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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
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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 still
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
20 ! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer
21 always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access
22 them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary.
25 ! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2
26 and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right
27 Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit
28 about how things used to work:
30 * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed
31 to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by
32 default when calculating layout size and positions, and the
33 sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size.
35 * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag
36 then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be
37 used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used.
39 The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like
40 wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of
41 the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs)
42 instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these
45 * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old
46 behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when
47 Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it
48 will not be readjusted on each layout.
50 * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or
51 SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set)
52 as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not
53 set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is
54 fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize.
55 wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the
56 size to be used by the sizers.
58 * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to
59 recaculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was
60 added and should be called (usually just internally in control
61 methods) whenever something is done that would make the best
64 * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed
65 to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real
66 size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize.
67 wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this,
68 although most controls don't need to call it directly because it
69 is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base
72 At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as
73 before is the following:
75 win = new SomeWidget(parent);
76 win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize);
79 In this case the old code would have used the new size as the
80 minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum
81 rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move
82 the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that
83 SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls
84 do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize.
86 In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls
87 or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on
88 how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for
89 non-control custom windows.)
91 * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method
92 that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once
93 that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to
94 CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason
95 you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout.
97 * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that
98 the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it
99 will be recalculated the next time it is needed.
101 * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure
102 that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the
103 control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size.
104 This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize.
108 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
109 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
110 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
111 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
112 - finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
113 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
114 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
115 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
116 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
117 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
118 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
119 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
120 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
121 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
122 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
123 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
124 - wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
125 - wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
126 - wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
127 other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
128 stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
129 - wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
130 Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
131 now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
132 - wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
133 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode,
134 switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
135 - when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation
136 not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1),
137 the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node*
138 instead of a wxNode*.
139 - non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen()
140 as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more,
141 please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the
142 objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const
144 - wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference
145 - EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event
146 handler's argument will no longer compile.
147 - Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard,
148 wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs
149 is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter
150 - wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer
151 needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly
152 into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code.
153 - wxFile methods now return wxFileOffset which may be a 64 bit integer type,
154 even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the return value of
155 wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t variable any
156 more (the compiler might warn you about this).
157 - wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility
161 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
162 ==============================
164 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
165 versions, please update your code to not use them.
167 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
168 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
169 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
170 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
171 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
172 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
173 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
174 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
175 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
176 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
177 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
178 methods taking wxArrayString
179 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
180 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
181 - wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
182 and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
183 accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
184 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
185 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
186 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
187 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
188 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
189 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
191 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
192 - The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
193 and has now been removed
194 - wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
195 - obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed
206 - support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
207 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
208 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
209 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
210 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
211 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
212 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
213 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
214 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
215 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
216 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
217 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
218 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
219 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
220 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
221 supported, instead of zero.
226 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
227 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
228 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
230 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
231 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
232 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
233 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
234 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
235 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
236 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
237 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
238 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
239 - added samples/splash
240 - added support for stock buttons
241 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
242 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
243 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
244 - added wxChoicebook control
245 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
246 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
247 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
248 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
249 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
253 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
254 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
255 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
256 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
257 - wx-config has new --version-full option
261 - Fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX (RN)
262 - Added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock (RN)
263 - Added wxDrawerWindow class for drawer windows for OSX >= 10.2 (RN - from Jason Bagley)
264 - Native font dialog on OSX 10.2 and greater (RN)
268 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
269 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
270 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
271 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
272 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
273 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
274 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
275 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
276 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
277 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
278 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
279 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
280 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
281 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
282 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
283 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
284 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
285 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
286 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
290 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
294 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
295 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
296 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
297 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
298 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
299 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
300 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
301 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
302 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
303 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
304 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
305 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
306 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
310 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
314 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
315 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
316 - added automatized but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
317 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
321 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
322 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
330 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
331 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
332 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
333 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
335 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
336 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
337 to forward declare these classes.
341 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
342 resulting in much better display of scaled images
343 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
344 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
345 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
346 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
347 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
348 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
349 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
350 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
351 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
352 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
353 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
354 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
355 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
359 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
360 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
361 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
362 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
363 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
364 even try to do it by default -- now it does
365 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
366 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
367 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
368 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
369 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
370 - subdindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
374 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
378 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
379 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
380 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
381 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
385 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
389 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
390 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
394 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
395 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
399 - Full Unicode support is now available
400 - BLOB support is working
408 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
409 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
410 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
411 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
412 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
413 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
414 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
415 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
416 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
417 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
418 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
419 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
420 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
422 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
423 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
424 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
425 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
426 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
427 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
428 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
429 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
430 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
431 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
432 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
433 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
437 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
438 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
439 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
440 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
441 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
442 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
443 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
444 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
445 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
446 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
447 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
448 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
449 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
450 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
451 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
452 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
453 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
454 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
455 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
456 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
457 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
458 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
459 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
460 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
461 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
462 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
466 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
467 - fixed DDE memory leaks
468 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
469 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
470 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
471 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
472 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
473 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
474 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
475 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
476 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
477 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
478 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
479 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
480 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
481 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
482 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
483 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
484 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
485 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
486 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
487 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
488 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
489 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
490 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
491 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
492 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
493 than the specified default size
494 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
498 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
499 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
500 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
501 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
502 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
503 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
504 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
505 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
506 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
510 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
511 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
512 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
513 - use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
517 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
521 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
522 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
526 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
527 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
528 addition to existing OSS one
529 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
537 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
538 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
539 separately compiled library
540 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
541 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
542 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
543 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
544 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
545 - added wxArray::SetCount()
546 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
547 by default in Unicode mode
548 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
549 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
550 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
551 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
552 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
553 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
554 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
555 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
556 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
557 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
558 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
559 - added wxRecursionGuard class
560 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
561 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
562 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
563 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
564 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
565 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
566 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
567 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
571 - added Watcom makefiles
572 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
576 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
577 - added wxListbook control
578 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
579 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
580 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
581 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
582 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
583 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
584 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
585 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
586 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
587 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
588 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
589 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
590 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
591 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
592 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
593 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
594 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
595 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
596 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
597 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
598 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
599 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
600 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
601 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
602 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
603 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
604 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
605 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
606 default extension for the template
607 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
608 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
609 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
610 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
611 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
612 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
613 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
614 to allow better rich text support.
615 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
616 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
617 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
618 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
619 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
620 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
621 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
622 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
623 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
624 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
625 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
626 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
627 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
628 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
629 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
630 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
631 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
632 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
633 - added wxMirrorDC class
634 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
635 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
636 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
637 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
638 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
639 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
644 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
645 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
646 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
647 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
648 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
652 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
653 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
654 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
655 to contrib/src/deprecated
659 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
660 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
661 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
662 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
663 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
664 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
665 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
666 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
667 be appended to filenames with no extension
668 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
669 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
670 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
671 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
675 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
676 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
680 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
681 - added wxCrashReport
682 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
683 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
684 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
685 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
686 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
687 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
688 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
689 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
690 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
691 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
692 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
693 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
694 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
695 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
696 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
697 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
698 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
699 - improved border handling under Windows XP
700 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
701 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
702 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
703 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
704 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
705 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
706 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
710 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
711 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
712 documentation for a detailed explanation
713 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
714 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
715 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
716 with Motif 1.x compatibility
717 - implemented wxToggleButton
718 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
719 instead of a sunken border
720 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
721 - finished wxClipboard implementation
725 - controls in toolbars now supported
729 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
730 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
731 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
732 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
733 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
739 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
740 ================================
742 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
743 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
744 with '!' in the first column.
746 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
747 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
748 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
749 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
752 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
753 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
754 (see the documentation) useful.
759 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
760 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
763 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
764 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
765 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
766 arrays containing non-pointers.
768 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
769 simply don't make sense for all objects
771 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
772 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
773 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
775 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
777 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
778 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
779 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
780 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
781 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
783 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
784 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
785 the default assert handling.
789 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
790 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
791 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
793 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
794 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
797 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
798 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
799 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
801 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
802 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
803 you want to get OnChar() as well
805 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
806 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
807 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
809 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
810 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
811 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
812 will *NOT* work any longer:
814 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
817 ... do something else ...
819 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
820 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
823 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
825 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
826 if you derived any classes from it
828 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
829 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
831 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
832 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
834 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
835 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
837 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
838 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
841 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
842 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
843 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
845 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
846 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
847 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
848 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
852 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
853 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
854 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
855 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
856 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
857 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
858 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
859 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
860 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
861 is only present for the DLLs builds.
863 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
866 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
867 previously selected one instead of replacing it
869 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
870 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
871 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
873 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
874 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
879 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
880 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
881 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
882 to compile pure C files.
885 wxThread and related classes:
887 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
888 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
889 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
890 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
892 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
893 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
894 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
895 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
897 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
898 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
899 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
901 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
902 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
913 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
920 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
921 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
922 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
926 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
927 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
928 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
931 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
932 - Addition of native frame site grip.
935 - Unicode support through Pango library.
939 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
940 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
944 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
951 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
952 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
953 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
954 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
955 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
956 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
957 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
958 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
959 after (non standard) STL hash_map
960 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
961 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
962 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
963 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
964 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
965 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
966 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
970 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
971 programs and not only GNU make
972 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
973 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
974 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
975 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
976 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
980 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
981 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
982 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
983 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
984 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
986 - significantly improved native font support
987 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
989 - added IFF image handler
990 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
991 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
992 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
993 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
994 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
995 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
996 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
997 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
998 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
999 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1000 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1001 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1002 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1003 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1004 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1005 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1006 - wxMessageOutput class added
1007 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1008 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1010 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1011 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1012 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1013 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1015 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1016 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1017 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1021 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1022 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1023 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1024 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1025 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1026 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1027 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1028 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1029 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1030 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1032 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1033 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1034 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1035 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1036 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1037 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1038 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1040 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1041 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1042 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1043 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1044 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1045 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
1046 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1047 has the capture before release it.
1048 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1049 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1050 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1051 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1052 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1053 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1054 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1055 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1056 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1057 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1058 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1059 provided in wxFontData
1060 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1061 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1065 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1066 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1067 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1068 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1069 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1070 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1071 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1072 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1073 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1074 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1075 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1076 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1077 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1081 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1082 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1083 - improved toolbar control alignment
1084 - implemented wxSpinButton
1085 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1086 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1087 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1091 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1092 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1100 - First alpha-quality release
1104 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1105 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1106 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1107 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1108 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1113 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1117 - wxRegEx class added
1118 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1119 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1120 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1121 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1122 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1126 - support for virtual list control added
1127 - column images in report mode of the list control
1128 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1129 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1130 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1131 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1132 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1133 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1134 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1135 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1136 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1137 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1138 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1139 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1143 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1144 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1149 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1150 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1151 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1152 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1156 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1161 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1163 - added support for animated GIFs
1171 - Fixed new charset detection code
1172 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1173 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1174 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1175 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1176 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1177 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1181 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1182 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1183 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1184 push on a custom event handler for example)
1185 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1186 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1187 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1188 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1189 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1190 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1192 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1193 - Various wxXML enhancements
1194 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1195 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1196 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1198 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1199 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1203 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1204 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1205 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1206 alt or shift) now work
1207 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1208 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1209 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1210 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1211 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1212 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1213 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1214 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1215 - We now send iconize events
1216 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1217 - Added mousewheel processing
1218 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1219 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1221 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1222 child frame styles are honoured
1226 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1227 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1228 - We now send iconize events
1229 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1230 GetSelection() results
1237 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1238 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1239 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1240 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1241 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1242 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1243 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1244 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1245 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1246 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1250 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1251 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1252 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1253 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1254 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1255 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1256 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1257 wxImage methods and ctor)
1258 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1259 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1260 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1261 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1262 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1263 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1267 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1268 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1269 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1270 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1274 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1278 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1279 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1286 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1287 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1288 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1289 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1290 - Completed Czech translations
1291 - Some stream corrections
1292 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1293 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1294 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1295 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1299 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1300 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1301 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1302 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1303 - Paper names now translated
1305 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1306 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1307 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1308 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1310 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1311 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1313 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1314 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1315 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1316 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1320 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1321 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1322 backward compatibility, please set
1323 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1324 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1325 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1326 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1327 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1328 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1329 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1330 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1331 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1332 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1333 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1334 - wxFrame restores focus better
1335 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1336 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1337 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1338 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1339 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1340 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1341 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1342 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1343 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1344 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1348 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1352 - Small compilation fixes
1356 - wxCaret documented
1368 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1369 files. This works under VC++ only
1370 - Modal dialog handling improved
1371 - Printer dialog now modal
1386 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1390 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1391 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1396 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1397 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1398 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1399 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1400 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1401 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1402 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1403 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1404 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1406 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1407 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1408 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1409 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1410 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1411 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1413 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1417 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1418 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1419 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1420 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1421 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1422 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1423 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1424 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1426 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1427 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1428 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1429 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1430 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1431 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1432 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1433 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1434 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1435 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1436 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1437 - wxDragImage class added
1438 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1439 controllers, as well as native help
1440 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1444 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1445 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1446 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1447 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1448 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1449 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1450 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1451 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1452 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1453 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1455 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1456 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1457 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1461 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1462 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1463 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1467 - wxMenu::Enable works
1468 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1469 - OGL samples made to work again
1473 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1474 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1475 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1476 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1477 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1478 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1479 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1480 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1481 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1482 - improved HTML printing
1483 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1484 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1485 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1486 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1489 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1492 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1493 -----------------------
1497 - JPEG support added.
1498 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1502 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1504 - JPEG support added.
1505 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1506 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1507 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1514 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1517 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1518 -------------------------------
1523 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1527 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1528 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1529 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1530 - Some makefile fixes.
1538 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1539 - More topic overviews.
1540 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1541 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1542 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1545 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1546 --------------------------
1550 - wxExecute improved.
1554 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1556 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1557 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1558 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1559 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1560 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1561 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1565 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1566 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1570 - wxLocale documented.
1571 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1572 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1573 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1574 (though doesn't display help yet).
1576 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1577 --------------------------
1581 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1585 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1587 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1591 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1592 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1593 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1594 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1595 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1596 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1597 crashes for some reason).
1598 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1599 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1603 - Further doc improvements.
1604 - wxGenericValidator added.
1605 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1608 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1609 -------------------------
1613 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1614 - wxToolTip class added.
1615 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1619 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1620 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1621 - TWIN32 support added.
1622 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1623 factored out program/library settings.
1624 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1628 - A few more colour fixes.
1629 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1630 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1631 - wxChoice crash fix.
1632 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1636 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1637 - Added samples/dde.
1638 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1640 Beta 2, January 1999
1641 --------------------
1647 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1651 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1653 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1654 - Added thread support (Robert).
1655 - wxPoem sample now works.
1659 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1660 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1661 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1663 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1664 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1666 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1668 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1669 --------------------------
1675 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1678 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1679 ----------------------------
1683 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1684 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1685 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1686 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1687 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1689 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1690 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1695 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1696 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1697 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1698 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1699 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1701 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1702 when any button was pressed.
1703 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1704 have a white background.
1705 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1706 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1707 they have sensible colours by default.
1708 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1709 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1710 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1711 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1712 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1714 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1715 ----------------------------
1719 - More documentation updates, especially for
1720 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1721 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1723 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1724 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1725 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1727 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1731 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1732 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1734 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1735 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1736 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1737 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1738 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1739 the debugging implementation.
1740 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1741 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1742 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1743 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1744 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1745 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1746 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1748 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1750 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1751 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1752 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1753 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1754 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1755 - wxNotebook almost done.
1756 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1757 to vertical toolbars).
1761 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1763 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1764 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1765 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1767 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1768 ----------------------------
1772 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1774 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1775 - A few more makefiles added.
1776 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1777 - Further doc updates.
1778 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1782 - First start at Motif port.
1783 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1784 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1785 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1786 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1788 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1789 --------------------------
1793 - wxBitmap debugged.
1794 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1795 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1796 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1797 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1798 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1799 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1800 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1802 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1803 ------------------------
1807 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1808 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1809 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1810 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1811 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1812 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1813 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1814 changes, wxNotebook.
1815 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1817 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1818 -----------------------
1822 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1823 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1824 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1825 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1826 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1828 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1829 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1831 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1832 -----------------------
1836 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1837 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1839 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1840 -----------------------
1844 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1845 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1847 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1848 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1849 wxMenuItem accessors.
1850 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1851 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1852 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1853 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1854 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1855 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1856 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1857 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1858 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1859 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1860 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1861 first, then doing the assignment.
1862 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1863 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1867 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1868 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1870 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1871 ----------------------
1875 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1876 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1877 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1878 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1879 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1880 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1881 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1882 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1883 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1885 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1886 ------------------------
1890 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1892 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1893 compilation and pragmas.
1894 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1895 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1899 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1900 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1901 compilation and pragmas.
1902 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1904 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1905 ------------------------
1909 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1910 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1912 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1913 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1914 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1915 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1917 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1918 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1919 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1921 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1922 compatibility functions.
1923 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1924 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1925 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1926 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1927 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1928 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1929 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1933 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1934 - Added samples/png.
1935 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1936 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1938 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1940 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1941 ------------------------
1945 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1946 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1947 cleaned up properly before exit.
1948 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1950 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1951 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1952 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1954 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1955 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1957 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1958 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1959 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1960 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1964 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1965 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1966 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1967 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1968 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1969 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1970 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1971 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1972 allow better control of memory.
1973 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1975 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1976 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1978 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1979 ------------------------
1983 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1984 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1985 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1986 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1987 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1988 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1989 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1990 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1991 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1992 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1993 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1994 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1996 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1997 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1998 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1999 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2000 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2001 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2002 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2003 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2004 internal implementation.
2005 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2006 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2007 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2011 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2012 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2013 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2014 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2015 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2017 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2018 --------------------------
2022 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2023 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2024 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2026 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2027 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2028 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2029 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2031 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2032 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2037 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2038 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2039 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2041 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2042 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2044 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2045 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2046 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2047 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2048 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2049 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2050 - Added gcc pragmas.
2051 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2052 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2053 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2054 added a few references to wxTransString.
2055 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2056 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2057 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2058 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2059 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2060 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2061 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2062 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2063 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2066 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2067 --------------------------
2071 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2072 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2073 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2074 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2075 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2076 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2077 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2078 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2079 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2080 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2081 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2083 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2084 to help printing with multiple pages.
2085 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2086 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2087 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2088 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2089 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2090 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2091 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2092 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2093 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2094 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2095 New files from Vadim:
2101 src\common\string.cpp
2105 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2106 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2107 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2108 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2109 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2110 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2111 including changes to defs.h.
2112 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2114 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2116 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2117 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2119 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2121 Alpha 3, September 1997
2122 -----------------------
2126 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2127 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2128 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2129 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2130 - Started documentation.
2132 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2133 ------------------------
2137 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2138 with MetroWerks compiler.
2139 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2140 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2141 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2142 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2143 for testing purposes.
2144 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2146 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2147 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2149 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2150 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2153 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2154 -----------------------
2158 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2160 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2161 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2162 wxString instead of char *.
2163 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2164 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2165 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2166 as wxbWindow now removed.
2167 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2168 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2170 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2171 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2172 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2174 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2175 settings mucho rationalised.
2176 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2177 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2179 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2180 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2181 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2182 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2183 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2184 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2186 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2187 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2189 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2190 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
2191 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2192 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2193 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2194 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2195 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2196 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2197 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2198 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2200 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2201 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2203 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2204 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2205 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2206 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2207 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2208 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2210 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2211 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2212 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2213 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2214 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2215 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).