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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
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7
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9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
12
13
14 Unicode-related changes
15 -----------------------
16
17 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
18 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
19 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
20 changes:
21
22 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
23 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
24 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
25 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
26 backwards compatible except:
27
28 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
29 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
30 base class version.
31
32 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
33 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
34 should be replaced with an empty string.
35
36 - Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
37 return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
38 *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
39 the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
40 you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
41 explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
42 A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
43 with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
44 indicate the parsing success.
45
46 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
47 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
48 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
49 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII). If you want your
50 code to remain compatible with Unicode build of previous wx version, please
51 use the special wxT_2, which is the same as wxT in 2.x only, instead.
52
53 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
54 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
55 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
56 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
57 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
58 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
59 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
60
61
62 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
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64
65 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
66 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
67 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
68
69 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
70 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
71 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
72 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
73 open for further development by volunteers.
74
75 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
76 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
77
78
79 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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81
82 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
83 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
84
85 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
86 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
87 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
88
89 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
90 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
91 instead.
92
93 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
94 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
95 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
96 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
97 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
98 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
99
100 - Interpretation of font height in pixels parameter has changed in wxFont
101 ctor and SetPixelSize() in wxMSW: it is now used as character height and not
102 the total cell height. If you previously used negative height to explicitly
103 request character height matching, you may now change your code to use
104 positive value (passing negative height still works but is undocumented and
105 deprecated). If you used positive height before you should retest your code
106 to check if the changes correspond to your expectations. And if you do need
107 the old behaviour please contact us at wx-dev to let us know about it!
108
109 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
110 your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
111
112 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
113 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
114 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
115 you need the extra features.
116
117 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
118 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
119 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
120 derived classes to use const reference as well.
121
122 - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
123 Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
124
125 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
126
127 - If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
128 GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
129 more details.
130
131 - Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
132 Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
133 or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
134 See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
135
136 - wxDialogs get wxEVT_SIZE events immediately after creation in wxMSW, as with
137 wxFrames. This means that this event handler may be called earlier than in
138 2.8, check that all the controls are initialized before using them in it.
139
140 - wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only.
141
142 - Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is
143 changed. See the updated wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle() description in the
144 manual for more details.
145
146 - wxTreeCtrl::GetSelection now asserts if the tree has the wxTR_MULTIPLE style.
147 Instead use GetSelections() for multiple items; or if you want only the
148 single item last touched, the new wxTreeCtrl::GetFocusedItem.
149
150 - Custom log targets should be updated to override wxLog::DoLogRecord() method
151 instead of DoLog() or DoLogString() and must be updated if they call the base
152 class versions of these functions as this won't work any more; please see the
153 documentation of wxLog for more information.
154
155 - Confusing wxGridSizer(int cols, int vgap = 0, int hgap = 0) ctor which was
156 easy to mistake for wxGridSizer(int rows, int cols) overload was removed, you
157 will need to specify both vertical and horizontal gap if you want to use this
158 overload or specify both rows and columns and the gap otherwise. Use of the
159 new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
160 applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
161
162 - wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
163 and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
164 most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
165 space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
166
167 - wxTextCtrl::LoadFile no longer sends a text update event.
168
169 - wxXmlDocument::Save()'s indentstep argument's interpretation was fixed
170 to match the documentation: it now really is the number of spaces in
171 indentation instead of being its double. Its default value was changed
172 accordingly, to 2.
173
174 - wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING flag has no effect now, catalogs are converted
175 regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
176 legacy ANSI builds.
177
178 - wxNotebook::GetSelection() returns the new page index when called from
179 wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED event handler in wxMSW, not the old one.
180 The new behaviour is consistent with wxGTK and more logical but different
181 from the previous versions. Using wxNotebookEvent::GetSelection() instead of
182 querying the notebook selection avoids the problem and is recommended.
183
184 - wxMSW-specific wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() method now creates a new
185 instance if needed instead of failing if the application providing the
186 requested ProgID is not running. Pass wxAutomationInstance_UseExistingOnly
187 flag to it to revert to the old behaviour. It is also possible to use the
188 wxAutomationInstance_SilentIfNone flag to prevent the error message if no
189 currently running instances of this object are available.
190
191 - Signature of wxDataViewCustomRenderer::StartDrag() virtual method changed.
192 You will need to change it in your derived renderer class too if you override
193 it.
194
195 - wxDataViewCustomRenderer::Activate() and LeftClick() were replaced with the
196 new ActivateCell() method. You will need to change it in your derived
197 renderer class accordingly.
198
199 - wxThread::Wait() and wxThread::Delete() used to dispatch the events while
200 waiting for the thread to exit in wxMSW. They still do it in default build
201 with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_8 defined but won't dispatch any events, i.e. the
202 default wait mode will become wxTHREAD_WAIT_BLOCK in the next wxWidgets
203 release so you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your code to stop relying
204 on this behaviour.
205
206 - wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK events are not generated any more if the mouse is captured to
207 prevent the parent wxTopLevelWindow from interfering with the keyboard
208 handling of the window that captured the mouse.
209
210 - wxDataViewCtrl::GetSelection() now returns invalid item in all ports (this
211 behaved differently in wxMSW and wxGTK/wxOSX before) if more than one item
212 is selected in a control with wxDV_MULTIPLE style.
213
214 - wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED, MENU_OPEN and CLOSE events returned a menu from
215 GetEventObject() in all ports but the frame the menu was attached to in wxMSW.
216 Now all ports return the menu that was opened or closed as the event object.
217
218
219 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
220 -----------------------------------------------------------
221
222 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
223 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
224
225 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6 still exists but is 0 by default in this release and
226 will be removed in 3.2. You can set it to 1 and rebuild wxWidgets to access
227 the old and deprecated symbols but please consider updating your code
228 instead. Here are replacements for some of the obsolete symbols:
229 + wxSAVE and wxOPEN -> wxFD_SAVE and wxFD_OPEN
230 + WXK_PRIOR and WXK_NEXT -> WXK_PAGEUP and WXK_PAGEDOWN
231 + wxRESIZE_BOX -> wxMAXIMIZE_BOX
232 + wxTHICK_FRAME -> wxRESIZE_BORDER
233 + wxPROCESS_ENTER and wxPASSWORD -> wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER and wxTE_PASSWORD
234 + EVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL -> EVT_SCROLL_CHANGED
235 + NewControlId -> wxWindow::NewControlId()
236 + wxFileHistory::GetNoHistoryFiles() -> wxFileHistory::GetCount()
237 + wxSizerItem::SetOption() -> wxSizerItem::SetProportion()
238 + wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow*) -> wxSizer::Detach()
239
240 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
241 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
242 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
243
244 - wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
245 has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
246 GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
247 New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
248
249 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
250 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
251 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
252 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
253
254 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
255 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
256 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
257 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
258 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
259
260 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
261 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
262 this won't compile:
263 switch (str[i]) { ... }
264 and has to be replaced with this:
265 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
266
267 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
268 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
269 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
270 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
271
272 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
273 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
274 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
275 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
276 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
277
278 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
279 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
280 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
281 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
282
283 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
284 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
285 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
286 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
287
288 - wxDateTime::ParseXXX() overloads don't return anything when called with
289 wxCStrData argument. If you need to test the parsing success, use a newer
290 overload taking wxString::const_iterator and returning bool or explicitly
291 select a narrow or wide char version to use by casting c_str() to either
292 "char*" or "wchar_t*". Or create a temporary wxString and parse it instead.
293
294 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
295 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
296
297 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
298 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
299 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
300 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
301 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
302 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
303
304 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
305
306 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could be NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
307 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
308 must be used instead.
309
310 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
311 with void pointers.
312
313 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
314
315 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
316 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
317
318 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
319 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
320 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
321
322 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
323 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
324 necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
325 next/previous control sibling instead.
326
327 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
328 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
329 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
330
331 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
332 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
333 wxBitmapType in your code.
334
335 - wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
336 functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
337 of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
338 written now.
339
340 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
341 be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
342
343 - wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
344 its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
345 to it under 64 bit platforms too).
346
347 - Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
348 You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
349 locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
350
351 - wxBitmapButton::GetBitmapXXX() overloads returning non-const wxBitmap
352 references have been removed, modifying the returned bitmaps never worked and
353 now results in compile-time error.
354
355 - wxLogXXX() are now macros, not functions. Because of this calling them with
356 an explicit scope resolution operator ("::wxLogError()") doesn't work any
357 longer, just remove it. Also notice that using them inside an "if" statement
358 without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
359 add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
360
361 - wxList::Member() now returns bool and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
362 require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
363 presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
364 use Find() instead.
365
366 - wxLongLongFmtSpec is now a normal and not wide string so you will need to
367 change expressions of the form wxT("%") wxLongLongFmtSpec wxT("x") to
368 just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
369 concatenate with it.
370
371 - wxST_MARKUP doesn't exist any more, use wxControl::SetLabelMarkup() instead.
372
373 - wxComboBox::IsEmpty(), which was previously available in some ports (but not
374 wxMSW), doesn't exist any more, use either IsListEmpty() or IsTextEmpty().
375
376 - wxSingleChoiceDialog ctors and Create() now have 2 overloaded versions: one
377 taking void** client data and the deprecated one taking char**. This can
378 result in compilation errors due to an ambiguity between them if you pass
379 NULL as client data. To fix this, cast NULL explicitly to "void**".
380
381 - wxChoicebookEvent, wxListbookEvent, wxNotebookEvent, wxToolbookEvent and
382 wxTreebookEvent are now all synonyms for wxBookCtrlEvent. The existing code
383 using the old names continues to work but they can't be forward-declared
384 any more. Use wxBookCtrlEvent in your code if you need to forward-declare
385 it or just include the appropriate header instead of forward declaration.
386
387
388 Deprecated methods and their replacements
389 -----------------------------------------
390
391 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
392 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
393 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
394 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
395 specified so this style should simply be removed
396 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
397 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
398 to use
399 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
400 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
401 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
402 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
403 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
404 - Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
405 named new versions:
406 . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
407 . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
408 . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
409 . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
410 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
411 ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
412 plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
413 and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
414 - EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
415 don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
416 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
417 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
418 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
419 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
420 There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
421 not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
422 - wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
423 different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
424 passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
425 it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
426 code.
427 - wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
428 - wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
429 name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
430 - wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
431 wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
432 were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
433 - wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
434 documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
435 - wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
436 the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
437 - building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
438 wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
439 on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
440 You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
441 the static box itself.
442 - wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
443 consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
444 - wxFont::SetNoAntiAliasing() was deprecated, it never really worked in most
445 ports and was always marked as "experimental" API. It will be replaced with
446 wxDC-level anti-aliasing control in the future.
447 - wxValidator::SetBellOnError() incorrectly interpreted its argument (it
448 disabled the bell when it was true) and was replaced by SuppressBellOnError()
449 with more expected semantics.
450 - wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
451 wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
452 - Second parameter of wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n, int pos) is deprecated,
453 simply remove it from your code and use wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n) as it
454 was never used anyhow.
455 - wxSingleChoiceDialog ctor and Create() take "void**" client data pointer
456 instead of "char**". As the client data is typically untyped, you should
457 simply remove the casts to "char**" which you probably have in your code if
458 you use these functions.
459 - wxDataViewCtrl::StartEditor(item, n) taking column index is now deprecated,
460 use EditItem(item, GetColumn(n)), which takes the column itself, instead.
461 - wxWindow::MakeModal() is deprecated, use wxDialog::ShowModal() instead if
462 possible or wxWindowDisabler otherwise.
463
464
465 Changes in behaviour visible to end users
466 -----------------------------------------
467
468 - In wxMSW wxSpinCtrl used to prevent the user from entering more digits than
469 could fit in its visible area. This was inconsistent with the other ports and
470 now the control scrolls if too much text is added.
471
472
473 Major new features in this release
474 ----------------------------------
475
476 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
477 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
478 past.
479
480 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
481 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
482
483 - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
484
485 - new ribbon library for advanced toolbars.
486
487 - Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
488
489 - Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
490
491 - Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
492 wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
493
494 - Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
495 with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
496 of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
497 definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
498 welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
499 ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
500
501 - Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
502 was added.
503
504
505 2.9.4:
506 ------
507
508 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.3
509
510 - wxDataViewListCtrl doesn't delete its client data any more for compatibility
511 with wxListCtrl, use full wxDataViewCtrl if you don't need compatibility.
512
513 All:
514
515 - Added wxLogFormatter to allow customizing wxLog output (Sébastien Gallou).
516 - Added wxFSInputStream for reading data from wxFileSystem (Armel Asselin).
517 - Added "%z" support to wxDateTime::Format() and Parse() (Armel Asselin).
518 - Add wxHTTP::SetPostBuffer(wxMemoryBuffer) and SetPostText() (Eran Ifrah).
519 - Fix wrong time zone used in wxDateTime::UNow().
520 - Fix performance of wxStdInputStream with MSVC8/9 (wsu).
521 - Added wxFileName::Exists().
522 - Implement wxThread::SetConcurrency() for POSIX systems (Igor Korot).
523 - Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski).
524 - Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep().
525 - Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves).
526
527 All (GUI):
528
529 - Add wxGrid::Render() for printing wxGrid (John Roberts).
530 - Added strike-through support to wxFont (Igor Korot).
531 - Add support for horizontal mouse wheel events to MSW and GTK (Lauri Nurmi).
532 - Fix infinite loop in wxHtmlEasyPrinting when trying to page break images
533 taller than the page height in wxHtmlEasyPrinting (Laurent Poujoulat).
534 - Added wxFilePickerCtrl::SetInitialDirectory().
535 - Added wxDataViewItemAttr::SetBackgroundColour() and implemented it in generic
536 wxDataViewCtrl (Andrew Xu).
537 - Fix item alignment in icon view in the generic wxListCtrl.
538 - Support font-family/style, text-decoration in wxHtmlWindow (Blake Oleander).
539 - Show ribbon tools help strings in tooltips (John Roberts).
540 - Improve row/column selection modes in wxGrid (joostn).
541 - Send wxEVT_UPDATE_UI for wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
542 - Add InsertXXXButton() to wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
543 - Allow enabling/disabling and toggling tools in wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
544 - Implement support for extension button to wxRibbonPanel (Emilien Kia).
545 - Fix multiple item selection in generic wxTreeCtrl (Igor Korot).
546 - Implement wxMenuBar::IsEnabledTop() for all major ports (Igor Korot).
547 - Implement best size calculation for report mode wxListCtrl.
548 - Fix setting of the frame icon when using non-standard icon sizes (vid).
549 - Implement wxDV_ROW_LINES in generic wxDataViewCtrl (RedCAT).
550 - Added EVT_AUI_PANE_ACTIVATED event (Ronny Krüger).
551 - Added support for page tooltips to wxAuiNotebook (Armel Asselin).
552 - Added wxSplitterWindow::SetSashInvisible() (Armel Asselin).
553 - Enable/disable "Window" menu items in AUI MDI correctly (wsu).
554 - Added wxTimePickerCtrl::Get/SetTime().
555 - Fix WXK_MENU handling in wxStyledTextCtrl under wxGTK (cantabile).
556 - Added wxAcceleratorEntry::ToRawString() (Armel Asselin).
557 - Added wxDataViewEvent::SetDragFlags() and GetDropEffect() (Friedrich).
558 - Added support for fields and virtual attributes to wxRichTextCtrl.
559 - Added custom text and dimension scaling to wxRichTextCtrl.
560 - Added pixel font size capability to wxTextAttr and wxRichTextCtrl.
561 - Fully implement wxStyledTextCtrl::PositionToXY() (troelsk).
562 - Added wxDataViewListCtrl::{Set,Get}ItemData().
563 - Added wxDataViewListCtrl::GetItemCount() (Kry).
564 - Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201).
565
566 GTK:
567
568 - Implement support for wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT (Armel Asselin).
569 - Fix wxNotebook best size calculation.
570 - Implement wxDirDialog::Create() and wxFileDialog::Create() (vinayakgarg).
571 - Fix const methods display in assert dialog (vinayakgarg).
572 - Implement native tab art for wxAUI (Jens Lody and Teodor Petrov).
573 - Fix pasting large amounts of text (Bradley Hawkins).
574
575 MSW:
576
577 - Fixed regression with initial focus in the dialogs in 2.9.3.
578 - Use new style directory selection dialog under Vista and later (PB).
579 - Added support for wxEXEC_MAKE_GROUP_LEADER to wxExecute (tteras).
580 - Set wxMenu being closed in wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events (Marcin Malich).
581 - Fix coordinates and Z-position for joystick events (Markus Juergens).
582 - Fix size of the font returned by wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Korot).
583 - Add wxActiveXContainer::QueryClientSiteInterface and implement it in
584 wxWebViewIE to improve the default behaviour (Allonii).
585 - Update stretchable spaces in wxToolBar after tool removal (Catalin Raceanu).
586 - Implement wxGraphicsContext::SetInterpolationQuality() (Eric Jensen).
587 - Fix coordinate handling in wxDC::Blit() when source DC is a DIB.
588 - Fix handling of composite windows in wxToolTip (Armel Asselin).
589 - Add VT_I8 support to wxAutomationObject (PB).
590 - Fix wxListbook size calculations to avoid spurious scrollbars.
591 - Fix code compilation with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 (Kolya Kosenko).
592
593 OSX:
594
595 - Provide native implementations of wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl.
596 - Fix handling of positional parameters in wxPrintf() &c (David Connet).
597 - Implement wxStackWalker.
598
599 Univ:
600
601 - Fix regression with read-only wxComboBox appearance (Jason Erb).
602
603 Unix:
604
605 - Fix bug with wxDir("/").GetName() returning empty string.
606
607
608
609 2.9.3: (released 2011-12-14)
610 ------
611
612 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.2
613
614 - wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap() was removed, derive your class from
615 wxCustomBackgroundWindow and use its method with the same name instead.
616
617 All:
618
619 - Fix parsing of negated long options in wxCmdLineParser (roed_bis).
620 - Fix crash in wxArray::insert() overload taking iterator range (wsu).
621 - Added wxEventFilter class and wxEvtHandler::{Add,Remove}Filter().
622 - Added convenient wxCmdLineParser::AddLong{Option,Switch}() wrappers.
623 - Added wxStopWatch::TimeInMicro() and wxGetUTCTimeUSec() and improved
624 wxStopWatch precision.
625 - Made wxGetLocalTimeMillis() really return local time, added
626 wxGetUTCTimeMillis() returning what this function used to return.
627 - Added wxCriticalSection::TryEnter() (Catalin Raceanu).
628 - Add support for OpenBSD to wxDialUpManager (brad0).
629 - Added wxEXEC_HIDE_CONSOLE flag.
630
631 All (GUI):
632
633 - Added wxWebView library (Steven Lamerton & Auria, GSoC 2011 project).
634 - Added wxTreeListCtrl class.
635 - Added wxTimePickerCtrl class.
636 - Added wxRichToolTip class.
637 - Added documented, public wxNavigationEnabled<> class.
638 - Added wxTextCtrl::PositionToCoords() (Navaneeth).
639 - Added support for wxHELP button to wxMessageDialog.
640 - Added wxBannerWindow class.
641 - Allow setting window shape to arbitrary wxGraphicsPath.
642 - Added wxTextEntry::AutoCompleteDirectories().
643 - Support float, double and file name values in wxGenericValidator (troelsk).
644 - Add support for custom numeric formats to wxGrid (Kinaou Hervé).
645 - Fix keyboard navigation in wxGrid with hidden columns (ivan_14_32).
646 - Add wxDataViewEvent::IsEditCancelled() (Allonii).
647 - Send EVT_DATAVIEW_ITEM_CONTEXT_MENU events even when not clicking on an item.
648 - Allow marking wxTreeBook nodes to expand initially in XRC (RedTide).
649 - Added customizable wxDocManager::OnMRUFileNotExist() virtual method.
650 - Fix stock labels when not using mnemonics for Chinese (cw.ahbong).
651 - Added wxComboBox::IsListEmpty() and IsTextEmpty().
652 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::GetSelectedItemsCount() and HasSelection().
653 - Added wxFLP_SMALL and wxDIRP_SMALL styles.
654 - Added support for saving alpha with TIFF images.
655 - Added wxPersistentSplitter.
656 - Derive wxAuiNotebook from wxBookCtrlBase (Steven Lamerton).
657 - Fix tooltips in wxSearchCtrl and other composite controls (Catalin Raceanu).
658 - Allow converting to and from wxGraphicsBitmap and wxImage directly.
659 - Allow wxGraphicsFont creation without passing by wxFont.
660 - Added wxDataViewCustomRenderer::ActivateCell().
661 - Add "checked" property for toolbar tool elements in XRC.
662 - Allow customization of the locations where persistent settings are stored.
663 - Restore support for reusing ids more than 254 times (Armel Asselin).
664 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_ORIGINAL_{WIDTH,HEIGHT} (Catalin Raceanu).
665 - Add wxTopLevelWindow::SetRepresentedFilename() (Andrej Vodopivec).
666
667 OSX:
668
669 - Implement wxRegion::Equal() (Dr.Acula).
670 - Implement wxFileType::GetOpenCommand().
671 - wxGetOsVersion() now returns more sensible version numbers, e.g. 10 and 6
672 for OS X 10.6.
673 - Added wxApp::MacOpenFiles and deprecated wxApp::MacOpenFile.
674 - Implement wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK event generation in wxOSX/Cocoa.
675 - Implemented wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() in wxOSX/Cocoa (joostn).
676
677 GTK:
678
679 - Generate events for two auxiliary mouse buttons in wxGTK (Marcin Wojdyr).
680 - Fix conflict between wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT and wxICON_EXCLAMATION (David Hart).
681
682 MSW:
683
684 - Added wxGCDC(wxEnhMetaFileDC) ctor (Marcin Wojdyr).
685 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::MSWGetSystemMenu().
686 - Multiline text controls no longer select all content when gaining focus from
687 the keyboard.
688 - Implement wxStackWalker for x86-64 (Artur Bać).
689
690
691 2.9.2: (released 2011-07-05)
692 ------
693
694 All:
695
696 - Added cwd and env arguments to wxExecute() (Emilien Kia).
697 - Added "rest" argument to wxString::Before{First,Last}().
698 - Added wxThread::OnKill() and OnDelete() callbacks.
699 - Added wxFile::GetLastError() and ClearLastError() (ryazanov).
700 - Added negatable command line switches (Armel Asselin).
701 - Added wxVersionInfo and various GetLibraryVersionInfo() functions (troelsk).
702 - Added wxNumberFormatter for dealing with thousands separators.
703 - Added wxIntegerValidator<> and wxFloatingPointValidator<> validators.
704 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_GIF_COMMENT to read and write GIF comments (troelsk).
705 - Added wxStack<> template class.
706 - Added precision parameter to wxString::From[C]Double().
707 - Added wxThread::Wait() and Delete() "wait mode" parameter (Catalin Raceanu).
708 - Allow showing milliseconds in wxLog time stamps (tan).
709 - Added support for processing instructions in wxXmlDocument (Nick Matthews).
710 - Added wxThreadEvent for communicating between threads to wxBase.
711
712 Unix:
713
714 - Fix spurious errors when writing to child process pipe (ryazanov).
715
716 All (GUI):
717
718 - Implement support for markup in wxButton and wxStaticText.
719 - Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
720 - Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
721 - Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
722 - Added support for dynamic auto-completion in wxTextEntry.
723 - Added images support to wxToggleButton (Garrick Meeker).
724 - wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
725 - wxAUI: add support for icons in pane title bars (triton).
726 - Added wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap().
727 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
728 - Added possibility to disable individual wxDataViewCtrl items (Neno Ganchev).
729 - wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
730 - wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
731 - wxRibbon: allow hiding the panels and showing tabs only (snowleopard).
732 - Add support for child documents to docview framework.
733 - Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
734 - Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
735 - Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
736 - Fix display of right aligned columns in wxGenericListCtrl (jl).
737 - Restore text drag-and-drop in wxSTC broken by Scintilla 2 update (Jens Lody).
738 - Add support for id ranges to XRC (David Hart).
739 - Added wxToolbook XRC handler (Andrea Zanellato).
740 - Added wxDocManager::FindTemplate() (troelsk).
741 - Return bool, not void, from wxImage::ConvertAlphaToMask() (troelsk).
742 - Fixed resizing columns in wxGrid when they were reordered.
743 - Fixed keyboard navigation when wxGrid columns are reordered.
744 - Added wxImage::Rotate180() (Jeff Tupper).
745 - Added support for saving TGA files.
746 - Added wxArtProvider returning higher quality icons from Tango project.
747 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "HasAlpha" attribute for wxColourProperty.
748 - wxPropertyGrid: Disabling a property didn't work properly if a child item
749 was selected (Sébastien Gallou).
750 - Added support for saving PNG files with palette (troelsk).
751 - Added support for saving as GIF and animated GIF (troelsk).
752 - Fix wxWrapSizer minimal size calculation (Catalin Raceanu).
753 - Added wxFont::Underlined() and MakeUnderlined() methods.
754 - Added wxFont::SetSymbolicSize() and related methods.
755 - Fix SVG files generation in locales using decimal comma (snowleopard).
756 - Fix setting tooltips for generic wxSpinCtrl (Catalin Raceanu).
757 - Added support for reading image resolutions from PNG images (scottb).
758 - wxComboCtrl, wxOwnerDrawnComboBox: better support for themed and custom
759 panel backgrounds, especially on OS X.
760 - Add WXK_CONTROL_A..WXK_CONTROL_Z constants (Jan van Dijk).
761 - Add support for alpha channel in colours in wxSVGFileDC (snowleopard).
762 - Allow customizing AUI tab colours in wxAuiTabArt (snowleopard).
763 - Added wxAffineMatrix2D class (Catalin Raceanu).
764 - Allow showing preview frame non modally (John Roberts).
765 - Improve appearance of the generic wxHyperlinkCtrl (David Connet).
766
767 GTK:
768
769 - Improve print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
770 - Switch to GtkTooltip from deprecated GtkTooltips (Emilien Kia).
771 - wxTLW generates wxEVT_MAXIMIZE.
772 - Fix copying clipboard data to primary selection (David Hart).
773 - Implement wxGraphicsContext::GetSize() (Marcin Wojdyr).
774 - Implement wxCalendarCtrl::SetDateRange() for the native control.
775
776 MSW:
777
778 - Native implementation of wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxProgressDialog under modern
779 Windows versions (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
780 - Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
781 - Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
782 - Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
783 - Center task dialog-based wxProgressDialog on the parent (John Roberts).
784 - wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() creates objects on demand (Kolya Kosenko).
785 - Fix EVT_UPDATE_UI generation for items in submenus (wsu).
786 - Added support for world transformation matrix to wxDC (Catalin Raceanu).
787
788 OSX:
789
790 - Implement auto-completion support in wxTextEntry.
791 - Implement switching to default video mode in wxDisplay (soren).
792
793
794 2.9.1:
795 ------
796
797 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.0
798
799 - wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
800 remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
801 2.9.0. Please use UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName | AppInfo_VendorName) explicitly
802 to use the vendor name in the paths returned by wxStandardPaths.
803
804 - wxDataViewModel::GetAttr() is now const, as it should have been from the very
805 beginning. You will need to change it to be const in your derived model
806 class too if you override it.
807
808
809 All:
810
811 - Added wxFileSystemWatcher (Bartosz Bekier, Google Summer of Code project).
812 - Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
813 - Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
814 - Added wxTempFile::Flush().
815 - Added support for wxLongLong and wxULongLong in wxVariant.
816 - Added wxVector::swap().
817 - Many wxLog improvements:
818 * wxLogXXX() functions are now thread-safe.
819 * Log levels can now be set independently for different log components.
820 * wxLog::DoLogRecord() has access to the location of the log message
821 (file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
822 * SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
823 - Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
824 - Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
825 - Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
826 - Added wxImage::ClearAlpha() (Javier Torres).
827 - Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
828 - Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
829 - Added wxAny class; a modern, backwards-incompatible replacement for
830 wxVariant.
831 - wxDateTime timezone functions now dynamic (no caching).
832 - Added wxHttp::GetCookie and wxHttp::HasCookies (dodge).
833 - Added support for unique volume names to wxFileName (Neno Ganchev).
834 - Correct bugs when using wxTextInputStream with wxConvAuto (Leon Buikstra).
835 - Don't crash when input is empty in wxFileConfig ctor (Lukasz Michalski).
836 - Correct wxSocket::Peek() to not block (Anders Larsen).
837 - Added IEC and SI units support to GetHumanReadableSize() (Julien Weinzorn).
838 - Add convenient wxString::ToStd{String,Wstring}() helpers.
839 - Added wxTranslations class to allow localization without changing locale.
840 It provides more flexible languages enumeration API as well.
841 - Added wxResourceTranslationsLoader for loading translations from Windows
842 resources.
843 - Added wxMessageQueue::Clear().
844 - Added wxConfig::Read(float *) overload (Terry Farnham).
845 - Always use decimal point (and not the current locale separator) in wxConfig.
846 - Fix posting of binary data using wxHTTP (Catalin Raceanu).
847
848 Unix:
849
850 - Return signed return code from wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC).
851 - Allow to use WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR environment var to override the return value
852 of wxStandardPaths::GetDataDir().
853
854 All (GUI):
855
856 - Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
857 - Added wxInfoBar.
858 - Added stretchable spaces support to wxToolBar.
859 - Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
860 - wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
861 - Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
862 - Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
863 - Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
864 - Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
865 - Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
866 - wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
867 - wxGrid: allow changing the horizontal alignment of numeric cells.
868 - wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
869 - wxHTML: add limited support for span elements styles (Nigel Paton).
870 - Added wxMouseEventsManager.
871 - Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
872 - Fixed wxDataViewCtrl::Set{Foreground,Background}Colour().
873 - Added wxDataViewRenderer::EnableEllipsize().
874 - Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
875 - Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
876 - Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
877 - Added wxTextWrapper helper class useful for wrapping lines of text.
878 - Added EVT_DATAVIEW_CACHE_HINT() event (Trigve).
879 - Added wxLB_NO_SB style (implemented for MSW only; Dario Senic).
880 - Added long version field to wxAboutDialogInfo (Jeff Tupper).
881 - Added wxWindow::CanScroll() behaving like the old HasScrollbar() and made
882 HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
883 - Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
884 - Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
885 - Fixed wxComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
886 - Fixed wxComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
887 dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
888 - wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
889 - wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
890 - wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behaviour. Added
891 new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
892 - wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
893 - wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
894 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "Delimiter" attribute for wxArrayStringProperty.
895 - wxPropertyGridManager: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER,
896 wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer
897 control over borders. Borders around property grid are now native for
898 consistency.
899 - Added wxPropertyGridManager::ShowHeader().
900 - Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
901 - Added wxColour::Set/GetRGB() and Set/GetRGBA() methods (Marcel Haß).
902 - wxRTC: added wxRICHTEXT_HANDLER_USE_CSS flag for HTML handler to use CSS
903 where possible.
904 - wxRTC: corrected centring and right-justification spacing.
905 - wxRTC: fixed style selection reset after editing a style.
906 - wxRTC: can now edit line spacing in .1 increments from 1 to 2.
907 - wxRTC: added PaintAboveContent function for drawing on top of text.
908 - Added wxBORDER_THEME to XRC.
909 - wxGraphicsContext is now enabled by default if supported by the platform.
910 - Fix building with using system libpng 1.4 (Volker Grabsch).
911 - Add wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() methods (Igor Korot).
912 - Added wxTreeCtrl::SelectChildren() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
913 - Show pages icons in window list menu in wxAuiNotebook (Ronny Krüger).
914 - Add "initial selection" parameter to wxGetSingleChoice() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
915 - Implement wxDocument::Revert() (troelsk).
916 - Allow overriding print preview frame creation in docview (troelsk).
917 - Added support for gradient stops in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
918 - Added wxTransparentColour.
919 - Added wxToolBar::GetToolByPos().
920 - Added wxProgressDialog::Was{Cancelled,Skipped}() (Julien Weinzorn).
921 - Added wxTreeCtrl::{Clear,Set}FocusedItem() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
922 - Added "filter changed" event to wxFileCtrl (Bill Jones).
923 - wxAUI: update floating window position and not only size on resize (MacGyver).
924 - Added wxComboCtrl::SetTextCtrlStyle().
925 - Also update client data in wxRearrangeList control (John Roberts).
926 - Generate more click events in wxGrid when using native header (John Roberts).
927
928 GTK:
929
930 - wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
931 - Implement wxMask copy ctor.
932 - Partially implemented wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Romanov).
933 - Corrected themed border display.
934 - Fix wxClipboard::GetData() for asymmetric wxDataObjects (Timothy Lee).
935
936 Mac:
937
938 - Implement wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() in wxOSX/Cocoa.
939 - Correct min/max pages display in the print dialog (Auria).
940 - Fix wxDataViewColumn::GetWidth() in Cocoa (Neno Ganchev).
941
942 MSW:
943
944 - Translate wxMessageDialog labels to the language of the current locale.
945 - Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
946 - Update CRT environment block in wxSetEnv() too.
947 - Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
948 - Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
949 - Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
950 - Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
951 - Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
952 - Worked around child window and caret positioning bug (in Windows) when using
953 wxBORDER_THEME in a container window.
954 - Suppressed spurious character event for decimal key in numeric keypad.
955 - Allow to not create wxPaintDC in EVT_PAINT handler.
956 - Fix sending of wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_COL_DRAGGING events in wxListCtrl.
957 - Allow putting the UAC symbol on buttons (Chris Spencer).
958 - Fix wxTaskBarIcon for older Windows systems (Daniel Wyatt).
959 - Fixed wxOwnerDrawnComboBox keyboard handling: drop-down is no longer
960 displayed when arrow key is pressed (without Alt).
961 - In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
962 as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
963 - Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
964 - Allow accessing 64/32 bit registry from 32/64 bit code (Rickard Westerlund).
965
966 i18n:
967
968 - Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
969 - Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
970
971
972 2.9.0
973 -----
974
975 All:
976
977 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
978 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
979 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
980 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
981 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
982 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
983 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
984 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
985 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
986 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
987 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
988 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
989 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
990 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
991 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
992 - Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
993 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
994 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
995 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
996 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
997 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
998 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
999 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
1000 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
1001 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
1002 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
1003 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
1004 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
1005 Linnakangas).
1006 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
1007 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
1008 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
1009 and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
1010 wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
1011 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
1012 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
1013 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
1014 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
1015 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
1016 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
1017 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
1018 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
1019 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
1020 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
1021 - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
1022 - Added wxArray::swap().
1023 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
1024 - Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
1025 - Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
1026 - Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
1027 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
1028 - Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
1029 - Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
1030 - Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
1031 protocols is 60 seconds.
1032 - Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
1033 - Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
1034 - Added wxLog::Log().
1035 - Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
1036 - Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
1037 - Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
1038 - Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
1039 - wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
1040 - Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
1041 - Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
1042 - Store page setup data directly in wxDocManager (troelsk).
1043
1044 All (Unix):
1045
1046 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
1047 - Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
1048 - Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
1049 if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
1050 are automatically built.
1051
1052 All (GUI):
1053
1054 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
1055 - Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
1056 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
1057 - Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
1058 - Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
1059 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
1060 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
1061 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
1062 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
1063 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
1064 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
1065 - Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
1066 - Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
1067 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
1068 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
1069 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
1070 - Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
1071 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
1072 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
1073 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
1074 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
1075 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
1076 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
1077 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
1078 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
1079 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
1080 - Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
1081 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
1082 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
1083 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
1084 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
1085 - Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
1086 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
1087 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
1088 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
1089 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
1090 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
1091 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
1092 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1093 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
1094 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
1095 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
1096 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1097 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1098 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
1099 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
1100 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
1101 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
1102 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
1103 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
1104 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
1105 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
1106 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
1107 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
1108 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
1109 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
1110 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
1111 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
1112 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
1113 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
1114 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
1115 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
1116 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
1117 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
1118 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1119 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
1120 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
1121 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
1122 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
1123 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
1124 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
1125 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
1126 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
1127 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
1128 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
1129 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
1130 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1131 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
1132 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
1133 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
1134 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
1135 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
1136 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
1137 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
1138 - Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
1139 - Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
1140 - Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
1141 - Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
1142 - Add column parameter to wxListCtrl::GetItemText() (Allann Jones).
1143 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
1144 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
1145 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
1146 - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
1147 - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
1148 marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
1149 - Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
1150 - Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
1151 - Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
1152 - Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
1153 - Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
1154 - Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
1155 GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
1156 no longer return bogus values.
1157 - Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
1158 - Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
1159 added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
1160 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
1161 to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
1162 (Perdana Panduwana)
1163 - Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
1164 - Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
1165 a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
1166 Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
1167 - Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
1168 - Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
1169 - Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
1170 - Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
1171 - Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
1172 - Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
1173 new CheckFit() method for more information.
1174 - Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
1175 - Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
1176 - Improved anchors handling in wxHTML.
1177
1178 wxGTK:
1179
1180 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
1181 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
1182 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1183 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
1184 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1185 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
1186 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
1187 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
1188 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
1189 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
1190 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
1191 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
1192 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
1193 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
1194 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1195 - Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
1196
1197 wxMac:
1198
1199 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
1200 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
1201 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
1202 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
1203 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
1204 - Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
1205
1206 wxMSW:
1207
1208 - Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
1209 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
1210 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
1211 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
1212 - wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
1213 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
1214 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
1215 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
1216 - Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
1217 - Show resize gripper on resizable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
1218 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
1219 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
1220 - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
1221 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
1222 accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
1223 preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
1224 should be used.
1225 - Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
1226 - Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
1227 - Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
1228 by modern apps.
1229 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
1230 - Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
1231 - Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
1232
1233 wxX11:
1234
1235 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
1236 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
1237
1238 wxDFB:
1239
1240 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
1241
1242 i18n:
1243 -----
1244
1245 - Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
1246
1247
1248 2.8.10:
1249 -------
1250
1251 All:
1252
1253 - wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
1254 any more (Marcin Malich).
1255 - Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
1256 - Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
1257 - Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
1258 - Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
1259 - Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
1260 - Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
1261 (Robert Wruck).
1262 - Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
1263 - Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
1264
1265 All (GUI):
1266
1267 - wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
1268 Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
1269 to key down handler.
1270 - wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
1271 - wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
1272 pressing Delete.
1273 - wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
1274 formatting dialog.
1275 - wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
1276 indentation.
1277 - wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
1278 - wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
1279 - wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
1280 - wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
1281 - wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
1282 - Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
1283 - Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
1284 single-cell paragraphs.
1285 - Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
1286 - wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
1287 - Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
1288 - Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
1289 wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
1290 - Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
1291 - Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
1292 - Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
1293 - Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
1294
1295 All (Unix):
1296
1297 - Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
1298 occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
1299
1300 wxMSW:
1301
1302 - Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
1303 - Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
1304 - Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
1305 - Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
1306 if the event handler causes window update.
1307 - Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
1308 - Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
1309 - Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
1310 - Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
1311 - Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
1312 - Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
1313 - Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
1314 don't fit into the default size.
1315 - Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
1316 - Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
1317 the item in wxTreeCtrl.
1318
1319
1320 wxMSW/CE:
1321
1322 - Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
1323
1324 wxGTK:
1325
1326 - Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
1327 - Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
1328 the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
1329 - Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
1330 as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
1331
1332 wxOS2:
1333
1334 - Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
1335
1336
1337 2.8.9
1338 -----
1339
1340 All:
1341
1342 - Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
1343 - Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
1344 - Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
1345 in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
1346 results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
1347
1348 All (GUI):
1349
1350 - Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
1351 - Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
1352 go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
1353 help window.
1354 - Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
1355 platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
1356 - Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
1357 - Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
1358 wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
1359 - Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
1360 - Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
1361 now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
1362 - Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1363 - Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
1364 - Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
1365 - Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
1366 - Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
1367 - Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
1368 - Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
1369 - Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
1370 and mouse-down events
1371 - wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
1372 - Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
1373 - Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
1374 - Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
1375 - Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
1376 - Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
1377 - wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
1378
1379 All (Unix):
1380
1381 - MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
1382 files and also the default application list.
1383 - Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
1384 must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
1385 mime types manager initialization penalty.
1386
1387 wxMSW:
1388
1389 - Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
1390 contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
1391 preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
1392 Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
1393 will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
1394 wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
1395 - Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
1396 - Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
1397 - Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
1398 - Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
1399 - Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
1400 - Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
1401 creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
1402 - Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
1403 was invalid.
1404 - Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
1405 - Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
1406 - Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
1407
1408 wxGTK:
1409
1410 - Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
1411 - Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
1412 - Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
1413 as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
1414 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1415
1416 wxMac:
1417
1418 - Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
1419 would cause the window to scroll.
1420
1421
1422 2.8.8
1423 -----
1424
1425 All:
1426
1427 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
1428 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
1429 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
1430 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
1431 - Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
1432
1433 All (GUI):
1434
1435 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
1436 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1437 - Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
1438 smaller than the minimal size.
1439 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1440 - wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
1441 - Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
1442 - Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
1443 - wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
1444 works.
1445 - When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
1446 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
1447 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1448 - SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
1449 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
1450 charset in ANSI build.
1451 - wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
1452 and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
1453 - Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1454 - Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
1455 - Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
1456 - Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
1457 wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
1458 - Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
1459 - Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
1460 - Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
1461 - Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
1462 - Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
1463 best size if needed.
1464 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1465 - Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
1466 - Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
1467 - wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
1468 - Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
1469 - Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
1470 - Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
1471
1472 All (Unix):
1473
1474 - Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
1475 --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
1476 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
1477 - Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
1478 - Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
1479
1480 wxMSW:
1481
1482 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
1483 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
1484 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
1485 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
1486 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
1487 - Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
1488 a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
1489 - Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
1490 to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
1491 - Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
1492 highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
1493 - Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
1494 corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
1495 - Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
1496 - Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
1497 - wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
1498 for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
1499 - Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
1500 SmartPhone.
1501 - Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
1502 using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
1503 - Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
1504 - Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
1505 - Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
1506 spin button's client size.
1507 - Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
1508 compiler (Matthias Bohm).
1509 - Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
1510 systems (Gerald Giese)
1511
1512 wxGTK:
1513
1514 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
1515 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
1516 - Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
1517 - Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
1518 with other applications.
1519 - Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
1520 change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
1521 - Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
1522 - Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
1523 processing all pending events.
1524 - wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
1525
1526 wxMac:
1527
1528 - Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
1529 - Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
1530 - wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
1531 - Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
1532
1533
1534 2.8.7
1535 -----
1536
1537 All:
1538
1539 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
1540
1541 wxMSW:
1542
1543 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
1544 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
1545
1546 wxGTK:
1547
1548 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
1549 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
1550 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
1551
1552
1553 2.8.6
1554 -----
1555
1556 All:
1557
1558 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
1559 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
1560
1561
1562 2.8.5
1563 -----
1564
1565 All (GUI):
1566
1567 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
1568 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
1569 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
1570 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
1571 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
1572 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
1573 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
1574 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
1575 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
1576 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
1577
1578 wxMSW:
1579
1580 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
1581 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
1582 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
1583 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
1584 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
1585 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
1586 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
1587
1588 wxGTK:
1589
1590 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
1591 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
1592 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
1593 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
1594 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
1595 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
1596 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
1597 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
1598 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
1599 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
1600 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
1601
1602
1603 2.8.4
1604 -----
1605
1606 All:
1607
1608 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1609 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
1610 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
1611 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
1612
1613 All (Unix):
1614
1615 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
1616
1617 All (GUI):
1618
1619 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
1620 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
1621 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
1622 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
1623
1624 wxMSW:
1625
1626 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
1627 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
1628 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
1629 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
1630 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
1631 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
1632 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
1633 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
1634 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
1635
1636 wxGTK:
1637
1638 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
1639 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
1640 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
1641
1642 wxMac:
1643
1644 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
1645
1646 wxUniv:
1647
1648 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
1649 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
1650 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
1651
1652
1653 2.8.3
1654 -----
1655
1656 All:
1657
1658 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
1659 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
1660
1661 wxMac:
1662
1663 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
1664
1665 wxMSW:
1666
1667 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
1668
1669 wxGTK:
1670
1671 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
1672
1673
1674 2.8.2
1675 -----
1676
1677 All:
1678
1679 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
1680 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
1681 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
1682 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
1683 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
1684 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
1685 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
1686 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
1687 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
1688
1689 Unix Ports:
1690
1691 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
1692
1693 wxMSW
1694
1695 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
1696 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
1697
1698 wxGTK
1699
1700 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
1701
1702 wxMac
1703
1704 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
1705 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
1706
1707 wxX11:
1708
1709 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
1710
1711 wxUniv:
1712
1713 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
1714
1715
1716 2.8.1
1717 -----
1718
1719 All:
1720
1721 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
1722 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
1723 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
1724 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
1725 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
1726 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
1727
1728 wxMSW:
1729
1730 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
1731 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
1732
1733 wxGTK:
1734
1735 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
1736
1737 wxUniv:
1738
1739 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
1740
1741
1742 2.8.0
1743 -----
1744
1745 All:
1746
1747 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
1748 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
1749 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
1750 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
1751 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
1752 a stream that is seekable.
1753 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
1754 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
1755 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
1756
1757 wxMSW:
1758
1759 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
1760 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
1761 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
1762 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
1763
1764 wxGTK:
1765
1766 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
1767 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
1768
1769
1770 2.7.2
1771 -----
1772
1773 All:
1774
1775 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
1776 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
1777 - Added wxTar streams.
1778 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
1779 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
1780
1781 All (GUI):
1782
1783 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
1784 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
1785 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
1786 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
1787 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
1788 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
1789 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
1790 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
1791 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
1792 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
1793 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
1794 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
1795 formatting.
1796 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
1797 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
1798 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
1799 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
1800
1801 Unix Ports:
1802
1803 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
1804 program (Francesco Montorsi).
1805
1806 wxGTK:
1807
1808 - More RTL work.
1809 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
1810 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
1811 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
1812 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
1813
1814
1815 2.7.1
1816 -----
1817
1818 All:
1819
1820 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
1821 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
1822 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
1823 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
1824 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
1825 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
1826 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
1827 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
1828 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
1829 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
1830 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
1831 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
1832 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
1833 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
1834 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
1835
1836 All (GUI):
1837
1838 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
1839 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
1840 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
1841 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
1842 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
1843 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
1844 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
1845 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
1846 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
1847 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
1848 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
1849 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
1850 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1851 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
1852
1853 wxMSW:
1854
1855 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
1856 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
1857 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
1858 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
1859 high-contrast theme).
1860 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
1861
1862 wxMac:
1863
1864 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
1865 to the SDK.
1866
1867 wxGTK:
1868
1869 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
1870 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
1871 - Implemented right-to-left support.
1872 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1873 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
1874
1875 wxUniv:
1876
1877 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
1878
1879
1880 2.7.0
1881 -----
1882
1883 All:
1884
1885 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
1886 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
1887 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
1888 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
1889 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
1890 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
1891 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
1892 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
1893 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
1894 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
1895 during a search and replace.
1896 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
1897 are both used in the same program.
1898 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
1899 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
1900 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
1901 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
1902 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
1903 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
1904 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
1905 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
1906 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
1907 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
1908 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
1909 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
1910 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
1911 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
1912 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
1913 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
1914 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
1915 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
1916 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
1917 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
1918 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
1919 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
1920 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
1921 the first time it was called.
1922 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
1923 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
1924 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
1925 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
1926 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
1927 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
1928 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
1929 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
1930 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
1931 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
1932
1933 All (GUI):
1934
1935 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
1936 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
1937 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
1938 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
1939 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
1940 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1941 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
1942 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
1943 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
1944 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
1945 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
1946 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
1947 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
1948 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
1949 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
1950 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
1951 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
1952 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
1953 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
1954 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
1955 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
1956 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
1957 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
1958 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
1959 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
1960 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
1961 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
1962 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
1963 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
1964 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
1965 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
1966 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
1967 by Sandro Sigala).
1968 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
1969 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
1970 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
1971 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
1972 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
1973 best size.
1974 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
1975 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
1976 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
1977 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
1978 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
1979 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
1980 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
1981 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
1982 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
1983 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
1984 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
1985 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
1986 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
1987 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
1988 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
1989 - More than one filter allowed in wxDocTemplate filter.
1990 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
1991 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
1992 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
1993 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
1994 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
1995 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
1996 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
1997 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
1998 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
1999 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
2000 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
2001 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
2002 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
2003 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
2004 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
2005 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
2006 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
2007 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
2008 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
2009 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
2010 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
2011 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
2012 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
2013 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
2014
2015 wxMSW:
2016
2017 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
2018 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
2019 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
2020 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
2021 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
2022 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
2023 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
2024 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
2025 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
2026 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
2027 wxMSW faq for details).
2028 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
2029 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
2030 to the link command.
2031 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
2032 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
2033 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
2034 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
2035 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
2036 show.
2037 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
2038 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
2039 initial construction.
2040 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
2041 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
2042 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
2043 events).
2044 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
2045 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
2046 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
2047 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
2048 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
2049 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
2050 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
2051 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
2052 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
2053 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
2054 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
2055 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
2056 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
2057 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
2058 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
2059 changes the system font.
2060 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
2061 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
2062 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
2063 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
2064 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
2065 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
2066
2067 wxGTK:
2068
2069 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
2070 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
2071 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
2072 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
2073 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
2074 implementation.
2075 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
2076 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
2077 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
2078 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
2079 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
2080 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
2081 previously unable to be focused before.
2082 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
2083 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
2084 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
2085 class was used.
2086 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
2087 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
2088 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
2089 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
2090 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
2091 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
2092 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
2093 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
2094 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
2095
2096 wxMac:
2097
2098 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
2099 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
2100 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
2101 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
2102 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
2103 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
2104 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
2105 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
2106 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
2107 - Corrected idle wake-up.
2108 - Corrected wxExecute.
2109 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
2110 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
2111 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
2112 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2113 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
2114 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
2115 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
2116 were found.
2117 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
2118 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
2119 under Mach-O.
2120 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
2121 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
2122 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
2123 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
2124 end of file with an error.
2125 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
2126 binaries.
2127 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
2128 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
2129 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
2130 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
2131 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
2132 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
2133 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
2134
2135 wxCocoa:
2136
2137 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
2138
2139 wxWinCE:
2140
2141 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
2142 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
2143 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
2144 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
2145 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
2146 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
2147 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
2148 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
2149 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
2150 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
2151 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
2152 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
2153 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
2154 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
2155 directly, however.
2156 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
2157 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
2158 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
2159 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
2160 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
2161
2162 wxUniv:
2163
2164 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
2165 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
2166 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
2167
2168 wxX11:
2169
2170 - Invisible text problem fixed.
2171 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
2172 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
2173 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
2174
2175 Unix:
2176
2177 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
2178
2179 wxMGL:
2180
2181 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
2182 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
2183
2184
2185 2.6.2
2186 -----
2187
2188 All:
2189
2190 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
2191 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
2192 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
2193 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
2194 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
2195 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
2196 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
2197 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
2198 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
2199 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
2200 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
2201 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
2202
2203 All (GUI):
2204
2205 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
2206 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
2207 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
2208 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
2209 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
2210 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
2211 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
2212 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
2213 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
2214 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
2215 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
2216 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
2217
2218 wxMSW:
2219
2220 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
2221 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
2222 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
2223 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
2224 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
2225 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
2226 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
2227 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
2228 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
2229 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
2230 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
2231 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
2232 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
2233 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
2234 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
2235
2236 wxGTK:
2237
2238 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
2239 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
2240 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
2241 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
2242 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
2243 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
2244 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
2245 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
2246 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
2247 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
2248 - Fixed domain socket handling.
2249
2250 wxMac:
2251
2252 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
2253 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
2254 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
2255 - Various text control bug fixes.
2256 - Automatic menu management improved.
2257 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
2258 due to dangling cycle pointers.
2259 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
2260 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
2261 showing modally).
2262
2263 wxOS2
2264
2265 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
2266
2267 wxUniv:
2268
2269 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
2270 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
2271
2272 wxMotif:
2273
2274 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
2275 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
2276 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
2277 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
2278 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
2279 flag has been specified.
2280 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
2281 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
2282 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
2283 showing modally).
2284
2285 wxMGL:
2286
2287 - Fixed crash on exit.
2288 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
2289
2290 wxX11:
2291
2292 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
2293
2294
2295 2.6.1
2296 -----
2297
2298 All:
2299
2300 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
2301 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
2302
2303 All (GUI):
2304
2305 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
2306 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
2307 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
2308 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
2309 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
2310 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
2311 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
2312 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
2313 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
2314 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
2315
2316 wxMSW:
2317
2318 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
2319 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
2320 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
2321 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
2322 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
2323 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
2324 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
2325 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
2326 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
2327 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
2328 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
2329 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
2330 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
2331 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
2332 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
2333 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
2334 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
2335 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
2336 - Compiles again with WIN64.
2337 - Winelib compilation now works.
2338 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
2339 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
2340 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
2341 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
2342 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
2343 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
2344 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
2345 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
2346 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
2347 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
2348 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
2349 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
2350 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
2351
2352 wxWinCE:
2353
2354 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2355
2356 wxGTK:
2357
2358 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
2359 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
2360 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
2361 - Added bitmap support in menus.
2362
2363 wxMac:
2364
2365 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
2366 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
2367 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
2368 incorrect state.
2369 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
2370 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
2371 - Window menu now added automatically.
2372 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
2373 - Modified function key support fixed.
2374 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
2375
2376 wxX11:
2377
2378 - Menu problems fixed.
2379 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
2380 - Fixed a font memory leak.
2381 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
2382
2383
2384 2.6.0
2385 -----
2386
2387 All:
2388
2389 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
2390 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
2391
2392 All (GUI):
2393
2394 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
2395 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
2396
2397 wxMSW:
2398
2399 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
2400 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
2401 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
2402
2403 wxWinCE:
2404
2405 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
2406
2407 wxGTK:
2408 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
2409 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2410 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
2411 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2412 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
2413 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
2414 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
2415
2416 wxMac:
2417 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
2418
2419 2.5.5
2420 -----
2421
2422 All:
2423
2424 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
2425 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
2426 - Added wxDebugReport class.
2427 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
2428 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
2429 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
2430 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
2431 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
2432 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
2433
2434 All (GUI):
2435
2436 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
2437 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
2438 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
2439 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
2440 the whole virtual area.
2441 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
2442 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
2443 isn't used to set the window size.
2444 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
2445 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
2446 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
2447 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
2448
2449 Unix:
2450
2451 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
2452
2453 wxMSW:
2454
2455 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
2456 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
2457 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
2458 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
2459 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
2460 handling (Jamie Gadd).
2461
2462 wxGTK:
2463
2464 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
2465 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
2466 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
2467 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
2468 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
2469 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
2470 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
2471 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
2472
2473 wxMac:
2474
2475 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
2476
2477 wxPalmOS:
2478
2479 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
2480
2481 wxWinCE:
2482
2483 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
2484 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
2485 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
2486 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
2487 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
2488 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
2489 with correct titlebar style.
2490 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
2491 PocketPC guidelines
2492 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
2493 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
2494 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
2495 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
2496 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
2497 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
2498 to the dialog's toolbar.
2499
2500 2.5.4
2501 -----
2502
2503 All:
2504
2505 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
2506 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
2507 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
2508 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
2509 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2510 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
2511 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
2512 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
2513 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
2514 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
2515 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
2516 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
2517 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
2518 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
2519 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
2520 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
2521 behaviour between Unicode and non-unicode builds
2522 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
2523 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
2524 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
2525 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
2526 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
2527 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
2528 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
2529 printing stuff in the GTK port.
2530 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
2531 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
2532 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
2533 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
2534 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
2535 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
2536 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
2537 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
2538 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
2539 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
2540 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
2541 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
2542 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
2543 due to a rounding error.
2544 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
2545 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
2546 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
2547 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
2548 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
2549 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
2550 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
2551 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
2552
2553
2554 All (GUI):
2555
2556 - added wxMediaCtrl
2557 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
2558 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
2559 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2560 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
2561 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
2562 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
2563 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
2564 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
2565 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
2566 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
2567 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
2568 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
2569 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
2570 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
2571 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
2572 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
2573 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
2574
2575 Unix:
2576
2577 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
2578
2579 wxGTK:
2580
2581 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
2582 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
2583 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
2584 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
2585 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
2586 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
2587 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
2588 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
2589 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
2590 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
2591 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
2592 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
2593 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
2594 errors otherwise.
2595 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
2596 - Added wxRawBitmap support
2597 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
2598 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
2599 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
2600
2601 wxMac:
2602
2603 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
2604 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
2605 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
2606 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
2607
2608 wxMSW:
2609
2610 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
2611 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
2612 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
2613 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
2614 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
2615
2616 wxWinCE:
2617 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
2618 but not mentioned anywhere.
2619 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
2620
2621 wxUniv:
2622
2623 - wxBU_... button align flags support
2624 - vertical notebook orientation support
2625 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
2626 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
2627
2628 wxPalmOS:
2629
2630 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
2631 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
2632 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
2633 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
2634 - enumeration of available volumes
2635 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
2636 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
2637 - native wxColourDialog implementation
2638 - native wxSystemSettings colours
2639 - native wxButton implementation
2640 - native wxCheckBox implementation
2641 - native wxSlider implementation
2642 - native wxToggleButton implementation
2643 - native wxRadioButton implementation
2644 - native wxStaticText implementation
2645 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2646
2647
2648 2.5.3
2649 -----
2650
2651 All:
2652
2653 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
2654 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
2655 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2656 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
2657 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
2658 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
2659 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
2660 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
2661 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
2662 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
2663 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
2664 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
2665 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
2666 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
2667 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
2668 - fixed wxString's behaviour with inserted null characters
2669
2670 All (GUI):
2671
2672 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
2673 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
2674 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
2675 is discouraged
2676 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
2677 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
2678 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
2679 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
2680 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
2681 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
2682 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
2683 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
2684 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
2685 - added samples/splash
2686 - added support for stock buttons
2687 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
2688 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
2689 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
2690 - added wxChoicebook control
2691 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
2692 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
2693 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
2694 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
2695 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
2696 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
2697 supported, instead of zero.
2698 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
2699
2700 Unix:
2701
2702 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
2703 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
2704 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
2705 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
2706 - wx-config has new --version-full option
2707
2708 wxCocoa:
2709
2710 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2711 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
2712 - Tooltips now supported
2713 - wxSound now supported
2714 - wxDisplay now supported
2715 - Some stock cursors now supported
2716
2717 wxMac:
2718
2719 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
2720 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
2721 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2722 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
2723
2724 wxGTK:
2725
2726 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
2727 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
2728 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
2729 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
2730 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
2731 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
2732 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
2733 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
2734 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
2735 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
2736 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
2737 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
2738 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
2739 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
2740 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
2741 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
2742 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
2743 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
2744 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
2745
2746 wxMotif:
2747
2748 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
2749
2750 wxMSW:
2751
2752 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
2753 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
2754 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
2755 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
2756 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
2757 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
2758 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
2759 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
2760 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
2761 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
2762 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
2763 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2764 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
2765 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
2766
2767 wxUniv/X11:
2768
2769 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
2770
2771 wxWinCE:
2772
2773 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
2774 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
2775 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
2776 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
2777
2778 wxHTML:
2779
2780 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
2781 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
2782
2783
2784 2.5.2
2785 -----
2786
2787 All:
2788
2789 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
2790 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
2791 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
2792 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
2793 of run-time) now
2794 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
2795 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
2796 to forward declare these classes.
2797
2798 All (GUI):
2799
2800 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
2801 resulting in much better display of scaled images
2802 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
2803 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
2804 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
2805 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
2806 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
2807 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
2808 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
2809 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
2810 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
2811 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
2812 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
2813 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
2814 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
2815
2816 wxMSW:
2817
2818 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
2819 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
2820 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
2821 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
2822 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
2823 even try to do it by default -- now it does
2824 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
2825 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
2826 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
2827 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
2828 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
2829 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
2830
2831 wxGTK:
2832
2833 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
2834
2835 wxMotif:
2836
2837 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
2838 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
2839 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
2840 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
2841
2842 wxUniv/X11:
2843
2844 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
2845
2846 wxHTML:
2847
2848 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
2849 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
2850
2851 Unix:
2852
2853 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
2854 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
2855
2856 wxODBC:
2857
2858 - Full Unicode support is now available
2859 - BLOB support is working
2860
2861
2862 2.5.1
2863 -----
2864
2865 All:
2866
2867 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
2868 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
2869 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
2870 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
2871 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
2872 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
2873 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
2874 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
2875 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
2876 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
2877 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
2878 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
2879 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
2880 (as in 2.5.0).
2881 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
2882 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2883 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
2884 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
2885 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
2886 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2887 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
2888 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
2889 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
2890 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
2891 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
2892 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
2893
2894 All (GUI):
2895
2896 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2897 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
2898 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
2899 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
2900 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
2901 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
2902 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
2903 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
2904 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
2905 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
2906 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
2907 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
2908 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
2909 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
2910 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
2911 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
2912 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
2913 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2914 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
2915 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
2916 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
2917 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
2918 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
2919 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
2920 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
2921 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
2922
2923 wxMSW:
2924
2925 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
2926 - fixed DDE memory leaks
2927 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
2928 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
2929 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
2930 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
2931 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
2932 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
2933 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2934 - MDI child frames are not always resizable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
2935 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
2936 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
2937 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
2938 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
2939 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
2940 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
2941 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
2942 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
2943 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2944 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
2945 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
2946 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
2947 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
2948 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
2949 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
2950 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
2951 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
2952 than the specified default size
2953 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
2954
2955 wxGTK:
2956
2957 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
2958 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
2959 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
2960 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
2961 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2962 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
2963 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
2964 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
2965 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
2966
2967 wxMac:
2968
2969 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2970 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
2971 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
2972 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
2973
2974 wxMotif:
2975
2976 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
2977
2978 wxHTML:
2979
2980 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
2981 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
2982
2983 Unix:
2984
2985 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
2986 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
2987 addition to existing OSS one
2988 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
2989
2990
2991 2.5.0
2992 -----
2993
2994 All:
2995
2996 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
2997 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
2998 separately compiled library
2999 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
3000 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3001 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
3002 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
3003 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
3004 - added wxArray::SetCount()
3005 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
3006 by default in Unicode mode
3007 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
3008 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
3009 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
3010 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
3011 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
3012 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
3013 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
3014 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
3015 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
3016 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
3017 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
3018 - added wxRecursionGuard class
3019 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
3020 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
3021 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
3022 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
3023 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
3024 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
3025 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
3026 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
3027
3028 wxBase:
3029
3030 - added Watcom makefiles
3031 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
3032
3033 All GUI ports:
3034
3035 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
3036 - added wxListbook control
3037 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
3038 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
3039 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
3040 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
3041 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizable (Robert Vazan)
3042 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
3043 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
3044 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
3045 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
3046 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
3047 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
3048 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
3049 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
3050 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
3051 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
3052 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
3053 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
3054 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3055 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
3056 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
3057 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
3058 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
3059 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
3060 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
3061 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
3062 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
3063 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
3064 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
3065 default extension for the template
3066 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
3067 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
3068 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
3069 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
3070 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
3071 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
3072 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
3073 to allow better rich text support.
3074 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
3075 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
3076 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
3077 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
3078 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
3079 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
3080 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
3081 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
3082 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
3083 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
3084 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
3085 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
3086 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
3087 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
3088 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
3089 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
3090 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
3091 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
3092 - added wxMirrorDC class
3093 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
3094 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
3095 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
3096 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
3097 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
3098 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
3099 improved
3100
3101 Unix:
3102
3103 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
3104 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
3105 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
3106 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
3107 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
3108
3109 Generic controls:
3110
3111 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
3112 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
3113 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
3114 to contrib/src/deprecated
3115
3116 wxGTK:
3117
3118 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
3119 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
3120 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
3121 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
3122 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
3123 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
3124 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
3125 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
3126 be appended to filenames with no extension
3127 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
3128 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
3129 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
3130 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
3131
3132 wxMac:
3133
3134 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
3135 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3136
3137 wxMSW:
3138
3139 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
3140 - added wxCrashReport
3141 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
3142 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
3143 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
3144 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
3145 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
3146 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
3147 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
3148 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
3149 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
3150 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
3151 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
3152 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
3153 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
3154 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
3155 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
3156 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
3157 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
3158 - improved border handling under Windows XP
3159 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
3160 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
3161 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
3162 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
3163 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
3164 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
3165 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
3166
3167 wxMotif:
3168
3169 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
3170 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
3171 documentation for a detailed explanation
3172 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
3173 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
3174 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
3175 with Motif 1.x compatibility
3176 - implemented wxToggleButton
3177 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
3178 instead of a sunken border
3179 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
3180 - finished wxClipboard implementation
3181
3182 wxUniv:
3183
3184 - controls in toolbars now supported
3185
3186 wxHTML:
3187
3188 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
3189 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
3190 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
3191 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
3192 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
3193
3194
3195 OLD CHANGES
3196 ===========
3197
3198 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
3199 ================================
3200
3201 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
3202 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
3203 with '!' in the first column.
3204
3205 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
3206 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
3207 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
3208 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
3209 2.6 release.
3210
3211 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
3212 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
3213 (see the documentation) useful.
3214
3215
3216 wxBase:
3217
3218 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
3219 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
3220 code.
3221
3222 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
3223 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
3224 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
3225 arrays containing non-pointers.
3226
3227 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
3228 simply don't make sense for all objects
3229
3230 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
3231 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
3232 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
3233
3234 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
3235
3236 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
3237 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
3238 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
3239 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
3240 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
3241
3242 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
3243 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
3244 the default assert handling.
3245
3246 All (GUI):
3247
3248 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
3249 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
3250 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
3251
3252 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
3253 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
3254 instead!
3255
3256 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
3257 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
3258 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
3259
3260 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
3261 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
3262 you want to get OnChar() as well
3263
3264 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
3265 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
3266 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
3267
3268 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
3269 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
3270 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
3271 will *NOT* work any longer:
3272
3273 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
3274 ... do something ...
3275 if ( flags & wxYES )
3276 ... do something else ...
3277
3278 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
3279 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
3280 the ctor
3281
3282 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
3283
3284 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
3285 if you derived any classes from it
3286
3287 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
3288 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
3289
3290 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
3291 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
3292
3293 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
3294 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
3295
3296 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
3297 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
3298 from happening
3299
3300 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
3301 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
3302 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
3303
3304 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
3305 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
3306 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
3307 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
3308
3309 wxMSW:
3310
3311 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
3312 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
3313 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
3314 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
3315 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
3316 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
3317 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
3318 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
3319 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
3320 is only present for the DLLs builds.
3321
3322 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
3323 style to avoid it
3324
3325 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
3326 previously selected one instead of replacing it
3327
3328 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
3329 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
3330 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
3331
3332 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
3333 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
3334
3335
3336 Unix ports:
3337
3338 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
3339 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
3340 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
3341 to compile pure C files.
3342
3343
3344 wxThread and related classes:
3345
3346 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
3347 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
3348 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
3349 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
3350
3351 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
3352 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
3353 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
3354 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
3355
3356 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
3357 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
3358 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
3359
3360 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
3361 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
3362
3363
3364 OTHER CHANGES
3365 =============
3366
3367 2.4.0
3368 -----
3369
3370 wxMSW:
3371
3372 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
3373
3374 2.3.4
3375 -----
3376
3377 All:
3378
3379 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
3380 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
3381 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
3382
3383 Unix (Base/GUI):
3384
3385 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
3386 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
3387 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
3388
3389 wxGTK:
3390 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
3391 - Addition of native frame site grip.
3392
3393 wxX11:
3394 - Unicode support through Pango library.
3395
3396 wxMSW:
3397
3398 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
3399 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
3400
3401 wxHTML:
3402
3403 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
3404
3405 2.3.3
3406 -----
3407
3408 wxBase:
3409
3410 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
3411 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
3412 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
3413 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
3414 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
3415 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3416 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
3417 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
3418 after (non standard) STL hash_map
3419 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
3420 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
3421 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
3422 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
3423 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
3424 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
3425 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
3426
3427 Unix (Base/GUI):
3428
3429 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
3430 programs and not only GNU make
3431 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
3432 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
3433 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
3434 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
3435 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
3436
3437 All (GUI):
3438
3439 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
3440 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
3441 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
3442 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
3443 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
3444 wxWidgets dialogs
3445 - significantly improved native font support
3446 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
3447 wxHashTable
3448 - added IFF image handler
3449 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
3450 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
3451 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
3452 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3453 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
3454 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
3455 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3456 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
3457 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
3458 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
3459 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
3460 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
3461 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
3462 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3463 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
3464 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
3465 - wxMessageOutput class added
3466 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
3467 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
3468 table fills up
3469 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
3470 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
3471 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
3472 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
3473 (Rene Rivera).
3474 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
3475 whether a label edit was cancelled.
3476 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
3477
3478 wxMSW:
3479
3480 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
3481 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
3482 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
3483 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
3484 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
3485 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
3486 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
3487 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
3488 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
3489 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
3490 are changed
3491 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
3492 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
3493 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
3494 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
3495 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
3496 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
3497 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
3498 recursion any more
3499 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
3500 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
3501 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
3502 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
3503 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
3504 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
3505 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
3506 has the capture before release it.
3507 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
3508 - default button handling is now closer to expected
3509 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
3510 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
3511 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
3512 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
3513 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
3514 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
3515 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
3516 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
3517 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
3518 provided in wxFontData
3519 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
3520 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
3521
3522 wxGTK:
3523
3524 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
3525 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
3526 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
3527 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
3528 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
3529 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
3530 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
3531 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
3532 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
3533 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
3534 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
3535 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
3536 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
3537
3538 wxMotif:
3539
3540 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
3541 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
3542 - improved toolbar control alignment
3543 - implemented wxSpinButton
3544 - implemented wxCheckListBox
3545 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
3546 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
3547
3548 wxX11:
3549
3550 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
3551 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
3552
3553 wxMac:
3554
3555 - Many improvements
3556
3557 wxOS2:
3558
3559 - First alpha-quality release
3560
3561 wxHTML:
3562
3563 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
3564 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
3565 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
3566 - fixed alignment handling in tables
3567 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
3568
3569 2.3.2
3570 -----
3571
3572 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
3573
3574 wxBase:
3575
3576 - wxRegEx class added
3577 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
3578 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
3579 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
3580 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
3581 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
3582
3583 All (GUI):
3584
3585 - support for virtual list control added
3586 - column images in report mode of the list control
3587 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
3588 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
3589 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
3590 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
3591 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
3592 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3593 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
3594 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
3595 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
3596 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
3597 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3598 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
3599
3600 wxMSW:
3601
3602 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
3603 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
3604 project files
3605
3606 wxGTK:
3607
3608 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
3609 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
3610 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
3611 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
3612
3613 wxMac:
3614
3615 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
3616 Tools
3617
3618 wxHTML:
3619
3620 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
3621 to tags parsing
3622 - added support for animated GIFs
3623
3624 2.3.1
3625 -----
3626
3627 wxBase:
3628
3629 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
3630 - Fixed new charset detection code
3631 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
3632 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
3633 - Added wxDir::Traverse
3634 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
3635 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
3636 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
3637
3638 All (GUI):
3639
3640 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
3641 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
3642 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
3643 push on a custom event handler for example)
3644 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
3645 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
3646 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
3647 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
3648 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
3649 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
3650 first-time saved
3651 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
3652 - Various wxXML enhancements
3653 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
3654 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
3655 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
3656 instead of GetId()
3657 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
3658 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
3659
3660 wxMSW:
3661
3662 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
3663 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
3664 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
3665 alt or shift) now work
3666 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
3667 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
3668 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
3669 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
3670 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
3671 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
3672 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
3673 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
3674 - We now send iconize events
3675 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
3676 - Added mousewheel processing
3677 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
3678 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
3679 in wxDC
3680 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
3681 child frame styles are honoured
3682
3683 wxGTK:
3684
3685 - Fixed slider rounding bug
3686 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
3687 - We now send iconize events
3688 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
3689 GetSelection() results
3690
3691 2.3.0
3692 -----
3693
3694 wxBase:
3695
3696 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
3697 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
3698 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
3699 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
3700 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3701 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
3702 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
3703 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
3704 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
3705 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
3706
3707 All (GUI):
3708
3709 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
3710 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
3711 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
3712 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
3713 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
3714 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
3715 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
3716 wxImage methods and ctor)
3717 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
3718 - ODBC documentation complete!!
3719 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
3720 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
3721 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
3722 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
3723
3724 wxMSW:
3725
3726 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
3727 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
3728 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
3729 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
3730
3731 wxGTK:
3732
3733 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
3734
3735 wxHTML:
3736
3737 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
3738 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
3739
3740 2.2.0
3741 -----
3742
3743 wxBase:
3744
3745 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
3746 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
3747 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
3748 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
3749 - Completed Czech translations
3750 - Some stream corrections
3751 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
3752 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
3753 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
3754 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
3755
3756 All (GUI):
3757
3758 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
3759 flicker-free dragging is now possible
3760 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
3761 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
3762 - Paper names now translated
3763 - wxGrid fixes
3764 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
3765 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
3766 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
3767 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
3768 File dialog.
3769 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
3770 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
3771 writing code
3772 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
3773 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
3774 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
3775 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
3776
3777 wxMSW:
3778
3779 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
3780 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
3781 backward compatibility, please set
3782 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
3783 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
3784 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
3785 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
3786 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
3787 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
3788 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
3789 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
3790 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
3791 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
3792 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
3793 - wxFrame restores focus better
3794 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
3795 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
3796 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
3797 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
3798 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
3799 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
3800 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
3801 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
3802 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizable again
3803 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
3804
3805 wxGTK:
3806
3807 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
3808
3809 wxMotif:
3810
3811 - Small compilation fixes
3812
3813 Documentation:
3814
3815 - wxCaret documented
3816
3817 2.1.16
3818 ------
3819
3820 wxBase:
3821
3822 All (GUI):
3823
3824 wxMSW:
3825
3826 - Various bug fixes
3827 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
3828 files. This works under VC++ only
3829 - Modal dialog handling improved
3830 - Printer dialog now modal
3831
3832 wxGTK:
3833
3834 - Various bug fixes
3835
3836 wxMotif:
3837
3838 - Various bug fixes
3839
3840 2.1.15
3841 ------
3842
3843 Documentation:
3844
3845 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
3846
3847 File hierarchy:
3848
3849 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
3850 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
3851
3852 wxBase:
3853
3854 - wxSocket support
3855 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
3856 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
3857 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
3858 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
3859 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
3860 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
3861 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
3862 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
3863 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
3864 only so far)
3865 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
3866 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
3867 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
3868 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
3869 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
3870 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
3871 is available)
3872 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
3873
3874 all (GUI):
3875
3876 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
3877 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
3878 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
3879 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
3880 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
3881 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
3882 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
3883 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
3884 John Norris)
3885 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
3886 MIME types if available (Unix only)
3887 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
3888 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
3889 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
3890 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
3891 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
3892 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
3893 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
3894 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
3895 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
3896 - wxDragImage class added
3897 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
3898 controllers, as well as native help
3899 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
3900
3901 wxMSW:
3902
3903 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
3904 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
3905 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
3906 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
3907 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
3908 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
3909 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
3910 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
3911 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
3912 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
3913 Unix ports
3914 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
3915 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
3916 - wxSetCursorEvent added
3917
3918 wxGTK:
3919
3920 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
3921 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
3922 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
3923
3924 wxMotif:
3925
3926 - wxMenu::Enable works
3927 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
3928 - OGL samples made to work again
3929
3930 wxHTML:
3931
3932 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
3933 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
3934 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
3935 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
3936 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
3937 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
3938 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
3939 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
3940 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
3941 - improved HTML printing
3942 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
3943 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
3944 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
3945 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
3946
3947
3948 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
3949 change log.
3950
3951 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
3952 -----------------------
3953
3954 wxGTK:
3955
3956 - JPEG support added.
3957 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
3958
3959 wxMSW:
3960
3961 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
3962 SetTabSize added.
3963 - JPEG support added.
3964 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
3965 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
3966 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
3967
3968 wxMotif:
3969
3970
3971 General:
3972
3973 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
3974
3975
3976 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
3977 -------------------------------
3978
3979 wxGTK:
3980
3981 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
3982 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
3983
3984 wxMSW:
3985
3986 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
3987 - Fixed window cursor setting.
3988 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
3989 - Some makefile fixes.
3990
3991 wxMotif:
3992
3993 - None.
3994
3995 General:
3996
3997 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
3998 - More topic overviews.
3999 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
4000 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
4001 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
4002
4003
4004 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
4005 --------------------------
4006
4007 wxGTK:
4008
4009 - wxExecute improved.
4010
4011 wxMSW:
4012
4013 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
4014 expected).
4015 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
4016 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
4017 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
4018 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
4019 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
4020 - Fixed focus-related crash.
4021
4022 wxMotif:
4023
4024 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
4025 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
4026
4027 General:
4028
4029 - wxLocale documented.
4030 - Added include filenames to class reference.
4031 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
4032 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
4033 (though doesn't display help yet).
4034
4035 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
4036 --------------------------
4037
4038 wxGTK:
4039
4040 - Miscellaneous fixes.
4041
4042 wxMSW:
4043
4044 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
4045 rationalised.
4046 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
4047
4048 wxMotif:
4049
4050 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
4051 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
4052 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
4053 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
4054 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
4055 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
4056 crashes for some reason).
4057 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
4058 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
4059
4060 General:
4061
4062 - Further doc improvements.
4063 - wxGenericValidator added.
4064 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
4065 automatically.
4066
4067 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
4068 -------------------------
4069
4070 wxGTK:
4071
4072 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
4073 - wxToolTip class added.
4074 - Miscellaneous fixes.
4075
4076 wxMSW:
4077
4078 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
4079 - Makefiles for more compilers.
4080 - TWIN32 support added.
4081 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
4082 factored out program/library settings.
4083 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
4084
4085 wxMotif:
4086
4087 - A few more colour fixes.
4088 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
4089 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
4090 - wxChoice crash fix.
4091 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
4092
4093 General:
4094
4095 - wxBusyCursor class added.
4096 - Added samples/dde.
4097 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
4098
4099 Beta 2, January 1999
4100 --------------------
4101
4102 wxGTK:
4103
4104 wxMSW:
4105
4106 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
4107
4108 wxMotif:
4109
4110 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
4111 the right place.
4112 - Cured some widget table clashes.
4113 - Added thread support (Robert).
4114 - wxPoem sample now works.
4115
4116 General:
4117
4118 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
4119 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
4120 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
4121 or below).
4122 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
4123 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
4124 sample.
4125 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
4126
4127 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
4128 --------------------------
4129
4130 wxGTK:
4131
4132 - Various
4133
4134 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
4135
4136
4137 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
4138 ----------------------------
4139
4140 wxMSW:
4141
4142 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
4143 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
4144 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
4145 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
4146 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
4147 on a tab.
4148 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
4149 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
4150 of Stefan Csomor.
4151
4152 wxMotif:
4153
4154 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
4155 without (permanently) resizing the window.
4156 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
4157 that disabled scrollbar paging.
4158 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
4159 colours correctly.
4160 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
4161 when any button was pressed.
4162 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
4163 have a white background.
4164 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
4165 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
4166 they have sensible colours by default.
4167 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
4168 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
4169 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
4170 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
4171 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
4172
4173 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
4174 ----------------------------
4175
4176 wxMSW:
4177
4178 - More documentation updates, especially for
4179 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
4180 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
4181 of wxTrace.
4182 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
4183 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
4184 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
4185 position.
4186 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
4187
4188 wxMotif:
4189
4190 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
4191 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
4192 child frames).
4193 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
4194 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
4195 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
4196 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
4197 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
4198 the debugging implementation.
4199 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
4200 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
4201 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
4202 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
4203 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
4204 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
4205 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
4206
4207 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
4208
4209 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
4210 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
4211 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
4212 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
4213 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
4214 - wxNotebook almost done.
4215 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
4216 to vertical toolbars).
4217
4218 More recently:
4219
4220 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
4221 to scrollbars).
4222 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
4223 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
4224 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
4225
4226 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
4227 ----------------------------
4228
4229 wxMSW:
4230
4231 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
4232 sample.
4233 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
4234 - A few more makefiles added.
4235 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
4236 - Further doc updates.
4237 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
4238
4239 wxMotif:
4240
4241 - First start at Motif port.
4242 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
4243 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
4244 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
4245 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
4246
4247 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
4248 --------------------------
4249
4250 wxMSW:
4251
4252 - wxBitmap debugged.
4253 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
4254 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
4255 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
4256 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
4257 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
4258 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
4259 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
4260
4261 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
4262 ------------------------
4263
4264 wxMSW:
4265
4266 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
4267 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
4268 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
4269 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
4270 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
4271 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
4272 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
4273 changes, wxNotebook.
4274 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
4275
4276 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
4277 -----------------------
4278
4279 wxMSW:
4280
4281 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
4282 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
4283 Windows functions, for efficiency.
4284 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
4285 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
4286 don't support it.
4287 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
4288 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
4289
4290 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
4291 -----------------------
4292
4293 wxMSW:
4294
4295 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
4296 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
4297
4298 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
4299 -----------------------
4300
4301 wxMSW:
4302
4303 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
4304 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
4305 wxMenuBar.
4306 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
4307 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
4308 wxMenuItem accessors.
4309 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
4310 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
4311 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
4312 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
4313 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
4314 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
4315 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
4316 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
4317 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
4318 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
4319 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
4320 first, then doing the assignment.
4321 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
4322 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
4323
4324 Generic:
4325
4326 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
4327 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
4328
4329 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
4330 ----------------------
4331
4332 wxMSW:
4333
4334 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
4335 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
4336 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
4337 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
4338 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
4339 require application-supplied positioning code though.
4340 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
4341 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
4342 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
4343
4344 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
4345 ------------------------
4346
4347 wxMSW:
4348
4349 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
4350 fields were used.
4351 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4352 compilation and pragmas.
4353 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
4354 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
4355
4356 Generic:
4357
4358 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
4359 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4360 compilation and pragmas.
4361 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
4362
4363 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
4364 ------------------------
4365
4366 wxMSW:
4367
4368 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
4369 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
4370 some reason :-(
4371 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
4372 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
4373 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
4374 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
4375 startup/exit.
4376 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
4377 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
4378 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
4379 VADIM'S CHANGES:
4380 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
4381 compatibility functions.
4382 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
4383 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
4384 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
4385 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
4386 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
4387 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
4388 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
4389
4390 Generic:
4391
4392 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
4393 - Added samples/png.
4394 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
4395 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
4396 header files.
4397 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
4398
4399 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
4400 ------------------------
4401
4402 wxMSW:
4403
4404 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4405 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
4406 cleaned up properly before exit.
4407 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
4408 automatically.
4409 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
4410 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
4411 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
4412 unresolved issues.
4413 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
4414 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
4415 tray area.
4416 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
4417 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
4418 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
4419 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
4420
4421 Generic:
4422
4423 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4424 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
4425 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
4426 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
4427 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
4428 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
4429 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
4430 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
4431 allow better control of memory.
4432 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
4433 checking.
4434 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
4435 float to long in wxToolBar files.
4436
4437 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
4438 ------------------------
4439
4440 wxMSW:
4441
4442 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
4443 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
4444 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
4445 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
4446 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
4447 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
4448 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
4449 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
4450 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
4451 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
4452 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
4453 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
4454 IUnknown.
4455 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
4456 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
4457 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
4458 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
4459 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
4460 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
4461 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
4462 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
4463 internal implementation.
4464 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
4465 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
4466 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
4467
4468 Generic:
4469
4470 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
4471 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
4472 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
4473 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
4474 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
4475
4476 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
4477 --------------------------
4478
4479 wxMSW:
4480
4481 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4482 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4483 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
4484 changes.
4485 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
4486 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
4487 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
4488 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
4489 again.
4490 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
4491 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
4492 e.g. wxDC.
4493
4494 Generic:
4495
4496 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4497 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4498 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
4499 changes.
4500 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
4501 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
4502 docs/gtk.
4503 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
4504 created dynamically, not as a global object.
4505 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
4506 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
4507 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
4508 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
4509 - Added gcc pragmas.
4510 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
4511 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
4512 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
4513 added a few references to wxTransString.
4514 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
4515 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
4516 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
4517 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
4518 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
4519 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
4520 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
4521 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
4522 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
4523 MoreRequested.
4524
4525 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
4526 --------------------------
4527
4528 All:
4529
4530 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
4531 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
4532 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
4533 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
4534 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
4535 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
4536 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
4537 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
4538 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
4539 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
4540 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
4541 scrolling toolbars.
4542 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
4543 to help printing with multiple pages.
4544 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
4545 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
4546 implementation updated to use these base classes.
4547 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
4548 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
4549 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
4550 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
4551 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
4552 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
4553 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
4554 New files from Vadim:
4555 include\wx\string.h
4556 include\wx\debug.h
4557 include\wx\file.h
4558 include\wx\log.h
4559 include\wx\intl.h
4560 src\common\string.cpp
4561 src\common\log.cpp
4562 src\common\intl.cpp
4563 src\common\file.cpp
4564 No longer use GNU wxString files.
4565 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
4566 src\common\filefn.cpp.
4567 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
4568 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
4569 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
4570 including changes to defs.h.
4571 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
4572 introduced.
4573 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
4574 hidden).
4575 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
4576 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
4577 trick).
4578 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
4579
4580 Alpha 3, September 1997
4581 -----------------------
4582
4583 All:
4584
4585 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
4586 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
4587 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
4588 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
4589 - Started documentation.
4590
4591 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
4592 ------------------------
4593
4594 All:
4595
4596 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
4597 with MetroWerks compiler.
4598 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
4599 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
4600 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
4601 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
4602 for testing purposes.
4603 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
4604 handlers.
4605 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
4606 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
4607 fully).
4608 - Added back wxRadioBox.
4609 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
4610 a separate file.
4611
4612 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
4613 -----------------------
4614
4615 Generic:
4616
4617 At this point, the following has been achieved:
4618
4619 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
4620 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
4621 wxString instead of char *.
4622 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
4623 old system event system) and code size reduced.
4624 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
4625 as wxbWindow now removed.
4626 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
4627 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
4628 - PrologIO revised.
4629 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
4630 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
4631 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
4632 Windows settings.
4633 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
4634 settings mucho rationalised.
4635 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
4636 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
4637 classes removed.
4638 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
4639 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
4640 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
4641 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
4642 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
4643 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
4644 of event handlers.
4645 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
4646 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
4647 wxToolBarBase
4648 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
4649 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
4650 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
4651 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
4652 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
4653 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
4654 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
4655 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
4656 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
4657 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
4658 in the future.
4659 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
4660 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
4661 variables instead.
4662 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
4663 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
4664 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
4665 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
4666 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
4667 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
4668 Win95.
4669 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
4670 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
4671 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
4672 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
4673 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
4674 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).