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2 wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
6 ================================
8 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
9 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
10 with '!' in the first column.
12 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
13 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
16 ! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
17 wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE stll
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
21 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
22 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
23 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
24 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
25 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
26 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
27 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
28 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
29 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
30 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
31 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
32 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
33 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
34 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
35 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
36 - wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
37 - wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
40 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
41 ==============================
43 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
44 versions, please update your code to not use them.
46 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
47 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
48 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
49 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
50 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
51 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
52 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
53 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
54 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
55 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
56 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows
57 methods taking wxArrayString
58 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
59 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
60 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
61 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
62 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
63 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
64 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
65 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
67 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
78 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
79 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
80 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
81 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
82 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
83 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
84 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
85 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
86 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
87 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
88 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
89 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
91 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
92 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
93 - Changed built-in regex library to a unicode-compatible one (Ryan Norton)
94 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
95 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
96 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
97 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
98 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
99 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
100 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
101 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
105 - added wxListBook control
106 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
107 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
108 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
109 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
110 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
111 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
112 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
113 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
114 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
115 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
116 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
117 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
118 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
119 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
120 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
121 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
122 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
123 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
124 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
125 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
126 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
127 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
128 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
129 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
133 - fixed DDE memory leaks
134 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
135 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
136 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
137 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
138 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
139 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
140 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
141 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
142 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
143 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
144 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
145 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
146 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
147 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
148 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
149 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
150 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
154 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
155 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
156 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
157 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
158 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
159 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
160 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
161 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
165 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
166 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
167 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
168 - use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
172 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
176 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
177 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
181 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
182 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
183 addition to existing OSS one
191 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
192 huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
193 separately compiled library
194 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
195 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
196 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
197 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
198 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
199 - added wxArray::SetCount()
200 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
201 by default in Unicode mode
202 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
203 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
204 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
205 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
206 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
207 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
208 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
209 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
210 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
211 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
212 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
213 - added wxRecursionGuard class
214 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
215 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
216 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
217 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
218 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
219 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
220 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
221 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
225 - added Watcom makefiles
226 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
230 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
232 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
233 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
234 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
235 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
236 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
237 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
238 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
239 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
240 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
241 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
242 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
243 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
244 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
245 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
246 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
247 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
248 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
249 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
250 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
251 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
252 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
253 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
254 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
255 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
256 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
257 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
258 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
259 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
260 default extension for the template
261 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
262 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
263 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
264 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
265 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
266 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
267 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
268 to allow better rich text support.
269 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
270 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
271 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
272 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
273 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
274 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
275 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
276 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
277 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
278 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
279 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
280 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
281 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
282 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
283 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
284 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
285 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
286 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
287 - added wxMirrorDC class
288 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
289 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
290 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
291 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
292 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
293 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
298 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
299 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
300 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
301 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
302 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
306 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
307 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
308 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
309 to contrib/src/deprecated
313 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
314 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
315 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
316 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
317 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
318 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
319 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
320 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
321 be appended to filenames with no extension
322 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
323 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
324 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
325 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
329 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
330 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
334 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
335 - added wxCrashReport
336 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
337 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
338 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
339 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
340 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
341 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
342 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
343 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
344 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
345 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
346 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
347 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
348 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
349 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
350 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
351 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
352 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
353 - improved border handling under Windows XP
354 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
355 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
356 wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
357 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
358 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
359 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
360 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
364 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
365 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
366 documentation for a detailed explanation
367 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
368 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
369 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
370 with Motif 1.x compatibility
371 - implemented wxToggleButton
372 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
373 instead of a sunken border
374 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
375 - finished wxClipboard implementation
379 - controls in toolbars now supported
383 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
384 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
385 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
386 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
387 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
393 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
394 ================================
396 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
397 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
398 with '!' in the first column.
400 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
401 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
402 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
403 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
406 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
407 of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
408 (see the documentation) useful.
413 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
414 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
417 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
418 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
419 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
420 arrays containing non-pointers.
422 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
423 simply don't make sense for all objects
425 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
426 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
427 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
429 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
431 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
432 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
433 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
434 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
435 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
437 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
438 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
439 the default assert handling.
443 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
444 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
445 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
447 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
448 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
451 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
452 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
453 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
455 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
456 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
457 you want to get OnChar() as well
459 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
460 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
461 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
463 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
464 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
465 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
466 will *NOT* work any longer:
468 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
471 ... do something else ...
473 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
474 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
477 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
479 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
480 if you derived any classes from it
482 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
483 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
485 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
486 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
488 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
489 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
491 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
492 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
495 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
496 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
497 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
499 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
500 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
501 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
502 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
506 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
507 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
508 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
509 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
510 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
511 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
512 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
513 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
514 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
515 is only present for the DLLs builds.
517 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
520 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
521 previously selected one instead of replacing it
523 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
524 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
525 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
527 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
528 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
533 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
534 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
535 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
536 to compile pure C files.
539 wxThread and related classes:
541 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
542 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
543 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
544 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
546 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
547 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
548 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
549 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
551 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
552 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
553 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
555 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
556 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
567 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
574 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
575 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
576 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
580 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
581 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
582 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
585 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
586 - Addition of native frame site grip.
589 - Unicode support through Pango library.
593 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
594 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
598 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
605 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
606 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
607 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
608 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
609 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
610 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
611 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
612 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
613 after (non standard) STL hash_map
614 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
615 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
616 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
617 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
618 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
619 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
620 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
624 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
625 programs and not only GNU make
626 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
627 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
628 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
629 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
630 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
634 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
635 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
636 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
637 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
638 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
640 - significantly improved native font support
641 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
643 - added IFF image handler
644 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
645 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
646 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
647 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
648 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
649 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
650 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
651 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
652 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
653 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
654 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
655 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
656 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
657 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
658 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
659 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
660 - wxMessageOutput class added
661 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
662 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
664 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
665 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
666 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
667 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
669 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
670 whether a label edit was cancelled.
671 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
675 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
676 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
677 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
678 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
679 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
680 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
681 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
682 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
683 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
684 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
686 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
687 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
688 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
689 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
690 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
691 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
692 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
694 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
695 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
696 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
697 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
698 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
699 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
700 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
701 has the capture before release it.
702 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
703 - default button handling is now closer to expected
704 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
705 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
706 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
707 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
708 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
709 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
710 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
711 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
712 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
713 provided in wxFontData
714 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
715 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
719 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
720 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
721 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
722 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
723 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
724 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
725 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
726 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
727 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
728 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
729 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
730 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
731 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
735 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
736 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
737 - improved toolbar control alignment
738 - implemented wxSpinButton
739 - implemented wxCheckListBox
740 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
741 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
745 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
746 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
754 - First alpha-quality release
758 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
759 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
760 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
761 - fixed alignment handling in tables
762 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
767 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
771 - wxRegEx class added
772 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
773 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
774 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
775 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
776 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
780 - support for virtual list control added
781 - column images in report mode of the list control
782 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
783 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
784 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
785 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
786 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
787 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
788 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
789 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
790 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
791 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
792 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
793 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
797 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
798 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
803 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
804 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
805 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
806 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
810 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
815 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
817 - added support for animated GIFs
825 - Fixed new charset detection code
826 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
827 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
828 - Added wxDir::Traverse
829 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
830 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
831 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
835 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
836 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
837 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
838 push on a custom event handler for example)
839 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
840 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
841 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
842 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
843 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
844 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
846 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
847 - Various wxXML enhancements
848 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
849 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
850 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
852 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
853 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
857 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
858 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
859 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
860 alt or shift) now work
861 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
862 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
863 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
864 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
865 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
866 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
867 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
868 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
869 - We now send iconize events
870 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
871 - Added mousewheel processing
872 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
873 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
875 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
876 child frame styles are honoured
880 - Fixed slider rounding bug
881 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
882 - We now send iconize events
883 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
884 GetSelection() results
891 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
892 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
893 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
894 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
895 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
896 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
897 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
898 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
899 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
900 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
904 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
905 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
906 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
907 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
908 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
909 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
910 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
911 wxImage methods and ctor)
912 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
913 - ODBC documentation complete!!
914 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
915 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
916 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
917 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
921 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
922 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
923 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
924 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
928 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
932 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
933 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
940 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
941 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
942 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
943 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
944 - Completed Czech translations
945 - Some stream corrections
946 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
947 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
948 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
949 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
953 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
954 flicker-free dragging is now possible
955 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
956 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
957 - Paper names now translated
959 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
960 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
961 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
962 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
964 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
965 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
967 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
968 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
969 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
970 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
974 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
975 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
976 backward compatibility, please set
977 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
978 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
979 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
980 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
981 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
982 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
983 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
984 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
985 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
986 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
987 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
988 - wxFrame restores focus better
989 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
990 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
991 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
992 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
993 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
994 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
995 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
996 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
997 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
998 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1002 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1006 - Small compilation fixes
1010 - wxCaret documented
1022 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1023 files. This works under VC++ only
1024 - Modal dialog handling improved
1025 - Printer dialog now modal
1040 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1044 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1045 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1050 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1051 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1052 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1053 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1054 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1055 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1056 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1057 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1058 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1060 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1061 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1062 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1063 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1064 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1065 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1067 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1071 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1072 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1073 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1074 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1075 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1076 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1077 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1078 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1080 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1081 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1082 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1083 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1084 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1085 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1086 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1087 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1088 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1089 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1090 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1091 - wxDragImage class added
1092 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1093 controllers, as well as native help
1094 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1098 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1099 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1100 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1101 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1102 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1103 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1104 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1105 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1106 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1107 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1109 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1110 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1111 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1115 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1116 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1117 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1121 - wxMenu::Enable works
1122 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1123 - OGL samples made to work again
1127 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1128 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1129 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1130 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1131 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1132 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1133 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1134 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1135 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1136 - improved HTML printing
1137 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1138 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1139 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1140 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1143 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1146 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1147 -----------------------
1151 - JPEG support added.
1152 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1156 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1158 - JPEG support added.
1159 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1160 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1161 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1168 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1171 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1172 -------------------------------
1177 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1181 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1182 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1183 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1184 - Some makefile fixes.
1192 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1193 - More topic overviews.
1194 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1195 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1196 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1199 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1200 --------------------------
1204 - wxExecute improved.
1208 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1210 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1211 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1212 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1213 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1214 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1215 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1219 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1220 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1224 - wxLocale documented.
1225 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1226 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1227 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1228 (though doesn't display help yet).
1230 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1231 --------------------------
1235 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1239 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1241 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
1245 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1246 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1247 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1248 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1249 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1250 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1251 crashes for some reason).
1252 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1253 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1257 - Further doc improvements.
1258 - wxGenericValidator added.
1259 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1262 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1263 -------------------------
1267 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1268 - wxToolTip class added.
1269 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1273 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1274 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1275 - TWIN32 support added.
1276 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1277 factored out program/library settings.
1278 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1282 - A few more colour fixes.
1283 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1284 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1285 - wxChoice crash fix.
1286 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1290 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1291 - Added samples/dde.
1292 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1294 Beta 2, January 1999
1295 --------------------
1301 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1305 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1307 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1308 - Added thread support (Robert).
1309 - wxPoem sample now works.
1313 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1314 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1315 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1317 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1318 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1320 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1322 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1323 --------------------------
1329 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1332 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1333 ----------------------------
1337 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1338 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1339 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1340 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1341 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1343 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1344 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1349 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1350 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1351 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1352 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1353 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1355 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1356 when any button was pressed.
1357 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1358 have a white background.
1359 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1360 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1361 they have sensible colours by default.
1362 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1363 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1364 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1365 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1366 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1368 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1369 ----------------------------
1373 - More documentation updates, especially for
1374 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1375 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1377 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1378 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1379 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1381 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1385 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1386 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1388 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1389 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1390 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1391 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1392 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1393 the debugging implementation.
1394 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1395 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1396 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1397 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1398 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1399 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1400 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1402 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1404 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1405 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1406 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1407 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1408 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1409 - wxNotebook almost done.
1410 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1411 to vertical toolbars).
1415 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1417 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1418 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1419 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1421 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1422 ----------------------------
1426 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1428 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1429 - A few more makefiles added.
1430 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1431 - Further doc updates.
1432 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1436 - First start at Motif port.
1437 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1438 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1439 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1440 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1442 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1443 --------------------------
1447 - wxBitmap debugged.
1448 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1449 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1450 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1451 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1452 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1453 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1454 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1456 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1457 ------------------------
1461 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1462 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1463 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1464 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1465 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1466 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1467 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1468 changes, wxNotebook.
1469 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1471 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1472 -----------------------
1476 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1477 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1478 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1479 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1480 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1482 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1483 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1485 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1486 -----------------------
1490 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1491 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1493 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1494 -----------------------
1498 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1499 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1501 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1502 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1503 wxMenuItem accessors.
1504 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1505 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1506 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1507 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1508 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1509 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1510 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1511 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1512 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1513 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1514 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1515 first, then doing the assignment.
1516 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1517 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1521 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1522 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1524 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1525 ----------------------
1529 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1530 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1531 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1532 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1533 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1534 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1535 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1536 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1537 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1539 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1540 ------------------------
1544 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1546 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1547 compilation and pragmas.
1548 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1549 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1553 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1554 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1555 compilation and pragmas.
1556 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1558 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1559 ------------------------
1563 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1564 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1566 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1567 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1568 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1569 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1571 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1572 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1573 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1575 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1576 compatibility functions.
1577 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1578 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1579 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1580 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1581 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1582 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1583 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1587 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1588 - Added samples/png.
1589 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1590 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1592 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1594 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1595 ------------------------
1599 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1600 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1601 cleaned up properly before exit.
1602 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1604 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1605 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1606 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1608 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1609 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1611 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1612 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1613 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1614 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1618 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1619 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1620 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1621 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1622 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1623 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1624 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1625 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1626 allow better control of memory.
1627 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1629 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1630 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1632 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1633 ------------------------
1637 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1638 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1639 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1640 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1641 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1642 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1643 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1644 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1645 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1646 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1647 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1648 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1650 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1651 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1652 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1653 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1654 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1655 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1656 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1657 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1658 internal implementation.
1659 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1660 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1661 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1665 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1666 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1667 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1668 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1669 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1671 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1672 --------------------------
1676 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1677 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1678 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1680 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1681 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1682 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1683 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1685 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1686 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1691 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1692 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1693 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1695 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1696 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1698 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1699 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1700 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1701 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1702 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1703 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1704 - Added gcc pragmas.
1705 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1706 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1707 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1708 added a few references to wxTransString.
1709 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1710 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1711 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1712 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1713 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1714 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1715 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1716 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1717 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1720 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1721 --------------------------
1725 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1726 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1727 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1728 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1729 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1730 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1731 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1732 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1733 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1734 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1735 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1737 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1738 to help printing with multiple pages.
1739 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1740 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1741 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1742 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1743 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1744 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1745 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1746 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1747 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1748 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1749 New files from Vadim:
1755 src\common\string.cpp
1759 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1760 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1761 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1762 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1763 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1764 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1765 including changes to defs.h.
1766 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1768 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1770 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1771 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1773 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1775 Alpha 3, September 1997
1776 -----------------------
1780 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1781 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1782 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1783 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1784 - Started documentation.
1786 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1787 ------------------------
1791 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1792 with MetroWerks compiler.
1793 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1794 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1795 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1796 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1797 for testing purposes.
1798 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1800 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1801 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1803 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1804 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1807 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1808 -----------------------
1812 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1814 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1815 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1816 wxString instead of char *.
1817 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1818 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1819 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1820 as wxbWindow now removed.
1821 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1822 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1824 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1825 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1826 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1828 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1829 settings mucho rationalised.
1830 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1831 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1833 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1834 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1835 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1836 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1837 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1838 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1840 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1841 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1843 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1844 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1845 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1846 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1847 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1848 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1849 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1850 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1851 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1852 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1854 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1855 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1857 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1858 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1859 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1860 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1861 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1862 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1864 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1865 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1866 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1867 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1868 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1869 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).