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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
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9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
14 Unicode-related changes
15 -----------------------
17 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
18 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
19 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
22 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
23 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
24 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
25 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
26 backwards compatible except:
28 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
29 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
32 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
33 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
34 should be replaced with an empty string.
37 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
38 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
39 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
40 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
42 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
43 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
44 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
45 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
46 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
47 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
48 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
51 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
52 ------------------------------------
54 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
55 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
56 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
58 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
59 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
60 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
61 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
62 open for futher development by volunteers.
64 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
65 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
68 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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71 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
72 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
74 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
75 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
76 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
78 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
79 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
82 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
83 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
84 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
85 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
86 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
87 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
89 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
90 your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
92 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
93 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
94 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
95 you need the extra features.
97 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
98 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
99 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
100 derived classes to use const reference as well.
102 - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
103 Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
105 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
107 - If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
108 GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
112 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
113 -----------------------------------------------------------
115 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
116 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
118 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
119 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
120 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
122 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
123 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
124 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
125 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
127 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
128 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
129 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
130 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
131 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
133 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
134 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
136 switch (str[i]) { ... }
137 and has to be replaced with this:
138 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
140 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
141 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
142 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
143 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
145 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
146 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
147 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
148 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
149 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
151 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
152 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
153 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
154 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
156 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
157 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
158 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
159 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
161 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
162 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
164 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
165 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
166 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
167 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
168 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
169 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
171 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
173 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
174 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
175 must be used instead.
177 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
180 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
182 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
183 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
185 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
186 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
187 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
189 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
190 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
191 necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
192 next/previous control sibling instead.
194 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
195 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
196 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
198 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
199 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
200 wxBitmapType in your code.
202 - wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
203 functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
204 of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
207 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
208 be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
211 Deprecated methods and their replacements
212 -----------------------------------------
214 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
215 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
216 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
217 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
218 specified so this style should simply be removed
219 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
220 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
222 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
223 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
224 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
225 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
226 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
227 - wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
228 - wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
229 - wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
230 - wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
231 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
232 respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
233 use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
234 of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
235 - EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
236 don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
237 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
238 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
239 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
240 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
241 There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
242 not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
243 - wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
244 different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
245 passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
246 it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
248 - wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
249 - wxThreadHelper::Create() has been deprecated in favour of wxThreadHelper::CreateThread
250 which has a better name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
253 Major new features in this release
254 ----------------------------------
256 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
257 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
260 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
261 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
263 - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many
264 enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
266 - Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
268 - Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
269 wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
271 - Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
272 with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
273 of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
274 definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
275 welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
276 ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
284 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
285 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
286 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
287 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
288 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
289 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
290 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
291 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
292 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
293 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
294 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
295 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
296 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
297 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
298 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
299 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
300 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
301 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
302 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
303 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
304 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
305 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
306 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
307 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
308 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
309 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
310 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
311 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
313 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
314 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
315 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
316 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
317 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
318 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
319 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
320 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
321 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
322 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
323 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
324 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
325 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
326 - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
327 - Added wxArray::swap().
328 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
329 - Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
330 - Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
331 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
335 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
336 - Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
340 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
341 - Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
342 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
343 - Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
344 - Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
345 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
346 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
347 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
348 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
349 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
350 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
351 - Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
352 - Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
353 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
354 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
355 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
356 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
357 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
358 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
359 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
360 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
361 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
362 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
363 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
364 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
365 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
366 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
367 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
368 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
369 - Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
370 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
371 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
372 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
373 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
374 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
375 - Slovak translation added.
376 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
377 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
378 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
379 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
380 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
381 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
382 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
383 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
384 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
385 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
386 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
387 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
388 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
389 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
390 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
391 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
392 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
393 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
394 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
395 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
396 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
397 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
398 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
399 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
400 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
401 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
402 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
403 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
404 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
405 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
406 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
407 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
408 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
409 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
410 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
411 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
412 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
413 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
414 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
415 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
416 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
417 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
418 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
419 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
420 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
421 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
422 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
423 - Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
424 - Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
425 - Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
426 - Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
427 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
428 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
429 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
430 - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
431 - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
432 marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
433 - Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
434 - Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
435 - Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
436 - Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
437 - Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
438 - Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
439 GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
440 no longer return bogus values.
441 - Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
445 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
446 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
447 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
448 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
449 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
450 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
451 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
452 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
453 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
454 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
455 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
456 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
457 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
458 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
459 - Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
463 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
464 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
465 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
466 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
467 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
468 - Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
472 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
473 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
474 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
475 - wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
476 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
477 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
478 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
479 - Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
480 - Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
481 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
482 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
483 - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
484 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
485 accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
486 preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
488 - Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
489 - Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
490 - Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
495 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
496 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
500 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
508 - Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
509 - Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
510 - Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
511 in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
512 results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
516 - Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
517 - Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
518 go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
520 - Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
521 platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
522 - Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
523 - Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
524 wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
525 - Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
526 - Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
527 now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
528 - Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
529 - Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
530 - Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
531 - Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
532 - Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
533 - Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
534 - Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
535 - Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
536 and mouse-down events
537 - wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
538 - Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
539 - Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
540 - Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
541 - Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
542 - Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
543 - wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
547 - MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
548 files and also the default application list.
549 - Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
550 must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
551 mime types manager initialization penalty.
555 - Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
556 contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
557 preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
558 Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
559 will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
560 wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
561 - Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
562 - Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
563 - Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
564 - Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
565 - Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
566 - Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
567 creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
568 - Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
570 - Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
571 - Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
572 - Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
576 - Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
577 - Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
578 - Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
579 as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
580 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
584 - Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
585 would cause the window to scroll.
593 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
594 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
595 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
596 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
597 - Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
601 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
602 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
603 - Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
604 smaller than the minimal size.
605 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
606 - wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
607 - Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
608 - Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
609 - wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
611 - When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
612 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
613 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
614 - SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
615 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
616 charset in ANSI build.
617 - wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
618 and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
619 - Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
620 - Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
621 - Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
622 - Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
623 wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
624 - Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
625 - Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
626 - Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
627 - Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
628 - Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
630 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
631 - Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
632 - Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
633 - wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
634 - Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
635 - Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
636 - Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
640 - Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
641 --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
642 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
643 - Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
644 - Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
648 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
649 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
650 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
651 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
652 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
653 - Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
654 a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
655 - Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
656 to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
657 - Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
658 highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
659 - Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
660 corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
661 - Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
662 - Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
663 - wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
664 for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
665 - Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
667 - Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
668 using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
669 - Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
670 - Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
671 - Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
672 spin button's client size.
673 - Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
674 compiler (Matthias Bohm).
675 - Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
676 systems (Gerald Giese)
680 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
681 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
682 - Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
683 - Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
684 with other applications.
685 - Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
686 change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
687 - Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
688 - Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
689 processing all pending events.
690 - wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
694 - Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
695 - Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
696 - wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
697 - Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
705 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
709 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
710 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
714 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
715 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
716 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
724 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
725 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
733 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
734 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
735 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
736 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
737 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
738 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
739 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
740 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
741 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
742 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
746 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
747 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
748 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
749 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
750 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
751 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
752 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
756 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
757 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
758 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
759 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
760 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
761 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
762 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
763 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
764 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
765 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
766 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
774 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
775 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
776 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
777 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
781 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
785 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
786 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
787 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
788 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
792 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
793 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
794 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
795 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
796 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
797 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
798 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
799 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
800 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
804 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
805 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
806 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
810 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
814 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
815 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
816 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
824 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
825 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
829 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
833 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
837 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
845 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
846 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
847 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
848 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
849 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
850 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
851 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
852 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
853 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
857 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
861 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
862 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
866 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
870 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
871 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
875 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
879 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
887 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
888 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
889 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
890 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
891 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
892 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
896 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
897 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
901 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
905 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
913 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
914 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
915 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
916 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
917 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
918 a stream that is seekable.
919 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
920 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
921 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
925 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
926 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
927 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
928 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
932 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
933 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
941 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
942 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
943 - Added wxTar streams.
944 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
945 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
949 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
950 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
951 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
952 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
953 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
954 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
955 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
956 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
957 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
958 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
959 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
960 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
962 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
963 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
964 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
965 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
969 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
970 program (Francesco Montorsi).
975 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
976 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
977 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
978 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
986 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
987 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
988 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
989 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
990 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
991 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
992 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
993 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
994 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
995 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
996 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
997 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
998 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
999 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
1000 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
1004 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
1005 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
1006 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
1007 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
1008 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
1009 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
1010 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
1011 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
1012 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
1013 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
1014 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
1015 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
1016 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1017 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
1021 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
1022 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
1023 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
1024 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
1025 high-contrast theme).
1026 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
1030 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
1035 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
1036 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
1037 - Implemented right-to-left support.
1038 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1039 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
1043 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
1051 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
1052 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
1053 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
1054 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
1055 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
1056 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
1057 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
1058 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
1059 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
1060 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
1061 during a search and replace.
1062 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
1063 are both used in the same program.
1064 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
1065 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
1066 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
1067 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
1068 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
1069 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
1070 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
1071 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
1072 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
1073 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
1074 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
1075 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
1076 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
1077 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
1078 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
1079 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
1080 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
1081 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
1082 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
1083 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
1084 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
1085 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
1086 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
1087 the first time it was called.
1088 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
1089 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
1090 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
1091 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
1092 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
1093 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
1094 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
1095 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
1096 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
1097 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
1101 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
1102 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
1103 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
1104 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
1105 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
1106 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1107 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
1108 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
1109 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
1110 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
1111 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
1112 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
1113 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
1114 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
1115 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
1116 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
1117 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
1118 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
1119 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
1120 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
1121 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
1122 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
1123 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
1124 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
1125 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
1126 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
1127 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
1128 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
1129 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
1130 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
1131 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
1132 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
1134 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
1135 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
1136 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
1137 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
1138 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
1140 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
1141 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
1142 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
1143 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
1144 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
1145 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
1146 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
1147 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
1148 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
1149 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
1150 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
1151 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
1152 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
1153 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
1154 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
1155 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
1156 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
1157 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
1158 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
1159 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
1160 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
1161 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
1162 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
1163 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
1164 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
1165 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
1166 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
1167 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
1168 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
1169 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
1170 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
1171 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
1172 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
1173 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
1174 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
1175 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
1176 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
1177 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
1178 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
1179 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
1183 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
1184 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
1185 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
1186 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
1187 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
1188 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
1189 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
1190 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
1191 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
1192 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
1193 wxMSW faq for details).
1194 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
1195 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
1196 to the link command.
1197 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
1198 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
1199 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
1200 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
1201 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
1203 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
1204 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
1205 initial construction.
1206 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
1207 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
1208 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
1210 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
1211 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
1212 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
1213 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
1214 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
1215 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
1216 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
1217 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
1218 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
1219 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
1220 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
1221 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
1222 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
1223 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
1224 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
1225 changes the system font.
1226 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
1227 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
1228 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
1229 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
1230 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
1231 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
1235 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
1236 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
1237 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
1238 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
1239 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
1241 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
1242 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
1243 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
1244 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
1245 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
1246 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
1247 previously unable to be focused before.
1248 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
1249 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
1250 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
1252 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
1253 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
1254 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
1255 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
1256 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
1257 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
1258 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
1259 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
1260 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
1264 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
1265 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
1266 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
1267 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
1268 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
1269 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
1270 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
1271 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
1272 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
1273 - Corrected idle wake-up.
1274 - Corrected wxExecute.
1275 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
1276 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
1277 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
1278 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1279 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
1280 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
1281 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
1283 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
1284 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
1286 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
1287 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
1288 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
1289 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
1290 end of file with an error.
1291 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
1293 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
1294 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
1295 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
1296 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
1297 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
1298 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
1299 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
1303 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
1307 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
1308 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
1309 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
1310 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
1311 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
1312 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
1313 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
1314 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
1315 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
1316 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
1317 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
1318 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
1319 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
1320 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
1322 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
1323 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
1324 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
1325 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
1326 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
1330 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
1331 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
1332 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
1336 - Invisible text problem fixed.
1337 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
1338 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
1339 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
1343 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
1347 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
1348 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
1356 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
1357 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
1358 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
1359 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
1360 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
1361 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
1362 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
1363 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
1364 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
1365 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
1366 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
1367 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
1371 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
1372 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
1373 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
1374 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
1375 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
1376 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
1377 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1378 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
1379 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
1380 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
1381 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
1382 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
1386 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
1387 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
1388 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
1389 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
1390 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
1391 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
1392 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1393 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
1394 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
1395 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
1396 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1397 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1398 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1399 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1400 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1404 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1405 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1406 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1407 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1408 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1409 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1410 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1411 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1412 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1413 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1414 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1418 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1419 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1420 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1421 - Various text control bug fixes.
1422 - Automatic menu management improved.
1423 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1424 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1425 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1426 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1431 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1435 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1436 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1440 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1441 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1442 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1443 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1444 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1445 flag has been specified.
1446 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1447 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1448 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1453 - Fixed crash on exit.
1454 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1458 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1466 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1467 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1471 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1472 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1473 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1474 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1475 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1476 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1477 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1478 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1479 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1480 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1484 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1485 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1486 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1487 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1488 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1489 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1490 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1491 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1492 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1493 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1494 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1495 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1496 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1497 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1498 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1499 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1500 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1501 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1502 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1503 - Winelib compilation now works.
1504 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
1505 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1506 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
1507 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
1508 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
1509 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
1510 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
1511 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
1512 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
1513 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
1514 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
1515 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1516 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1520 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1524 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1525 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1526 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1527 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1531 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1532 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1533 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1535 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1536 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1537 - Window menu now added automatically.
1538 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1539 - Modified function key support fixed.
1540 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1544 - Menu problems fixed.
1545 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1546 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1547 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1555 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1556 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1560 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1561 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1565 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1566 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1567 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1571 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1574 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1575 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1576 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1577 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1578 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1579 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1580 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1583 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1590 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1591 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1592 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1593 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1594 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1595 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1596 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1597 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1598 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1602 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1603 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1604 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1605 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1606 the whole virtual area.
1607 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1608 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1609 isn't used to set the window size.
1610 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1611 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1612 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1613 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1617 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1621 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1622 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1623 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1624 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1625 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1626 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1630 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1631 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1632 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1633 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1634 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1635 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1636 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1637 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1641 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1645 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1649 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1650 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1651 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1652 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1653 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1654 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1655 with correct titlebar style.
1656 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1658 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1659 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1660 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1661 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1662 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1663 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1664 to the dialog's toolbar.
1671 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1672 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1673 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1674 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1675 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1676 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1677 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1678 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1679 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1680 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1681 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1682 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1683 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1684 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1685 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1686 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1687 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1688 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1689 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1690 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1691 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1692 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1693 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1694 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1695 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1696 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1697 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1698 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1699 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1700 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1701 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1702 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1703 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1704 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1705 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1706 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1707 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1708 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1709 due to a rounding error.
1710 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1711 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1712 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1713 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1714 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1715 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1716 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1717 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1723 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1724 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1725 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1726 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1727 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1728 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1729 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1730 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1731 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1732 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1733 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1734 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1735 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1736 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1737 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1738 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1739 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1743 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1747 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1748 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1749 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1750 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1751 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1752 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1753 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1754 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1755 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1756 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1757 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1758 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1759 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1761 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1762 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1763 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1764 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1765 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1769 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1770 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1771 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1772 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1776 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1777 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1778 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1779 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1780 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1783 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1784 but not mentioned anywhere.
1785 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1789 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1790 - vertical notebook orientation support
1791 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1792 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1796 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1797 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1798 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1799 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1800 - enumeration of available volumes
1801 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1802 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1803 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1804 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1805 - native wxButton implementation
1806 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1807 - native wxSlider implementation
1808 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1809 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1810 - native wxStaticText implementation
1811 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1819 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1820 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1821 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1822 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1823 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1824 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1825 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1826 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1827 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1828 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1829 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1830 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1831 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1832 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1833 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1834 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1838 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1839 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1840 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1842 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1843 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1844 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1845 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1846 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1847 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1848 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1849 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1850 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1851 - added samples/splash
1852 - added support for stock buttons
1853 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1854 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1855 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1856 - added wxChoicebook control
1857 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1858 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1859 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1860 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1861 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1862 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1863 supported, instead of zero.
1864 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1868 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1869 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1870 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1871 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1872 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1876 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1877 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1878 - Tooltips now supported
1879 - wxSound now supported
1880 - wxDisplay now supported
1881 - Some stock cursors now supported
1885 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1886 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1887 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1888 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1892 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1893 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1894 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1895 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1896 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1897 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1898 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1899 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1900 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1901 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1902 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1903 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1904 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1905 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1906 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1907 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1908 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1909 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1910 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1914 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1918 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1919 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1920 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1921 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1922 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1923 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1924 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1925 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1926 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1927 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1928 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1929 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1930 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1931 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1935 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1939 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1940 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1941 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1942 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1946 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1947 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1955 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1956 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1957 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1958 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1960 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1961 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1962 to forward declare these classes.
1966 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1967 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1968 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1969 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1970 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1971 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1972 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1973 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1974 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1975 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1976 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1977 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1978 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1979 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1980 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1984 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1985 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1986 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1987 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1988 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1989 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1990 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1991 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1992 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1993 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1994 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1995 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1999 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
2003 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
2004 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
2005 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
2006 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
2010 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
2014 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
2015 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
2019 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
2020 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
2024 - Full Unicode support is now available
2025 - BLOB support is working
2033 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
2034 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
2035 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
2036 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
2037 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
2038 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
2039 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
2040 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
2041 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
2042 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
2043 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
2044 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
2045 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
2047 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
2048 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2049 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
2050 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
2051 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
2052 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2053 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
2054 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
2055 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
2056 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
2057 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
2058 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
2062 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2063 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
2064 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
2065 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
2066 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
2067 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
2068 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
2069 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
2070 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
2071 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
2072 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
2073 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
2074 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
2075 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
2076 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
2077 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
2078 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
2079 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2080 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
2081 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
2082 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
2083 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
2084 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
2085 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
2086 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
2087 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
2091 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
2092 - fixed DDE memory leaks
2093 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
2094 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
2095 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
2096 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
2097 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
2098 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
2099 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2100 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
2101 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
2102 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
2103 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
2104 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
2105 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
2106 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
2107 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
2108 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
2109 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2110 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
2111 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
2112 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
2113 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
2114 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
2115 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
2116 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
2117 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
2118 than the specified default size
2119 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
2123 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
2124 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
2125 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
2126 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
2127 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2128 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
2129 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
2130 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
2131 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
2135 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2136 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
2137 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
2138 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
2142 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
2146 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
2147 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
2151 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
2152 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
2153 addition to existing OSS one
2154 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
2162 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
2163 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
2164 separately compiled library
2165 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
2166 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2167 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
2168 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
2169 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
2170 - added wxArray::SetCount()
2171 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
2172 by default in Unicode mode
2173 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
2174 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
2175 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
2176 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
2177 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
2178 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
2179 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
2180 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
2181 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
2182 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
2183 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
2184 - added wxRecursionGuard class
2185 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
2186 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
2187 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
2188 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
2189 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
2190 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
2191 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
2192 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
2196 - added Watcom makefiles
2197 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
2201 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
2202 - added wxListbook control
2203 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
2204 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
2205 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
2206 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
2207 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
2208 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
2209 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
2210 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
2211 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
2212 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
2213 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
2214 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
2215 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
2216 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
2217 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
2218 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
2219 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
2220 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2221 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
2222 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
2223 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
2224 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
2225 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
2226 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
2227 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
2228 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
2229 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
2230 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
2231 default extension for the template
2232 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
2233 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
2234 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
2235 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
2236 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
2237 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
2238 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
2239 to allow better rich text support.
2240 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
2241 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
2242 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
2243 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
2244 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
2245 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
2246 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
2247 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
2248 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
2249 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
2250 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
2251 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
2252 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
2253 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
2254 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
2255 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
2256 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
2257 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
2258 - added wxMirrorDC class
2259 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
2260 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
2261 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
2262 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
2263 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
2264 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
2269 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
2270 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
2271 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
2272 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
2273 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
2277 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
2278 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
2279 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
2280 to contrib/src/deprecated
2284 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
2285 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
2286 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
2287 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
2288 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
2289 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
2290 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
2291 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
2292 be appended to filenames with no extension
2293 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
2294 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
2295 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
2296 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
2300 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
2301 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2305 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
2306 - added wxCrashReport
2307 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
2308 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
2309 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
2310 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
2311 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
2312 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
2313 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
2314 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
2315 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
2316 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
2317 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
2318 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
2319 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
2320 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
2321 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
2322 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
2323 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
2324 - improved border handling under Windows XP
2325 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
2326 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
2327 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
2328 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
2329 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
2330 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
2331 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
2335 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
2336 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
2337 documentation for a detailed explanation
2338 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
2339 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
2340 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
2341 with Motif 1.x compatibility
2342 - implemented wxToggleButton
2343 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
2344 instead of a sunken border
2345 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
2346 - finished wxClipboard implementation
2350 - controls in toolbars now supported
2354 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
2355 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
2356 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
2357 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
2358 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
2364 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
2365 ================================
2367 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
2368 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
2369 with '!' in the first column.
2371 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
2372 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
2373 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
2374 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
2377 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
2378 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
2379 (see the documentation) useful.
2384 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
2385 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
2388 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
2389 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
2390 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
2391 arrays containing non-pointers.
2393 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
2394 simply don't make sense for all objects
2396 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2397 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2398 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2400 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2402 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2403 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2404 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2405 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2406 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2408 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2409 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2410 the default assert handling.
2414 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2415 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2416 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2418 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2419 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2422 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2423 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2424 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2426 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2427 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2428 you want to get OnChar() as well
2430 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2431 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2432 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2434 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2435 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2436 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2437 will *NOT* work any longer:
2439 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2440 ... do something ...
2441 if ( flags & wxYES )
2442 ... do something else ...
2444 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2445 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2448 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2450 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2451 if you derived any classes from it
2453 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2454 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2456 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2457 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2459 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2460 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2462 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2463 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2466 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2467 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2468 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2470 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2471 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2472 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2473 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2477 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2478 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2479 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2480 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2481 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2482 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2483 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2484 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2485 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2486 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2488 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2491 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2492 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2494 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2495 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2496 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2498 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2499 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2504 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
2505 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
2506 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
2507 to compile pure C files.
2510 wxThread and related classes:
2512 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
2513 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
2514 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
2515 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2517 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2518 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2519 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2520 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2522 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2523 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2524 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2526 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2527 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2538 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2545 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2546 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2547 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2551 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2552 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2553 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2556 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2557 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2560 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2564 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2565 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2569 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2576 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2577 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2578 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2579 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2580 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2581 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2582 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2583 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2584 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2585 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2586 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2587 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2588 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2589 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2590 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2591 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2595 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2596 programs and not only GNU make
2597 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2598 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2599 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2600 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2601 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2605 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2606 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2607 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2608 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2609 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2611 - significantly improved native font support
2612 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2614 - added IFF image handler
2615 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2616 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2617 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2618 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2619 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2620 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2621 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2622 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2623 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2624 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2625 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2626 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2627 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2628 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2629 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2630 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2631 - wxMessageOutput class added
2632 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2633 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2635 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2636 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2637 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2638 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2640 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2641 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2642 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2646 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2647 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2648 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2649 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2650 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2651 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2652 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2653 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2654 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2655 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2657 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2658 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2659 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2660 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2661 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2662 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2663 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2665 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2666 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2667 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2668 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2669 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2670 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2671 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2672 has the capture before release it.
2673 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2674 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2675 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2676 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2677 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2678 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2679 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2680 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2681 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2682 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2683 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2684 provided in wxFontData
2685 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2686 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2690 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2691 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2692 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2693 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2694 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2695 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2696 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2697 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2698 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2699 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2700 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2701 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2702 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2706 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2707 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2708 - improved toolbar control alignment
2709 - implemented wxSpinButton
2710 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2711 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2712 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2716 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2717 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2725 - First alpha-quality release
2729 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2730 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2731 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2732 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2733 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2738 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2742 - wxRegEx class added
2743 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2744 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2745 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2746 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2747 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2751 - support for virtual list control added
2752 - column images in report mode of the list control
2753 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2754 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2755 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2756 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2757 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2758 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2759 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2760 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2761 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2762 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2763 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2764 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2768 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2769 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2774 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2775 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2776 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2777 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2781 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2786 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2788 - added support for animated GIFs
2796 - Fixed new charset detection code
2797 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2798 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2799 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2800 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2801 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2802 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2806 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2807 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2808 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2809 push on a custom event handler for example)
2810 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2811 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2812 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2813 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2814 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2815 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2817 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2818 - Various wxXML enhancements
2819 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2820 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2821 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2823 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2824 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2828 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2829 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2830 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2831 alt or shift) now work
2832 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2833 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2834 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2835 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2836 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2837 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2838 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2839 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2840 - We now send iconize events
2841 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2842 - Added mousewheel processing
2843 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2844 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2846 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2847 child frame styles are honoured
2851 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2852 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2853 - We now send iconize events
2854 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2855 GetSelection() results
2862 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2863 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2864 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2865 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2866 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2867 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2868 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2869 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2870 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2871 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2875 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2876 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2877 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2878 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2879 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2880 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2881 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2882 wxImage methods and ctor)
2883 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2884 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2885 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2886 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2887 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2888 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2892 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2893 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2894 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2895 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2899 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2903 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2904 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2911 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2912 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2913 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2914 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2915 - Completed Czech translations
2916 - Some stream corrections
2917 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2918 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2919 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2920 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2924 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2925 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2926 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2927 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2928 - Paper names now translated
2930 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2931 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2932 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2933 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2935 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2936 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2938 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2939 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2940 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2941 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2945 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2946 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2947 backward compatibility, please set
2948 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2949 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2950 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2951 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2952 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2953 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2954 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2955 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2956 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2957 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2958 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2959 - wxFrame restores focus better
2960 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2961 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2962 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2963 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2964 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2965 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2966 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2967 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2968 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2969 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2973 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2977 - Small compilation fixes
2981 - wxCaret documented
2993 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2994 files. This works under VC++ only
2995 - Modal dialog handling improved
2996 - Printer dialog now modal
3011 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
3015 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
3016 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
3021 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
3022 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
3023 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
3024 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
3025 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
3026 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
3027 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
3028 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
3029 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
3031 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
3032 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
3033 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
3034 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
3035 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
3036 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
3038 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
3042 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
3043 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
3044 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
3045 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
3046 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
3047 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
3048 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
3049 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
3051 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
3052 MIME types if available (Unix only)
3053 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
3054 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
3055 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
3056 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
3057 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
3058 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
3059 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
3060 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
3061 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
3062 - wxDragImage class added
3063 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
3064 controllers, as well as native help
3065 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
3069 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
3070 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
3071 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
3072 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
3073 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
3074 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
3075 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
3076 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
3077 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
3078 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
3080 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
3081 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
3082 - wxSetCursorEvent added
3086 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
3087 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
3088 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
3092 - wxMenu::Enable works
3093 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
3094 - OGL samples made to work again
3098 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
3099 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
3100 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
3101 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
3102 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
3103 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
3104 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
3105 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
3106 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
3107 - improved HTML printing
3108 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
3109 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
3110 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
3111 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
3114 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
3117 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
3118 -----------------------
3122 - JPEG support added.
3123 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
3127 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
3129 - JPEG support added.
3130 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
3131 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
3132 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
3139 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
3142 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
3143 -------------------------------
3148 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
3152 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
3153 - Fixed window cursor setting.
3154 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
3155 - Some makefile fixes.
3163 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
3164 - More topic overviews.
3165 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
3166 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
3167 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
3170 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
3171 --------------------------
3175 - wxExecute improved.
3179 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
3181 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
3182 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
3183 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
3184 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
3185 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
3186 - Fixed focus-related crash.
3190 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
3191 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
3195 - wxLocale documented.
3196 - Added include filenames to class reference.
3197 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
3198 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
3199 (though doesn't display help yet).
3201 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
3202 --------------------------
3206 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3210 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
3212 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
3216 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
3217 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
3218 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
3219 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
3220 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
3221 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
3222 crashes for some reason).
3223 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
3224 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
3228 - Further doc improvements.
3229 - wxGenericValidator added.
3230 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
3233 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
3234 -------------------------
3238 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
3239 - wxToolTip class added.
3240 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3244 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
3245 - Makefiles for more compilers.
3246 - TWIN32 support added.
3247 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
3248 factored out program/library settings.
3249 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
3253 - A few more colour fixes.
3254 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
3255 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
3256 - wxChoice crash fix.
3257 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
3261 - wxBusyCursor class added.
3262 - Added samples/dde.
3263 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
3265 Beta 2, January 1999
3266 --------------------
3272 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
3276 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
3278 - Cured some widget table clashes.
3279 - Added thread support (Robert).
3280 - wxPoem sample now works.
3284 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
3285 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
3286 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
3288 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
3289 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
3291 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
3293 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
3294 --------------------------
3300 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
3303 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
3304 ----------------------------
3308 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
3309 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
3310 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
3311 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
3312 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
3314 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
3315 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
3320 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
3321 without (permanently) resizing the window.
3322 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
3323 that disabled scrollbar paging.
3324 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
3326 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
3327 when any button was pressed.
3328 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
3329 have a white background.
3330 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
3331 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
3332 they have sensible colours by default.
3333 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
3334 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
3335 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
3336 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
3337 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
3339 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
3340 ----------------------------
3344 - More documentation updates, especially for
3345 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
3346 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
3348 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
3349 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
3350 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
3352 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
3356 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
3357 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
3359 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
3360 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
3361 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
3362 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
3363 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
3364 the debugging implementation.
3365 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
3366 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
3367 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
3368 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
3369 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
3370 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
3371 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
3373 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
3375 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
3376 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
3377 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
3378 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
3379 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
3380 - wxNotebook almost done.
3381 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
3382 to vertical toolbars).
3386 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
3388 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
3389 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
3390 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
3392 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
3393 ----------------------------
3397 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3399 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3400 - A few more makefiles added.
3401 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3402 - Further doc updates.
3403 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3407 - First start at Motif port.
3408 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3409 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3410 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3411 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3413 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3414 --------------------------
3418 - wxBitmap debugged.
3419 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3420 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3421 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3422 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3423 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3424 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3425 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3427 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3428 ------------------------
3432 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3433 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3434 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3435 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3436 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3437 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3438 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3439 changes, wxNotebook.
3440 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3442 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3443 -----------------------
3447 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3448 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3449 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3450 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3451 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3453 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3454 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3456 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3457 -----------------------
3461 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3462 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3464 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3465 -----------------------
3469 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3470 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3472 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3473 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3474 wxMenuItem accessors.
3475 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3476 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3477 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3478 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3479 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3480 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3481 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3482 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3483 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3484 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3485 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3486 first, then doing the assignment.
3487 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3488 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3492 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3493 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3495 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3496 ----------------------
3500 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3501 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3502 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3503 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
3504 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
3505 require application-supplied positioning code though.
3506 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
3507 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
3508 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
3510 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
3511 ------------------------
3515 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3517 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3518 compilation and pragmas.
3519 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3520 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3524 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3525 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3526 compilation and pragmas.
3527 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3529 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3530 ------------------------
3534 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3535 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3537 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3538 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3539 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3540 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3542 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3543 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3544 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3546 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3547 compatibility functions.
3548 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3549 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3550 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3551 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3552 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3553 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3554 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3558 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3559 - Added samples/png.
3560 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3561 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3563 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3565 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3566 ------------------------
3570 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3571 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3572 cleaned up properly before exit.
3573 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3575 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3576 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3577 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3579 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3580 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3582 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3583 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3584 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3585 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3589 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3590 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3591 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3592 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3593 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3594 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3595 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3596 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3597 allow better control of memory.
3598 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3600 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3601 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3603 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3604 ------------------------
3608 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3609 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3610 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3611 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3612 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3613 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3614 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3615 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3616 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3617 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3618 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3619 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3621 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3622 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3623 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3624 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3625 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3626 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3627 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3628 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3629 internal implementation.
3630 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3631 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3632 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3636 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3637 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3638 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3639 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3640 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3642 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3643 --------------------------
3647 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3648 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3649 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3651 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3652 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3653 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3654 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3656 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3657 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3662 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3663 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3664 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3666 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3667 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3669 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3670 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3671 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3672 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3673 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3674 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3675 - Added gcc pragmas.
3676 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3677 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3678 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3679 added a few references to wxTransString.
3680 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3681 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3682 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3683 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3684 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3685 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3686 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3687 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3688 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3691 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3692 --------------------------
3696 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3697 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3698 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3699 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3700 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3701 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3702 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3703 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3704 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3705 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3706 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3708 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3709 to help printing with multiple pages.
3710 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3711 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3712 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3713 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3714 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3715 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3716 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3717 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3718 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3719 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3720 New files from Vadim:
3726 src\common\string.cpp
3730 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3731 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3732 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3733 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3734 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3735 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3736 including changes to defs.h.
3737 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3739 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3741 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3742 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3744 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3746 Alpha 3, September 1997
3747 -----------------------
3751 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3752 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3753 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3754 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3755 - Started documentation.
3757 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3758 ------------------------
3762 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3763 with MetroWerks compiler.
3764 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3765 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3766 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3767 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3768 for testing purposes.
3769 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3771 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3772 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3774 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3775 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3778 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3779 -----------------------
3783 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3785 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3786 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3787 wxString instead of char *.
3788 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3789 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3790 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3791 as wxbWindow now removed.
3792 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3793 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3795 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3796 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3797 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3799 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3800 settings mucho rationalised.
3801 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3802 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3804 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3805 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3806 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3807 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3808 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3809 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3811 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3812 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3814 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3815 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3816 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3817 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3818 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3819 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3820 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3821 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3822 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3823 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3825 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3826 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3828 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3829 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3830 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3831 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3832 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3833 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3835 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3836 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3837 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3838 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3839 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3840 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).