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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
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8 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour
9 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon
14 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
15 length of the converted string in all cases now.
18 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
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21 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd()
22 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, just don't use them
30 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
31 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
32 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
33 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build
34 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
35 during a search and replace.
36 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
37 are both used in the same program.
38 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
39 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
40 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
41 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
42 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
43 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
44 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
45 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
46 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
47 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
48 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
49 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
50 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
51 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
52 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta)
53 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed
54 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert()
55 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate()
56 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
57 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
58 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
59 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
64 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
65 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric()
66 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers()
67 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
68 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
69 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
70 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
71 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
72 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
73 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
74 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
75 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
76 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
77 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
78 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
79 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
80 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
81 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
82 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
83 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
84 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown()
85 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
86 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
88 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
89 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
90 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
91 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
92 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
94 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
95 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
96 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
97 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
98 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
99 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
100 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
101 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
102 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
103 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
104 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
105 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
106 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
107 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
108 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
109 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
110 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
111 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
115 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
116 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
117 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
118 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
119 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
120 - Removed __WIN95__ define
121 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
122 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
123 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
124 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
125 wxMSW faq for details).
126 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
127 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
129 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
130 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
131 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
132 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
133 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
135 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
136 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
137 initial construction.
138 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
139 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
140 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
142 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
143 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
144 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
145 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
146 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
147 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
148 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
149 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
150 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
151 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
152 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
153 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
154 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
155 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
156 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
157 changes the system font.
158 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
159 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
160 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
161 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
165 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
166 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
167 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
168 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
170 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
171 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
172 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
173 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
174 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
175 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
176 previously unable to be focused before.
177 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
178 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
179 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
181 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
182 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
183 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
184 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
185 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
189 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
190 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
191 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
192 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
193 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
194 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
195 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
196 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
197 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
198 - Corrected idle wake-up.
199 - Corrected wxExecute.
200 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
201 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
202 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
203 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
204 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
205 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
206 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
208 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
209 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
211 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
212 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
213 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
214 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
215 end of file with an error.
216 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
218 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
219 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
220 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
221 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
222 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
226 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
230 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
231 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
232 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
233 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
234 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
235 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
236 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
237 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
238 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
239 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
240 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
241 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
242 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
243 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
245 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
246 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
247 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
248 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
252 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
256 - Invisible text problem fixed.
257 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
258 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
262 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
270 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
271 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
272 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
273 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
274 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
275 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
276 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
277 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
278 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
279 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
280 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
281 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
285 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
286 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
287 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
288 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
289 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
290 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
291 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
292 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
293 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
294 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
295 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
296 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
300 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
301 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
302 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
303 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
304 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
305 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
306 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
307 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
308 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
309 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
310 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
311 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
312 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
313 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
314 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
318 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
319 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
320 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
321 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
322 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
323 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
324 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
325 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
326 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
327 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
328 - Fixed domain socket handling.
332 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
333 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
334 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
335 - Various text control bug fixes.
336 - Automatic menu management improved.
337 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
338 due to dangling cycle pointers.
339 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
340 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
345 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
349 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
350 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
354 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
355 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
356 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
357 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
358 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
359 flag has been specified.
360 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
361 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
362 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
367 - Fixed crash on exit.
368 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
372 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
380 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
381 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
385 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
386 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
387 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
388 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
389 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
390 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
391 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
392 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
393 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
394 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
398 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
399 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
400 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
401 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
402 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
403 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
404 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
405 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
406 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
407 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
408 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
409 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
410 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
411 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
412 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
413 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
414 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
415 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
416 - Compiles again with WIN64.
417 - Winelib compilation now works.
418 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
419 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
420 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
421 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
422 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
423 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
424 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
425 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
426 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
427 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
428 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
429 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
430 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
434 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
438 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
439 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
440 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
441 - Added bitmap support in menus.
445 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
446 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
447 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
449 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
450 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
451 - Window menu now added automatically.
452 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
453 - Modified function key support fixed.
454 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
458 - Menu problems fixed.
459 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
460 - Fixed a font memory leak.
461 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
469 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
470 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
474 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
475 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
479 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
480 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
481 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
485 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
488 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
489 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
490 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
491 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
492 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
493 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
494 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
497 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
504 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
505 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
506 - Added wxDebugReport class.
507 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
508 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
509 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
510 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
511 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
512 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
516 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
517 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
518 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
519 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
520 the whole virtual area.
521 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
522 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
523 isn't used to set the window size.
524 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
525 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
526 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
527 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
531 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
535 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
536 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
537 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
538 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
539 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
540 handling (Jamie Gadd).
544 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
545 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
546 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
547 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
548 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
549 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
550 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
551 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
555 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
559 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
563 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
564 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
565 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
566 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
567 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
568 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
569 with correct titlebar style.
570 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
572 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
573 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
574 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
575 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
576 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
577 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
578 to the dialog's toolbar.
585 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
586 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
587 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
588 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
589 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
590 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
591 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
592 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
593 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
594 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
595 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
596 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
597 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
598 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
599 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
600 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
601 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
602 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
603 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
604 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
605 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
606 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
607 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
608 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
609 printing stuff in the GTK port.
610 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
611 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
612 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
613 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
614 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
615 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
616 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
617 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
618 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
619 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
620 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
621 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
622 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
623 due to a rounding error.
624 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
625 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
626 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
627 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
628 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
629 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
630 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
631 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
637 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
638 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
639 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
640 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
641 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
642 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
643 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
644 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
645 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
646 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
647 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
648 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
649 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
650 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
651 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
652 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
653 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
657 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
661 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
662 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
663 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
664 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
665 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
666 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
667 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
668 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
669 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
670 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
671 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
672 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
673 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
675 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
676 - Added wxRawBitmap support
677 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
678 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
679 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
683 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
684 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
685 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
686 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
690 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
691 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
692 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
693 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
694 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
697 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
698 but not mentioned anywhere.
699 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
703 - wxBU_... button align flags support
704 - vertical notebook orientation support
705 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
706 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
710 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
711 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
712 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
713 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
714 - enumeration of available volumes
715 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
716 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
717 - native wxColourDialog implementation
718 - native wxSystemSettings colours
719 - native wxButton implementation
720 - native wxCheckBox implementation
721 - native wxSlider implementation
722 - native wxToggleButton implementation
723 - native wxRadioButton implementation
724 - native wxStaticText implementation
725 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
733 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
734 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
735 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
736 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
737 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
738 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
739 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
740 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
741 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
742 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
743 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
744 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
745 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
746 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
747 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
748 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
752 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
753 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
754 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
756 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
757 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
758 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
759 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
760 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
761 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
762 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
763 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
764 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
765 - added samples/splash
766 - added support for stock buttons
767 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
768 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
769 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
770 - added wxChoicebook control
771 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
772 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
773 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
774 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
775 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
776 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
777 supported, instead of zero.
778 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
782 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
783 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
784 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
785 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
786 - wx-config has new --version-full option
790 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
791 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
792 - Tooltips now supported
793 - wxSound now supported
794 - wxDisplay now supported
795 - Some stock cursors now supported
799 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
800 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
801 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
802 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
806 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
807 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
808 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
809 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
810 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
811 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
812 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
813 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
814 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
815 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
816 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
817 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
818 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
819 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
820 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
821 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
822 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
823 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
824 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
828 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
832 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
833 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
834 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
835 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
836 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
837 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
838 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
839 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
840 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
841 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
842 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
843 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
844 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
845 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
849 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
853 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
854 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
855 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
856 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
860 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
861 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
869 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
870 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
871 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
872 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
874 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
875 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
876 to forward declare these classes.
880 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
881 resulting in much better display of scaled images
882 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
883 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
884 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
885 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
886 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
887 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
888 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
889 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
890 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
891 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
892 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
893 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
894 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
898 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
899 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
900 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
901 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
902 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
903 even try to do it by default -- now it does
904 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
905 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
906 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
907 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
908 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
909 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
913 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
917 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
918 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
919 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
920 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
924 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
928 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
929 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
933 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
934 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
938 - Full Unicode support is now available
939 - BLOB support is working
947 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
948 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
949 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
950 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
951 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
952 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
953 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
954 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
955 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
956 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
957 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
958 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
959 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
961 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
962 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
963 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
964 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
965 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
966 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
967 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
968 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
969 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
970 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
971 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
972 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
976 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
977 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
978 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
979 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
980 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
981 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
982 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
983 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
984 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
985 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
986 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
987 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
988 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
989 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
990 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
991 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
992 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
993 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
994 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
995 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
996 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
997 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
998 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
999 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1000 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1001 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1005 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1006 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1007 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1008 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1009 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1010 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1011 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1012 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1013 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1014 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1015 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1016 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1017 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1018 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1019 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1020 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1021 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1022 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1023 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1024 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1025 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1026 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1027 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1028 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1029 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1030 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1031 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1032 than the specified default size
1033 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1037 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1038 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1039 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1040 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1041 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1042 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1043 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1044 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1045 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1049 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1050 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1051 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1052 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1056 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1060 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1061 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1065 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1066 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1067 addition to existing OSS one
1068 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1076 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1077 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1078 separately compiled library
1079 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1080 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1081 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1082 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1083 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1084 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1085 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1086 by default in Unicode mode
1087 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1088 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1089 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1090 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1091 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1092 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1093 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1094 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1095 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1096 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1097 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1098 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1099 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1100 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1101 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1102 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1103 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1104 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1105 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1106 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1110 - added Watcom makefiles
1111 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1115 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1116 - added wxListbook control
1117 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1118 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1119 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1120 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1121 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1122 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1123 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1124 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1125 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1126 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1127 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1128 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1129 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1130 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1131 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1132 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1133 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1134 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1135 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1136 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1137 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1138 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1139 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1140 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1141 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1142 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1143 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1144 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1145 default extension for the template
1146 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1147 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1148 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1149 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1150 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1151 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1152 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1153 to allow better rich text support.
1154 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1155 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1156 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1157 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1158 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1159 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1160 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1161 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1162 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1163 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1164 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1165 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1166 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1167 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1168 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1169 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1170 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1171 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1172 - added wxMirrorDC class
1173 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1174 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1175 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1176 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1177 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1178 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1183 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1184 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1185 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1186 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1187 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1191 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1192 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1193 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1194 to contrib/src/deprecated
1198 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1199 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1200 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1201 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1202 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1203 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1204 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1205 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1206 be appended to filenames with no extension
1207 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1208 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1209 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1210 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1214 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1215 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1219 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1220 - added wxCrashReport
1221 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1222 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1223 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1224 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1225 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1226 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1227 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1228 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1229 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1230 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1231 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1232 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1233 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1234 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1235 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1236 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1237 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1238 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1239 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1240 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1241 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1242 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1243 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1244 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1245 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1249 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1250 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1251 documentation for a detailed explanation
1252 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1253 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1254 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1255 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1256 - implemented wxToggleButton
1257 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1258 instead of a sunken border
1259 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1260 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1264 - controls in toolbars now supported
1268 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1269 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1270 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1271 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1272 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1278 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1279 ================================
1281 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1282 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1283 with '!' in the first column.
1285 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1286 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1287 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1288 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1291 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1292 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1293 (see the documentation) useful.
1298 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1299 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1302 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1303 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1304 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1305 arrays containing non-pointers.
1307 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1308 simply don't make sense for all objects
1310 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1311 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1312 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1314 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1316 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1317 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1318 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1319 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1320 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1322 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1323 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1324 the default assert handling.
1328 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1329 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1330 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1332 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1333 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1336 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1337 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1338 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1340 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1341 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1342 you want to get OnChar() as well
1344 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1345 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1346 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1348 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1349 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1350 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1351 will *NOT* work any longer:
1353 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1354 ... do something ...
1355 if ( flags & wxYES )
1356 ... do something else ...
1358 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1359 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1362 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1364 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1365 if you derived any classes from it
1367 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1368 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1370 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1371 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1373 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1374 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1376 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1377 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1380 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1381 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1382 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1384 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1385 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1386 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1387 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1391 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1392 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1393 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1394 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1395 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1396 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1397 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1398 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1399 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1400 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1402 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1405 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1406 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1408 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1409 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1410 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1412 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1413 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1418 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1419 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1420 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1421 to compile pure C files.
1424 wxThread and related classes:
1426 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1427 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1428 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1429 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1431 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1432 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1433 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1434 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1436 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1437 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1438 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1440 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1441 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1452 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1459 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1460 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1461 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1465 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1466 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1467 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1470 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1471 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1474 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1478 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1479 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1483 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1490 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1491 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1492 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1493 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1494 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1495 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1496 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1497 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1498 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1499 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1500 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1501 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1502 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1503 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1504 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1505 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1509 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1510 programs and not only GNU make
1511 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1512 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1513 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1514 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1515 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1519 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1520 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1521 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1522 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1523 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1525 - significantly improved native font support
1526 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1528 - added IFF image handler
1529 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1530 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1531 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1532 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1533 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1534 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1535 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1536 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1537 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1538 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1539 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1540 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1541 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1542 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1543 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1544 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1545 - wxMessageOutput class added
1546 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1547 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1549 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1550 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1551 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1552 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1554 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1555 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1556 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1560 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1561 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1562 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1563 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1564 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1565 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1566 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1567 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1568 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1569 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1571 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1572 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1573 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1574 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1575 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1576 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1577 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1579 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1580 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1581 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1582 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1583 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1584 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1585 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1586 has the capture before release it.
1587 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1588 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1589 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1590 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1591 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1592 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1593 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1594 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1595 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1596 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1597 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1598 provided in wxFontData
1599 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1600 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1604 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1605 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1606 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1607 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1608 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1609 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1610 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1611 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1612 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1613 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1614 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1615 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1616 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1620 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1621 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1622 - improved toolbar control alignment
1623 - implemented wxSpinButton
1624 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1625 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1626 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1630 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1631 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1639 - First alpha-quality release
1643 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1644 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1645 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1646 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1647 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1652 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1656 - wxRegEx class added
1657 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1658 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1659 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1660 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1661 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1665 - support for virtual list control added
1666 - column images in report mode of the list control
1667 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1668 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1669 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1670 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1671 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1672 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1673 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1674 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1675 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1676 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1677 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1678 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1682 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1683 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1688 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1689 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1690 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1691 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1695 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1700 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1702 - added support for animated GIFs
1710 - Fixed new charset detection code
1711 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1712 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1713 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1714 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1715 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1716 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1720 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1721 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1722 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1723 push on a custom event handler for example)
1724 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1725 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1726 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1727 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1728 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1729 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1731 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1732 - Various wxXML enhancements
1733 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1734 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1735 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1737 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1738 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1742 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1743 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1744 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1745 alt or shift) now work
1746 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1747 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1748 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1749 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1750 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1751 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1752 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1753 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1754 - We now send iconize events
1755 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1756 - Added mousewheel processing
1757 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1758 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1760 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1761 child frame styles are honoured
1765 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1766 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1767 - We now send iconize events
1768 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1769 GetSelection() results
1776 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1777 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1778 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1779 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1780 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1781 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1782 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1783 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1784 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1785 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1789 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1790 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1791 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1792 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1793 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1794 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1795 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1796 wxImage methods and ctor)
1797 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1798 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1799 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1800 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1801 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1802 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1806 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1807 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1808 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1809 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1813 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1817 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1818 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1825 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1826 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1827 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1828 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1829 - Completed Czech translations
1830 - Some stream corrections
1831 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1832 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1833 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1834 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1838 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1839 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1840 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1841 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1842 - Paper names now translated
1844 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1845 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1846 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1847 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1849 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1850 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1852 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1853 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1854 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1855 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1859 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1860 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1861 backward compatibility, please set
1862 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1863 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1864 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1865 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1866 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1867 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1868 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1869 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1870 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1871 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1872 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1873 - wxFrame restores focus better
1874 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1875 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1876 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1877 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1878 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1879 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1880 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1881 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1882 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1883 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1887 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1891 - Small compilation fixes
1895 - wxCaret documented
1907 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1908 files. This works under VC++ only
1909 - Modal dialog handling improved
1910 - Printer dialog now modal
1925 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1929 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1930 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1935 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1936 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1937 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1938 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1939 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1940 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1941 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1942 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1943 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1945 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1946 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1947 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1948 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1949 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1950 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1952 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1956 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1957 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1958 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1959 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1960 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1961 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1962 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1963 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1965 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1966 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1967 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1968 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1969 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1970 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1971 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1972 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1973 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1974 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1975 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1976 - wxDragImage class added
1977 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1978 controllers, as well as native help
1979 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1983 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1984 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1985 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1986 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1987 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1988 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1989 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1990 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1991 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1992 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1994 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1995 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1996 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2000 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2001 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2002 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2006 - wxMenu::Enable works
2007 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2008 - OGL samples made to work again
2012 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2013 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2014 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2015 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2016 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2017 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2018 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2019 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2020 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2021 - improved HTML printing
2022 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
2023 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2024 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2025 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2028 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2031 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2032 -----------------------
2036 - JPEG support added.
2037 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2041 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2043 - JPEG support added.
2044 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2045 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2046 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2053 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2056 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2057 -------------------------------
2062 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2066 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2067 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2068 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2069 - Some makefile fixes.
2077 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2078 - More topic overviews.
2079 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2080 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2081 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2084 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2085 --------------------------
2089 - wxExecute improved.
2093 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2095 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2096 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2097 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2098 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2099 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2100 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2104 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2105 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2109 - wxLocale documented.
2110 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2111 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2112 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2113 (though doesn't display help yet).
2115 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2116 --------------------------
2120 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2124 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2126 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2130 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2131 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2132 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2133 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2134 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2135 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2136 crashes for some reason).
2137 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2138 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2142 - Further doc improvements.
2143 - wxGenericValidator added.
2144 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2147 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2148 -------------------------
2152 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2153 - wxToolTip class added.
2154 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2158 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2159 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2160 - TWIN32 support added.
2161 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2162 factored out program/library settings.
2163 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2167 - A few more colour fixes.
2168 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2169 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2170 - wxChoice crash fix.
2171 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2175 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2176 - Added samples/dde.
2177 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2179 Beta 2, January 1999
2180 --------------------
2186 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2190 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2192 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2193 - Added thread support (Robert).
2194 - wxPoem sample now works.
2198 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2199 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2200 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2202 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2203 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2205 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2207 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2208 --------------------------
2214 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2217 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2218 ----------------------------
2222 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2223 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2224 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2225 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2226 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2228 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2229 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2234 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2235 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2236 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2237 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2238 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2240 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2241 when any button was pressed.
2242 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2243 have a white background.
2244 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2245 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2246 they have sensible colours by default.
2247 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2248 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2249 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2250 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2251 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2253 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2254 ----------------------------
2258 - More documentation updates, especially for
2259 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2260 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2262 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2263 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2264 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2266 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2270 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2271 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2273 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2274 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2275 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2276 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2277 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2278 the debugging implementation.
2279 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2280 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2281 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2282 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2283 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2284 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2285 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2287 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2289 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2290 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2291 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2292 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2293 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2294 - wxNotebook almost done.
2295 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2296 to vertical toolbars).
2300 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2302 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2303 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2304 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2306 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2307 ----------------------------
2311 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2313 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2314 - A few more makefiles added.
2315 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2316 - Further doc updates.
2317 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2321 - First start at Motif port.
2322 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2323 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2324 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2325 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2327 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2328 --------------------------
2332 - wxBitmap debugged.
2333 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2334 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2335 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2336 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2337 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2338 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2339 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2341 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2342 ------------------------
2346 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2347 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2348 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2349 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2350 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2351 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2352 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2353 changes, wxNotebook.
2354 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2356 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2357 -----------------------
2361 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2362 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2363 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2364 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2365 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2367 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2368 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2370 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2371 -----------------------
2375 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2376 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2378 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2379 -----------------------
2383 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2384 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2386 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2387 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2388 wxMenuItem accessors.
2389 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2390 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2391 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2392 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2393 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2394 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2395 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2396 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2397 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2398 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2399 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2400 first, then doing the assignment.
2401 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2402 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2406 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2407 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2409 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2410 ----------------------
2414 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2415 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2416 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2417 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2418 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2419 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2420 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2421 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2422 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2424 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2425 ------------------------
2429 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2431 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2432 compilation and pragmas.
2433 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2434 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2438 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2439 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2440 compilation and pragmas.
2441 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2443 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2444 ------------------------
2448 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2449 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2451 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2452 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2453 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2454 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2456 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2457 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2458 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2460 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2461 compatibility functions.
2462 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2463 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2464 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2465 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2466 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2467 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2468 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2472 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2473 - Added samples/png.
2474 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2475 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2477 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2479 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2480 ------------------------
2484 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2485 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2486 cleaned up properly before exit.
2487 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2489 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2490 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2491 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2493 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2494 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2496 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2497 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2498 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2499 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2503 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2504 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2505 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2506 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2507 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2508 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2509 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2510 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2511 allow better control of memory.
2512 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2514 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2515 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2517 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2518 ------------------------
2522 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2523 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2524 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2525 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2526 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2527 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2528 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2529 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2530 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2531 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2532 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2533 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2535 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2536 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2537 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2538 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2539 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2540 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2541 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2542 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2543 internal implementation.
2544 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2545 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2546 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2550 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2551 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2552 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2553 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2554 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2556 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2557 --------------------------
2561 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2562 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2563 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2565 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2566 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2567 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2568 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2570 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2571 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2576 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2577 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2578 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2580 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2581 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2583 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2584 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2585 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2586 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2587 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2588 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2589 - Added gcc pragmas.
2590 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2591 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2592 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2593 added a few references to wxTransString.
2594 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2595 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2596 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2597 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2598 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2599 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2600 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2601 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2602 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2605 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2606 --------------------------
2610 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2611 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2612 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2613 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2614 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2615 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2616 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2617 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2618 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2619 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2620 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2622 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2623 to help printing with multiple pages.
2624 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2625 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2626 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2627 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2628 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2629 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2630 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2631 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2632 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2633 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2634 New files from Vadim:
2640 src\common\string.cpp
2644 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2645 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2646 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2647 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2648 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2649 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2650 including changes to defs.h.
2651 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2653 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2655 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2656 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2658 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2660 Alpha 3, September 1997
2661 -----------------------
2665 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2666 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2667 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2668 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2669 - Started documentation.
2671 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2672 ------------------------
2676 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2677 with MetroWerks compiler.
2678 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2679 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2680 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2681 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2682 for testing purposes.
2683 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2685 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2686 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2688 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2689 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2692 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2693 -----------------------
2697 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2699 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2700 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2701 wxString instead of char *.
2702 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2703 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2704 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2705 as wxbWindow now removed.
2706 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2707 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2709 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2710 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2711 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2713 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2714 settings mucho rationalised.
2715 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2716 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2718 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2719 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2720 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2721 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2722 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2723 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2725 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2726 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2728 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2729 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2730 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2731 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2732 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2733 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2734 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2735 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2736 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2737 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2739 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2740 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2742 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2743 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2744 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2745 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2746 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2747 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2749 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2750 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2751 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2752 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2753 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2754 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).