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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
6 ================================
7
8 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour.
9 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
10 even compile).
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon.
14 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
15 length of the converted string in all cases now.
16 - wxHtmlWindow::OnCellClicked() now returns bool.
17 - wxHtmlCell::OnMouseClick() was deprecated and replaced with
18 wxHtmlCell::ProcessMouseClick(); old code overriding OnMouseClick() will
19 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
20 use ProcessMouseClick().
21 - wxHtmlCell::GetCursor() was deprecated and replaced with
22 wxHtmlCell::GetMouseCursor(); old code overriding GetCursor() will
23 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
24 use GetMouseCursor().
25 - wxHtmlCell::AdjustPagebreak() signature has changed, update your code if you
26 override it.
27 - wxFontEnumerator::GetFacenames() and GetEncodings() now return arrays and
28 not pointers to arrays.
29 - wxStaticBoxSizer now deletes the associated wxStaticBox when it is deleted.
30 - Windows calling CaptureMouse() are now required to handle
31 the wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event.
32 - SetDefaultItem() method was moved from wxPanel to wxTopLevelWindow
33 - wxDialog::OnOK/OnCancel() don't exist any more, use SetAffirmative/EscapeId()
34 - wxPathList doesn't derive from (deprecated) wxStringList any more
35 - wxGLContext class has no 1:1 coupling to a wxGLCanvas class any more.
36 As a consequence, the class interface changed largely.
37 Code updates, if any are required at all, are easy to accomplish though.
38 - wxDialog::CreateButtonSizer() may return NULL now, please see the manual
39
40
41
42 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
43 -----------------------------------------------------
44
45 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd().
46 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, just don't use them.
47
48
49 Major changes in 2.7 release
50 ----------------------------
51
52 - New AUI library supporting docking windows and much more
53
54
55 2.7.1
56 -----
57
58 All:
59
60 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
61 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
62 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
63 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal)
64 - Added reference counting for wxVariant
65 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
66 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet
67
68 All (GUI):
69
70 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
71 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
72 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi)
73 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog
74 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
75 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
76 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty()
77 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
78 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
79 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
80 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
81 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered()
82
83 wxMSW:
84
85 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
86 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
87 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
88 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
89 high-contrast theme).
90 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky)
91
92 wxMac:
93
94 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
95 to the SDK.
96
97 wxGTK:
98
99 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
100 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
101 - Implemented right-to-left support
102
103 wxUniv:
104
105 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault()
106
107
108 2.7.0
109 -----
110
111 All:
112
113 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
114 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
115 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
116 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
117 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
118 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
119 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
120 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
121 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
122 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
123 during a search and replace.
124 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
125 are both used in the same program.
126 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
127 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
128 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
129 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
130 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
131 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
132 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
133 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
134 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
135 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
136 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
137 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
138 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
139 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
140 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
141 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
142 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
143 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
144 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
145 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
146 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
147 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
148 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
149 the first time it was called.
150 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
151 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
152 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
153 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
154 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
155 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
156 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
157 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
158 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
159 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
160
161 All (GUI):
162
163 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
164 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
165 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
166 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
167 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
168 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
169 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
170 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
171 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
172 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
173 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
174 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
175 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
176 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
177 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
178 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
179 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
180 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
181 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
182 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
183 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
184 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
185 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
186 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
187 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
188 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
189 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
190 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
191 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
192 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
193 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
194 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
195 by Sandro Sigala).
196 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
197 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
198 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
199 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
200 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
201 best size.
202 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
203 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
204 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
205 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
206 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
207 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
208 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
209 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
210 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
211 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
212 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
213 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
214 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
215 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
216 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
217 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
218 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
219 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
220 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
221 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
222 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
223 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
224 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
225 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
226 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
227 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
228 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
229 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
230 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
231 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
232 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
233 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
234 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
235 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
236 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
237 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
238 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
239 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
240 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
241 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
242
243 wxMSW:
244
245 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
246 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
247 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
248 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
249 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
250 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
251 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
252 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
253 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
254 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
255 wxMSW faq for details).
256 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
257 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
258 to the link command.
259 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
260 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
261 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
262 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
263 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
264 show.
265 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
266 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
267 initial construction.
268 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
269 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
270 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
271 events).
272 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
273 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
274 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
275 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
276 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
277 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
278 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
279 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
280 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
281 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
282 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
283 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
284 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
285 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
286 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
287 changes the system font.
288 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
289 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
290 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
291 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
292 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
293 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
294
295 wxGTK:
296
297 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
298 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
299 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
300 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
301 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
302 implementation.
303 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
304 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
305 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
306 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
307 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
308 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
309 previously unable to be focused before.
310 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
311 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
312 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
313 class was used.
314 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
315 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
316 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
317 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
318 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
319 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
320 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
321 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
322 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
323
324 wxMac:
325
326 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
327 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
328 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
329 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
330 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
331 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
332 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
333 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
334 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
335 - Corrected idle wake-up.
336 - Corrected wxExecute.
337 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
338 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
339 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
340 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
341 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
342 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
343 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
344 were found.
345 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
346 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
347 under Mach-O.
348 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
349 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
350 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
351 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
352 end of file with an error.
353 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
354 binaries.
355 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
356 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
357 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
358 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
359 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
360 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
361 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
362
363 wxCocoa:
364
365 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
366
367 wxWinCE:
368
369 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
370 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
371 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
372 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
373 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
374 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
375 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
376 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
377 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
378 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
379 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
380 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
381 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
382 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
383 directly, however.
384 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
385 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
386 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
387 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
388 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
389
390 wxUniv:
391
392 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
393 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
394 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
395
396 wxX11:
397
398 - Invisible text problem fixed.
399 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
400 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
401 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
402
403 Unix:
404
405 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
406
407 wxMGL:
408
409 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
410 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
411
412
413 2.6.2
414 -----
415
416 All:
417
418 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
419 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
420 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
421 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
422 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
423 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
424 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
425 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
426 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
427 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
428 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
429 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
430
431 All (GUI):
432
433 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
434 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
435 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
436 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
437 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
438 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
439 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
440 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
441 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
442 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
443 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
444 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
445
446 wxMSW:
447
448 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
449 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
450 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
451 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
452 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
453 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
454 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
455 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
456 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
457 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
458 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
459 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
460 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
461 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
462 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
463
464 wxGTK:
465
466 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
467 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
468 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
469 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
470 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
471 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
472 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
473 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
474 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
475 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
476 - Fixed domain socket handling.
477
478 wxMac:
479
480 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
481 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
482 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
483 - Various text control bug fixes.
484 - Automatic menu management improved.
485 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
486 due to dangling cycle pointers.
487 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
488 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
489 showing modally).
490
491 wxOS2
492
493 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
494
495 wxUniv:
496
497 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
498 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
499
500 wxMotif:
501
502 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
503 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
504 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
505 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
506 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
507 flag has been specified.
508 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
509 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
510 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
511 showing modally).
512
513 wxMGL:
514
515 - Fixed crash on exit.
516 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
517
518 wxX11:
519
520 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
521
522
523 2.6.1
524 -----
525
526 All:
527
528 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
529 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
530
531 All (GUI):
532
533 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
534 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
535 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
536 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
537 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
538 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
539 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
540 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
541 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
542 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
543
544 wxMSW:
545
546 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
547 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
548 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
549 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
550 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
551 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
552 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
553 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
554 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
555 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
556 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
557 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
558 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
559 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
560 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
561 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
562 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
563 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
564 - Compiles again with WIN64.
565 - Winelib compilation now works.
566 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
567 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
568 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
569 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
570 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
571 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
572 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
573 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
574 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
575 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
576 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
577 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
578 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
579
580 wxWinCE:
581
582 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
583
584 wxGTK:
585
586 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
587 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
588 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
589 - Added bitmap support in menus.
590
591 wxMac:
592
593 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
594 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
595 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
596 incorrect state.
597 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
598 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
599 - Window menu now added automatically.
600 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
601 - Modified function key support fixed.
602 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
603
604 wxX11:
605
606 - Menu problems fixed.
607 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
608 - Fixed a font memory leak.
609 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
610
611
612 2.6.0
613 -----
614
615 All:
616
617 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
618 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
619
620 All (GUI):
621
622 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
623 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
624
625 wxMSW:
626
627 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
628 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
629 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
630
631 wxWinCE:
632
633 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
634
635 wxGTK:
636 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
637 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
638 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
639 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
640 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
641 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
642 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
643
644 wxMac:
645 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
646
647 2.5.5
648 -----
649
650 All:
651
652 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
653 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
654 - Added wxDebugReport class.
655 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
656 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
657 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
658 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
659 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
660 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
661
662 All (GUI):
663
664 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
665 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
666 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
667 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
668 the whole virtual area.
669 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
670 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
671 isn't used to set the window size.
672 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
673 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
674 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
675 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
676
677 Unix:
678
679 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
680
681 wxMSW:
682
683 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
684 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
685 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
686 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
687 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
688 handling (Jamie Gadd).
689
690 wxGTK:
691
692 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
693 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
694 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
695 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
696 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
697 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
698 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
699 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
700
701 wxMac:
702
703 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
704
705 wxPalmOS:
706
707 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
708
709 wxWinCE:
710
711 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
712 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
713 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
714 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
715 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
716 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
717 with correct titlebar style.
718 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
719 PocketPC guidelines
720 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
721 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
722 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
723 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
724 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
725 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
726 to the dialog's toolbar.
727
728 2.5.4
729 -----
730
731 All:
732
733 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
734 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
735 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
736 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
737 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
738 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
739 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
740 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
741 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
742 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
743 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
744 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
745 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
746 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
747 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
748 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
749 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
750 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
751 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
752 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
753 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
754 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
755 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
756 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
757 printing stuff in the GTK port.
758 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
759 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
760 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
761 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
762 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
763 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
764 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
765 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
766 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
767 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
768 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
769 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
770 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
771 due to a rounding error.
772 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
773 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
774 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
775 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
776 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
777 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
778 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
779 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
780
781
782 All (GUI):
783
784 - added wxMediaCtrl
785 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
786 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
787 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
788 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
789 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
790 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
791 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
792 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
793 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
794 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
795 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
796 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
797 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
798 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
799 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
800 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
801 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
802
803 Unix:
804
805 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
806
807 wxGTK:
808
809 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
810 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
811 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
812 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
813 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
814 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
815 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
816 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
817 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
818 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
819 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
820 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
821 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
822 errors otherwise.
823 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
824 - Added wxRawBitmap support
825 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
826 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
827 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
828
829 wxMac:
830
831 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
832 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
833 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
834 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
835
836 wxMSW:
837
838 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
839 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
840 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
841 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
842 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
843
844 wxWinCE:
845 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
846 but not mentioned anywhere.
847 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
848
849 wxUniv:
850
851 - wxBU_... button align flags support
852 - vertical notebook orientation support
853 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
854 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
855
856 wxPalmOS:
857
858 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
859 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
860 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
861 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
862 - enumeration of available volumes
863 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
864 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
865 - native wxColourDialog implementation
866 - native wxSystemSettings colours
867 - native wxButton implementation
868 - native wxCheckBox implementation
869 - native wxSlider implementation
870 - native wxToggleButton implementation
871 - native wxRadioButton implementation
872 - native wxStaticText implementation
873 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
874
875
876 2.5.3
877 -----
878
879 All:
880
881 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
882 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
883 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
884 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
885 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
886 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
887 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
888 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
889 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
890 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
891 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
892 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
893 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
894 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
895 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
896 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
897
898 All (GUI):
899
900 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
901 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
902 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
903 is discouraged
904 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
905 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
906 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
907 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
908 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
909 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
910 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
911 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
912 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
913 - added samples/splash
914 - added support for stock buttons
915 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
916 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
917 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
918 - added wxChoicebook control
919 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
920 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
921 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
922 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
923 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
924 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
925 supported, instead of zero.
926 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
927
928 Unix:
929
930 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
931 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
932 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
933 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
934 - wx-config has new --version-full option
935
936 wxCocoa:
937
938 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
939 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
940 - Tooltips now supported
941 - wxSound now supported
942 - wxDisplay now supported
943 - Some stock cursors now supported
944
945 wxMac:
946
947 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
948 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
949 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
950 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
951
952 wxGTK:
953
954 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
955 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
956 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
957 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
958 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
959 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
960 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
961 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
962 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
963 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
964 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
965 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
966 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
967 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
968 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
969 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
970 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
971 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
972 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
973
974 wxMotif:
975
976 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
977
978 wxMSW:
979
980 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
981 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
982 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
983 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
984 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
985 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
986 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
987 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
988 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
989 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
990 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
991 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
992 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
993 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
994
995 wxUniv/X11:
996
997 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
998
999 wxWinCE:
1000
1001 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1002 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1003 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1004 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1005
1006 wxHTML:
1007
1008 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1009 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1010
1011
1012 2.5.2
1013 -----
1014
1015 All:
1016
1017 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1018 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1019 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1020 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1021 of run-time) now
1022 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1023 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1024 to forward declare these classes.
1025
1026 All (GUI):
1027
1028 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1029 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1030 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1031 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1032 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1033 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1034 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1035 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1036 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1037 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1038 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1039 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1040 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1041 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1042 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1043
1044 wxMSW:
1045
1046 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1047 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1048 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1049 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1050 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1051 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1052 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1053 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1054 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1055 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1056 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1057 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1058
1059 wxGTK:
1060
1061 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1062
1063 wxMotif:
1064
1065 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1066 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1067 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1068 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1069
1070 wxUniv/X11:
1071
1072 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1073
1074 wxHTML:
1075
1076 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1077 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1078
1079 Unix:
1080
1081 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1082 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1083
1084 wxODBC:
1085
1086 - Full Unicode support is now available
1087 - BLOB support is working
1088
1089
1090 2.5.1
1091 -----
1092
1093 All:
1094
1095 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1096 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1097 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1098 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1099 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1100 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1101 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1102 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1103 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1104 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1105 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1106 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1107 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1108 (as in 2.5.0).
1109 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1110 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1111 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1112 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1113 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1114 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1115 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1116 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1117 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1118 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1119 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1120 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1121
1122 All (GUI):
1123
1124 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1125 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1126 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1127 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1128 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1129 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1130 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1131 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1132 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1133 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1134 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1135 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1136 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1137 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1138 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1139 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1140 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1141 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1142 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1143 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1144 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1145 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1146 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1147 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1148 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1149 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1150
1151 wxMSW:
1152
1153 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1154 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1155 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1156 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1157 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1158 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1159 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1160 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1161 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1162 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1163 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1164 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1165 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1166 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1167 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1168 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1169 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1170 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1171 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1172 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1173 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1174 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1175 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1176 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1177 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1178 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1179 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1180 than the specified default size
1181 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1182
1183 wxGTK:
1184
1185 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1186 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1187 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1188 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1189 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1190 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1191 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1192 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1193 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1194
1195 wxMac:
1196
1197 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1198 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1199 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1200 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1201
1202 wxMotif:
1203
1204 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1205
1206 wxHTML:
1207
1208 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1209 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1210
1211 Unix:
1212
1213 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1214 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1215 addition to existing OSS one
1216 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1217
1218
1219 2.5.0
1220 -----
1221
1222 All:
1223
1224 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1225 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1226 separately compiled library
1227 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1228 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1229 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1230 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1231 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1232 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1233 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1234 by default in Unicode mode
1235 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1236 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1237 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1238 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1239 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1240 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1241 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1242 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1243 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1244 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1245 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1246 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1247 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1248 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1249 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1250 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1251 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1252 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1253 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1254 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1255
1256 wxBase:
1257
1258 - added Watcom makefiles
1259 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1260
1261 All GUI ports:
1262
1263 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1264 - added wxListbook control
1265 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1266 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1267 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1268 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1269 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1270 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1271 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1272 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1273 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1274 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1275 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1276 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1277 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1278 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1279 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1280 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1281 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1282 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1283 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1284 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1285 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1286 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1287 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1288 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1289 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1290 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1291 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1292 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1293 default extension for the template
1294 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1295 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1296 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1297 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1298 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1299 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1300 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1301 to allow better rich text support.
1302 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1303 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1304 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1305 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1306 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1307 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1308 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1309 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1310 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1311 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1312 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1313 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1314 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1315 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1316 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1317 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1318 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1319 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1320 - added wxMirrorDC class
1321 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1322 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1323 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1324 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1325 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1326 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1327 improved
1328
1329 Unix:
1330
1331 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1332 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1333 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1334 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1335 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1336
1337 Generic controls:
1338
1339 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1340 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1341 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1342 to contrib/src/deprecated
1343
1344 wxGTK:
1345
1346 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1347 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1348 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1349 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1350 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1351 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1352 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1353 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1354 be appended to filenames with no extension
1355 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1356 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1357 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1358 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1359
1360 wxMac:
1361
1362 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1363 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1364
1365 wxMSW:
1366
1367 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1368 - added wxCrashReport
1369 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1370 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1371 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1372 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1373 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1374 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1375 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1376 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1377 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1378 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1379 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1380 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1381 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1382 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1383 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1384 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1385 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1386 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1387 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1388 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1389 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1390 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1391 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1392 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1393 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1394
1395 wxMotif:
1396
1397 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1398 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1399 documentation for a detailed explanation
1400 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1401 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1402 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1403 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1404 - implemented wxToggleButton
1405 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1406 instead of a sunken border
1407 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1408 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1409
1410 wxUniv:
1411
1412 - controls in toolbars now supported
1413
1414 wxHTML:
1415
1416 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1417 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1418 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1419 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1420 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1421
1422
1423 OLD CHANGES
1424 ===========
1425
1426 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1427 ================================
1428
1429 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1430 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1431 with '!' in the first column.
1432
1433 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1434 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1435 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1436 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1437 2.6 release.
1438
1439 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1440 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1441 (see the documentation) useful.
1442
1443
1444 wxBase:
1445
1446 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1447 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1448 code.
1449
1450 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1451 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1452 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1453 arrays containing non-pointers.
1454
1455 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1456 simply don't make sense for all objects
1457
1458 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1459 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1460 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1461
1462 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1463
1464 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1465 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1466 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1467 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1468 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1469
1470 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1471 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1472 the default assert handling.
1473
1474 All (GUI):
1475
1476 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1477 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1478 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1479
1480 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1481 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1482 instead!
1483
1484 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1485 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1486 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1487
1488 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1489 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1490 you want to get OnChar() as well
1491
1492 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1493 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1494 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1495
1496 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1497 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1498 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1499 will *NOT* work any longer:
1500
1501 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1502 ... do something ...
1503 if ( flags & wxYES )
1504 ... do something else ...
1505
1506 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1507 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1508 the ctor
1509
1510 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1511
1512 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1513 if you derived any classes from it
1514
1515 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1516 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1517
1518 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1519 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1520
1521 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1522 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1523
1524 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1525 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1526 from happening
1527
1528 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1529 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1530 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1531
1532 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1533 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1534 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1535 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1536
1537 wxMSW:
1538
1539 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1540 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1541 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1542 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1543 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1544 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1545 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1546 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1547 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1548 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1549
1550 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1551 style to avoid it
1552
1553 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1554 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1555
1556 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1557 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1558 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1559
1560 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1561 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1562
1563
1564 Unix ports:
1565
1566 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1567 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1568 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1569 to compile pure C files.
1570
1571
1572 wxThread and related classes:
1573
1574 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1575 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1576 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1577 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1578
1579 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1580 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1581 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1582 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1583
1584 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1585 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1586 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1587
1588 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1589 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1590
1591
1592 OTHER CHANGES
1593 =============
1594
1595 2.4.0
1596 -----
1597
1598 wxMSW:
1599
1600 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1601
1602 2.3.4
1603 -----
1604
1605 All:
1606
1607 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1608 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1609 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1610
1611 Unix (Base/GUI):
1612
1613 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1614 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1615 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1616
1617 wxGTK:
1618 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1619 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1620
1621 wxX11:
1622 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1623
1624 wxMSW:
1625
1626 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1627 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1628
1629 wxHTML:
1630
1631 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1632
1633 2.3.3
1634 -----
1635
1636 wxBase:
1637
1638 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1639 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1640 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1641 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1642 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1643 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1644 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1645 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1646 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1647 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1648 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1649 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1650 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1651 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1652 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1653 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1654
1655 Unix (Base/GUI):
1656
1657 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1658 programs and not only GNU make
1659 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1660 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1661 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1662 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1663 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1664
1665 All (GUI):
1666
1667 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1668 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1669 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1670 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1671 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1672 wxWidgets dialogs
1673 - significantly improved native font support
1674 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1675 wxHashTable
1676 - added IFF image handler
1677 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1678 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1679 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1680 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1681 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1682 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1683 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1684 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1685 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1686 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1687 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1688 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1689 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1690 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1691 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1692 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1693 - wxMessageOutput class added
1694 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1695 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1696 table fills up
1697 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1698 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1699 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1700 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1701 (Rene Rivera).
1702 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1703 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1704 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1705
1706 wxMSW:
1707
1708 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1709 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1710 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1711 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1712 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1713 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1714 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1715 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1716 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1717 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1718 are changed
1719 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1720 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1721 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1722 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1723 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1724 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1725 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1726 recursion any more
1727 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1728 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1729 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1730 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1731 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1732 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1733 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1734 has the capture before release it.
1735 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1736 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1737 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1738 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1739 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1740 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1741 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1742 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1743 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1744 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1745 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1746 provided in wxFontData
1747 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1748 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1749
1750 wxGTK:
1751
1752 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1753 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1754 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1755 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1756 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1757 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1758 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1759 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1760 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1761 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1762 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1763 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1764 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1765
1766 wxMotif:
1767
1768 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1769 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1770 - improved toolbar control alignment
1771 - implemented wxSpinButton
1772 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1773 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1774 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1775
1776 wxX11:
1777
1778 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1779 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1780
1781 wxMac:
1782
1783 - Many improvements
1784
1785 wxOS2:
1786
1787 - First alpha-quality release
1788
1789 wxHTML:
1790
1791 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1792 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1793 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1794 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1795 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1796
1797 2.3.2
1798 -----
1799
1800 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1801
1802 wxBase:
1803
1804 - wxRegEx class added
1805 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1806 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1807 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1808 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1809 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1810
1811 All (GUI):
1812
1813 - support for virtual list control added
1814 - column images in report mode of the list control
1815 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1816 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1817 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1818 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1819 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1820 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1821 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1822 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1823 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1824 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1825 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1826 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1827
1828 wxMSW:
1829
1830 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1831 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1832 project files
1833
1834 wxGTK:
1835
1836 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1837 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1838 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1839 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1840
1841 wxMac:
1842
1843 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1844 Tools
1845
1846 wxHTML:
1847
1848 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1849 to tags parsing
1850 - added support for animated GIFs
1851
1852 2.3.1
1853 -----
1854
1855 wxBase:
1856
1857 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
1858 - Fixed new charset detection code
1859 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1860 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1861 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1862 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1863 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1864 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1865
1866 All (GUI):
1867
1868 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1869 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1870 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1871 push on a custom event handler for example)
1872 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1873 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1874 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1875 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1876 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1877 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1878 first-time saved
1879 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1880 - Various wxXML enhancements
1881 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1882 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1883 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1884 instead of GetId()
1885 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1886 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1887
1888 wxMSW:
1889
1890 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1891 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1892 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1893 alt or shift) now work
1894 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1895 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1896 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1897 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1898 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1899 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1900 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1901 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1902 - We now send iconize events
1903 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1904 - Added mousewheel processing
1905 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1906 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1907 in wxDC
1908 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1909 child frame styles are honoured
1910
1911 wxGTK:
1912
1913 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1914 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1915 - We now send iconize events
1916 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1917 GetSelection() results
1918
1919 2.3.0
1920 -----
1921
1922 wxBase:
1923
1924 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1925 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1926 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1927 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1928 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1929 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1930 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1931 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1932 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1933 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1934
1935 All (GUI):
1936
1937 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1938 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1939 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1940 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1941 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1942 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1943 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1944 wxImage methods and ctor)
1945 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1946 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1947 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1948 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1949 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1950 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1951
1952 wxMSW:
1953
1954 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1955 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1956 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1957 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1958
1959 wxGTK:
1960
1961 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1962
1963 wxHTML:
1964
1965 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1966 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1967
1968 2.2.0
1969 -----
1970
1971 wxBase:
1972
1973 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1974 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1975 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1976 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1977 - Completed Czech translations
1978 - Some stream corrections
1979 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1980 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1981 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1982 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1983
1984 All (GUI):
1985
1986 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1987 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1988 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1989 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1990 - Paper names now translated
1991 - wxGrid fixes
1992 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1993 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1994 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1995 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1996 File dialog.
1997 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1998 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1999 writing code
2000 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2001 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2002 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2003 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2004
2005 wxMSW:
2006
2007 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2008 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2009 backward compatibility, please set
2010 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2011 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2012 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2013 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2014 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2015 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2016 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2017 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2018 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2019 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2020 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2021 - wxFrame restores focus better
2022 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2023 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2024 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2025 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2026 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2027 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2028 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2029 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2030 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2031 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2032
2033 wxGTK:
2034
2035 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2036
2037 wxMotif:
2038
2039 - Small compilation fixes
2040
2041 Documentation:
2042
2043 - wxCaret documented
2044
2045 2.1.16
2046 ------
2047
2048 wxBase:
2049
2050 All (GUI):
2051
2052 wxMSW:
2053
2054 - Various bug fixes
2055 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2056 files. This works under VC++ only
2057 - Modal dialog handling improved
2058 - Printer dialog now modal
2059
2060 wxGTK:
2061
2062 - Various bug fixes
2063
2064 wxMotif:
2065
2066 - Various bug fixes
2067
2068 2.1.15
2069 ------
2070
2071 Documentation:
2072
2073 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2074
2075 File hierarchy:
2076
2077 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2078 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2079
2080 wxBase:
2081
2082 - wxSocket support
2083 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2084 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2085 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2086 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2087 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2088 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2089 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2090 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2091 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2092 only so far)
2093 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2094 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2095 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2096 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2097 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2098 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2099 is available)
2100 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2101
2102 all (GUI):
2103
2104 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2105 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2106 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2107 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2108 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2109 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2110 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2111 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2112 John Norris)
2113 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2114 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2115 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2116 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2117 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2118 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2119 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2120 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2121 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2122 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2123 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2124 - wxDragImage class added
2125 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2126 controllers, as well as native help
2127 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2128
2129 wxMSW:
2130
2131 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2132 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2133 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2134 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2135 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2136 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2137 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2138 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2139 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2140 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2141 Unix ports
2142 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2143 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2144 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2145
2146 wxGTK:
2147
2148 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2149 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2150 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2151
2152 wxMotif:
2153
2154 - wxMenu::Enable works
2155 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2156 - OGL samples made to work again
2157
2158 wxHTML:
2159
2160 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2161 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2162 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2163 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2164 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2165 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2166 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2167 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2168 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2169 - improved HTML printing
2170 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2171 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2172 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2173 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2174
2175
2176 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2177 change log.
2178
2179 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2180 -----------------------
2181
2182 wxGTK:
2183
2184 - JPEG support added.
2185 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2186
2187 wxMSW:
2188
2189 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2190 SetTabSize added.
2191 - JPEG support added.
2192 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2193 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2194 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2195
2196 wxMotif:
2197
2198
2199 General:
2200
2201 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2202
2203
2204 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2205 -------------------------------
2206
2207 wxGTK:
2208
2209 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2210 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2211
2212 wxMSW:
2213
2214 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2215 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2216 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2217 - Some makefile fixes.
2218
2219 wxMotif:
2220
2221 - None.
2222
2223 General:
2224
2225 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2226 - More topic overviews.
2227 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2228 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2229 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2230
2231
2232 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2233 --------------------------
2234
2235 wxGTK:
2236
2237 - wxExecute improved.
2238
2239 wxMSW:
2240
2241 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2242 expected).
2243 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2244 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2245 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2246 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2247 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2248 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2249
2250 wxMotif:
2251
2252 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2253 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2254
2255 General:
2256
2257 - wxLocale documented.
2258 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2259 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2260 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2261 (though doesn't display help yet).
2262
2263 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2264 --------------------------
2265
2266 wxGTK:
2267
2268 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2269
2270 wxMSW:
2271
2272 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2273 rationalised.
2274 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2275
2276 wxMotif:
2277
2278 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2279 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2280 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2281 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2282 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2283 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2284 crashes for some reason).
2285 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2286 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2287
2288 General:
2289
2290 - Further doc improvements.
2291 - wxGenericValidator added.
2292 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2293 automatically.
2294
2295 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2296 -------------------------
2297
2298 wxGTK:
2299
2300 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2301 - wxToolTip class added.
2302 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2303
2304 wxMSW:
2305
2306 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2307 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2308 - TWIN32 support added.
2309 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2310 factored out program/library settings.
2311 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2312
2313 wxMotif:
2314
2315 - A few more colour fixes.
2316 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2317 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2318 - wxChoice crash fix.
2319 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2320
2321 General:
2322
2323 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2324 - Added samples/dde.
2325 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2326
2327 Beta 2, January 1999
2328 --------------------
2329
2330 wxGTK:
2331
2332 wxMSW:
2333
2334 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2335
2336 wxMotif:
2337
2338 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2339 the right place.
2340 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2341 - Added thread support (Robert).
2342 - wxPoem sample now works.
2343
2344 General:
2345
2346 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2347 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2348 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2349 or below).
2350 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2351 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2352 sample.
2353 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2354
2355 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2356 --------------------------
2357
2358 wxGTK:
2359
2360 - Various
2361
2362 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2363
2364
2365 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2366 ----------------------------
2367
2368 wxMSW:
2369
2370 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2371 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2372 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2373 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2374 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2375 on a tab.
2376 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2377 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2378 of Stefan Csomor.
2379
2380 wxMotif:
2381
2382 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2383 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2384 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2385 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2386 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2387 colours correctly.
2388 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2389 when any button was pressed.
2390 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2391 have a white background.
2392 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2393 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2394 they have sensible colours by default.
2395 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2396 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2397 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2398 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2399 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2400
2401 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2402 ----------------------------
2403
2404 wxMSW:
2405
2406 - More documentation updates, especially for
2407 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2408 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2409 of wxTrace.
2410 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2411 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2412 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2413 position.
2414 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2415
2416 wxMotif:
2417
2418 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2419 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2420 child frames).
2421 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2422 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2423 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2424 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2425 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2426 the debugging implementation.
2427 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2428 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2429 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2430 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2431 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2432 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2433 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2434
2435 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2436
2437 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2438 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2439 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2440 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2441 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2442 - wxNotebook almost done.
2443 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2444 to vertical toolbars).
2445
2446 More recently:
2447
2448 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2449 to scrollbars).
2450 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2451 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2452 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2453
2454 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2455 ----------------------------
2456
2457 wxMSW:
2458
2459 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2460 sample.
2461 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2462 - A few more makefiles added.
2463 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2464 - Further doc updates.
2465 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2466
2467 wxMotif:
2468
2469 - First start at Motif port.
2470 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2471 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2472 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2473 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2474
2475 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2476 --------------------------
2477
2478 wxMSW:
2479
2480 - wxBitmap debugged.
2481 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2482 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2483 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2484 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2485 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2486 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2487 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2488
2489 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2490 ------------------------
2491
2492 wxMSW:
2493
2494 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2495 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2496 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2497 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2498 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2499 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2500 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2501 changes, wxNotebook.
2502 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2503
2504 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2505 -----------------------
2506
2507 wxMSW:
2508
2509 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2510 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2511 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2512 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2513 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2514 don't support it.
2515 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2516 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2517
2518 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2519 -----------------------
2520
2521 wxMSW:
2522
2523 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2524 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2525
2526 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2527 -----------------------
2528
2529 wxMSW:
2530
2531 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2532 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2533 wxMenuBar.
2534 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2535 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2536 wxMenuItem accessors.
2537 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2538 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2539 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2540 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2541 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2542 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2543 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2544 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2545 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2546 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2547 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2548 first, then doing the assignment.
2549 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2550 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2551
2552 Generic:
2553
2554 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2555 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2556
2557 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2558 ----------------------
2559
2560 wxMSW:
2561
2562 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2563 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2564 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2565 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2566 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2567 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2568 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2569 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2570 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2571
2572 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2573 ------------------------
2574
2575 wxMSW:
2576
2577 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2578 fields were used.
2579 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2580 compilation and pragmas.
2581 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2582 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2583
2584 Generic:
2585
2586 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2587 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2588 compilation and pragmas.
2589 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2590
2591 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2592 ------------------------
2593
2594 wxMSW:
2595
2596 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2597 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2598 some reason :-(
2599 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2600 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2601 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2602 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2603 startup/exit.
2604 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2605 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2606 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2607 VADIM'S CHANGES:
2608 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2609 compatibility functions.
2610 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2611 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2612 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2613 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2614 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2615 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2616 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2617
2618 Generic:
2619
2620 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2621 - Added samples/png.
2622 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2623 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2624 header files.
2625 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2626
2627 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2628 ------------------------
2629
2630 wxMSW:
2631
2632 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2633 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2634 cleaned up properly before exit.
2635 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2636 automatically.
2637 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2638 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2639 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2640 unresolved issues.
2641 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2642 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2643 tray area.
2644 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2645 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2646 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2647 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2648
2649 Generic:
2650
2651 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2652 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2653 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2654 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2655 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2656 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2657 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2658 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2659 allow better control of memory.
2660 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2661 checking.
2662 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2663 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2664
2665 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2666 ------------------------
2667
2668 wxMSW:
2669
2670 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2671 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2672 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2673 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2674 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2675 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2676 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2677 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2678 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2679 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2680 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2681 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2682 IUnknown.
2683 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2684 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2685 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2686 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2687 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2688 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2689 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2690 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2691 internal implementation.
2692 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2693 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2694 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2695
2696 Generic:
2697
2698 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2699 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2700 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2701 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2702 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2703
2704 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2705 --------------------------
2706
2707 wxMSW:
2708
2709 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2710 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2711 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2712 changes.
2713 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2714 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2715 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2716 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2717 again.
2718 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2719 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2720 e.g. wxDC.
2721
2722 Generic:
2723
2724 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2725 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2726 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2727 changes.
2728 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2729 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2730 docs/gtk.
2731 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2732 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2733 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2734 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2735 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2736 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2737 - Added gcc pragmas.
2738 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2739 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2740 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2741 added a few references to wxTransString.
2742 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2743 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2744 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2745 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2746 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2747 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2748 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2749 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2750 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2751 MoreRequested.
2752
2753 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2754 --------------------------
2755
2756 All:
2757
2758 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2759 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2760 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2761 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2762 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2763 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2764 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2765 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2766 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2767 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2768 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2769 scrolling toolbars.
2770 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2771 to help printing with multiple pages.
2772 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2773 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2774 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2775 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2776 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2777 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2778 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2779 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2780 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2781 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2782 New files from Vadim:
2783 include\wx\string.h
2784 include\wx\debug.h
2785 include\wx\file.h
2786 include\wx\log.h
2787 include\wx\intl.h
2788 src\common\string.cpp
2789 src\common\log.cpp
2790 src\common\intl.cpp
2791 src\common\file.cpp
2792 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2793 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2794 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2795 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2796 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2797 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2798 including changes to defs.h.
2799 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2800 introduced.
2801 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2802 hidden).
2803 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2804 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2805 trick).
2806 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2807
2808 Alpha 3, September 1997
2809 -----------------------
2810
2811 All:
2812
2813 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2814 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2815 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2816 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2817 - Started documentation.
2818
2819 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2820 ------------------------
2821
2822 All:
2823
2824 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2825 with MetroWerks compiler.
2826 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2827 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2828 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2829 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2830 for testing purposes.
2831 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2832 handlers.
2833 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2834 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2835 fully).
2836 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2837 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2838 a separate file.
2839
2840 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2841 -----------------------
2842
2843 Generic:
2844
2845 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2846
2847 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2848 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2849 wxString instead of char *.
2850 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2851 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2852 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2853 as wxbWindow now removed.
2854 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2855 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2856 - PrologIO revised.
2857 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2858 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2859 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2860 Windows settings.
2861 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2862 settings mucho rationalised.
2863 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2864 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2865 classes removed.
2866 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2867 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2868 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2869 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2870 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2871 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2872 of event handlers.
2873 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2874 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2875 wxToolBarBase
2876 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2877 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2878 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2879 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2880 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2881 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2882 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2883 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2884 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2885 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2886 in the future.
2887 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2888 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2889 variables instead.
2890 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2891 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2892 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2893 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2894 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2895 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2896 Win95.
2897 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2898 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2899 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2900 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2901 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2902 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).