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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
6 ================================
7
8 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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10
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxFileName::DirExists() checks if the path of the file is a directory, not
14 if the whole name is a directory.
15 - wxDialog::CreateButtonSizer() may return NULL now, please see the manual.
16 - wxStaticBoxSizer now deletes the associated wxStaticBox when it is deleted.
17 - wxArray::Alloc() now works as reserve() and does not clear the array any more
18 - Windows calling CaptureMouse() are now required to handle the
19 wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event and not call ReleaseMouse() in this case.
20 - wxInputStream::GetC() now returns an int in the range 0 - 255 on success
21 instead of a char the range -128 - 127.
22
23
24 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
25 -----------------------------------------------------------
26
27 - Some classes (notably wxBitmap and wxImage) don't define operator==() as it
28 used to work in somewhat unexpected way as it compared only internal pointers
29 and not the object data. The code using it will have to be updated:
30 * If the object was compared with wxNullXXX, use IsOk() method instead
31 * If valid object need to be compared, use IsSameAs() to reproduce the old
32 behaviour or change the code to avoid comparing bitmaps &c.
33 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour.
34 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
35 even compile).
36 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon.
37 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
38 length of the converted string in all cases now.
39 - wxHtmlWindow::OnCellClicked() now returns bool.
40 - wxHtmlCell::OnMouseClick() was deprecated and replaced with
41 wxHtmlCell::ProcessMouseClick(); old code overriding OnMouseClick() will
42 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
43 use ProcessMouseClick().
44 - wxHtmlCell::GetCursor() was deprecated and replaced with
45 wxHtmlCell::GetMouseCursor(); old code overriding GetCursor() will
46 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
47 use GetMouseCursor().
48 - wxHtmlCell::AdjustPagebreak() signature has changed, update your code if you
49 override it.
50 - wxFontEnumerator::GetFacenames() and GetEncodings() now return arrays and
51 not pointers to arrays.
52 - SetDefaultItem() method was moved from wxPanel to wxTopLevelWindow
53 - wxDialog::OnOK/OnCancel() don't exist any more, use SetAffirmative/EscapeId()
54 - wxPathList doesn't derive from (deprecated) wxStringList any more
55 - wxGLContext class has no 1:1 coupling to a wxGLCanvas class any more.
56 As a consequence, the class interface changed largely. Code updates, if
57 any are required at all, are easy to accomplish though.
58
59
60 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
61 -----------------------------------------------------
62
63 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd().
64 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, don't use them.
65 - wxWindowBase::GetBestFittingSize --> wxWindowBase::GetEffectiveMinSize.
66 - wxWindowBase::SetBestFittingSize --> wxWindowBase::SetInitialSize.
67 - Seeking on a zip stream returned from wxFileSystem without using the new
68 wxFS_SEEKABLE flags is deprecated. You can still seek, but use the flag.
69 - Constructor wxZipInputStream(const wxString& archive, const wxString& file)
70 deprecated in favour of wxFileSystem (other zip ctors are not deprecated).
71 - wx{Dir|File}Dialog::{Set|Get}Style deprecated in favour of the generic
72 wxWindow::{Set|Get}WindowStyle()
73
74
75 Major new features in 2.8 release
76 ---------------------------------
77
78 - New AUI library supporting docking windows and much more.
79 - New rich text control library implementing a generic wxRichTextCtrl,
80 using only the wxWidgets API. Also includes formatting dialogs, conversion
81 to HTML, and printing classes.
82 - New wxComboCtrl class giving the ability to create custom, graphical
83 comboboxes. Associated classes include wxOwnerDrawnComboBox, wxComboPopup
84 and wxBitmapComboBox.
85 - Further functionality including wxAnimationCtrl (moved from contrib/src/anim
86 and enhanced), wxSimpleHtmlListBox, wxHyperlinkCtrl, wxColourPickerCtrl,
87 wxDirPickerCtrl, wxFilePickerCtrl, wxFontPickerCtrl, wxCollapsiblePane,
88 wxSearchCtrl, wxAboutBox, wxTreebook, tar streams.
89
90
91 2.8.1
92 -----
93
94 All:
95
96 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1
97 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize()
98 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi)
99 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami)
100 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart)
101 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner)
102
103 wxMSW:
104
105 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU
106 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press
107
108 wxGTK:
109
110 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only)
111
112 wxUniv:
113
114 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText
115
116
117 2.8.0
118 -----
119
120 All:
121
122 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron)
123 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32
124 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents
125 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
126 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
127 a stream that is seekable.
128 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows
129 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize()
130 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse)
131
132 wxMSW:
133
134 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
135 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
136 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista
137 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
138
139 wxGTK:
140
141 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles
142 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure
143
144
145 2.7.2
146 -----
147
148 All:
149
150 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
151 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
152 - Added wxTar streams.
153 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
154 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
155
156 All (GUI):
157
158 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
159 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
160 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
161 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
162 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
163 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
164 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
165 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
166 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
167 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
168 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
169 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
170 formatting.
171 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
172 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
173 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
174 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
175
176 Unix Ports:
177
178 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
179 program (Francesco Montorsi).
180
181 wxGTK:
182
183 - More RTL work.
184 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
185 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
186 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
187 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
188
189
190 2.7.1
191 -----
192
193 All:
194
195 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
196 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
197 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
198 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
199 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
200 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
201 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
202 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
203 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
204 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
205 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
206 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
207 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
208 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
209 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
210
211 All (GUI):
212
213 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
214 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
215 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
216 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
217 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
218 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
219 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
220 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
221 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
222 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
223 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
224 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
225 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
226 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
227
228 wxMSW:
229
230 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
231 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
232 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
233 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
234 high-contrast theme).
235 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
236
237 wxMac:
238
239 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
240 to the SDK.
241
242 wxGTK:
243
244 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
245 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
246 - Implemented right-to-left support.
247 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
248 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
249
250 wxUniv:
251
252 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
253
254
255 2.7.0
256 -----
257
258 All:
259
260 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
261 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
262 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
263 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
264 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
265 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
266 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
267 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
268 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
269 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
270 during a search and replace.
271 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
272 are both used in the same program.
273 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
274 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
275 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
276 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
277 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
278 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
279 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
280 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
281 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
282 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
283 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
284 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
285 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
286 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
287 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
288 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
289 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
290 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
291 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
292 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
293 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
294 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
295 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
296 the first time it was called.
297 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
298 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
299 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
300 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
301 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
302 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
303 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
304 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
305 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
306 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
307
308 All (GUI):
309
310 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
311 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
312 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
313 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
314 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
315 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
316 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
317 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
318 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
319 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
320 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
321 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
322 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
323 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
324 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
325 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
326 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
327 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
328 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
329 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
330 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
331 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
332 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
333 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
334 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
335 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
336 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
337 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
338 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
339 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
340 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
341 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
342 by Sandro Sigala).
343 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
344 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
345 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
346 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
347 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
348 best size.
349 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
350 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
351 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
352 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
353 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
354 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
355 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
356 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
357 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
358 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
359 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
360 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
361 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
362 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
363 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
364 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
365 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
366 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
367 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
368 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
369 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
370 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
371 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
372 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
373 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
374 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
375 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
376 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
377 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
378 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
379 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
380 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
381 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
382 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
383 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
384 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
385 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
386 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
387 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
388 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
389
390 wxMSW:
391
392 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
393 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
394 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
395 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
396 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
397 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
398 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
399 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
400 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
401 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
402 wxMSW faq for details).
403 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
404 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
405 to the link command.
406 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
407 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
408 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
409 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
410 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
411 show.
412 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
413 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
414 initial construction.
415 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
416 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
417 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
418 events).
419 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
420 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
421 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
422 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
423 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
424 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
425 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
426 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
427 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
428 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
429 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
430 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
431 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
432 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
433 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
434 changes the system font.
435 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
436 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
437 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
438 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
439 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
440 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
441
442 wxGTK:
443
444 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
445 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
446 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
447 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
448 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
449 implementation.
450 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
451 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
452 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
453 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
454 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
455 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
456 previously unable to be focused before.
457 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
458 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
459 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
460 class was used.
461 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
462 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
463 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
464 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
465 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
466 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
467 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
468 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
469 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
470
471 wxMac:
472
473 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
474 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
475 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
476 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
477 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
478 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
479 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
480 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
481 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
482 - Corrected idle wake-up.
483 - Corrected wxExecute.
484 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
485 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
486 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
487 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
488 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
489 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
490 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
491 were found.
492 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
493 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
494 under Mach-O.
495 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
496 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
497 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
498 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
499 end of file with an error.
500 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
501 binaries.
502 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
503 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
504 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
505 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
506 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
507 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
508 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
509
510 wxCocoa:
511
512 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
513
514 wxWinCE:
515
516 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
517 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
518 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
519 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
520 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
521 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
522 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
523 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
524 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
525 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
526 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
527 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
528 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
529 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
530 directly, however.
531 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
532 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
533 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
534 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
535 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
536
537 wxUniv:
538
539 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
540 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
541 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
542
543 wxX11:
544
545 - Invisible text problem fixed.
546 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
547 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
548 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
549
550 Unix:
551
552 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
553
554 wxMGL:
555
556 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
557 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
558
559
560 2.6.2
561 -----
562
563 All:
564
565 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
566 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
567 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
568 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
569 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
570 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
571 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
572 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
573 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
574 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
575 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
576 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
577
578 All (GUI):
579
580 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
581 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
582 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
583 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
584 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
585 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
586 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
587 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
588 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
589 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
590 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
591 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
592
593 wxMSW:
594
595 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
596 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
597 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
598 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
599 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
600 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
601 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
602 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
603 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
604 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
605 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
606 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
607 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
608 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
609 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
610
611 wxGTK:
612
613 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
614 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
615 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
616 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
617 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
618 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
619 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
620 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
621 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
622 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
623 - Fixed domain socket handling.
624
625 wxMac:
626
627 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
628 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
629 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
630 - Various text control bug fixes.
631 - Automatic menu management improved.
632 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
633 due to dangling cycle pointers.
634 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
635 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
636 showing modally).
637
638 wxOS2
639
640 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
641
642 wxUniv:
643
644 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
645 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
646
647 wxMotif:
648
649 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
650 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
651 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
652 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
653 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
654 flag has been specified.
655 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
656 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
657 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
658 showing modally).
659
660 wxMGL:
661
662 - Fixed crash on exit.
663 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
664
665 wxX11:
666
667 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
668
669
670 2.6.1
671 -----
672
673 All:
674
675 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
676 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
677
678 All (GUI):
679
680 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
681 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
682 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
683 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
684 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
685 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
686 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
687 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
688 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
689 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
690
691 wxMSW:
692
693 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
694 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
695 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
696 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
697 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
698 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
699 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
700 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
701 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
702 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
703 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
704 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
705 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
706 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
707 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
708 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
709 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
710 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
711 - Compiles again with WIN64.
712 - Winelib compilation now works.
713 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
714 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
715 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
716 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
717 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
718 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
719 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
720 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
721 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
722 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
723 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
724 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
725 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
726
727 wxWinCE:
728
729 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
730
731 wxGTK:
732
733 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
734 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
735 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
736 - Added bitmap support in menus.
737
738 wxMac:
739
740 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
741 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
742 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
743 incorrect state.
744 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
745 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
746 - Window menu now added automatically.
747 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
748 - Modified function key support fixed.
749 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
750
751 wxX11:
752
753 - Menu problems fixed.
754 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
755 - Fixed a font memory leak.
756 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
757
758
759 2.6.0
760 -----
761
762 All:
763
764 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
765 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
766
767 All (GUI):
768
769 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
770 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
771
772 wxMSW:
773
774 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
775 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
776 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
777
778 wxWinCE:
779
780 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
781
782 wxGTK:
783 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
784 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
785 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
786 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
787 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
788 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
789 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
790
791 wxMac:
792 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
793
794 2.5.5
795 -----
796
797 All:
798
799 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
800 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
801 - Added wxDebugReport class.
802 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
803 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
804 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
805 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
806 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
807 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
808
809 All (GUI):
810
811 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
812 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
813 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
814 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
815 the whole virtual area.
816 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
817 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
818 isn't used to set the window size.
819 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
820 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
821 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
822 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
823
824 Unix:
825
826 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
827
828 wxMSW:
829
830 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
831 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
832 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
833 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
834 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
835 handling (Jamie Gadd).
836
837 wxGTK:
838
839 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
840 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
841 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
842 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
843 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
844 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
845 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
846 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
847
848 wxMac:
849
850 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
851
852 wxPalmOS:
853
854 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
855
856 wxWinCE:
857
858 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
859 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
860 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
861 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
862 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
863 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
864 with correct titlebar style.
865 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
866 PocketPC guidelines
867 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
868 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
869 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
870 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
871 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
872 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
873 to the dialog's toolbar.
874
875 2.5.4
876 -----
877
878 All:
879
880 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
881 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
882 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
883 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
884 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
885 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
886 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
887 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
888 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
889 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
890 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
891 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
892 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
893 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
894 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
895 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
896 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
897 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
898 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
899 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
900 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
901 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
902 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
903 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
904 printing stuff in the GTK port.
905 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
906 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
907 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
908 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
909 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
910 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
911 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
912 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
913 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
914 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
915 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
916 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
917 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
918 due to a rounding error.
919 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
920 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
921 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
922 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
923 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
924 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
925 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
926 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
927
928
929 All (GUI):
930
931 - added wxMediaCtrl
932 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
933 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
934 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
935 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
936 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
937 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
938 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
939 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
940 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
941 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
942 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
943 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
944 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
945 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
946 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
947 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
948 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
949
950 Unix:
951
952 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
953
954 wxGTK:
955
956 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
957 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
958 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
959 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
960 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
961 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
962 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
963 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
964 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
965 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
966 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
967 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
968 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
969 errors otherwise.
970 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
971 - Added wxRawBitmap support
972 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
973 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
974 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
975
976 wxMac:
977
978 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
979 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
980 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
981 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
982
983 wxMSW:
984
985 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
986 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
987 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
988 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
989 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
990
991 wxWinCE:
992 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
993 but not mentioned anywhere.
994 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
995
996 wxUniv:
997
998 - wxBU_... button align flags support
999 - vertical notebook orientation support
1000 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1001 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1002
1003 wxPalmOS:
1004
1005 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1006 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1007 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1008 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1009 - enumeration of available volumes
1010 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1011 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1012 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1013 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1014 - native wxButton implementation
1015 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1016 - native wxSlider implementation
1017 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1018 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1019 - native wxStaticText implementation
1020 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1021
1022
1023 2.5.3
1024 -----
1025
1026 All:
1027
1028 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1029 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1030 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1031 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1032 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1033 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1034 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1035 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1036 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1037 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1038 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1039 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1040 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1041 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1042 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1043 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1044
1045 All (GUI):
1046
1047 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1048 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1049 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1050 is discouraged
1051 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1052 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1053 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1054 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1055 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1056 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1057 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1058 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1059 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1060 - added samples/splash
1061 - added support for stock buttons
1062 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1063 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1064 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1065 - added wxChoicebook control
1066 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1067 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1068 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1069 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1070 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1071 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1072 supported, instead of zero.
1073 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1074
1075 Unix:
1076
1077 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1078 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1079 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1080 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1081 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1082
1083 wxCocoa:
1084
1085 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1086 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1087 - Tooltips now supported
1088 - wxSound now supported
1089 - wxDisplay now supported
1090 - Some stock cursors now supported
1091
1092 wxMac:
1093
1094 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1095 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1096 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1097 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1098
1099 wxGTK:
1100
1101 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1102 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1103 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1104 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1105 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1106 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1107 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1108 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1109 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1110 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1111 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1112 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1113 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1114 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1115 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1116 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1117 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1118 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1119 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1120
1121 wxMotif:
1122
1123 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1124
1125 wxMSW:
1126
1127 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1128 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1129 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1130 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1131 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1132 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1133 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1134 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1135 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1136 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1137 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1138 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1139 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1140 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1141
1142 wxUniv/X11:
1143
1144 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1145
1146 wxWinCE:
1147
1148 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1149 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1150 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1151 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1152
1153 wxHTML:
1154
1155 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1156 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1157
1158
1159 2.5.2
1160 -----
1161
1162 All:
1163
1164 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1165 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1166 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1167 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1168 of run-time) now
1169 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1170 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1171 to forward declare these classes.
1172
1173 All (GUI):
1174
1175 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1176 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1177 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1178 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1179 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1180 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1181 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1182 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1183 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1184 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1185 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1186 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1187 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1188 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1189 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1190
1191 wxMSW:
1192
1193 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1194 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1195 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1196 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1197 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1198 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1199 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1200 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1201 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1202 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1203 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1204 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1205
1206 wxGTK:
1207
1208 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1209
1210 wxMotif:
1211
1212 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1213 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1214 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1215 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1216
1217 wxUniv/X11:
1218
1219 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1220
1221 wxHTML:
1222
1223 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1224 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1225
1226 Unix:
1227
1228 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1229 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1230
1231 wxODBC:
1232
1233 - Full Unicode support is now available
1234 - BLOB support is working
1235
1236
1237 2.5.1
1238 -----
1239
1240 All:
1241
1242 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1243 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1244 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1245 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1246 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1247 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1248 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1249 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1250 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1251 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1252 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1253 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1254 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1255 (as in 2.5.0).
1256 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1257 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1258 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1259 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1260 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1261 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1262 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1263 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1264 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1265 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1266 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1267 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1268
1269 All (GUI):
1270
1271 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1272 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1273 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1274 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1275 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1276 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1277 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1278 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1279 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1280 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1281 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1282 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1283 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1284 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1285 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1286 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1287 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1288 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1289 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1290 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1291 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1292 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1293 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1294 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1295 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1296 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1297
1298 wxMSW:
1299
1300 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1301 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1302 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1303 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1304 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1305 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1306 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1307 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1308 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1309 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1310 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1311 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1312 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1313 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1314 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1315 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1316 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1317 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1318 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1319 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1320 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1321 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1322 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1323 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1324 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1325 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1326 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1327 than the specified default size
1328 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1329
1330 wxGTK:
1331
1332 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1333 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1334 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1335 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1336 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1337 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1338 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1339 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1340 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1341
1342 wxMac:
1343
1344 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1345 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1346 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1347 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1348
1349 wxMotif:
1350
1351 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1352
1353 wxHTML:
1354
1355 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1356 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1357
1358 Unix:
1359
1360 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1361 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1362 addition to existing OSS one
1363 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1364
1365
1366 2.5.0
1367 -----
1368
1369 All:
1370
1371 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1372 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1373 separately compiled library
1374 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1375 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1376 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1377 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1378 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1379 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1380 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1381 by default in Unicode mode
1382 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1383 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1384 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1385 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1386 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1387 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1388 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1389 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1390 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1391 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1392 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1393 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1394 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1395 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1396 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1397 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1398 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1399 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1400 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1401 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1402
1403 wxBase:
1404
1405 - added Watcom makefiles
1406 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1407
1408 All GUI ports:
1409
1410 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1411 - added wxListbook control
1412 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1413 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1414 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1415 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1416 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1417 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1418 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1419 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1420 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1421 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1422 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1423 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1424 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1425 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1426 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1427 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1428 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1429 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1430 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1431 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1432 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1433 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1434 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1435 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1436 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1437 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1438 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1439 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1440 default extension for the template
1441 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1442 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1443 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1444 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1445 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1446 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1447 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1448 to allow better rich text support.
1449 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1450 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1451 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1452 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1453 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1454 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1455 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1456 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1457 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1458 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1459 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1460 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1461 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1462 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1463 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1464 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1465 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1466 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1467 - added wxMirrorDC class
1468 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1469 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1470 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1471 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1472 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1473 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1474 improved
1475
1476 Unix:
1477
1478 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1479 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1480 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1481 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1482 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1483
1484 Generic controls:
1485
1486 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1487 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1488 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1489 to contrib/src/deprecated
1490
1491 wxGTK:
1492
1493 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1494 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1495 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1496 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1497 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1498 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1499 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1500 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1501 be appended to filenames with no extension
1502 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1503 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1504 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1505 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1506
1507 wxMac:
1508
1509 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1510 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1511
1512 wxMSW:
1513
1514 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1515 - added wxCrashReport
1516 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1517 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1518 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1519 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1520 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1521 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1522 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1523 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1524 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1525 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1526 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1527 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1528 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1529 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1530 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1531 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1532 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1533 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1534 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1535 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1536 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1537 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1538 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1539 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1540 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1541
1542 wxMotif:
1543
1544 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1545 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1546 documentation for a detailed explanation
1547 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1548 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1549 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1550 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1551 - implemented wxToggleButton
1552 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1553 instead of a sunken border
1554 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1555 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1556
1557 wxUniv:
1558
1559 - controls in toolbars now supported
1560
1561 wxHTML:
1562
1563 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1564 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1565 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1566 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1567 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1568
1569
1570 OLD CHANGES
1571 ===========
1572
1573 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1574 ================================
1575
1576 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1577 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1578 with '!' in the first column.
1579
1580 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1581 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1582 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1583 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1584 2.6 release.
1585
1586 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1587 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1588 (see the documentation) useful.
1589
1590
1591 wxBase:
1592
1593 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1594 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1595 code.
1596
1597 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1598 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1599 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1600 arrays containing non-pointers.
1601
1602 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1603 simply don't make sense for all objects
1604
1605 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1606 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1607 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1608
1609 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1610
1611 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1612 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1613 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1614 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1615 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1616
1617 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1618 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1619 the default assert handling.
1620
1621 All (GUI):
1622
1623 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1624 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1625 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1626
1627 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1628 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1629 instead!
1630
1631 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1632 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1633 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1634
1635 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1636 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1637 you want to get OnChar() as well
1638
1639 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1640 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1641 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1642
1643 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1644 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1645 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1646 will *NOT* work any longer:
1647
1648 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1649 ... do something ...
1650 if ( flags & wxYES )
1651 ... do something else ...
1652
1653 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1654 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1655 the ctor
1656
1657 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1658
1659 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1660 if you derived any classes from it
1661
1662 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1663 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1664
1665 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1666 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1667
1668 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1669 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1670
1671 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1672 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1673 from happening
1674
1675 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1676 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1677 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1678
1679 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1680 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1681 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1682 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1683
1684 wxMSW:
1685
1686 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1687 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1688 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1689 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1690 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1691 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1692 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1693 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1694 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1695 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1696
1697 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1698 style to avoid it
1699
1700 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1701 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1702
1703 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1704 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1705 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1706
1707 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1708 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1709
1710
1711 Unix ports:
1712
1713 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1714 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1715 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1716 to compile pure C files.
1717
1718
1719 wxThread and related classes:
1720
1721 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1722 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1723 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1724 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1725
1726 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1727 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1728 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1729 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1730
1731 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1732 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1733 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1734
1735 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1736 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1737
1738
1739 OTHER CHANGES
1740 =============
1741
1742 2.4.0
1743 -----
1744
1745 wxMSW:
1746
1747 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1748
1749 2.3.4
1750 -----
1751
1752 All:
1753
1754 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1755 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1756 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1757
1758 Unix (Base/GUI):
1759
1760 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1761 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1762 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1763
1764 wxGTK:
1765 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1766 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1767
1768 wxX11:
1769 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1770
1771 wxMSW:
1772
1773 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1774 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1775
1776 wxHTML:
1777
1778 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1779
1780 2.3.3
1781 -----
1782
1783 wxBase:
1784
1785 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1786 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1787 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1788 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1789 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1790 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1791 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1792 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1793 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1794 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1795 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1796 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1797 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1798 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1799 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1800 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1801
1802 Unix (Base/GUI):
1803
1804 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1805 programs and not only GNU make
1806 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1807 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1808 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1809 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1810 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1811
1812 All (GUI):
1813
1814 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1815 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1816 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1817 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1818 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1819 wxWidgets dialogs
1820 - significantly improved native font support
1821 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1822 wxHashTable
1823 - added IFF image handler
1824 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1825 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1826 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1827 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1828 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1829 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1830 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1831 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1832 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1833 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1834 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1835 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1836 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1837 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1838 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1839 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1840 - wxMessageOutput class added
1841 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1842 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1843 table fills up
1844 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1845 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1846 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1847 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1848 (Rene Rivera).
1849 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1850 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1851 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1852
1853 wxMSW:
1854
1855 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1856 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1857 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1858 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1859 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1860 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1861 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1862 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1863 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1864 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1865 are changed
1866 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1867 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1868 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1869 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1870 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1871 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1872 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1873 recursion any more
1874 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1875 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1876 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1877 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1878 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1879 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1880 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1881 has the capture before release it.
1882 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1883 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1884 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1885 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1886 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1887 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1888 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1889 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1890 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1891 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1892 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1893 provided in wxFontData
1894 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1895 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1896
1897 wxGTK:
1898
1899 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1900 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1901 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1902 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1903 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1904 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1905 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1906 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1907 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1908 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1909 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1910 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1911 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1912
1913 wxMotif:
1914
1915 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1916 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1917 - improved toolbar control alignment
1918 - implemented wxSpinButton
1919 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1920 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1921 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1922
1923 wxX11:
1924
1925 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1926 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1927
1928 wxMac:
1929
1930 - Many improvements
1931
1932 wxOS2:
1933
1934 - First alpha-quality release
1935
1936 wxHTML:
1937
1938 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1939 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1940 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1941 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1942 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1943
1944 2.3.2
1945 -----
1946
1947 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1948
1949 wxBase:
1950
1951 - wxRegEx class added
1952 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1953 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1954 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1955 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1956 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1957
1958 All (GUI):
1959
1960 - support for virtual list control added
1961 - column images in report mode of the list control
1962 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1963 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1964 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1965 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1966 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1967 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1968 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1969 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1970 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1971 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1972 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1973 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1974
1975 wxMSW:
1976
1977 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1978 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1979 project files
1980
1981 wxGTK:
1982
1983 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1984 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1985 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1986 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1987
1988 wxMac:
1989
1990 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1991 Tools
1992
1993 wxHTML:
1994
1995 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1996 to tags parsing
1997 - added support for animated GIFs
1998
1999 2.3.1
2000 -----
2001
2002 wxBase:
2003
2004 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
2005 - Fixed new charset detection code
2006 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2007 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2008 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2009 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2010 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2011 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2012
2013 All (GUI):
2014
2015 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2016 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2017 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2018 push on a custom event handler for example)
2019 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2020 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2021 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2022 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2023 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2024 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2025 first-time saved
2026 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2027 - Various wxXML enhancements
2028 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2029 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2030 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2031 instead of GetId()
2032 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2033 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2034
2035 wxMSW:
2036
2037 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2038 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2039 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2040 alt or shift) now work
2041 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2042 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2043 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2044 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2045 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2046 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2047 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2048 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2049 - We now send iconize events
2050 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2051 - Added mousewheel processing
2052 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2053 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2054 in wxDC
2055 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2056 child frame styles are honoured
2057
2058 wxGTK:
2059
2060 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2061 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2062 - We now send iconize events
2063 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2064 GetSelection() results
2065
2066 2.3.0
2067 -----
2068
2069 wxBase:
2070
2071 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2072 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2073 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2074 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2075 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2076 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2077 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2078 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2079 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2080 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2081
2082 All (GUI):
2083
2084 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2085 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2086 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2087 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2088 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2089 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2090 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2091 wxImage methods and ctor)
2092 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2093 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2094 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2095 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2096 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2097 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2098
2099 wxMSW:
2100
2101 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2102 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2103 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2104 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2105
2106 wxGTK:
2107
2108 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2109
2110 wxHTML:
2111
2112 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2113 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2114
2115 2.2.0
2116 -----
2117
2118 wxBase:
2119
2120 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2121 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2122 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2123 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2124 - Completed Czech translations
2125 - Some stream corrections
2126 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2127 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2128 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2129 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2130
2131 All (GUI):
2132
2133 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2134 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2135 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2136 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2137 - Paper names now translated
2138 - wxGrid fixes
2139 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2140 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2141 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2142 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2143 File dialog.
2144 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2145 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2146 writing code
2147 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2148 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2149 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2150 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2151
2152 wxMSW:
2153
2154 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2155 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2156 backward compatibility, please set
2157 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2158 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2159 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2160 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2161 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2162 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2163 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2164 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2165 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2166 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2167 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2168 - wxFrame restores focus better
2169 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2170 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2171 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2172 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2173 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2174 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2175 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2176 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2177 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2178 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2179
2180 wxGTK:
2181
2182 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2183
2184 wxMotif:
2185
2186 - Small compilation fixes
2187
2188 Documentation:
2189
2190 - wxCaret documented
2191
2192 2.1.16
2193 ------
2194
2195 wxBase:
2196
2197 All (GUI):
2198
2199 wxMSW:
2200
2201 - Various bug fixes
2202 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2203 files. This works under VC++ only
2204 - Modal dialog handling improved
2205 - Printer dialog now modal
2206
2207 wxGTK:
2208
2209 - Various bug fixes
2210
2211 wxMotif:
2212
2213 - Various bug fixes
2214
2215 2.1.15
2216 ------
2217
2218 Documentation:
2219
2220 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2221
2222 File hierarchy:
2223
2224 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2225 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2226
2227 wxBase:
2228
2229 - wxSocket support
2230 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2231 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2232 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2233 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2234 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2235 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2236 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2237 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2238 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2239 only so far)
2240 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2241 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2242 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2243 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2244 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2245 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2246 is available)
2247 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2248
2249 all (GUI):
2250
2251 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2252 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2253 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2254 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2255 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2256 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2257 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2258 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2259 John Norris)
2260 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2261 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2262 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2263 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2264 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2265 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2266 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2267 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2268 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2269 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2270 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2271 - wxDragImage class added
2272 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2273 controllers, as well as native help
2274 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2275
2276 wxMSW:
2277
2278 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2279 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2280 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2281 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2282 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2283 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2284 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2285 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2286 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2287 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2288 Unix ports
2289 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2290 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2291 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2292
2293 wxGTK:
2294
2295 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2296 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2297 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2298
2299 wxMotif:
2300
2301 - wxMenu::Enable works
2302 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2303 - OGL samples made to work again
2304
2305 wxHTML:
2306
2307 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2308 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2309 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2310 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2311 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2312 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2313 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2314 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2315 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2316 - improved HTML printing
2317 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2318 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2319 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2320 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2321
2322
2323 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2324 change log.
2325
2326 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2327 -----------------------
2328
2329 wxGTK:
2330
2331 - JPEG support added.
2332 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2333
2334 wxMSW:
2335
2336 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2337 SetTabSize added.
2338 - JPEG support added.
2339 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2340 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2341 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2342
2343 wxMotif:
2344
2345
2346 General:
2347
2348 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2349
2350
2351 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2352 -------------------------------
2353
2354 wxGTK:
2355
2356 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2357 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2358
2359 wxMSW:
2360
2361 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2362 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2363 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2364 - Some makefile fixes.
2365
2366 wxMotif:
2367
2368 - None.
2369
2370 General:
2371
2372 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2373 - More topic overviews.
2374 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2375 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2376 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2377
2378
2379 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2380 --------------------------
2381
2382 wxGTK:
2383
2384 - wxExecute improved.
2385
2386 wxMSW:
2387
2388 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2389 expected).
2390 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2391 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2392 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2393 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2394 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2395 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2396
2397 wxMotif:
2398
2399 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2400 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2401
2402 General:
2403
2404 - wxLocale documented.
2405 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2406 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2407 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2408 (though doesn't display help yet).
2409
2410 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2411 --------------------------
2412
2413 wxGTK:
2414
2415 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2416
2417 wxMSW:
2418
2419 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2420 rationalised.
2421 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2422
2423 wxMotif:
2424
2425 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2426 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2427 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2428 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2429 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2430 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2431 crashes for some reason).
2432 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2433 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2434
2435 General:
2436
2437 - Further doc improvements.
2438 - wxGenericValidator added.
2439 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2440 automatically.
2441
2442 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2443 -------------------------
2444
2445 wxGTK:
2446
2447 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2448 - wxToolTip class added.
2449 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2450
2451 wxMSW:
2452
2453 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2454 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2455 - TWIN32 support added.
2456 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2457 factored out program/library settings.
2458 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2459
2460 wxMotif:
2461
2462 - A few more colour fixes.
2463 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2464 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2465 - wxChoice crash fix.
2466 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2467
2468 General:
2469
2470 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2471 - Added samples/dde.
2472 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2473
2474 Beta 2, January 1999
2475 --------------------
2476
2477 wxGTK:
2478
2479 wxMSW:
2480
2481 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2482
2483 wxMotif:
2484
2485 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2486 the right place.
2487 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2488 - Added thread support (Robert).
2489 - wxPoem sample now works.
2490
2491 General:
2492
2493 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2494 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2495 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2496 or below).
2497 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2498 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2499 sample.
2500 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2501
2502 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2503 --------------------------
2504
2505 wxGTK:
2506
2507 - Various
2508
2509 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2510
2511
2512 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2513 ----------------------------
2514
2515 wxMSW:
2516
2517 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2518 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2519 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2520 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2521 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2522 on a tab.
2523 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2524 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2525 of Stefan Csomor.
2526
2527 wxMotif:
2528
2529 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2530 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2531 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2532 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2533 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2534 colours correctly.
2535 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2536 when any button was pressed.
2537 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2538 have a white background.
2539 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2540 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2541 they have sensible colours by default.
2542 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2543 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2544 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2545 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2546 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2547
2548 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2549 ----------------------------
2550
2551 wxMSW:
2552
2553 - More documentation updates, especially for
2554 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2555 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2556 of wxTrace.
2557 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2558 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2559 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2560 position.
2561 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2562
2563 wxMotif:
2564
2565 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2566 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2567 child frames).
2568 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2569 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2570 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2571 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2572 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2573 the debugging implementation.
2574 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2575 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2576 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2577 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2578 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2579 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2580 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2581
2582 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2583
2584 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2585 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2586 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2587 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2588 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2589 - wxNotebook almost done.
2590 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2591 to vertical toolbars).
2592
2593 More recently:
2594
2595 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2596 to scrollbars).
2597 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2598 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2599 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2600
2601 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2602 ----------------------------
2603
2604 wxMSW:
2605
2606 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2607 sample.
2608 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2609 - A few more makefiles added.
2610 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2611 - Further doc updates.
2612 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2613
2614 wxMotif:
2615
2616 - First start at Motif port.
2617 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2618 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2619 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2620 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2621
2622 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2623 --------------------------
2624
2625 wxMSW:
2626
2627 - wxBitmap debugged.
2628 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2629 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2630 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2631 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2632 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2633 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2634 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2635
2636 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2637 ------------------------
2638
2639 wxMSW:
2640
2641 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2642 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2643 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2644 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2645 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2646 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2647 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2648 changes, wxNotebook.
2649 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2650
2651 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2652 -----------------------
2653
2654 wxMSW:
2655
2656 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2657 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2658 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2659 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2660 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2661 don't support it.
2662 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2663 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2664
2665 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2666 -----------------------
2667
2668 wxMSW:
2669
2670 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2671 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2672
2673 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2674 -----------------------
2675
2676 wxMSW:
2677
2678 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2679 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2680 wxMenuBar.
2681 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2682 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2683 wxMenuItem accessors.
2684 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2685 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2686 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2687 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2688 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2689 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2690 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2691 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2692 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2693 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2694 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2695 first, then doing the assignment.
2696 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2697 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2698
2699 Generic:
2700
2701 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2702 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2703
2704 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2705 ----------------------
2706
2707 wxMSW:
2708
2709 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2710 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2711 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2712 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2713 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2714 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2715 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2716 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2717 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2718
2719 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2720 ------------------------
2721
2722 wxMSW:
2723
2724 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2725 fields were used.
2726 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2727 compilation and pragmas.
2728 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2729 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2730
2731 Generic:
2732
2733 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2734 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2735 compilation and pragmas.
2736 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2737
2738 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2739 ------------------------
2740
2741 wxMSW:
2742
2743 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2744 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2745 some reason :-(
2746 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2747 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2748 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2749 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2750 startup/exit.
2751 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2752 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2753 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2754 VADIM'S CHANGES:
2755 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2756 compatibility functions.
2757 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2758 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2759 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2760 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2761 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2762 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2763 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2764
2765 Generic:
2766
2767 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2768 - Added samples/png.
2769 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2770 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2771 header files.
2772 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2773
2774 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2775 ------------------------
2776
2777 wxMSW:
2778
2779 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2780 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2781 cleaned up properly before exit.
2782 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2783 automatically.
2784 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2785 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2786 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2787 unresolved issues.
2788 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2789 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2790 tray area.
2791 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2792 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2793 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2794 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2795
2796 Generic:
2797
2798 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2799 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2800 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2801 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2802 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2803 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2804 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2805 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2806 allow better control of memory.
2807 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2808 checking.
2809 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2810 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2811
2812 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2813 ------------------------
2814
2815 wxMSW:
2816
2817 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2818 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2819 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2820 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2821 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2822 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2823 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2824 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2825 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2826 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2827 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2828 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2829 IUnknown.
2830 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2831 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2832 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2833 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2834 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2835 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2836 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2837 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2838 internal implementation.
2839 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2840 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2841 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2842
2843 Generic:
2844
2845 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2846 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2847 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2848 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2849 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2850
2851 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2852 --------------------------
2853
2854 wxMSW:
2855
2856 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2857 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2858 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2859 changes.
2860 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2861 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2862 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2863 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2864 again.
2865 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2866 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2867 e.g. wxDC.
2868
2869 Generic:
2870
2871 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2872 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2873 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2874 changes.
2875 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2876 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2877 docs/gtk.
2878 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2879 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2880 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2881 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2882 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2883 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2884 - Added gcc pragmas.
2885 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2886 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2887 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2888 added a few references to wxTransString.
2889 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2890 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2891 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2892 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2893 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2894 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2895 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2896 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2897 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2898 MoreRequested.
2899
2900 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2901 --------------------------
2902
2903 All:
2904
2905 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2906 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2907 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2908 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2909 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2910 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2911 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2912 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2913 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2914 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2915 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2916 scrolling toolbars.
2917 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2918 to help printing with multiple pages.
2919 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2920 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2921 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2922 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2923 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2924 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2925 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2926 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2927 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2928 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2929 New files from Vadim:
2930 include\wx\string.h
2931 include\wx\debug.h
2932 include\wx\file.h
2933 include\wx\log.h
2934 include\wx\intl.h
2935 src\common\string.cpp
2936 src\common\log.cpp
2937 src\common\intl.cpp
2938 src\common\file.cpp
2939 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2940 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2941 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2942 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2943 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2944 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2945 including changes to defs.h.
2946 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2947 introduced.
2948 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2949 hidden).
2950 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2951 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2952 trick).
2953 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2954
2955 Alpha 3, September 1997
2956 -----------------------
2957
2958 All:
2959
2960 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2961 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2962 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2963 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2964 - Started documentation.
2965
2966 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2967 ------------------------
2968
2969 All:
2970
2971 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2972 with MetroWerks compiler.
2973 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2974 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2975 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2976 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2977 for testing purposes.
2978 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2979 handlers.
2980 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2981 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2982 fully).
2983 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2984 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2985 a separate file.
2986
2987 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2988 -----------------------
2989
2990 Generic:
2991
2992 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2993
2994 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2995 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2996 wxString instead of char *.
2997 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2998 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2999 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3000 as wxbWindow now removed.
3001 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3002 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3003 - PrologIO revised.
3004 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3005 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3006 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3007 Windows settings.
3008 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3009 settings mucho rationalised.
3010 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3011 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3012 classes removed.
3013 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3014 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3015 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3016 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3017 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3018 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3019 of event handlers.
3020 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3021 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3022 wxToolBarBase
3023 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3024 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3025 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3026 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3027 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3028 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3029 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3030 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3031 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3032 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3033 in the future.
3034 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3035 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3036 variables instead.
3037 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3038 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3039 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3040 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3041 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3042 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3043 Win95.
3044 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3045 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3046 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3047 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3048 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3049 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).