1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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8 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
9 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
10 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
12 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
13 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
15 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
16 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
17 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
18 then calling GetValue().
21 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
22 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
23 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
24 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
26 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
29 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
30 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
31 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
33 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
35 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
36 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:
38 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
39 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
41 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
42 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
43 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
44 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
45 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
46 the origin of the canvas.
48 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
49 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
50 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
52 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
53 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
55 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
56 internal scrollbar visible.
58 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
59 system paths for each platform.
61 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
62 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
63 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
64 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
65 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
67 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
68 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
69 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
71 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
72 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
73 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
75 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
76 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
77 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
79 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
81 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
82 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
83 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
84 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
86 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
87 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
88 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
89 of how to use the control.
91 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
92 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
94 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
95 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
98 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
99 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
101 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
102 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
103 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
104 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
105 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
106 finished with the timer.
108 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
109 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
110 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
111 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
112 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
113 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
114 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
115 wxPython's *.i files, or building their own extension modules or
116 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
117 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
119 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
120 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
121 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
122 via the wxPython C API.
124 * The %name directive is now deprecated so replaced most uses of
125 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
126 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
127 when docstrings are added.
129 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
130 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
131 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
132 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
133 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
143 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
145 Updated internal PNG library.
147 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
149 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
150 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
152 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
153 enabled (does an enable itself)
155 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
158 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
159 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
162 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
163 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
164 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
165 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
166 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
167 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
168 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
169 button with "Cancel" as the label and an accelerator on the "C", and
170 if run on wxGTK2 then there will also be an image of a red X::
172 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
175 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
177 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
179 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
181 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
182 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
183 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
184 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
185 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
186 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
187 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
189 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
190 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
191 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
192 the wxPython modules.
194 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
195 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
196 user that they should look at that window.
198 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
199 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
201 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
203 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
204 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
205 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
206 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
207 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
208 and PyGetDate methods.
210 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
211 also set the colour of the dropdown.
213 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
215 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
217 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
219 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
220 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
221 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
223 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
225 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
227 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
229 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
232 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
235 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
237 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
238 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
241 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
243 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
244 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
247 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
248 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
249 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
251 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
252 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
253 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
254 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
255 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
256 should notice no difference.
258 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
259 when a new one is selected.
261 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
263 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
264 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
265 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
266 more details and a warning.
268 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
269 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
271 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
272 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
274 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
276 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
278 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
280 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
281 holding down the mouse button.
283 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
284 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
286 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
288 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
289 - Added bar graph demo
290 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
291 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
293 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
294 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
295 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
296 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
297 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
298 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
299 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
300 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
303 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
304 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
305 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
306 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
308 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
310 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
311 reflect package's public contents.
313 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
314 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
315 Migrarion Guide for more information.
317 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
318 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
319 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
320 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
322 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
324 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
325 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
328 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
329 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
338 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
340 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
342 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
344 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
345 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
347 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
348 flicker problems, and namespace use.
350 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
352 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
354 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
357 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
359 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
360 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
362 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
365 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
368 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
370 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
372 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
382 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
383 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
384 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
385 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
386 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
387 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
388 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
389 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
390 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
392 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
393 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
395 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
396 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
397 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
398 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
401 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
402 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
404 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
406 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
407 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
409 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
410 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
411 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
412 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
413 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
414 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
417 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
418 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
419 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
420 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
421 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
424 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
425 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
426 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
428 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
429 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
431 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
432 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
434 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
435 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
436 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
437 remaining compatible with "C".
439 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
442 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
443 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
444 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
445 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
446 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
447 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
448 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
449 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
450 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
452 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
454 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
455 Scintilla for several releases now.
457 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
458 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
459 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
460 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
462 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
463 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
464 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
467 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
468 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
469 with a more modern reimplementation.
471 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
472 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
474 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
475 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
476 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
478 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
479 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
480 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
481 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
482 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
484 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
485 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
486 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
487 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
490 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
491 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
494 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
502 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
503 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
506 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
509 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
510 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
511 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
512 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
513 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
514 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
515 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
518 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
519 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
525 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
526 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
528 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
531 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
534 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
535 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
536 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
538 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
539 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
540 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
541 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
542 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
543 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
544 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
545 distros please send me a patch.
547 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
548 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
550 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
551 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
552 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
553 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
554 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
555 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
558 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
561 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
563 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
565 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
567 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
568 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
569 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
570 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
571 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
572 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
573 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
576 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
579 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
581 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
582 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
584 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
585 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
586 MigrationGuide for more details.
588 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
589 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
590 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
591 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
592 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
593 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
594 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
595 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
596 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
597 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
598 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
599 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
600 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
601 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
602 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
603 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
604 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
606 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
608 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
616 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
618 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
620 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
621 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
623 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
625 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
627 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
634 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
636 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
638 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
639 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
640 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
643 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
644 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
647 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
648 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
649 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
650 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
651 to the new namespace.
653 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
654 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
655 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
656 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
658 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
659 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
660 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
661 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
662 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
663 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
664 package. These will be removed in a future release.
666 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
667 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
668 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
670 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
672 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
673 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
675 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
676 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
678 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
679 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
681 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
682 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
685 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
686 a call to any Python callable object.
688 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
689 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
690 to override the C++ virtual methods.
692 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
693 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
694 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
695 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
696 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
698 Added wxCursorFromBits.
707 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
710 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
711 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
712 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
714 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
717 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
720 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
723 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
725 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
726 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
727 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
733 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
734 ------------------------------------------
736 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
737 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
738 think I am testing in the future...
742 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
743 ----------------------------------------------
745 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
747 Updated pycolourchooser.
749 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
755 Added missing wxRect methods
757 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
759 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
761 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
762 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
763 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
766 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
769 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
771 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
772 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
775 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
777 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
780 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
782 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
783 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
784 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
785 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
786 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
787 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
788 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
789 static stable in the C++ class.
791 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
792 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
793 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
794 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
797 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
798 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
799 always call them. The functions are:
801 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
802 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
803 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
804 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
805 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
806 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
807 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
808 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
809 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
810 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
811 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
812 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
814 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
815 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
817 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
818 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
819 doesn't have a standard place for them.
821 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
823 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
825 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
833 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
835 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
842 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
845 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
846 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
858 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
860 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
862 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
866 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
867 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
868 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
869 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
870 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
871 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
872 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
873 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
874 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
875 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
876 you can use to play with this new feature.
878 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
879 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
880 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
881 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
882 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
883 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
884 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
885 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
887 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
890 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
891 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
894 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
896 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
897 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
898 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
899 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
900 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
902 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
904 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
906 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
908 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
909 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
910 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
912 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
913 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
914 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
916 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
917 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
919 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
920 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
921 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
922 windows when desired.
924 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
925 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
926 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
933 Added wxSplashScreen.
935 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
937 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
939 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
940 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
941 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
943 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
944 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
945 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
947 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
948 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
949 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
951 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
952 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
953 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
954 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
955 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
958 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
962 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
963 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
966 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
967 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
968 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
969 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
970 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
971 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
972 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
974 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
975 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
976 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
977 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
978 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
979 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
980 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
981 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
982 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
983 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
984 unicode build on win95.
986 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
987 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
988 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
989 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
990 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
991 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
992 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
993 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
994 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
995 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
998 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
1000 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
1002 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
1004 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
1005 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1006 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
1007 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1008 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1009 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1010 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
1011 for any class that is OOR aware.
1013 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1014 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1017 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1018 the image data. (Patch #546009)
1020 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1023 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1024 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1025 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
1038 TransferDataFromWindow
1039 TransferDataToWindow
1042 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1047 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1050 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1051 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
1053 Added wxArtProvider.
1055 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1056 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1057 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
1058 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
1059 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
1061 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
1063 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1064 creating a ScrolledPanel.
1066 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1069 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1070 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1071 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1072 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
1074 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
1075 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1076 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
1077 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1078 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
1080 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
1081 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1082 respond to mouse events and etc.
1084 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1085 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
1087 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1088 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
1089 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
1090 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1091 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
1092 started with just the "pycrust" command.
1094 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1095 displays the details of the event.
1097 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
1099 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1100 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
1103 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
1105 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1112 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1113 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
1114 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
1116 Added some patches from library contributors.
1122 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1123 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1124 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1125 and a demo to show them in action.
1127 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1128 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
1130 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
1132 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
1134 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1137 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
1138 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1139 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
1140 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
1141 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
1142 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
1143 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
1144 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
1147 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
1148 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
1149 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
1150 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
1151 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
1152 wxSTC flag accordingly.
1154 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
1155 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
1156 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
1158 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
1160 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
1162 Added pySketch to the samples.
1164 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
1165 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
1166 multi-processor machine.
1168 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
1169 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
1171 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
1173 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
1174 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
1175 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
1176 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
1177 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
1178 original C++ pointer.
1180 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
1183 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
1185 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
1186 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
1188 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
1189 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
1190 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
1191 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
1192 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
1197 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
1199 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
1200 will now Disconnect the event.
1202 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
1204 Added wxFileHistory.
1206 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
1207 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
1208 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
1211 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
1213 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
1216 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
1217 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
1218 additional columns for each item. The classes are
1219 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
1220 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
1221 also be useful by themselves.
1223 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
1224 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
1225 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
1226 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
1227 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
1228 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
1236 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
1237 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
1238 on a custom event handler for example.)
1240 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1241 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
1243 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
1244 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
1246 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
1248 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
1250 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
1252 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
1258 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
1259 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
1261 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
1262 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
1265 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
1267 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
1268 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
1271 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
1272 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
1273 access from non-GUI threads.
1275 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
1276 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
1278 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
1280 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
1281 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
1283 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
1284 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
1286 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
1287 it gobs faster in certain situations.
1289 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
1290 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
1291 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
1292 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
1293 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
1294 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
1295 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
1296 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
1297 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
1300 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
1301 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
1304 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
1305 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
1307 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
1309 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
1311 Added wxToggleButton.
1313 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
1315 Added some methods to wxGrid:
1316 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
1317 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1318 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
1319 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1321 GetGridRowLabelWindow
1322 GetGridColLabelWindow
1323 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
1325 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
1326 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
1327 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
1330 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
1331 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
1332 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
1333 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
1334 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
1335 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
1336 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
1337 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
1338 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
1339 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
1340 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
1341 use weak references.)
1343 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
1344 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
1345 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
1346 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
1347 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
1348 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
1349 object-type related oddities to me.
1352 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
1353 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
1354 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
1357 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
1358 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
1360 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
1364 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
1365 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
1366 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
1367 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
1368 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
1369 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
1371 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
1372 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
1381 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
1382 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
1389 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1390 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
1391 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1392 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
1394 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
1396 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
1398 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1399 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
1401 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1402 column in report mode.
1404 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1405 bar after 2 seconds.
1409 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1410 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1411 object, (usually a window.)
1413 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
1415 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
1417 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1418 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
1419 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1420 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1421 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1422 wxPython/src/export.h
1424 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1425 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1426 utils. Will probably add more later.
1428 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1429 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
1432 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
1433 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
1435 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
1437 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1438 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
1440 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1441 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1449 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1450 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
1451 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
1452 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1453 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1454 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1455 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
1456 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1459 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1460 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
1461 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1462 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1463 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1464 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
1465 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1466 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
1467 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
1469 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1470 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
1472 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
1473 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1474 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
1477 Removed the old python sizers.
1479 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
1482 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
1483 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
1484 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
1486 Lots of little fixes here and there.
1488 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
1489 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
1490 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
1498 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
1500 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
1507 Added wxLog and friends.
1509 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
1511 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
1518 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1519 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1522 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
1524 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
1528 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
1530 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
1532 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
1534 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
1535 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
1536 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
1537 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
1538 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
1539 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
1540 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
1541 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
1563 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
1564 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
1566 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
1569 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
1570 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
1572 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
1574 Plugged a memory leak.
1576 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
1577 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
1578 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
1579 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
1582 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
1583 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
1584 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
1586 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
1587 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
1588 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
1589 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
1590 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
1591 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
1592 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
1593 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
1596 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
1597 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
1598 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
1599 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
1601 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
1602 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
1603 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
1604 but I've included a very readable source file in the
1605 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
1606 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
1607 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
1608 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
1609 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
1614 What's new in 2.1.13
1615 --------------------
1616 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
1618 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
1619 and some flicker problems.
1621 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
1622 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
1624 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
1627 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
1629 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
1631 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
1632 with wxWindow.GetParent.
1634 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
1635 It is used like this:
1637 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
1639 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
1640 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
1642 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
1644 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
1646 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
1647 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
1648 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
1649 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
1650 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
1651 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
1653 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
1654 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
1655 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
1656 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
1657 methods look like this:
1661 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
1664 shortHelpString = "",
1665 longHelpString = "")
1667 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
1669 shortHelpString = "",
1670 longHelpString = "",
1674 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1675 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
1677 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
1679 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
1681 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1682 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
1683 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
1685 Added some missing EVT functions.
1687 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1690 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
1692 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1693 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1694 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
1699 What's new in 2.1.11
1700 --------------------
1701 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1704 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1705 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1708 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1709 being added. This should remove the need for our
1710 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
1712 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1713 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
1714 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1715 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1716 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
1718 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
1720 Added new HTML printing classes.
1722 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
1724 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
1725 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1726 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1729 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1730 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1731 thread from other threads.
1733 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
1735 Added wxFontEnumerator.
1737 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
1739 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1740 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
1742 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
1744 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1747 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
1754 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1755 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
1761 --------------------
1763 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1764 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1765 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1766 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
1767 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1770 Now back to what's new...
1772 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
1774 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
1776 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
1777 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1778 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1779 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1780 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1783 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1784 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1787 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1788 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1789 example, the following are equivallent:
1791 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
1792 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
1794 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1795 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1796 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1797 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1798 pages. See the demo for an example.
1800 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1801 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
1803 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
1805 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1806 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
1807 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1808 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1809 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1810 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1811 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1812 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1813 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1814 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1815 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1818 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1819 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1820 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1821 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1822 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1823 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1824 for more info and examples in future releases.
1826 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1827 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1828 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1829 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1830 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1831 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1834 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1835 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1836 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1837 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1838 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1839 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1840 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1841 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1842 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1843 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1844 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
1846 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1847 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1848 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1849 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1850 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1851 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1852 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1853 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1854 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1855 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1856 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1857 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1858 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1859 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1860 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1861 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
1864 outputWindowClass = MyClass
1868 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1871 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1872 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1873 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1874 to really screw things up.
1876 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1877 in the wxWindows docs...
1879 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1880 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1881 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1882 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1883 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1884 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1885 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1892 --------------------
1894 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
1896 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
1897 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1898 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1899 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1902 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1903 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1904 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
1906 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
1908 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1909 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1910 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1911 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
1914 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1915 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1916 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1917 see distrib/build.py for more details.
1919 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1920 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1921 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1922 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
1929 --------------------
1931 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
1933 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1934 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1935 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1936 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1937 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
1939 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1940 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1941 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1942 is being unloaded by Python.
1944 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1945 make wxPython look bad.
1947 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1948 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
1950 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
1952 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1953 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
1955 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1956 code to show how to use it.
1958 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1961 Added wxGrid.GetCells
1963 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1964 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
1966 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
1967 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
1969 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
1970 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
1972 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1973 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1974 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
1976 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1979 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
1981 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1984 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
1986 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
1994 --------------------
1995 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1996 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1997 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
1999 Added the Printing Framework.
2001 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2002 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2003 data after loading each extension module.
2005 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2008 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2009 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2010 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
2012 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2013 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2014 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2015 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
2021 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
2023 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2024 wxPython application.
2026 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
2028 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2029 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2032 Added wxSafeYield function.
2034 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
2036 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2039 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2040 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
2042 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
2044 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2045 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
2047 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
2049 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2056 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
2058 Several missing methods from various classes.
2066 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
2068 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
2074 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2075 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
2080 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2081 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2082 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2083 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2084 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
2086 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2087 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2088 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2089 diverges from wxWindows.
2091 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2092 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2093 it should just work... More news on this later.
2095 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
2097 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2100 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
2106 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
2108 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2109 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
2115 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
2116 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
2117 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
2118 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
2120 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
2122 Made the events work for wxGrid.
2126 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
2128 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2129 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
2131 Other assorted fixes and additions.
2139 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2140 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
2141 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
2142 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
2143 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
2144 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
2146 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2147 must have been a different issue all along...
2154 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
2155 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
2156 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
2157 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
2158 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
2159 version segfault shortly after starting up.
2161 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
2163 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.