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