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