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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
11 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
12 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
13 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
14 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
15 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
16 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
17 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
18 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble()
19 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs
20 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett)
24 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
25 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
26 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour
27 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
28 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
29 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
30 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
31 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
32 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
33 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
34 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
38 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
39 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
40 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
41 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
42 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
43 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
44 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
45 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
46 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
47 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
48 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd)
49 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd)
53 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
54 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
55 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
56 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
57 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
58 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
59 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
60 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
64 - Automatic menu management improved.
65 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
66 due to dangling cycle pointers.
70 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
74 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
75 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
79 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
80 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
81 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
82 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
83 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
84 flag has been specified.
85 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
86 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
90 - Fixed crash on exit.
91 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
95 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
103 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
104 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
108 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
109 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
110 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
111 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
112 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
113 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
114 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
115 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
116 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
117 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
121 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
122 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
123 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
124 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
125 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
126 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
127 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
128 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
129 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
130 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
131 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
132 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
133 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
134 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
135 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
136 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
137 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
138 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
139 - Compiles again with WIN64.
140 - Winelib compilation now works.
141 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
142 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
143 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
144 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
145 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
146 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
147 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
148 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
149 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
150 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
151 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
152 - Fixed some wxRegKey bugs.
156 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
160 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
161 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
162 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
163 - Added bitmap support in menus.
167 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
168 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
169 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
171 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
172 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
173 - Window menu now added automatically.
174 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
175 - Modified function key support fixed.
176 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
180 - Menu problems fixed.
181 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
182 - Fixed a font memory leak.
183 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
191 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
192 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
196 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
197 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
201 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
202 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
203 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
207 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
210 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
211 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
212 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
213 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
214 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
215 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
216 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
219 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
226 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
227 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
228 - Added wxDebugReport class.
229 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
230 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
231 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
232 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
233 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
234 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
238 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
239 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
240 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
241 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
242 the whole virtual area.
243 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
244 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
245 isn't used to set the window size.
246 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
247 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
248 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
249 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
253 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
257 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
258 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
259 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
260 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
261 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
262 handling (Jamie Gadd).
266 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
267 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
268 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
269 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
270 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
271 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
272 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
273 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
277 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
281 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
285 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
286 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
287 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
288 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
289 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
290 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
291 with correct titlebar style.
292 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
294 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
295 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
296 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
297 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
298 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
299 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
300 to the dialog's toolbar.
307 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
308 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
309 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
310 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
311 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
312 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
313 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
314 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
315 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
316 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
317 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
318 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
319 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
320 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
321 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
322 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
323 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
324 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
325 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
326 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
327 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
328 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
329 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
330 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
331 printing stuff in the GTK port.
332 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
333 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
334 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
335 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
336 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
337 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
338 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
339 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
340 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
341 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
342 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
343 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
344 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
345 due to a rounding error.
346 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
347 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
348 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
349 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
350 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
351 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
352 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
353 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
359 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
360 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
361 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
362 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
363 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
364 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
365 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
366 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
367 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
368 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
369 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
370 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
371 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
372 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
373 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
374 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
375 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
379 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
383 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
384 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
385 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
386 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
387 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
388 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
389 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
390 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
391 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
392 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
393 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
394 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
395 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
397 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
398 - Added wxRawBitmap support
399 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
400 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
401 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
405 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
406 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
407 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
408 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
412 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
413 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
414 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
415 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
416 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
419 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
420 but not mentioned anywhere.
421 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
425 - wxBU_... button align flags support
426 - vertical notebook orientation support
427 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
428 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
432 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
433 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
434 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
435 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
436 - enumeration of available volumes
437 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
438 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
439 - native wxColourDialog implementation
440 - native wxSystemSettings colours
441 - native wxButton implementation
442 - native wxCheckBox implementation
443 - native wxSlider implementation
444 - native wxToggleButton implementation
445 - native wxRadioButton implementation
446 - native wxStaticText implementation
447 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
455 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
456 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
457 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
458 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
459 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
460 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
461 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
462 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
463 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
464 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
465 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
466 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
467 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
468 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
469 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
470 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
474 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
475 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
476 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
478 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
479 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
480 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
481 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
482 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
483 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
484 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
485 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
486 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
487 - added samples/splash
488 - added support for stock buttons
489 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
490 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
491 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
492 - added wxChoicebook control
493 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
494 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
495 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
496 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
497 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
498 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
499 supported, instead of zero.
500 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
504 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
505 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
506 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
507 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
508 - wx-config has new --version-full option
512 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
513 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
514 - Tooltips now supported
515 - wxSound now supported
516 - wxDisplay now supported
517 - Some stock cursors now supported
521 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
522 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
523 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
524 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
528 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
529 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
530 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
531 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
532 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
533 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
534 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
535 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
536 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
537 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
538 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
539 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
540 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
541 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
542 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
543 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
544 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
545 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
546 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
550 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
554 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
555 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
556 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
557 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
558 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
559 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
560 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
561 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
562 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
563 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
564 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
565 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
566 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
567 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
571 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
575 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
576 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
577 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
578 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
582 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
583 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
591 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
592 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
593 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
594 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
596 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
597 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
598 to forward declare these classes.
602 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
603 resulting in much better display of scaled images
604 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
605 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
606 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
607 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
608 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
609 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
610 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
611 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
612 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
613 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
614 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
615 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
616 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
620 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
621 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
622 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
623 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
624 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
625 even try to do it by default -- now it does
626 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
627 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
628 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
629 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
630 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
631 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
635 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
639 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
640 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
641 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
642 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
646 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
650 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
651 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
655 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
656 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
660 - Full Unicode support is now available
661 - BLOB support is working
669 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
670 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
671 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
672 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
673 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
674 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
675 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
676 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
677 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
678 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
679 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
680 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
681 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
683 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
684 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
685 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
686 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
687 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
688 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
689 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
690 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
691 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
692 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
693 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
694 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
698 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
699 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
700 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
701 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
702 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
703 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
704 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
705 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
706 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
707 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
708 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
709 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
710 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
711 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
712 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
713 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
714 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
715 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
716 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
717 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
718 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
719 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
720 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
721 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
722 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
723 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
727 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
728 - fixed DDE memory leaks
729 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
730 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
731 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
732 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
733 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
734 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
735 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
736 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
737 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
738 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
739 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
740 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
741 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
742 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
743 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
744 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
745 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
746 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
747 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
748 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
749 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
750 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
751 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
752 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
753 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
754 than the specified default size
755 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
759 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
760 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
761 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
762 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
763 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
764 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
765 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
766 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
767 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
771 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
772 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
773 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
774 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
778 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
782 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
783 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
787 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
788 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
789 addition to existing OSS one
790 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
798 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
799 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
800 separately compiled library
801 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
802 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
803 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
804 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
805 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
806 - added wxArray::SetCount()
807 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
808 by default in Unicode mode
809 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
810 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
811 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
812 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
813 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
814 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
815 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
816 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
817 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
818 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
819 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
820 - added wxRecursionGuard class
821 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
822 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
823 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
824 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
825 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
826 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
827 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
828 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
832 - added Watcom makefiles
833 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
837 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
838 - added wxListbook control
839 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
840 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
841 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
842 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
843 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
844 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
845 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
846 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
847 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
848 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
849 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
850 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
851 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
852 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
853 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
854 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
855 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
856 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
857 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
858 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
859 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
860 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
861 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
862 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
863 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
864 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
865 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
866 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
867 default extension for the template
868 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
869 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
870 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
871 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
872 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
873 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
874 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
875 to allow better rich text support.
876 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
877 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
878 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
879 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
880 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
881 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
882 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
883 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
884 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
885 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
886 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
887 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
888 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
889 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
890 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
891 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
892 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
893 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
894 - added wxMirrorDC class
895 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
896 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
897 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
898 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
899 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
900 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
905 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
906 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
907 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
908 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
909 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
913 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
914 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
915 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
916 to contrib/src/deprecated
920 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
921 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
922 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
923 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
924 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
925 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
926 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
927 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
928 be appended to filenames with no extension
929 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
930 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
931 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
932 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
936 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
937 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
941 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
942 - added wxCrashReport
943 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
944 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
945 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
946 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
947 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
948 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
949 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
950 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
951 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
952 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
953 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
954 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
955 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
956 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
957 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
958 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
959 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
960 - improved border handling under Windows XP
961 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
962 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
963 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
964 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
965 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
966 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
967 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
971 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
972 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
973 documentation for a detailed explanation
974 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
975 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
976 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
977 with Motif 1.x compatibility
978 - implemented wxToggleButton
979 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
980 instead of a sunken border
981 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
982 - finished wxClipboard implementation
986 - controls in toolbars now supported
990 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
991 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
992 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
993 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
994 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1000 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1001 ================================
1003 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1004 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1005 with '!' in the first column.
1007 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1008 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1009 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1010 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1013 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1014 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1015 (see the documentation) useful.
1020 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1021 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1024 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1025 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1026 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1027 arrays containing non-pointers.
1029 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1030 simply don't make sense for all objects
1032 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1033 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1034 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1036 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1038 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1039 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1040 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1041 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1042 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1044 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1045 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1046 the default assert handling.
1050 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1051 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1052 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1054 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1055 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1058 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1059 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1060 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1062 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1063 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1064 you want to get OnChar() as well
1066 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1067 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1068 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1070 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1071 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1072 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1073 will *NOT* work any longer:
1075 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1076 ... do something ...
1077 if ( flags & wxYES )
1078 ... do something else ...
1080 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1081 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1084 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1086 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1087 if you derived any classes from it
1089 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1090 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1092 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1093 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1095 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1096 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1098 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1099 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1102 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1103 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1104 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1106 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1107 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1108 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1109 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1113 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1114 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1115 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1116 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1117 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1118 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1119 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1120 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1121 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1122 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1124 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1127 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1128 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1130 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1131 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1132 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1134 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1135 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1140 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1141 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1142 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1143 to compile pure C files.
1146 wxThread and related classes:
1148 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1149 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1150 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1151 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1153 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1154 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1155 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1156 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1158 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1159 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1160 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1162 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1163 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1174 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1181 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1182 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1183 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1187 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1188 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1189 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1192 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1193 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1196 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1200 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1201 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1205 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1212 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1213 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1214 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1215 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1216 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1217 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1218 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1219 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1220 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1221 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1222 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1223 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1224 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1225 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1226 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1227 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1231 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1232 programs and not only GNU make
1233 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1234 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1235 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1236 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1237 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1241 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1242 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1243 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1244 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1245 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1247 - significantly improved native font support
1248 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1250 - added IFF image handler
1251 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1252 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1253 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1254 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1255 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1256 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1257 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1258 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1259 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1260 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1261 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1262 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1263 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1264 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1265 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1266 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1267 - wxMessageOutput class added
1268 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1269 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1271 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1272 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1273 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1274 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1276 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1277 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1278 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1282 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1283 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1284 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1285 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1286 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1287 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1288 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1289 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1290 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1291 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1293 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1294 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1295 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1296 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1297 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1298 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1299 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1301 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1302 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1303 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1304 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1305 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1306 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1307 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1308 has the capture before release it.
1309 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1310 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1311 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1312 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1313 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1314 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1315 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1316 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1317 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1318 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1319 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1320 provided in wxFontData
1321 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1322 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1326 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1327 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1328 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1329 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1330 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1331 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1332 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1333 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1334 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1335 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1336 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1337 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1338 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1342 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1343 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1344 - improved toolbar control alignment
1345 - implemented wxSpinButton
1346 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1347 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1348 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1352 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1353 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1361 - First alpha-quality release
1365 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1366 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1367 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1368 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1369 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1374 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1378 - wxRegEx class added
1379 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1380 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1381 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1382 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1383 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1387 - support for virtual list control added
1388 - column images in report mode of the list control
1389 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1390 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1391 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1392 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1393 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1394 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1395 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1396 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1397 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1398 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1399 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1400 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1404 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1405 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1410 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1411 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1412 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1413 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1417 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1422 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1424 - added support for animated GIFs
1432 - Fixed new charset detection code
1433 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1434 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1435 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1436 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1437 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1438 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1442 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1443 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1444 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1445 push on a custom event handler for example)
1446 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1447 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1448 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1449 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1450 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1451 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1453 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1454 - Various wxXML enhancements
1455 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1456 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1457 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1459 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1460 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1464 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1465 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1466 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1467 alt or shift) now work
1468 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1469 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1470 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1471 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1472 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1473 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1474 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1475 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1476 - We now send iconize events
1477 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1478 - Added mousewheel processing
1479 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1480 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1482 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1483 child frame styles are honoured
1487 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1488 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1489 - We now send iconize events
1490 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1491 GetSelection() results
1498 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1499 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1500 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1501 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1502 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1503 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1504 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1505 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1506 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1507 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1511 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1512 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1513 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1514 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1515 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1516 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1517 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1518 wxImage methods and ctor)
1519 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1520 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1521 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1522 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1523 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1524 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1528 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1529 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1530 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1531 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1535 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1539 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1540 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1547 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1548 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1549 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1550 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1551 - Completed Czech translations
1552 - Some stream corrections
1553 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1554 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1555 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1556 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1560 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1561 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1562 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1563 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1564 - Paper names now translated
1566 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1567 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1568 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1569 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1571 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1572 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1574 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1575 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1576 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1577 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1581 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1582 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1583 backward compatibility, please set
1584 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1585 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1586 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1587 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1588 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1589 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1590 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1591 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1592 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1593 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1594 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1595 - wxFrame restores focus better
1596 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1597 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1598 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1599 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1600 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1601 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1602 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1603 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1604 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1605 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1609 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1613 - Small compilation fixes
1617 - wxCaret documented
1629 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1630 files. This works under VC++ only
1631 - Modal dialog handling improved
1632 - Printer dialog now modal
1647 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1651 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1652 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1657 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1658 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1659 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1660 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1661 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1662 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1663 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1664 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1665 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1667 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1668 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1669 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1670 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1671 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1672 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1674 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1678 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1679 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1680 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1681 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1682 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1683 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1684 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1685 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1687 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1688 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1689 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1690 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1691 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1692 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1693 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1694 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1695 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1696 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1697 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1698 - wxDragImage class added
1699 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1700 controllers, as well as native help
1701 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1705 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1706 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1707 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1708 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1709 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1710 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1711 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1712 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1713 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1714 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1716 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1717 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1718 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1722 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1723 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1724 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1728 - wxMenu::Enable works
1729 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1730 - OGL samples made to work again
1734 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1735 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1736 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1737 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1738 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1739 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1740 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1741 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1742 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1743 - improved HTML printing
1744 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1745 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1746 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1747 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1750 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1753 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1754 -----------------------
1758 - JPEG support added.
1759 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1763 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1765 - JPEG support added.
1766 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1767 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1768 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1775 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1778 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1779 -------------------------------
1784 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1788 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1789 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1790 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1791 - Some makefile fixes.
1799 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1800 - More topic overviews.
1801 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1802 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1803 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1806 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1807 --------------------------
1811 - wxExecute improved.
1815 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1817 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1818 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1819 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1820 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1821 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1822 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1826 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1827 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1831 - wxLocale documented.
1832 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1833 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1834 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1835 (though doesn't display help yet).
1837 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1838 --------------------------
1842 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1846 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1848 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1852 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1853 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1854 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1855 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1856 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1857 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1858 crashes for some reason).
1859 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1860 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1864 - Further doc improvements.
1865 - wxGenericValidator added.
1866 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1869 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1870 -------------------------
1874 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1875 - wxToolTip class added.
1876 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1880 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1881 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1882 - TWIN32 support added.
1883 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1884 factored out program/library settings.
1885 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1889 - A few more colour fixes.
1890 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1891 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1892 - wxChoice crash fix.
1893 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1897 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1898 - Added samples/dde.
1899 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1901 Beta 2, January 1999
1902 --------------------
1908 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1912 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1914 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1915 - Added thread support (Robert).
1916 - wxPoem sample now works.
1920 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1921 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1922 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1924 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1925 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1927 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1929 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1930 --------------------------
1936 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1939 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1940 ----------------------------
1944 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1945 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1946 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1947 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1948 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1950 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1951 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1956 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1957 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1958 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1959 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1960 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1962 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1963 when any button was pressed.
1964 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1965 have a white background.
1966 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1967 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1968 they have sensible colours by default.
1969 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1970 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1971 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1972 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1973 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1975 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1976 ----------------------------
1980 - More documentation updates, especially for
1981 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1982 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1984 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1985 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1986 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1988 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1992 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1993 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1995 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1996 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1997 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1998 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1999 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2000 the debugging implementation.
2001 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2002 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2003 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2004 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2005 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2006 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2007 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2009 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2011 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2012 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2013 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2014 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2015 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2016 - wxNotebook almost done.
2017 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2018 to vertical toolbars).
2022 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2024 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2025 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2026 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2028 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2029 ----------------------------
2033 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2035 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2036 - A few more makefiles added.
2037 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2038 - Further doc updates.
2039 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2043 - First start at Motif port.
2044 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2045 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2046 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2047 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2049 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2050 --------------------------
2054 - wxBitmap debugged.
2055 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2056 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2057 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2058 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2059 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2060 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2061 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2063 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2064 ------------------------
2068 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2069 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2070 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2071 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2072 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2073 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2074 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2075 changes, wxNotebook.
2076 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2078 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2079 -----------------------
2083 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2084 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2085 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2086 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2087 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2089 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2090 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2092 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2093 -----------------------
2097 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2098 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2100 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2101 -----------------------
2105 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2106 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2108 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2109 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2110 wxMenuItem accessors.
2111 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2112 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2113 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2114 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2115 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2116 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2117 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2118 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2119 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2120 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2121 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2122 first, then doing the assignment.
2123 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2124 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2128 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2129 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2131 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2132 ----------------------
2136 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2137 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2138 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2139 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2140 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2141 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2142 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2143 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2144 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2146 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2147 ------------------------
2151 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2153 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2154 compilation and pragmas.
2155 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2156 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2160 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2161 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2162 compilation and pragmas.
2163 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2165 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2166 ------------------------
2170 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2171 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2173 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2174 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2175 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2176 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2178 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2179 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2180 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2182 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2183 compatibility functions.
2184 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2185 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2186 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2187 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2188 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2189 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2190 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2194 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2195 - Added samples/png.
2196 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2197 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2199 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2201 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2202 ------------------------
2206 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2207 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2208 cleaned up properly before exit.
2209 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2211 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2212 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2213 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2215 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2216 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2218 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2219 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2220 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2221 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2225 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2226 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2227 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2228 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2229 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2230 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2231 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2232 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2233 allow better control of memory.
2234 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2236 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2237 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2239 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2240 ------------------------
2244 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2245 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2246 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2247 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2248 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2249 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2250 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2251 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2252 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2253 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2254 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2255 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2257 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2258 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2259 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2260 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2261 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2262 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2263 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2264 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2265 internal implementation.
2266 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2267 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2268 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2272 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2273 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2274 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2275 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2276 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2278 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2279 --------------------------
2283 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2284 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2285 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2287 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2288 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2289 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2290 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2292 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2293 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2298 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2299 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2300 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2302 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2303 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2305 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2306 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2307 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2308 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2309 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2310 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2311 - Added gcc pragmas.
2312 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2313 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2314 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2315 added a few references to wxTransString.
2316 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2317 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2318 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2319 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2320 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2321 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2322 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2323 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2324 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2327 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2328 --------------------------
2332 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2333 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2334 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2335 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2336 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2337 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2338 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2339 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2340 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2341 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2342 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2344 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2345 to help printing with multiple pages.
2346 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2347 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2348 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2349 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2350 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2351 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2352 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2353 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2354 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2355 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2356 New files from Vadim:
2362 src\common\string.cpp
2366 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2367 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2368 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2369 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2370 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2371 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2372 including changes to defs.h.
2373 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2375 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2377 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2378 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2380 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2382 Alpha 3, September 1997
2383 -----------------------
2387 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2388 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2389 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2390 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2391 - Started documentation.
2393 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2394 ------------------------
2398 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2399 with MetroWerks compiler.
2400 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2401 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2402 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2403 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2404 for testing purposes.
2405 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2407 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2408 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2410 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2411 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2414 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2415 -----------------------
2419 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2421 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2422 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2423 wxString instead of char *.
2424 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2425 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2426 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2427 as wxbWindow now removed.
2428 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2429 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2431 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2432 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2433 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2435 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2436 settings mucho rationalised.
2437 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2438 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2440 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2441 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2442 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2443 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2444 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2445 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2447 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2448 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2450 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2451 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2452 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2453 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2454 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2455 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2456 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2457 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2458 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2459 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2461 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2462 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2464 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2465 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2466 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2467 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2468 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2469 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2471 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2472 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2473 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2474 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2475 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2476 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).