1999 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2000 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2001 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2002 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2004 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2005 to help printing with multiple pages.
2006 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2007 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2008 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2009 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2010 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2011 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2012 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2013 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2014 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2015 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2016 New files from Vadim:
2022 src\common\string.cpp
2026 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2027 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2028 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2029 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2030 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2031 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2032 including changes to defs.h.
2033 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2035 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2037 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2038 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2040 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2042 Alpha 3, September 1997
2043 -----------------------
2047 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2048 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2049 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2050 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2051 - Started documentation.
2053 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2054 ------------------------
2058 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2059 with MetroWerks compiler.
2060 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2061 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2062 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2063 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2064 for testing purposes.
2065 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2067 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2068 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2070 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2071 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2074 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2075 -----------------------
2079 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2081 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2082 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2083 wxString instead of char *.
2084 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2085 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2086 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2087 as wxbWindow now removed.
2088 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2089 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2091 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2092 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2093 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2095 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2096 settings mucho rationalised.
2097 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2098 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2100 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2101 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2102 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2103 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2104 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2105 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2107 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2108 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2110 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2111 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2112 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2113 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2114 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2115 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2116 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2117 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2118 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2119 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2121 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2122 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2124 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2125 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2126 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2127 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2128 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2129 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2131 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2132 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2133 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2134 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2135 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2136 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).