1 CHANGES.txt for wxPython
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7 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
8 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
9 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
10 and a demo to show them in action.
12 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
13 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
15 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
17 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
19 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
22 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
23 default C++ contructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
24 coresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
25 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
26 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
27 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
28 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
29 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
32 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
33 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
34 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
35 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
36 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
37 wxSTC flag accordingly.
39 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
40 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
41 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
43 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
45 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
47 Added pySketch to the samples.
49 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
50 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
51 multi-processor machine.
53 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
54 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
56 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
58 The second phase of OOR is implemented (for wxEvtHandler and derived
59 classes at least.) This means that finctions and methods that return
60 an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally created in
61 Python, will return the original python object (if it still exists)
62 instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the original
65 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
68 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
70 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
71 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
73 Added wxURLDataObject and and example showing drag and drop of URLs to
74 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
75 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
76 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
77 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
82 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
84 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
85 will now Disconnect the event.
87 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
91 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, whcih allows you to endlessly split widnows
92 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
93 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledStectCtrls to share the
101 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
102 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
103 on a custom event handler for example.)
105 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
106 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
108 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
109 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
111 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
113 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
115 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
117 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
123 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
124 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
126 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
127 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
130 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
132 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
133 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
136 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
137 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
138 access from non-GUI threads.
140 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
141 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
143 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
145 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
146 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
148 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
149 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
151 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
152 it gobs faster in certain situations.
154 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
155 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
156 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
157 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
158 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
159 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
160 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
161 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
162 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
165 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
166 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
169 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
170 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
172 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
174 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
176 Added wxToggleButton.
178 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
180 Added some methods to wxGrid:
181 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
182 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
183 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
184 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
186 GetGridRowLabelWindow
187 GetGridColLabelWindow
188 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
190 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
191 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
192 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
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196 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
197 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
198 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
199 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
200 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
201 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
202 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
203 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
204 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
205 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
206 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
207 use weak references.)
209 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
210 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
211 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
212 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
213 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
214 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
215 object-type related oddities to me.
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218 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
219 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
220 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
223 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
224 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
226 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
230 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
231 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
232 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
233 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
234 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
235 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
237 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
238 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
247 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
248 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
255 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
256 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
257 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
258 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
260 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
262 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
264 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
265 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
267 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
268 column in report mode.
270 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
275 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
276 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
277 object, (usually a window.)
279 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
281 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
283 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
284 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
285 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
286 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
287 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
288 wxPython/src/export.h
290 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
291 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
292 utils. Will probably add more later.
294 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
295 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
298 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
299 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
301 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
303 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
304 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
306 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
307 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
315 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
316 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
317 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
318 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
319 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
320 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
321 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
322 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
325 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
326 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
327 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
328 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
329 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
330 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
331 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
332 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
333 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
335 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
336 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
338 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
339 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
340 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
343 Removed the old python sizers.
345 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
348 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
349 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
350 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
352 Lots of little fixes here and there.
354 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
355 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
356 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
364 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
366 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
373 Added wxLog and friends.
375 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
377 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
384 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
385 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
388 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
390 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
394 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
396 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
398 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
400 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
401 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
402 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
403 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
404 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
405 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
406 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
407 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
429 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
430 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
432 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
435 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
436 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
438 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
440 Plugged a memory leak.
442 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
443 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
444 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
445 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
448 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
449 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
450 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
452 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
453 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
454 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
455 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
456 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
457 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
458 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
459 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
462 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
463 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
464 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
465 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
467 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
468 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
469 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
470 but I've included a very readable source file in the
471 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
472 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
473 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
474 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
475 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
482 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
484 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
485 and some flicker problems.
487 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
488 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
490 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
493 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
495 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
497 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
498 with wxWindow.GetParent.
500 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
501 It is used like this:
503 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
505 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
506 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
508 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
510 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
512 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
513 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
514 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
515 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
516 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
517 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
519 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
520 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
521 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
522 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
523 methods look like this:
527 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
530 shortHelpString = "",
533 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
535 shortHelpString = "",
540 There are also coresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
541 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
543 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
545 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
547 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
548 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
549 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
551 Added some missing EVT_ functions.
553 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
556 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
558 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
559 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
560 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
567 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
570 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
571 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
574 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
575 being added. This should remove the need for our
576 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
578 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
579 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
580 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
581 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
582 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
584 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
586 Added new HTML printing classes.
588 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
590 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
591 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
592 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
595 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
596 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
597 thread from other threads.
599 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
601 Added wxFontEnumerator.
603 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
605 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
606 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
608 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
610 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
613 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
620 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
621 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
629 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
630 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
631 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
632 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
633 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
636 Now back to what's new...
638 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
640 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
642 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
643 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
644 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
645 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
646 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
649 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
650 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
653 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
654 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
655 example, the following are equivallent:
657 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
658 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
660 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
661 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
662 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
663 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
664 pages. See the demo for an example.
666 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
667 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
669 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
671 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
672 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
673 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
674 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
675 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
676 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
677 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
678 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
679 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
680 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
681 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
684 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
685 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
686 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
687 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
688 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
689 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
690 for more info and examples in future releases.
692 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
693 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
694 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
695 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
696 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
697 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
700 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
701 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
702 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
703 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
704 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
705 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
706 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
707 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
708 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
709 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
710 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
712 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
713 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
714 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
715 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
716 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
717 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
718 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
719 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
720 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
721 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
722 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
723 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
724 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
725 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
726 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
727 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
730 outputWindowClass = MyClass
734 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
737 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
738 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
739 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
740 to really screw things up.
742 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
743 in the wxWindows docs...
745 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
746 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
747 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
748 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
749 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
750 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
751 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
760 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
762 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
763 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
764 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
765 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
768 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
769 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
770 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
772 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
774 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
775 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
776 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
777 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
780 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
781 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
782 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
783 see distrib/build.py for more details.
785 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
786 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
787 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
788 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
797 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
799 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
800 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
801 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
802 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
803 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
805 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
806 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
807 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
808 is being unloaded by Python.
810 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
811 make wxPython look bad.
813 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
814 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
816 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
818 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
819 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
821 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
822 code to show how to use it.
824 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
827 Added wxGrid.GetCells
829 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
830 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
832 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
833 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
835 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
836 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
838 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
839 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
840 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
842 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
845 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
847 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
850 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
852 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
861 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
862 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
863 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
865 Added the Printing Framework.
867 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
868 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
869 data after loading each extension module.
871 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
874 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
875 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
876 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
878 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
879 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
880 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
881 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
887 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
889 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
890 wxPython application.
892 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
894 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
895 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
898 Added wxSafeYield function.
900 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
902 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
905 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
906 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
908 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
910 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
911 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
913 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
915 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
922 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
924 Several missing methods from various classes.
932 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
934 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
940 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
941 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
946 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
947 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
948 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
949 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
950 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
952 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
953 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
954 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
955 diverges from wxWindows.
957 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
958 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
959 it should just work... More news on this later.
961 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
963 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
966 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
972 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
974 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
975 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
981 Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to "from
982 wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about
983 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
984 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
986 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
988 Made the events work for wxGrid.
992 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
994 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
995 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
997 Other assorted fixes and additions.
1005 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1006 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1007 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
1008 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1009 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1010 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
1012 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1013 must have been a different issue all along...
1020 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1021 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1022 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1023 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1024 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1025 version segfault shortly after starting up.
1027 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
1029 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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