1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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8 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
9 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
10 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
12 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
15 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
16 both has an icon and is a submenu.
18 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
21 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
22 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
23 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
24 instead of current values.
26 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
27 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
29 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
31 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
32 extra null character at the end.
34 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
35 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
37 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
40 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
42 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
45 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
47 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
48 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
49 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
52 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
53 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
56 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
57 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
58 default browser in response to the clicks.
60 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
61 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
62 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
63 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
64 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
65 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
66 parameter, like this::
69 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
72 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
73 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
74 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
76 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
79 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
82 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
84 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
85 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
87 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
88 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
91 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
94 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
95 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
96 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
98 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
101 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
102 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
105 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
106 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
107 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
108 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
110 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
112 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
113 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
116 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
117 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
119 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
120 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
123 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
124 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
126 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
128 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
130 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
132 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
133 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
135 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
136 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
137 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
138 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
141 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
142 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
152 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
153 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
156 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
158 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
160 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
161 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
162 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
164 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
165 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
166 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
167 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
168 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
169 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
170 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
171 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
172 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
173 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
174 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
176 =================== ====================
177 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
178 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
179 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
180 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
181 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
182 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
183 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
184 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
185 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
186 =================== ====================
189 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
190 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
193 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
194 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
196 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
198 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
199 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
200 * Hide command for test window.
201 * Replacing classes works better.
211 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
213 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
214 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
215 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
216 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
217 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
219 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
221 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
224 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
227 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
228 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
229 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
230 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
231 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
234 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
235 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
238 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
239 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
241 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
242 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
243 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
244 the width of any column.
246 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
249 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
251 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
253 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
254 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
256 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
257 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
258 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
259 older generic file dialog is used.
261 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
264 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
265 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
266 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
267 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
269 Added MDI support to XRC
271 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
272 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
274 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
275 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
277 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
278 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
280 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
283 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
284 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
286 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
287 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
289 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
292 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
301 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
302 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
303 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
305 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
306 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
308 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
309 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
310 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
311 then calling GetValue().
314 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
315 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
316 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
317 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
319 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
322 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
323 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
324 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
326 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
328 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
329 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
331 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
332 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
334 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
335 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
336 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
337 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
338 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
339 the origin of the canvas.
341 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
342 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
343 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
345 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
346 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
348 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
349 internal scrollbar visible.
351 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
352 system paths for each platform.
354 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
355 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
356 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
357 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
358 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
360 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
361 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
362 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
364 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
365 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
366 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
368 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
369 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
370 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
372 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
374 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
375 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
376 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
377 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
379 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
380 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
381 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
382 of how to use the control.
384 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
385 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
387 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
388 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
391 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
392 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
394 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
395 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
396 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
397 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
398 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
399 finished with the timer.
401 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
402 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
403 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
404 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
405 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
406 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
407 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
408 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
409 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
410 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
412 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
413 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
414 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
415 via the wxPython C API.
417 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
418 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
419 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
420 when docstrings are added for those items.
422 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
423 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
424 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
425 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
426 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
429 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
430 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
431 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
432 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
433 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
434 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
435 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
436 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
437 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
438 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
439 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
442 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
443 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
444 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
445 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
446 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
448 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
449 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
451 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
452 lots of surplus events)
454 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
457 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
458 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
460 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
461 and GTK+'s context menu code.
463 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
464 (not all actions are allowed).
466 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
468 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
469 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
470 when GetString is called from an event handler.
472 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
473 and max ends of the slider.
475 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
476 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
477 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
480 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
481 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
482 not with labels/sizers.
483 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
484 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
487 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
488 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
490 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
491 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
494 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
495 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
496 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
497 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
500 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
501 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
503 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
505 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
506 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
507 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
508 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
510 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
513 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
514 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
516 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
518 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
520 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
521 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
523 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
526 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
529 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
530 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
531 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
532 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
535 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
537 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
539 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
540 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
541 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
542 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
545 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
546 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
548 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
549 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
551 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
552 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
553 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
554 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
555 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
556 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
558 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
561 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
564 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
567 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
568 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
569 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
570 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
579 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
581 Updated internal PNG library.
583 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
585 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
586 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
588 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
589 enabled (does an enable itself)
591 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
594 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
595 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
598 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
599 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
600 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
601 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
602 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
603 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
604 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
605 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
606 also be an image of a red X::
608 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
611 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
613 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
615 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
617 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
618 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
619 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
620 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
621 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
622 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
623 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
625 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
626 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
627 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
628 the wxPython modules.
630 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
631 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
632 user that they should look at that window.
634 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
635 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
637 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
639 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
640 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
641 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
642 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
643 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
644 and PyGetDate methods.
646 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
647 also set the colour of the dropdown.
649 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
651 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
653 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
655 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
656 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
657 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
659 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
661 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
663 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
665 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
668 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
671 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
673 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
674 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
677 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
679 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
680 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
683 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
684 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
685 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
687 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
688 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
689 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
690 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
691 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
692 should notice no difference.
694 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
695 when a new one is selected.
697 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
699 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
700 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
701 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
702 more details and a warning.
704 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
705 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
707 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
708 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
710 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
712 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
714 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
716 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
717 holding down the mouse button.
719 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
720 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
722 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
724 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
725 - Added bar graph demo
726 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
727 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
729 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
730 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
731 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
732 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
733 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
734 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
735 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
736 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
739 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
740 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
741 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
742 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
744 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
746 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
747 reflect package's public contents.
749 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
750 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
751 Migrarion Guide for more information.
753 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
754 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
755 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
756 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
758 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
760 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
761 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
764 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
765 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
775 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
777 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
779 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
781 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
782 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
784 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
785 flicker problems, and namespace use.
787 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
789 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
791 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
794 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
796 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
797 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
799 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
802 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
805 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
807 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
809 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
820 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
821 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
822 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
823 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
824 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
825 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
826 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
827 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
828 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
830 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
831 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
833 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
834 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
835 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
836 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
839 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
840 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
842 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
844 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
845 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
847 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
848 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
849 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
850 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
851 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
852 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
855 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
856 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
857 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
858 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
859 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
862 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
863 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
864 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
866 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
867 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
869 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
870 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
872 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
873 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
874 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
875 remaining compatible with "C".
877 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
880 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
881 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
882 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
883 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
884 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
885 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
886 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
887 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
888 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
890 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
892 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
893 Scintilla for several releases now.
895 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
896 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
897 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
898 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
900 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
901 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
902 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
905 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
906 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
907 with a more modern reimplementation.
909 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
910 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
912 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
913 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
914 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
916 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
917 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
918 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
919 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
920 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
922 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
923 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
924 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
925 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
928 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
929 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
932 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
935 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
940 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
941 -----------------------------------------------
944 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
945 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
948 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
951 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
952 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
953 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
954 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
955 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
956 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
957 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
960 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
961 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
967 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
968 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
970 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
973 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
976 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
977 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
978 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
980 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
981 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
982 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
983 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
984 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
985 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
986 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
987 distros please send me a patch.
989 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
990 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
992 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
993 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
994 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
995 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
996 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
997 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1000 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1003 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1005 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1007 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1009 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1010 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1011 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1012 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1013 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1014 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1015 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1018 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1021 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1023 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1024 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1026 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1027 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1028 MigrationGuide for more details.
1030 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1031 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1032 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1033 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1034 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1035 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1036 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1037 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1038 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1039 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1040 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1041 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1042 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1043 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1044 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1045 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1046 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
1048 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
1050 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
1059 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
1061 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
1063 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1064 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
1066 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
1068 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
1070 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
1078 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
1080 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
1082 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1083 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
1084 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1087 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1088 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1089 and wxWindows match.
1091 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
1092 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
1093 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
1094 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
1095 to the new namespace.
1097 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1098 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1099 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1100 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
1102 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1103 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1104 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
1105 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
1106 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1107 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1108 package. These will be removed in a future release.
1110 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1111 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1112 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
1114 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
1116 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1117 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
1119 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1120 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
1122 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1123 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
1125 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1126 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1129 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1130 a call to any Python callable object.
1132 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1133 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1134 to override the C++ virtual methods.
1136 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1137 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
1138 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1139 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
1140 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
1142 Added wxCursorFromBits.
1152 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1155 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1156 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1157 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
1159 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1162 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1165 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1168 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
1170 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1171 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1172 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
1178 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
1179 ------------------------------------------
1182 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1183 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1184 think I am testing in the future...
1188 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
1189 ----------------------------------------------
1192 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
1194 Updated pycolourchooser.
1196 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
1204 Added missing wxRect methods
1206 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
1208 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
1210 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1211 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1212 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1215 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1218 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
1220 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1221 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1224 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
1226 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1229 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
1231 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1232 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1233 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1234 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1235 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1236 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1237 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1238 static stable in the C++ class.
1240 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1241 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1242 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1243 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1246 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1247 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1248 always call them. The functions are::
1250 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1251 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1252 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1253 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1254 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1255 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1256 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1257 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1258 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1259 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1260 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1261 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1263 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1264 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
1266 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1267 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1268 doesn't have a standard place for them.
1270 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
1272 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
1274 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
1284 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1286 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
1295 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1298 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1299 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
1315 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
1317 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
1319 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
1323 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1324 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1325 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1326 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1327 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
1328 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1329 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
1330 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1331 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1332 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1333 you can use to play with this new feature.
1335 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1336 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
1337 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1338 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1339 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1340 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1341 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1342 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
1344 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1347 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1348 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1351 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
1353 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1354 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
1355 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1356 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1357 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
1359 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
1361 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
1363 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
1365 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1366 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1367 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
1369 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1370 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
1371 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
1373 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1374 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
1376 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
1377 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
1378 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
1379 windows when desired.
1381 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
1382 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
1383 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
1392 Added wxSplashScreen.
1394 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
1396 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
1398 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
1399 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
1400 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
1402 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
1403 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
1404 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
1406 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
1407 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
1408 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
1410 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1411 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1412 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1413 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1414 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1417 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
1421 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
1422 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
1425 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
1426 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
1427 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
1428 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
1429 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
1430 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
1431 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
1433 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
1434 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
1435 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
1436 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
1437 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
1438 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
1439 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
1440 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
1441 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
1442 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
1443 unicode build on win95.
1445 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
1446 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
1447 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
1448 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
1449 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
1450 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
1451 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
1452 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
1453 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
1454 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
1457 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
1459 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
1461 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
1463 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
1464 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1465 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
1466 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1467 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1468 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1469 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
1470 for any class that is OOR aware.
1472 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1473 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1476 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1477 the image data. (Patch #546009)
1479 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1482 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1483 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1484 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
1497 TransferDataFromWindow
1498 TransferDataToWindow
1501 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1506 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1509 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1510 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
1512 Added wxArtProvider.
1514 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1515 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1516 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
1517 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
1518 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
1520 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
1522 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1523 creating a ScrolledPanel.
1525 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1528 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1529 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1530 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1531 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
1533 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
1534 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1535 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
1536 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1537 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
1539 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
1540 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1541 respond to mouse events and etc.
1543 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1544 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
1546 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1547 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
1548 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
1549 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1550 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
1551 started with just the "pycrust" command.
1553 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1554 displays the details of the event.
1556 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
1558 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1559 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
1562 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
1564 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1573 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1574 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
1575 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
1577 Added some patches from library contributors.
1585 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1586 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1587 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1588 and a demo to show them in action.
1590 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1591 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
1593 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
1595 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
1597 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1600 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
1601 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1602 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
1603 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
1604 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
1605 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
1606 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
1607 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
1610 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
1611 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
1612 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
1613 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
1614 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
1615 wxSTC flag accordingly.
1617 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
1618 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
1619 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
1621 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
1623 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
1625 Added pySketch to the samples.
1627 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
1628 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
1629 multi-processor machine.
1631 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
1632 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
1634 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
1636 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
1637 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
1638 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
1639 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
1640 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
1641 original C++ pointer.
1643 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
1646 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
1648 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
1649 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
1651 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
1652 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
1653 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
1654 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
1655 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
1660 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
1662 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
1663 will now Disconnect the event.
1665 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
1667 Added wxFileHistory.
1669 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
1670 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
1671 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
1674 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
1676 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
1679 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
1680 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
1681 additional columns for each item. The classes are
1682 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
1683 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
1684 also be useful by themselves.
1686 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
1687 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
1688 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
1689 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
1690 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
1691 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
1701 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
1702 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
1703 on a custom event handler for example.)
1705 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1706 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
1708 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
1709 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
1711 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
1713 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
1715 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
1717 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
1725 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
1726 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
1728 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
1729 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
1732 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
1734 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
1735 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
1738 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
1739 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
1740 access from non-GUI threads.
1742 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
1743 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
1745 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
1747 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
1748 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
1750 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
1751 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
1753 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
1754 it gobs faster in certain situations.
1756 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
1757 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
1758 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
1759 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
1760 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
1761 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
1762 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
1763 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
1764 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
1767 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
1768 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
1771 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
1772 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
1774 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
1776 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
1778 Added wxToggleButton.
1780 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
1782 Added some methods to wxGrid:
1783 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
1784 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1785 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
1786 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1788 GetGridRowLabelWindow
1789 GetGridColLabelWindow
1790 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
1792 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
1793 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
1794 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
1797 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
1798 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
1799 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
1800 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
1801 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
1802 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
1803 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
1804 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
1805 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
1806 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
1807 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
1808 use weak references.)
1810 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
1811 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
1812 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
1813 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
1814 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
1815 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
1816 object-type related oddities to me.
1819 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
1820 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
1821 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
1824 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
1825 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
1827 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
1831 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
1832 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
1833 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
1834 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
1835 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
1836 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
1838 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
1839 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
1849 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
1850 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
1858 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1859 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
1860 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1861 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
1863 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
1865 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
1867 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1868 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
1870 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1871 column in report mode.
1873 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1874 bar after 2 seconds.
1878 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1879 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1880 object, (usually a window.)
1882 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
1884 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
1886 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1887 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
1888 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1889 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1890 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1891 wxPython/src/export.h
1893 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1894 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1895 utils. Will probably add more later.
1897 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1898 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
1901 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
1902 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
1904 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
1906 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1907 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
1909 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1910 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1919 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1920 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
1921 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
1922 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1923 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1924 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1925 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
1926 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1929 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1930 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
1931 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1932 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1933 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1934 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
1935 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1936 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
1937 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
1939 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1940 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
1942 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
1943 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1944 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
1947 Removed the old python sizers.
1949 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
1952 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
1953 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
1954 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
1956 Lots of little fixes here and there.
1958 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
1959 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
1960 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
1969 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
1971 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
1979 Added wxLog and friends.
1981 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
1983 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
1991 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1992 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1995 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
1997 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2001 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2003 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2005 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2007 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2008 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2009 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2010 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2011 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2012 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2013 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2014 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2037 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2038 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2040 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2043 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2044 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2046 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
2048 Plugged a memory leak.
2050 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2051 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2052 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2053 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2056 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2057 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2058 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
2060 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2061 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2062 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2063 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2064 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2065 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2066 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2067 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2070 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2071 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2072 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2073 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
2075 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2076 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2077 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2078 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2079 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2080 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2081 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
2082 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2083 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
2088 What's new in 2.1.13
2089 --------------------
2092 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
2094 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2095 and some flicker problems.
2097 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2098 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
2100 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2103 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
2105 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
2107 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2108 with wxWindow.GetParent.
2110 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2111 It is used like this:
2113 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
2115 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2116 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
2118 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
2120 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
2122 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2123 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2124 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2125 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2126 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2127 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
2129 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2130 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2131 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2132 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2133 methods look like this:
2137 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2140 shortHelpString = "",
2141 longHelpString = "")
2143 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
2145 shortHelpString = "",
2146 longHelpString = "",
2150 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2151 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
2153 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
2155 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
2157 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2158 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2159 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
2161 Added some missing EVT functions.
2163 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2166 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
2168 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2169 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2170 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
2175 What's new in 2.1.11
2176 --------------------
2179 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2182 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2183 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2186 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2187 being added. This should remove the need for our
2188 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
2190 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2191 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2192 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2193 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2194 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
2196 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
2198 Added new HTML printing classes.
2200 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
2202 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2203 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2204 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2207 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2208 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2209 thread from other threads.
2211 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
2213 Added wxFontEnumerator.
2215 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
2217 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2218 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
2220 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
2222 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2225 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
2234 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2235 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
2244 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2245 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2246 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2247 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
2248 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2251 Now back to what's new...
2253 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
2255 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
2257 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
2258 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2259 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2260 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2261 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2264 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2265 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2268 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2269 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2270 example, the following are equivallent::
2272 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
2273 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
2275 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2276 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2277 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2278 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2279 pages. See the demo for an example.
2281 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2282 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
2284 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
2286 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2287 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2288 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2289 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2290 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2291 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2292 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2293 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2294 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2295 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2296 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2299 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2300 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2301 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2302 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2303 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2304 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2305 for more info and examples in future releases.
2307 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2308 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2309 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2310 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2311 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2312 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2315 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2316 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2317 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2318 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2319 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2320 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2321 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2322 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2323 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2324 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2325 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
2327 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2328 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2329 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2330 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2331 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2332 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2333 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2334 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2335 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2336 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2337 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2338 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2339 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2340 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2341 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2342 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
2345 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2349 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2352 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2353 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2354 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2355 to really screw things up.
2357 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2358 in the wxWindows docs...
2360 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2361 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2362 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2363 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2364 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2365 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2366 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2373 --------------------
2376 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
2378 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
2379 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2380 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2381 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2384 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2385 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2386 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
2388 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
2390 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2391 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2392 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2393 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
2396 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2397 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2398 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2399 see distrib/build.py for more details.
2401 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2402 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2403 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2404 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
2414 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
2416 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
2417 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
2418 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
2419 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
2420 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
2422 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
2423 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
2424 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
2425 is being unloaded by Python.
2427 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
2428 make wxPython look bad.
2430 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
2431 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
2433 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
2435 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2436 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
2438 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2439 code to show how to use it.
2441 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2444 Added wxGrid.GetCells
2446 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2447 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
2449 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2450 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
2452 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
2453 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
2455 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2456 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2457 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
2459 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2462 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
2464 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2467 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
2469 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2480 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2481 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2482 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
2484 Added the Printing Framework.
2486 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2487 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2488 data after loading each extension module.
2490 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2493 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2494 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2495 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
2497 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2498 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2499 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2500 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
2508 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
2510 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2511 wxPython application.
2513 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
2515 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2516 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2519 Added wxSafeYield function.
2521 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
2523 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2526 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2527 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
2529 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
2531 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2532 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
2534 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
2536 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2545 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
2547 Several missing methods from various classes.
2557 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
2559 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
2567 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2568 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
2575 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2576 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2577 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2578 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2579 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
2581 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2582 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2583 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2584 diverges from wxWindows.
2586 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2587 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2588 it should just work... More news on this later.
2590 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
2592 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2595 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
2603 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
2605 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2606 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
2612 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
2613 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
2614 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
2615 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
2617 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
2619 Made the events work for wxGrid.
2623 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
2625 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2626 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
2628 Other assorted fixes and additions.
2637 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2638 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
2639 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
2640 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
2641 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
2642 behavior was so different on different platforms.
2644 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2645 must have been a different issue all along...
2653 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
2654 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
2655 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
2656 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
2657 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
2658 version segfault shortly after starting up.
2660 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
2662 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
2671 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
2672 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory