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