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