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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
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7
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9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
12
13 Table of contents of this section:
14
15 - Unicode-related changes
16 - wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
17 - Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors
18 - Build system changes
19 - Major new features in this release
20
21
22 Unicode-related changes
23 -----------------------
24
25 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
26 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
27 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
28 changes:
29
30 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
31 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
32 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
33 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
34 backwards compatible except:
35
36 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
37 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
38 base class version.
39
40 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
41 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
42 should be replaced with an empty string.
43
44 - Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
45 return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
46 *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
47 the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
48 you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
49 explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
50 A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
51 with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
52 indicate the parsing success.
53
54 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
55 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
56 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
57 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII). If you want your
58 code to remain compatible with Unicode build of previous wx version, please
59 use the special wxT_2, which is the same as wxT in 2.x only, instead.
60
61 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
62 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
63 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
64 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
65 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
66 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
67 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
68
69
70 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
71 ------------------------------------
72
73 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
74 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
75 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
76
77 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
78 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
79 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
80 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
81 open for further development by volunteers.
82
83 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
84 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
85
86
87 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
88 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
89
90 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
91 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
92
93 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
94 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
95 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
96
97 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
98 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
99 instead.
100
101 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
102 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
103 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
104 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
105 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
106 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
107
108 - Interpretation of font height in pixels parameter has changed in wxFont
109 ctor and SetPixelSize() in wxMSW: it is now used as character height and not
110 the total cell height. If you previously used negative height to explicitly
111 request character height matching, you may now change your code to use
112 positive value (passing negative height still works but is undocumented and
113 deprecated). If you used positive height before you should retest your code
114 to check if the changes correspond to your expectations. And if you do need
115 the old behaviour please contact us at wx-dev to let us know about it!
116
117 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
118 your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
119
120 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
121 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
122 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
123 you need the extra features.
124
125 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
126 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
127 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
128 derived classes to use const reference as well.
129
130 - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
131 Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
132
133 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
134
135 - If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
136 GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
137 more details.
138
139 - Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
140 Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
141 or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
142 See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
143
144 - wxDialogs get wxEVT_SIZE events immediately after creation in wxMSW, as with
145 wxFrames. This means that this event handler may be called earlier than in
146 2.8, check that all the controls are initialized before using them in it.
147
148 - wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only.
149
150 - Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is
151 changed. See the updated wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle() description in the
152 manual for more details.
153
154 - wxTreeCtrl::GetSelection now asserts if the tree has the wxTR_MULTIPLE style.
155 Instead use GetSelections() for multiple items; or if you want only the
156 single item last touched, the new wxTreeCtrl::GetFocusedItem.
157
158 - Custom log targets should be updated to override wxLog::DoLogRecord() method
159 instead of DoLog() or DoLogString() and must be updated if they call the base
160 class versions of these functions as this won't work any more; please see the
161 documentation of wxLog for more information.
162
163 - Confusing wxGridSizer(int cols, int vgap = 0, int hgap = 0) ctor which was
164 easy to mistake for wxGridSizer(int rows, int cols) overload was removed, you
165 will need to specify both vertical and horizontal gap if you want to use this
166 overload or specify both rows and columns and the gap otherwise. Use of the
167 new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
168 applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
169
170 - wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
171 and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
172 most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
173 space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
174
175 - wxTextCtrl::LoadFile no longer sends a text update event.
176
177 - wxXmlDocument::Save()'s indentstep argument's interpretation was fixed
178 to match the documentation: it now really is the number of spaces in
179 indentation instead of being its double. Its default value was changed
180 accordingly, to 2.
181
182 - wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING flag has no effect now, catalogs are converted
183 regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
184 legacy ANSI builds.
185
186 - wxNotebook::GetSelection() returns the new page index when called from
187 wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED event handler in wxMSW, not the old one.
188 The new behaviour is consistent with wxGTK and more logical but different
189 from the previous versions. Using wxNotebookEvent::GetSelection() instead of
190 querying the notebook selection avoids the problem and is recommended.
191
192 - wxMSW-specific wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() method now creates a new
193 instance if needed instead of failing if the application providing the
194 requested ProgID is not running. Pass wxAutomationInstance_UseExistingOnly
195 flag to it to revert to the old behaviour. It is also possible to use the
196 wxAutomationInstance_SilentIfNone flag to prevent the error message if no
197 currently running instances of this object are available.
198
199 - Signature of wxDataViewCustomRenderer::StartDrag() virtual method changed.
200 You will need to change it in your derived renderer class too if you override
201 it.
202
203 - wxDataViewCustomRenderer::Activate() and LeftClick() were replaced with the
204 new ActivateCell() method. You will need to change it in your derived
205 renderer class accordingly.
206
207 - wxThread::Wait() and wxThread::Delete() used to dispatch the events while
208 waiting for the thread to exit in wxMSW. They still do it in default build
209 with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_8 defined but won't dispatch any events, i.e. the
210 default wait mode will become wxTHREAD_WAIT_BLOCK in the next wxWidgets
211 release so you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your code to stop relying
212 on this behaviour.
213
214 - wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK events are not generated any more if the mouse is captured to
215 prevent the parent wxTopLevelWindow from interfering with the keyboard
216 handling of the window that captured the mouse.
217
218 - wxDataViewCtrl::GetSelection() now returns invalid item in all ports (this
219 behaved differently in wxMSW and wxGTK/wxOSX before) if more than one item
220 is selected in a control with wxDV_MULTIPLE style.
221
222 - wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED, MENU_OPEN and CLOSE events returned a menu from
223 GetEventObject() in all ports but the frame the menu was attached to in wxMSW.
224 Now all ports return the menu that was opened or closed as the event object.
225
226
227 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
228 -----------------------------------------------------------
229
230 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
231 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
232
233 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6 still exists but is 0 by default in this release and
234 will be removed in 3.2. You can set it to 1 and rebuild wxWidgets to access
235 the old and deprecated symbols but please consider updating your code
236 instead. Here are replacements for some of the obsolete symbols:
237 + wxSAVE and wxOPEN -> wxFD_SAVE and wxFD_OPEN
238 + WXK_PRIOR and WXK_NEXT -> WXK_PAGEUP and WXK_PAGEDOWN
239 + wxRESIZE_BOX -> wxMAXIMIZE_BOX
240 + wxTHICK_FRAME -> wxRESIZE_BORDER
241 + wxPROCESS_ENTER and wxPASSWORD -> wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER and wxTE_PASSWORD
242 + EVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL -> EVT_SCROLL_CHANGED
243 + NewControlId -> wxWindow::NewControlId()
244 + wxFileHistory::GetNoHistoryFiles() -> wxFileHistory::GetCount()
245 + wxSizerItem::SetOption() -> wxSizerItem::SetProportion()
246 + wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow*) -> wxSizer::Detach()
247
248 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
249 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
250 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
251
252 - wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
253 has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
254 GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
255 New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
256
257 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
258 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
259 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
260 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
261
262 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
263 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
264 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
265 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
266 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
267
268 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
269 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
270 this won't compile:
271 switch (str[i]) { ... }
272 and has to be replaced with this:
273 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
274
275 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
276 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
277 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
278 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
279
280 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
281 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
282 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
283 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
284 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
285
286 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
287 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
288 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
289 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
290
291 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
292 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
293 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
294 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
295
296 - wxDateTime::ParseXXX() overloads don't return anything when called with
297 wxCStrData argument. If you need to test the parsing success, use a newer
298 overload taking wxString::const_iterator and returning bool or explicitly
299 select a narrow or wide char version to use by casting c_str() to either
300 "char*" or "wchar_t*". Or create a temporary wxString and parse it instead.
301
302 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
303 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
304
305 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
306 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
307 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
308 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
309 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
310 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
311
312 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
313
314 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could be NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
315 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
316 must be used instead.
317
318 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
319 with void pointers.
320
321 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
322
323 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
324 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
325
326 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
327 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
328 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
329
330 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
331 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
332 necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
333 next/previous control sibling instead.
334
335 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
336 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
337 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
338
339 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
340 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
341 wxBitmapType in your code.
342
343 - wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
344 functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
345 of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
346 written now.
347
348 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
349 be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
350
351 - wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
352 its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
353 to it under 64 bit platforms too).
354
355 - Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
356 You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
357 locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
358
359 - wxBitmapButton::GetBitmapXXX() overloads returning non-const wxBitmap
360 references have been removed, modifying the returned bitmaps never worked and
361 now results in compile-time error.
362
363 - wxLogXXX() are now macros, not functions. Because of this calling them with
364 an explicit scope resolution operator ("::wxLogError()") doesn't work any
365 longer, just remove it. Also notice that using them inside an "if" statement
366 without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
367 add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
368
369 - wxList::Member() now returns bool and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
370 require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
371 presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
372 use Find() instead.
373
374 - wxLongLongFmtSpec is now a normal and not wide string so you will need to
375 change expressions of the form wxT("%") wxLongLongFmtSpec wxT("x") to
376 just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
377 concatenate with it.
378
379 - wxST_MARKUP doesn't exist any more, use wxControl::SetLabelMarkup() instead.
380
381 - wxComboBox::IsEmpty(), which was previously available in some ports (but not
382 wxMSW), doesn't exist any more, use either IsListEmpty() or IsTextEmpty().
383
384 - wxSingleChoiceDialog ctors and Create() now have 2 overloaded versions: one
385 taking void** client data and the deprecated one taking char**. This can
386 result in compilation errors due to an ambiguity between them if you pass
387 NULL as client data. To fix this, cast NULL explicitly to "void**".
388
389 - wxChoicebookEvent, wxListbookEvent, wxNotebookEvent, wxToolbookEvent and
390 wxTreebookEvent are now all synonyms for wxBookCtrlEvent. The existing code
391 using the old names continues to work but they can't be forward-declared
392 any more. Use wxBookCtrlEvent in your code if you need to forward-declare
393 it or just include the appropriate header instead of forward declaration.
394
395
396 Deprecated methods and their replacements
397 -----------------------------------------
398
399 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
400 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
401 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
402 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
403 specified so this style should simply be removed
404 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
405 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
406 to use
407 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
408 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
409 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
410 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
411 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
412 - Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
413 named new versions:
414 . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
415 . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
416 . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
417 . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
418 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
419 ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
420 plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
421 and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
422 - EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
423 don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
424 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
425 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
426 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
427 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
428 There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
429 not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
430 - wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
431 different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
432 passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
433 it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
434 code.
435 - wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
436 - wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
437 name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
438 - wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
439 wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
440 were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
441 - wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
442 documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
443 - wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
444 the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
445 - building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
446 wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
447 on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
448 You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
449 the static box itself.
450 - wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
451 consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
452 - wxFont::SetNoAntiAliasing() was deprecated, it never really worked in most
453 ports and was always marked as "experimental" API. It will be replaced with
454 wxDC-level anti-aliasing control in the future.
455 - wxValidator::SetBellOnError() incorrectly interpreted its argument (it
456 disabled the bell when it was true) and was replaced by SuppressBellOnError()
457 with more expected semantics.
458 - wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
459 wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
460 - Second parameter of wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n, int pos) is deprecated,
461 simply remove it from your code and use wxSlider::SetTickFreq(int n) as it
462 was never used anyhow.
463 - wxSingleChoiceDialog ctor and Create() take "void**" client data pointer
464 instead of "char**". As the client data is typically untyped, you should
465 simply remove the casts to "char**" which you probably have in your code if
466 you use these functions.
467 - wxDataViewCtrl::StartEditor(item, n) taking column index is now deprecated,
468 use EditItem(item, GetColumn(n)), which takes the column itself, instead.
469 - wxWindow::MakeModal() is deprecated, use wxDialog::ShowModal() instead if
470 possible or wxWindowDisabler otherwise.
471
472
473 Changes in behaviour visible to end users
474 -----------------------------------------
475
476 - In wxMSW wxSpinCtrl used to prevent the user from entering more digits than
477 could fit in its visible area. This was inconsistent with the other ports and
478 now the control scrolls if too much text is added.
479
480
481 Build system changes
482 --------------------
483
484 - In wxMSW makefile builds, "_x64" is used instead of "_amd64" when compiling
485 for this architecture in the architecture-specific paths and library names.
486 TARGET_CPU can still be specified as "amd64" for compatibility but "x64"
487 should be used now.
488
489 - Official wxMSW binaries, i.e. those built with OFFICIAL_BUILD=1, built with
490 MSVC now include the version of the compiler used and the architecture if
491 it's not the default "x86". E.g. a library built with MSVC 10 for amd64 is
492 called "wxbase294ud_vc110_amd64.dll" now.
493
494
495 Major new features in this release
496 ----------------------------------
497
498 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
499 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
500 past.
501
502 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
503 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
504
505 - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
506
507 - new ribbon library for advanced toolbars.
508
509 - Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
510
511 - Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
512
513 - Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
514 wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
515
516 - Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
517 with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
518 of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
519 definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
520 welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
521 ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
522
523 - Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
524 was added.
525
526
527 2.9.5: (released ????-??-??)
528 ----------------------------
529
530 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.4:
531
532 - The locale is not set automatically on startup any more, unlike in the
533 previous 2.9 versions (but like in 2.8). Use wxLocale (preferred) or call
534 wxApp::SetCLocale() from your overridden wxApp::Initialize() to restore the
535 old behaviour.
536 - wxWebView::New now takes a string identifier for the backend to be used
537 rather than a wxWebViewBackend enum value.
538
539 All:
540
541 - Add wxEvtHandler::CallAfter() method for asynchronous method calls.
542 - Add support for symlinks to wxFileName (David Hart).
543 - Add wxDIR_NO_FOLLOW flag for wxDir traversal (David Hart).
544 - Allow testing for symlink/FIFO/socket existence in wxFileName (David Hart).
545 - Many important bug fixes in wxFileSystemWatcher (David Hart).
546 - Add new wxFSW_EVENT_ATTRIB and wxFSW_EVENT_UNMOUNT flags (David Hart).
547 - Add separate read/written bytes counters and per-direction NOWAIT and WAITALL
548 flags to wxSocket (Rob Bresalier).
549 - Add wxDir::Close() method (Silverstorm82).
550 - Fix wxDateTime::GetWeekOfYear() for the last week of year (aimo).
551 - Fix compilation of wxHash{Map,Set} with g++ 4.7 (Nathan Ridge).
552 - Fix posting large amounts of data in wxHTTP (Platonides).
553 - Add wxFile::ReadAll() for consistency with wxFFile.
554 - Add wxDateTime::DiffAsDateSpan() and wxDateSpan::GetTotalMonths() (jonasr).
555 - Add wxVector::assign() (Jonas Rydberg).
556 - Added Nepali translation (Him Prasad Gautam).
557
558 All (GUI):
559
560 - Add support for wxAuiNotebook to XRC (Steven Lamerton).
561 - Add support for wxRibbonBar and related controls to XRC (Armel Asselin).
562 - Add wxBITMAP_PNG() macro similar to wxBITMAP() but for PNG files.
563 - Add new wxSimplebook class.
564 - Support hexadecimal numbers in wxSpinCtrl.
565 - Respect window max size in wxBoxSizer (Nathan Ridge).
566 - Add support for searching in wxWebView for MSW and GTK (Allonii).
567 - Add generic wxFileSystem support to wxWebView with
568 wxWebViewFSHandler (Nick Matthews).
569 - Add possibility to disable context menu in wxWebView.
570 - Add ability to register custom wxWebView backends using
571 wxWebView::RegisterFactory and a wxWebViewFactory derived class.
572 - Add possibility to hide and show again wxRibbonBar pages (wxBen).
573 - Add wxRibbonBar pages highlighting (wxBen).
574 - Add expand/collapse button to wxRibbonBar (rakeshthp).
575 - Fix item data access in wxDataViewListCtrl (Kry).
576 - Fix problem with floating maximized AUI panes (Laurent Poujoulat).
577 - Add owned client data support to wxRibbonButtonBar. Notice that the client
578 data now must be set using the SetItemClient{Data,Object}() methods and not
579 when inserting the button (Laurent Poujoulat).
580 - Add wxBitmapButton::NewCloseButton().
581 - Add wxTextEntry::SelectNone() (troelsk).
582 - Restore the original wxGrid col/row size when unhiding it (Michael Richards).
583 - Don't show hidden wxGrid columns/rows when resizing them (Michael Richards).
584 - Fix text origin and extent computations in wxSVGFileDC (Neil Chittenden).
585 - Show tooltips for the too long items in generic wxTreeCtrl (Steven Houchins).
586 - Add wxStyledTextCtrl::AnnotationClearLine() (sentieshar).
587 - Add support for background-color style to span element in wxHTML (gevorg).
588 - Add limited support for CSS styles for <a> tags too in wxHTML (gevorg).
589 - Add "inherit" to <font> XRC tag (Steffen Olszewski, Gero Meßsysteme GmbH).
590 - Add support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style to wxScrolled<> (Catalin Raceanu).
591 - Add wxTreeCtrl::EnableBellOnNoMatch() (Jonathan Dagresta).
592 - Implement incremental search in wxGenericListCtrl (Jonathan Dagresta).
593 - Make TAB behaviour in wxGrid more flexible (Fulvio Senore).
594 - Add missing styles support to wxWindow XRC hanlder (Steffen Olszewski).
595 - Allow specifying all wxFlexGridSizer parameters in XRC (Steffen Olszewski).
596 - Close wxLogWindow automatically if it's the last remaining top level window.
597 - Implement clipping for wxSVGFileDC (Steve Benbow).
598 - Added wxDirCtrl::GetPath() (troelsk).
599 - Added wxEVT_COMMAND_DIRCTRL_CHANGED event (troelsk).
600 - Added wxControl::GetSizeFromTextSize() (Manuel Martin).
601 - Optionally allow showing tooltips for disabled ribbon buttons (wxBen).
602 - Add wxTL_NO_HEADER style to wxTreeListCtrl (robboto).
603 - Add possibility to delay showing wxRichToolTip (John Roberts).
604 - Add "rect" paramerer to wxRichToolTip::ShowFor() (John Roberts).
605 - Add wxListCtrl::EnableAlternateRowColours() (troelsk).
606 - Fix wrong tab order in wxAuiNotebook after dragging (Mark Barber).
607 - Fix bug in generic wxDataViewCtrl column dragging (jobuz).
608
609 wxGTK:
610
611 - Allow building wxGTK3 with Broadway backend (Kolya Kosenko).
612 - Provide native implementation of wxNotificationMessage using libnotify.
613 - Generate clipboard events for wxComboBox and not only wxTextCtrl.
614 - Improve drag-and-drop of URLs.
615 - Make key event handling consistent with wxMSW (John Rails).
616 - Fix printing in landscape mode (Marcin Wojdyr).
617 - Fix path selection in wx{File,Dir}Dialog with GTK+ > 2.24.10 (obfuscated).
618 - Make "More windows..." menu item in MDI "Window" menu actually work.
619
620 wxMSW:
621
622 - Fix setting colours for the text part of wxComboBox (Igor Korot).
623 - Add support for CURRENCY and SCODE types to OLE Automation helpers (PB).
624 - Allow setting LCID used by wxAutomationObject (PB).
625 - Better support for SAFEARRAY in OLE Automation code (PB).
626 - Fix calling Iconize(false) on hidden top level windows (Christian Walther).
627 - Don't send any events from wxSpinCtrl::SetRange() even if the value changed.
628 - Display system drag images during drag and drop if available (PeterO).
629 - Fix setting initial wxSpinCtrl value outside 0..100 range (joim).
630 - Fix changing labels of menu items with bitmaps (Daniel Hyams).
631
632 wxOSX/Cocoa:
633
634 - Implement image support in wxNotebook (Malcolm MacLeod).
635 - Add support for button mnemonics (joostn).
636 - Implemented wxTextCtrl::SetDefaultStyle().
637
638
639 2.9.4: (released 2012-07-09)
640 ------
641
642 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.3
643
644 - wxDataViewListCtrl doesn't delete its client data any more for compatibility
645 with wxListCtrl, use full wxDataViewCtrl if you don't need compatibility.
646
647 All:
648
649 - Added wxLogFormatter to allow customizing wxLog output (Sébastien Gallou).
650 - Added wxFSInputStream for reading data from wxFileSystem (Armel Asselin).
651 - Added "%z" support to wxDateTime::Format() and Parse() (Armel Asselin).
652 - Add wxHTTP::SetPostBuffer(wxMemoryBuffer) and SetPostText() (Eran Ifrah).
653 - Fix wrong time zone used in wxDateTime::UNow().
654 - Fix performance of wxStdInputStream with MSVC8/9 (wsu).
655 - Added wxFileName::Exists().
656 - Implement wxThread::SetConcurrency() for POSIX systems (Igor Korot).
657 - Fix deadlock due to too many events in Unix console apps (Lukasz Michalski).
658 - Added wxDir::GetNameWithSep().
659 - Allow unloading wxPluginLibrary objects in any order (manyleaves).
660 - Fix passing strings with embedded NULs in wxThreadEvents (Steffen Olszewski).
661 - Add wxList::AsVector<>() helper (troelsk).
662
663 All (GUI):
664
665 - Add wxGrid::Render() for printing wxGrid (John Roberts).
666 - Added strike-through support to wxFont (Igor Korot).
667 - Add support for horizontal mouse wheel events to MSW and GTK (Lauri Nurmi).
668 - Fix infinite loop in wxHtmlEasyPrinting when trying to page break images
669 taller than the page height in wxHtmlEasyPrinting (Laurent Poujoulat).
670 - Added wxFilePickerCtrl::SetInitialDirectory().
671 - Added wxDataViewItemAttr::SetBackgroundColour() and implemented it in generic
672 wxDataViewCtrl (Andrew Xu).
673 - Fix item alignment in icon view in the generic wxListCtrl.
674 - Support font-family/style, text-decoration in wxHtmlWindow (Blake Oleander).
675 - Show ribbon tools help strings in tooltips (John Roberts).
676 - Improve row/column selection modes in wxGrid (joostn).
677 - Send wxEVT_UPDATE_UI for wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
678 - Add InsertXXXButton() to wxRibbonButtonBar and wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
679 - Allow enabling/disabling and toggling tools in wxRibbonToolBar (Emilien Kia).
680 - Add wxRibbonBar::DeletePage() and ClearPages() methods (Emilien Kia).
681 - Implement support for extension button to wxRibbonPanel (Emilien Kia).
682 - Fix multiple item selection in generic wxTreeCtrl (Igor Korot).
683 - Implement wxMenuBar::IsEnabledTop() for all major ports (Igor Korot).
684 - Implement best size calculation for report mode wxListCtrl.
685 - Fix setting of the frame icon when using non-standard icon sizes (vid).
686 - Implement wxDV_ROW_LINES in generic wxDataViewCtrl (RedCAT).
687 - Added EVT_AUI_PANE_ACTIVATED event (Ronny Krüger).
688 - Added support for page tooltips to wxAuiNotebook (Armel Asselin).
689 - Added wxSplitterWindow::SetSashInvisible() (Armel Asselin).
690 - Enable/disable "Window" menu items in AUI MDI correctly (wsu).
691 - Added wxTimePickerCtrl::Get/SetTime().
692 - Fix WXK_MENU handling in wxStyledTextCtrl under wxGTK (cantabile).
693 - Added wxAcceleratorEntry::ToRawString() (Armel Asselin).
694 - Added wxDataViewEvent::SetDragFlags() and GetDropEffect() (Friedrich).
695 - Added support for fields and virtual attributes to wxRichTextCtrl.
696 - Added custom text and dimension scaling to wxRichTextCtrl.
697 - Added pixel font size capability to wxTextAttr and wxRichTextCtrl.
698 - Fully implement wxStyledTextCtrl::PositionToXY() (troelsk).
699 - Added wxDataViewListCtrl::{Set,Get}ItemData().
700 - Added wxDataViewListCtrl::GetItemCount() (Kry).
701 - Added support for Korean Johab and Vietnamese encodings (jank9201).
702 - Fix off by 1 bug with setting font size in points in wxHTML (gevorg).
703 - Fix return value of wxGenericListCtrl::InsertColumn() (Sebastian Walderich).
704 - Add wxDocManager::Get{Views,Documents,Templates}Vector() (troelsk).
705
706 GTK:
707
708 - Added support for GTK+ 3 (John Chain and Paul Cornett)
709 - Implement support for wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT (Armel Asselin).
710 - Implement stippled/hatched pens/brushes in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
711 - Fix wxNotebook best size calculation.
712 - Implement wxDirDialog::Create() and wxFileDialog::Create() (vinayakgarg).
713 - Fix const methods display in assert dialog (vinayakgarg).
714 - Implement native tab art for wxAUI (Jens Lody and Teodor Petrov).
715 - Fix pasting large amounts of text (Bradley Hawkins).
716 - Show gstreamer errors if wxMediaCtrl fails to play file.
717 - Fix wxGridCellEnumEditor mouse handling (Fulvio Senore).
718
719 MSW:
720
721 - Fixed regression with initial focus in the dialogs in 2.9.3.
722 - Use new style directory selection dialog under Vista and later (PB).
723 - Added support for wxEXEC_MAKE_GROUP_LEADER to wxExecute (tteras).
724 - Set wxMenu being closed in wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events (Marcin Malich).
725 - Fix coordinates and Z-position for joystick events (Markus Juergens).
726 - Fix size of the font returned by wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Korot).
727 - Add wxActiveXContainer::QueryClientSiteInterface and implement it in
728 wxWebViewIE to improve the default behaviour (Allonii).
729 - Update stretchable spaces in wxToolBar after tool removal (Catalin Raceanu).
730 - Implement wxGraphicsContext::SetInterpolationQuality() (Eric Jensen).
731 - Fix coordinate handling in wxDC::Blit() when source DC is a DIB.
732 - Fix handling of composite windows in wxToolTip (Armel Asselin).
733 - Add VT_I8 support to wxAutomationObject (PB).
734 - Fix wxListbook size calculations to avoid spurious scrollbars.
735 - Fix code compilation with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 (Kolya Kosenko).
736 - Fix crash in wxTreeCtrl when calling GetSelection() from selection changed
737 event handler under Vista and later (sbrowne).
738 - Fix text extent computation in wxGraphicsContext (juria90).
739
740 OSX:
741
742 - Provide native implementations of wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl.
743 - Fix handling of positional parameters in wxPrintf() &c (David Connet).
744 - Implement wxStackWalker.
745
746 Univ:
747
748 - Fix regression with read-only wxComboBox appearance (Jason Erb).
749
750 Unix:
751
752 - Fix bug with wxDir("/").GetName() returning empty string.
753
754
755
756 2.9.3: (released 2011-12-14)
757 ------
758
759 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.2
760
761 - wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap() was removed, derive your class from
762 wxCustomBackgroundWindow and use its method with the same name instead.
763
764 All:
765
766 - Fix parsing of negated long options in wxCmdLineParser (roed_bis).
767 - Fix crash in wxArray::insert() overload taking iterator range (wsu).
768 - Added wxEventFilter class and wxEvtHandler::{Add,Remove}Filter().
769 - Added convenient wxCmdLineParser::AddLong{Option,Switch}() wrappers.
770 - Added wxStopWatch::TimeInMicro() and wxGetUTCTimeUSec() and improved
771 wxStopWatch precision.
772 - Made wxGetLocalTimeMillis() really return local time, added
773 wxGetUTCTimeMillis() returning what this function used to return.
774 - Added wxCriticalSection::TryEnter() (Catalin Raceanu).
775 - Add support for OpenBSD to wxDialUpManager (brad0).
776 - Added wxEXEC_HIDE_CONSOLE flag.
777
778 All (GUI):
779
780 - Added wxWebView library (Steven Lamerton & Auria, GSoC 2011 project).
781 - Added wxTreeListCtrl class.
782 - Added wxTimePickerCtrl class.
783 - Added wxRichToolTip class.
784 - Added documented, public wxNavigationEnabled<> class.
785 - Added wxTextCtrl::PositionToCoords() (Navaneeth).
786 - Added support for wxHELP button to wxMessageDialog.
787 - Added wxBannerWindow class.
788 - Allow setting window shape to arbitrary wxGraphicsPath.
789 - Added wxTextEntry::AutoCompleteDirectories().
790 - Support float, double and file name values in wxGenericValidator (troelsk).
791 - Add support for custom numeric formats to wxGrid (Kinaou Hervé).
792 - Fix keyboard navigation in wxGrid with hidden columns (ivan_14_32).
793 - Add wxDataViewEvent::IsEditCancelled() (Allonii).
794 - Send EVT_DATAVIEW_ITEM_CONTEXT_MENU events even when not clicking on an item.
795 - Allow marking wxTreeBook nodes to expand initially in XRC (RedTide).
796 - Added customizable wxDocManager::OnMRUFileNotExist() virtual method.
797 - Fix stock labels when not using mnemonics for Chinese (cw.ahbong).
798 - Added wxComboBox::IsListEmpty() and IsTextEmpty().
799 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::GetSelectedItemsCount() and HasSelection().
800 - Added wxFLP_SMALL and wxDIRP_SMALL styles.
801 - Added support for saving alpha with TIFF images.
802 - Added wxPersistentSplitter.
803 - Derive wxAuiNotebook from wxBookCtrlBase (Steven Lamerton).
804 - Fix tooltips in wxSearchCtrl and other composite controls (Catalin Raceanu).
805 - Allow converting to and from wxGraphicsBitmap and wxImage directly.
806 - Allow wxGraphicsFont creation without passing by wxFont.
807 - Added wxDataViewCustomRenderer::ActivateCell().
808 - Add "checked" property for toolbar tool elements in XRC.
809 - Allow customization of the locations where persistent settings are stored.
810 - Restore support for reusing ids more than 254 times (Armel Asselin).
811 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_ORIGINAL_{WIDTH,HEIGHT} (Catalin Raceanu).
812 - Add wxTopLevelWindow::SetRepresentedFilename() (Andrej Vodopivec).
813
814 OSX:
815
816 - Implement wxRegion::Equal() (Dr.Acula).
817 - Implement wxFileType::GetOpenCommand().
818 - wxGetOsVersion() now returns more sensible version numbers, e.g. 10 and 6
819 for OS X 10.6.
820 - Added wxApp::MacOpenFiles and deprecated wxApp::MacOpenFile.
821 - Implement wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK event generation in wxOSX/Cocoa.
822 - Implemented wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() in wxOSX/Cocoa (joostn).
823
824 GTK:
825
826 - Generate events for two auxiliary mouse buttons in wxGTK (Marcin Wojdyr).
827 - Fix conflict between wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT and wxICON_EXCLAMATION (David Hart).
828
829 MSW:
830
831 - Added wxGCDC(wxEnhMetaFileDC) ctor (Marcin Wojdyr).
832 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::MSWGetSystemMenu().
833 - Multiline text controls no longer select all content when gaining focus from
834 the keyboard.
835 - Implement wxStackWalker for x86-64 (Artur Bać).
836
837
838 2.9.2: (released 2011-07-05)
839 ------
840
841 All:
842
843 - Added cwd and env arguments to wxExecute() (Emilien Kia).
844 - Added "rest" argument to wxString::Before{First,Last}().
845 - Added wxThread::OnKill() and OnDelete() callbacks.
846 - Added wxFile::GetLastError() and ClearLastError() (ryazanov).
847 - Added negatable command line switches (Armel Asselin).
848 - Added wxVersionInfo and various GetLibraryVersionInfo() functions (troelsk).
849 - Added wxNumberFormatter for dealing with thousands separators.
850 - Added wxIntegerValidator<> and wxFloatingPointValidator<> validators.
851 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_GIF_COMMENT to read and write GIF comments (troelsk).
852 - Added wxStack<> template class.
853 - Added precision parameter to wxString::From[C]Double().
854 - Added wxThread::Wait() and Delete() "wait mode" parameter (Catalin Raceanu).
855 - Allow showing milliseconds in wxLog time stamps (tan).
856 - Added support for processing instructions in wxXmlDocument (Nick Matthews).
857 - Added wxThreadEvent for communicating between threads to wxBase.
858
859 Unix:
860
861 - Fix spurious errors when writing to child process pipe (ryazanov).
862
863 All (GUI):
864
865 - Implement support for markup in wxButton and wxStaticText.
866 - Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
867 - Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
868 - Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
869 - Added support for dynamic auto-completion in wxTextEntry.
870 - Added images support to wxToggleButton (Garrick Meeker).
871 - wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
872 - wxAUI: add support for icons in pane title bars (triton).
873 - Added wxPanel::SetBackgroundBitmap().
874 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
875 - Added possibility to disable individual wxDataViewCtrl items (Neno Ganchev).
876 - wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
877 - wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
878 - wxRibbon: allow hiding the panels and showing tabs only (snowleopard).
879 - Add support for child documents to docview framework.
880 - Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
881 - Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
882 - Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
883 - Fix display of right aligned columns in wxGenericListCtrl (jl).
884 - Restore text drag-and-drop in wxSTC broken by Scintilla 2 update (Jens Lody).
885 - Add support for id ranges to XRC (David Hart).
886 - Added wxToolbook XRC handler (Andrea Zanellato).
887 - Added wxDocManager::FindTemplate() (troelsk).
888 - Return bool, not void, from wxImage::ConvertAlphaToMask() (troelsk).
889 - Fixed resizing columns in wxGrid when they were reordered.
890 - Fixed keyboard navigation when wxGrid columns are reordered.
891 - Added wxImage::Rotate180() (Jeff Tupper).
892 - Added support for saving TGA files.
893 - Added wxArtProvider returning higher quality icons from Tango project.
894 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "HasAlpha" attribute for wxColourProperty.
895 - wxPropertyGrid: Disabling a property didn't work properly if a child item
896 was selected (Sébastien Gallou).
897 - Added support for saving PNG files with palette (troelsk).
898 - Added support for saving as GIF and animated GIF (troelsk).
899 - Fix wxWrapSizer minimal size calculation (Catalin Raceanu).
900 - Added wxFont::Underlined() and MakeUnderlined() methods.
901 - Added wxFont::SetSymbolicSize() and related methods.
902 - Fix SVG files generation in locales using decimal comma (snowleopard).
903 - Fix setting tooltips for generic wxSpinCtrl (Catalin Raceanu).
904 - Added support for reading image resolutions from PNG images (scottb).
905 - wxComboCtrl, wxOwnerDrawnComboBox: better support for themed and custom
906 panel backgrounds, especially on OS X.
907 - Add WXK_CONTROL_A..WXK_CONTROL_Z constants (Jan van Dijk).
908 - Add support for alpha channel in colours in wxSVGFileDC (snowleopard).
909 - Allow customizing AUI tab colours in wxAuiTabArt (snowleopard).
910 - Added wxAffineMatrix2D class (Catalin Raceanu).
911 - Allow showing preview frame non modally (John Roberts).
912 - Improve appearance of the generic wxHyperlinkCtrl (David Connet).
913
914 GTK:
915
916 - Improve print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
917 - Switch to GtkTooltip from deprecated GtkTooltips (Emilien Kia).
918 - wxTLW generates wxEVT_MAXIMIZE.
919 - Fix copying clipboard data to primary selection (David Hart).
920 - Implement wxGraphicsContext::GetSize() (Marcin Wojdyr).
921 - Implement wxCalendarCtrl::SetDateRange() for the native control.
922
923 MSW:
924
925 - Native implementation of wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxProgressDialog under modern
926 Windows versions (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
927 - Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
928 - Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
929 - Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
930 - Center task dialog-based wxProgressDialog on the parent (John Roberts).
931 - wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() creates objects on demand (Kolya Kosenko).
932 - Fix EVT_UPDATE_UI generation for items in submenus (wsu).
933 - Added support for world transformation matrix to wxDC (Catalin Raceanu).
934
935 OSX:
936
937 - Implement auto-completion support in wxTextEntry.
938 - Implement switching to default video mode in wxDisplay (soren).
939
940
941 2.9.1:
942 ------
943
944 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.9.0
945
946 - wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
947 remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
948 2.9.0. Please use UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName | AppInfo_VendorName) explicitly
949 to use the vendor name in the paths returned by wxStandardPaths.
950
951 - wxDataViewModel::GetAttr() is now const, as it should have been from the very
952 beginning. You will need to change it to be const in your derived model
953 class too if you override it.
954
955
956 All:
957
958 - Added wxFileSystemWatcher (Bartosz Bekier, Google Summer of Code project).
959 - Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
960 - Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
961 - Added wxTempFile::Flush().
962 - Added support for wxLongLong and wxULongLong in wxVariant.
963 - Added wxVector::swap().
964 - Many wxLog improvements:
965 * wxLogXXX() functions are now thread-safe.
966 * Log levels can now be set independently for different log components.
967 * wxLog::DoLogRecord() has access to the location of the log message
968 (file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
969 * SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
970 - Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
971 - Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
972 - Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
973 - Added wxImage::ClearAlpha() (Javier Torres).
974 - Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
975 - Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
976 - Added wxAny class; a modern, backwards-incompatible replacement for
977 wxVariant.
978 - wxDateTime timezone functions now dynamic (no caching).
979 - Added wxHttp::GetCookie and wxHttp::HasCookies (dodge).
980 - Added support for unique volume names to wxFileName (Neno Ganchev).
981 - Correct bugs when using wxTextInputStream with wxConvAuto (Leon Buikstra).
982 - Don't crash when input is empty in wxFileConfig ctor (Lukasz Michalski).
983 - Correct wxSocket::Peek() to not block (Anders Larsen).
984 - Added IEC and SI units support to GetHumanReadableSize() (Julien Weinzorn).
985 - Add convenient wxString::ToStd{String,Wstring}() helpers.
986 - Added wxTranslations class to allow localization without changing locale.
987 It provides more flexible languages enumeration API as well.
988 - Added wxResourceTranslationsLoader for loading translations from Windows
989 resources.
990 - Added wxMessageQueue::Clear().
991 - Added wxConfig::Read(float *) overload (Terry Farnham).
992 - Always use decimal point (and not the current locale separator) in wxConfig.
993 - Fix posting of binary data using wxHTTP (Catalin Raceanu).
994
995 Unix:
996
997 - Return signed return code from wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC).
998 - Allow to use WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR environment var to override the return value
999 of wxStandardPaths::GetDataDir().
1000
1001 All (GUI):
1002
1003 - Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
1004 - Added wxInfoBar.
1005 - Added stretchable spaces support to wxToolBar.
1006 - Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
1007 - wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
1008 - Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
1009 - Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
1010 - Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
1011 - Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
1012 - Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
1013 - wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
1014 - wxGrid: allow changing the horizontal alignment of numeric cells.
1015 - wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
1016 - wxHTML: add limited support for span elements styles (Nigel Paton).
1017 - Added wxMouseEventsManager.
1018 - Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
1019 - Fixed wxDataViewCtrl::Set{Foreground,Background}Colour().
1020 - Added wxDataViewRenderer::EnableEllipsize().
1021 - Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
1022 - Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
1023 - Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
1024 - Added wxTextWrapper helper class useful for wrapping lines of text.
1025 - Added EVT_DATAVIEW_CACHE_HINT() event (Trigve).
1026 - Added wxLB_NO_SB style (implemented for MSW only; Dario Senic).
1027 - Added long version field to wxAboutDialogInfo (Jeff Tupper).
1028 - Added wxWindow::CanScroll() behaving like the old HasScrollbar() and made
1029 HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
1030 - Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
1031 - Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
1032 - Fixed wxComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
1033 - Fixed wxComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
1034 dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
1035 - wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
1036 - wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
1037 - wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behaviour. Added
1038 new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
1039 - wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
1040 - wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
1041 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "Delimiter" attribute for wxArrayStringProperty.
1042 - wxPropertyGridManager: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER,
1043 wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer
1044 control over borders. Borders around property grid are now native for
1045 consistency.
1046 - Added wxPropertyGridManager::ShowHeader().
1047 - Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
1048 - Added wxColour::Set/GetRGB() and Set/GetRGBA() methods (Marcel Haß).
1049 - wxRTC: added wxRICHTEXT_HANDLER_USE_CSS flag for HTML handler to use CSS
1050 where possible.
1051 - wxRTC: corrected centring and right-justification spacing.
1052 - wxRTC: fixed style selection reset after editing a style.
1053 - wxRTC: can now edit line spacing in .1 increments from 1 to 2.
1054 - wxRTC: added PaintAboveContent function for drawing on top of text.
1055 - Added wxBORDER_THEME to XRC.
1056 - wxGraphicsContext is now enabled by default if supported by the platform.
1057 - Fix building with using system libpng 1.4 (Volker Grabsch).
1058 - Add wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() methods (Igor Korot).
1059 - Added wxTreeCtrl::SelectChildren() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
1060 - Show pages icons in window list menu in wxAuiNotebook (Ronny Krüger).
1061 - Add "initial selection" parameter to wxGetSingleChoice() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
1062 - Implement wxDocument::Revert() (troelsk).
1063 - Allow overriding print preview frame creation in docview (troelsk).
1064 - Added support for gradient stops in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
1065 - Added wxTransparentColour.
1066 - Added wxToolBar::GetToolByPos().
1067 - Added wxProgressDialog::Was{Cancelled,Skipped}() (Julien Weinzorn).
1068 - Added wxTreeCtrl::{Clear,Set}FocusedItem() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
1069 - Added "filter changed" event to wxFileCtrl (Bill Jones).
1070 - wxAUI: update floating window position and not only size on resize (MacGyver).
1071 - Added wxComboCtrl::SetTextCtrlStyle().
1072 - Also update client data in wxRearrangeList control (John Roberts).
1073 - Generate more click events in wxGrid when using native header (John Roberts).
1074
1075 GTK:
1076
1077 - wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
1078 - Implement wxMask copy ctor.
1079 - Partially implemented wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Romanov).
1080 - Corrected themed border display.
1081 - Fix wxClipboard::GetData() for asymmetric wxDataObjects (Timothy Lee).
1082
1083 Mac:
1084
1085 - Implement wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() in wxOSX/Cocoa.
1086 - Correct min/max pages display in the print dialog (Auria).
1087 - Fix wxDataViewColumn::GetWidth() in Cocoa (Neno Ganchev).
1088
1089 MSW:
1090
1091 - Translate wxMessageDialog labels to the language of the current locale.
1092 - Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
1093 - Update CRT environment block in wxSetEnv() too.
1094 - Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
1095 - Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
1096 - Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
1097 - Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
1098 - Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
1099 - Worked around child window and caret positioning bug (in Windows) when using
1100 wxBORDER_THEME in a container window.
1101 - Suppressed spurious character event for decimal key in numeric keypad.
1102 - Allow to not create wxPaintDC in EVT_PAINT handler.
1103 - Fix sending of wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_COL_DRAGGING events in wxListCtrl.
1104 - Allow putting the UAC symbol on buttons (Chris Spencer).
1105 - Fix wxTaskBarIcon for older Windows systems (Daniel Wyatt).
1106 - Fixed wxOwnerDrawnComboBox keyboard handling: drop-down is no longer
1107 displayed when arrow key is pressed (without Alt).
1108 - In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
1109 as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
1110 - Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
1111 - Allow accessing 64/32 bit registry from 32/64 bit code (Rickard Westerlund).
1112
1113 i18n:
1114
1115 - Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
1116 - Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
1117
1118
1119 2.9.0
1120 -----
1121
1122 All:
1123
1124 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
1125 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
1126 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
1127 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
1128 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
1129 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
1130 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
1131 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
1132 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
1133 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
1134 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
1135 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
1136 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
1137 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
1138 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
1139 - Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
1140 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
1141 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
1142 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
1143 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
1144 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
1145 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
1146 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
1147 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
1148 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
1149 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
1150 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
1151 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
1152 Linnakangas).
1153 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
1154 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
1155 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
1156 and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
1157 wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
1158 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
1159 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
1160 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
1161 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
1162 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
1163 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
1164 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
1165 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
1166 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
1167 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
1168 - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
1169 - Added wxArray::swap().
1170 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
1171 - Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
1172 - Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
1173 - Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
1174 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
1175 - Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
1176 - Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
1177 - Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
1178 protocols is 60 seconds.
1179 - Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
1180 - Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
1181 - Added wxLog::Log().
1182 - Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
1183 - Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
1184 - Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
1185 - Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
1186 - wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
1187 - Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
1188 - Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
1189 - Store page setup data directly in wxDocManager (troelsk).
1190
1191 All (Unix):
1192
1193 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
1194 - Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
1195 - Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
1196 if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
1197 are automatically built.
1198
1199 All (GUI):
1200
1201 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
1202 - Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
1203 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
1204 - Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
1205 - Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
1206 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
1207 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
1208 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
1209 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
1210 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
1211 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
1212 - Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
1213 - Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
1214 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
1215 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
1216 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
1217 - Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
1218 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
1219 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
1220 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
1221 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
1222 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
1223 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
1224 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
1225 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
1226 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
1227 - Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
1228 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
1229 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
1230 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
1231 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
1232 - Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
1233 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
1234 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
1235 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
1236 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
1237 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
1238 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
1239 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1240 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
1241 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
1242 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
1243 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1244 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1245 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
1246 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
1247 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
1248 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
1249 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
1250 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
1251 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
1252 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
1253 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
1254 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
1255 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
1256 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
1257 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
1258 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
1259 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
1260 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
1261 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
1262 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
1263 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
1264 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
1265 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1266 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
1267 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
1268 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
1269 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
1270 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
1271 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
1272 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
1273 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
1274 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
1275 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
1276 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
1277 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1278 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
1279 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
1280 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
1281 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
1282 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
1283 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
1284 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
1285 - Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
1286 - Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
1287 - Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
1288 - Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
1289 - Add column parameter to wxListCtrl::GetItemText() (Allann Jones).
1290 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
1291 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
1292 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
1293 - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
1294 - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
1295 marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
1296 - Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
1297 - Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
1298 - Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
1299 - Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
1300 - Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
1301 - Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
1302 GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
1303 no longer return bogus values.
1304 - Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
1305 - Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
1306 added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
1307 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
1308 to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
1309 (Perdana Panduwana)
1310 - Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
1311 - Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
1312 a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
1313 Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
1314 - Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
1315 - Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
1316 - Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
1317 - Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
1318 - Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
1319 - Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
1320 new CheckFit() method for more information.
1321 - Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
1322 - Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
1323 - Improved anchors handling in wxHTML.
1324
1325 wxGTK:
1326
1327 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
1328 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
1329 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1330 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
1331 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1332 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
1333 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
1334 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
1335 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
1336 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
1337 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
1338 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
1339 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
1340 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
1341 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1342 - Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
1343
1344 wxMac:
1345
1346 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
1347 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
1348 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
1349 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
1350 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
1351 - Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
1352
1353 wxMSW:
1354
1355 - Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
1356 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
1357 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
1358 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
1359 - wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
1360 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
1361 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
1362 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
1363 - Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
1364 - Show resize gripper on resizable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
1365 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
1366 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
1367 - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
1368 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
1369 accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
1370 preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
1371 should be used.
1372 - Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
1373 - Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
1374 - Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
1375 by modern apps.
1376 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
1377 - Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
1378 - Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
1379
1380 wxX11:
1381
1382 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
1383 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
1384
1385 wxDFB:
1386
1387 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
1388
1389 i18n:
1390 -----
1391
1392 - Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
1393
1394
1395 2.8.10:
1396 -------
1397
1398 All:
1399
1400 - wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
1401 any more (Marcin Malich).
1402 - Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
1403 - Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
1404 - Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
1405 - Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
1406 - Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
1407 - Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
1408 (Robert Wruck).
1409 - Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
1410 - Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
1411
1412 All (GUI):
1413
1414 - wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
1415 Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
1416 to key down handler.
1417 - wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
1418 - wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
1419 pressing Delete.
1420 - wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
1421 formatting dialog.
1422 - wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
1423 indentation.
1424 - wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
1425 - wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
1426 - wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
1427 - wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
1428 - wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
1429 - Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
1430 - Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
1431 single-cell paragraphs.
1432 - Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
1433 - wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
1434 - Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
1435 - Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
1436 wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
1437 - Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
1438 - Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
1439 - Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
1440 - Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
1441
1442 All (Unix):
1443
1444 - Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
1445 occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
1446
1447 wxMSW:
1448
1449 - Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
1450 - Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
1451 - Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
1452 - Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
1453 if the event handler causes window update.
1454 - Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
1455 - Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
1456 - Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
1457 - Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
1458 - Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
1459 - Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
1460 - Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
1461 don't fit into the default size.
1462 - Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
1463 - Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
1464 the item in wxTreeCtrl.
1465
1466
1467 wxMSW/CE:
1468
1469 - Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
1470
1471 wxGTK:
1472
1473 - Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
1474 - Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
1475 the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
1476 - Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
1477 as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
1478
1479 wxOS2:
1480
1481 - Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
1482
1483
1484 2.8.9
1485 -----
1486
1487 All:
1488
1489 - Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
1490 - Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
1491 - Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
1492 in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
1493 results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
1494
1495 All (GUI):
1496
1497 - Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
1498 - Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
1499 go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
1500 help window.
1501 - Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
1502 platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
1503 - Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
1504 - Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
1505 wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
1506 - Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
1507 - Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
1508 now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
1509 - Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1510 - Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
1511 - Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
1512 - Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
1513 - Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
1514 - Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
1515 - Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
1516 - Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
1517 and mouse-down events
1518 - wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
1519 - Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
1520 - Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
1521 - Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
1522 - Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
1523 - Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
1524 - wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
1525
1526 All (Unix):
1527
1528 - MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
1529 files and also the default application list.
1530 - Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
1531 must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
1532 mime types manager initialization penalty.
1533
1534 wxMSW:
1535
1536 - Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
1537 contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
1538 preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
1539 Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
1540 will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
1541 wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
1542 - Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
1543 - Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
1544 - Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
1545 - Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
1546 - Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
1547 - Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
1548 creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
1549 - Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
1550 was invalid.
1551 - Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
1552 - Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
1553 - Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
1554
1555 wxGTK:
1556
1557 - Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
1558 - Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
1559 - Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
1560 as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
1561 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1562
1563 wxMac:
1564
1565 - Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
1566 would cause the window to scroll.
1567
1568
1569 2.8.8
1570 -----
1571
1572 All:
1573
1574 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
1575 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
1576 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
1577 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
1578 - Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
1579
1580 All (GUI):
1581
1582 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
1583 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1584 - Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
1585 smaller than the minimal size.
1586 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1587 - wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
1588 - Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
1589 - Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
1590 - wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
1591 works.
1592 - When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
1593 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
1594 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1595 - SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
1596 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
1597 charset in ANSI build.
1598 - wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
1599 and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
1600 - Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1601 - Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
1602 - Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
1603 - Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
1604 wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
1605 - Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
1606 - Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
1607 - Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
1608 - Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
1609 - Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
1610 best size if needed.
1611 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1612 - Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
1613 - Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
1614 - wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
1615 - Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
1616 - Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
1617 - Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
1618
1619 All (Unix):
1620
1621 - Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
1622 --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
1623 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
1624 - Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
1625 - Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
1626
1627 wxMSW:
1628
1629 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
1630 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
1631 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
1632 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
1633 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
1634 - Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
1635 a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
1636 - Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
1637 to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
1638 - Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
1639 highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
1640 - Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
1641 corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
1642 - Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
1643 - Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
1644 - wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
1645 for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
1646 - Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
1647 SmartPhone.
1648 - Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
1649 using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
1650 - Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
1651 - Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
1652 - Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
1653 spin button's client size.
1654 - Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
1655 compiler (Matthias Bohm).
1656 - Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
1657 systems (Gerald Giese)
1658
1659 wxGTK:
1660
1661 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
1662 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
1663 - Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
1664 - Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
1665 with other applications.
1666 - Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
1667 change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
1668 - Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
1669 - Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
1670 processing all pending events.
1671 - wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
1672
1673 wxMac:
1674
1675 - Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
1676 - Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
1677 - wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
1678 - Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
1679
1680
1681 2.8.7
1682 -----
1683
1684 All:
1685
1686 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
1687
1688 wxMSW:
1689
1690 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
1691 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
1692
1693 wxGTK:
1694
1695 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
1696 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
1697 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
1698
1699
1700 2.8.6
1701 -----
1702
1703 All:
1704
1705 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
1706 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
1707
1708
1709 2.8.5
1710 -----
1711
1712 All (GUI):
1713
1714 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
1715 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
1716 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
1717 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
1718 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
1719 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
1720 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
1721 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
1722 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
1723 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
1724
1725 wxMSW:
1726
1727 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
1728 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
1729 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
1730 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
1731 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
1732 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
1733 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
1734
1735 wxGTK:
1736
1737 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
1738 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
1739 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
1740 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
1741 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
1742 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
1743 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
1744 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
1745 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
1746 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
1747 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
1748
1749
1750 2.8.4
1751 -----
1752
1753 All:
1754
1755 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1756 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
1757 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
1758 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
1759
1760 All (Unix):
1761
1762 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
1763
1764 All (GUI):
1765
1766 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
1767 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
1768 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
1769 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
1770
1771 wxMSW:
1772
1773 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
1774 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
1775 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
1776 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
1777 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
1778 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
1779 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
1780 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
1781 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
1782
1783 wxGTK:
1784
1785 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
1786 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
1787 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
1788
1789 wxMac:
1790
1791 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
1792
1793 wxUniv:
1794
1795 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
1796 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
1797 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
1798
1799
1800 2.8.3
1801 -----
1802
1803 All:
1804
1805 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
1806 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
1807
1808 wxMac:
1809
1810 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
1811
1812 wxMSW:
1813
1814 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
1815
1816 wxGTK:
1817
1818 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
1819
1820
1821 2.8.2
1822 -----
1823
1824 All:
1825
1826 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
1827 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
1828 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
1829 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
1830 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
1831 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
1832 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
1833 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
1834 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
1835
1836 Unix Ports:
1837
1838 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
1839
1840 wxMSW
1841
1842 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
1843 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
1844
1845 wxGTK
1846
1847 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
1848
1849 wxMac
1850
1851 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
1852 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
1853
1854 wxX11:
1855
1856 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
1857
1858 wxUniv:
1859
1860 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
1861
1862
1863 2.8.1
1864 -----
1865
1866 All:
1867
1868 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
1869 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
1870 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
1871 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
1872 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
1873 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
1874
1875 wxMSW:
1876
1877 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
1878 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
1879
1880 wxGTK:
1881
1882 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
1883
1884 wxUniv:
1885
1886 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
1887
1888
1889 2.8.0
1890 -----
1891
1892 All:
1893
1894 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
1895 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
1896 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
1897 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
1898 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
1899 a stream that is seekable.
1900 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
1901 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
1902 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
1903
1904 wxMSW:
1905
1906 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
1907 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
1908 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
1909 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
1910
1911 wxGTK:
1912
1913 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
1914 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
1915
1916
1917 2.7.2
1918 -----
1919
1920 All:
1921
1922 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
1923 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
1924 - Added wxTar streams.
1925 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
1926 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
1927
1928 All (GUI):
1929
1930 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
1931 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
1932 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
1933 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
1934 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
1935 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
1936 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
1937 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
1938 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
1939 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
1940 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
1941 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
1942 formatting.
1943 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
1944 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
1945 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
1946 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
1947
1948 Unix Ports:
1949
1950 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
1951 program (Francesco Montorsi).
1952
1953 wxGTK:
1954
1955 - More RTL work.
1956 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
1957 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
1958 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
1959 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
1960
1961
1962 2.7.1
1963 -----
1964
1965 All:
1966
1967 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
1968 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
1969 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
1970 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
1971 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
1972 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
1973 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
1974 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
1975 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
1976 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
1977 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
1978 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
1979 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
1980 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
1981 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
1982
1983 All (GUI):
1984
1985 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
1986 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
1987 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
1988 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
1989 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
1990 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
1991 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
1992 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
1993 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
1994 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
1995 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
1996 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
1997 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1998 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
1999
2000 wxMSW:
2001
2002 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
2003 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
2004 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
2005 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
2006 high-contrast theme).
2007 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
2008
2009 wxMac:
2010
2011 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
2012 to the SDK.
2013
2014 wxGTK:
2015
2016 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
2017 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
2018 - Implemented right-to-left support.
2019 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
2020 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
2021
2022 wxUniv:
2023
2024 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
2025
2026
2027 2.7.0
2028 -----
2029
2030 All:
2031
2032 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
2033 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
2034 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
2035 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
2036 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
2037 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
2038 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
2039 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
2040 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
2041 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
2042 during a search and replace.
2043 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
2044 are both used in the same program.
2045 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
2046 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
2047 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
2048 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
2049 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
2050 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
2051 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
2052 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
2053 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
2054 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
2055 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
2056 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
2057 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
2058 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
2059 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
2060 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
2061 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
2062 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
2063 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
2064 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
2065 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
2066 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
2067 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
2068 the first time it was called.
2069 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
2070 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
2071 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
2072 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
2073 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
2074 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
2075 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
2076 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
2077 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
2078 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
2079
2080 All (GUI):
2081
2082 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
2083 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
2084 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
2085 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
2086 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
2087 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
2088 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
2089 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
2090 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
2091 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
2092 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
2093 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
2094 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
2095 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
2096 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
2097 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
2098 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
2099 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
2100 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
2101 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
2102 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
2103 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
2104 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
2105 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
2106 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
2107 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
2108 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
2109 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
2110 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
2111 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
2112 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
2113 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
2114 by Sandro Sigala).
2115 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
2116 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
2117 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
2118 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
2119 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
2120 best size.
2121 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
2122 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
2123 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
2124 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
2125 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
2126 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
2127 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
2128 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
2129 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
2130 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
2131 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
2132 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
2133 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
2134 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
2135 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
2136 - More than one filter allowed in wxDocTemplate filter.
2137 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
2138 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
2139 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
2140 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
2141 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
2142 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
2143 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
2144 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
2145 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
2146 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
2147 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
2148 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
2149 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
2150 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
2151 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
2152 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
2153 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
2154 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
2155 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
2156 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
2157 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
2158 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
2159 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
2160 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
2161
2162 wxMSW:
2163
2164 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
2165 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
2166 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
2167 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
2168 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
2169 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
2170 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
2171 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
2172 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
2173 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
2174 wxMSW faq for details).
2175 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
2176 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
2177 to the link command.
2178 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
2179 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
2180 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
2181 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
2182 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
2183 show.
2184 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
2185 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
2186 initial construction.
2187 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
2188 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
2189 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
2190 events).
2191 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
2192 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
2193 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
2194 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
2195 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
2196 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
2197 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
2198 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
2199 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
2200 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
2201 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
2202 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
2203 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
2204 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
2205 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
2206 changes the system font.
2207 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
2208 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
2209 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
2210 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
2211 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
2212 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
2213
2214 wxGTK:
2215
2216 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
2217 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
2218 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
2219 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
2220 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
2221 implementation.
2222 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
2223 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
2224 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
2225 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
2226 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
2227 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
2228 previously unable to be focused before.
2229 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
2230 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
2231 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
2232 class was used.
2233 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
2234 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
2235 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
2236 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
2237 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
2238 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
2239 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
2240 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
2241 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
2242
2243 wxMac:
2244
2245 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
2246 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
2247 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
2248 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
2249 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
2250 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
2251 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
2252 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
2253 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
2254 - Corrected idle wake-up.
2255 - Corrected wxExecute.
2256 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
2257 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
2258 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
2259 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2260 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
2261 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
2262 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
2263 were found.
2264 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
2265 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
2266 under Mach-O.
2267 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
2268 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
2269 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
2270 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
2271 end of file with an error.
2272 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
2273 binaries.
2274 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
2275 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
2276 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
2277 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
2278 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
2279 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
2280 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
2281
2282 wxCocoa:
2283
2284 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
2285
2286 wxWinCE:
2287
2288 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
2289 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
2290 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
2291 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
2292 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
2293 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
2294 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
2295 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
2296 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
2297 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
2298 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
2299 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
2300 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
2301 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
2302 directly, however.
2303 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
2304 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
2305 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
2306 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
2307 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
2308
2309 wxUniv:
2310
2311 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
2312 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
2313 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
2314
2315 wxX11:
2316
2317 - Invisible text problem fixed.
2318 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
2319 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
2320 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
2321
2322 Unix:
2323
2324 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
2325
2326 wxMGL:
2327
2328 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
2329 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
2330
2331
2332 2.6.2
2333 -----
2334
2335 All:
2336
2337 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
2338 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
2339 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
2340 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
2341 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
2342 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
2343 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
2344 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
2345 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
2346 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
2347 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
2348 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
2349
2350 All (GUI):
2351
2352 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
2353 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
2354 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
2355 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
2356 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
2357 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
2358 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
2359 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
2360 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
2361 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
2362 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
2363 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
2364
2365 wxMSW:
2366
2367 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
2368 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
2369 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
2370 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
2371 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
2372 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
2373 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
2374 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
2375 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
2376 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
2377 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
2378 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
2379 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
2380 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
2381 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
2382
2383 wxGTK:
2384
2385 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
2386 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
2387 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
2388 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
2389 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
2390 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
2391 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
2392 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
2393 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
2394 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
2395 - Fixed domain socket handling.
2396
2397 wxMac:
2398
2399 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
2400 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
2401 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
2402 - Various text control bug fixes.
2403 - Automatic menu management improved.
2404 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
2405 due to dangling cycle pointers.
2406 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
2407 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
2408 showing modally).
2409
2410 wxOS2
2411
2412 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
2413
2414 wxUniv:
2415
2416 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
2417 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
2418
2419 wxMotif:
2420
2421 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
2422 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
2423 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
2424 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
2425 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
2426 flag has been specified.
2427 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
2428 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
2429 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
2430 showing modally).
2431
2432 wxMGL:
2433
2434 - Fixed crash on exit.
2435 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
2436
2437 wxX11:
2438
2439 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
2440
2441
2442 2.6.1
2443 -----
2444
2445 All:
2446
2447 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
2448 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
2449
2450 All (GUI):
2451
2452 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
2453 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
2454 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
2455 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
2456 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
2457 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
2458 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
2459 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
2460 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
2461 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
2462
2463 wxMSW:
2464
2465 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
2466 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
2467 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
2468 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
2469 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
2470 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
2471 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
2472 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
2473 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
2474 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
2475 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
2476 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
2477 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
2478 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
2479 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
2480 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
2481 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
2482 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
2483 - Compiles again with WIN64.
2484 - Winelib compilation now works.
2485 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
2486 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
2487 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
2488 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
2489 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
2490 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
2491 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
2492 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
2493 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
2494 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
2495 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
2496 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
2497 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
2498
2499 wxWinCE:
2500
2501 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2502
2503 wxGTK:
2504
2505 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
2506 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
2507 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
2508 - Added bitmap support in menus.
2509
2510 wxMac:
2511
2512 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
2513 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
2514 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
2515 incorrect state.
2516 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
2517 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
2518 - Window menu now added automatically.
2519 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
2520 - Modified function key support fixed.
2521 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
2522
2523 wxX11:
2524
2525 - Menu problems fixed.
2526 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
2527 - Fixed a font memory leak.
2528 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
2529
2530
2531 2.6.0
2532 -----
2533
2534 All:
2535
2536 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
2537 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
2538
2539 All (GUI):
2540
2541 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
2542 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
2543
2544 wxMSW:
2545
2546 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
2547 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
2548 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
2549
2550 wxWinCE:
2551
2552 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
2553
2554 wxGTK:
2555 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
2556 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2557 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
2558 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2559 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
2560 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
2561 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
2562
2563 wxMac:
2564 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
2565
2566 2.5.5
2567 -----
2568
2569 All:
2570
2571 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
2572 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
2573 - Added wxDebugReport class.
2574 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
2575 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
2576 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
2577 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
2578 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
2579 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
2580
2581 All (GUI):
2582
2583 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
2584 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
2585 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
2586 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
2587 the whole virtual area.
2588 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
2589 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
2590 isn't used to set the window size.
2591 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
2592 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
2593 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
2594 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
2595
2596 Unix:
2597
2598 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
2599
2600 wxMSW:
2601
2602 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
2603 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
2604 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
2605 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
2606 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
2607 handling (Jamie Gadd).
2608
2609 wxGTK:
2610
2611 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
2612 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
2613 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
2614 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
2615 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
2616 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
2617 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
2618 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
2619
2620 wxMac:
2621
2622 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
2623
2624 wxPalmOS:
2625
2626 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
2627
2628 wxWinCE:
2629
2630 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
2631 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
2632 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
2633 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
2634 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
2635 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
2636 with correct titlebar style.
2637 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
2638 PocketPC guidelines
2639 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
2640 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
2641 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
2642 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
2643 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
2644 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
2645 to the dialog's toolbar.
2646
2647 2.5.4
2648 -----
2649
2650 All:
2651
2652 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
2653 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
2654 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
2655 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
2656 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2657 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
2658 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
2659 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
2660 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
2661 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
2662 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
2663 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
2664 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
2665 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
2666 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
2667 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
2668 behaviour between Unicode and non-unicode builds
2669 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
2670 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
2671 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
2672 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
2673 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
2674 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
2675 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
2676 printing stuff in the GTK port.
2677 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
2678 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
2679 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
2680 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
2681 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
2682 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
2683 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
2684 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
2685 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
2686 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
2687 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
2688 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
2689 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
2690 due to a rounding error.
2691 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
2692 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
2693 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
2694 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
2695 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
2696 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
2697 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
2698 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
2699
2700
2701 All (GUI):
2702
2703 - added wxMediaCtrl
2704 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
2705 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
2706 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2707 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
2708 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
2709 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
2710 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
2711 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
2712 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
2713 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
2714 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
2715 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
2716 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
2717 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
2718 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
2719 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
2720 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
2721
2722 Unix:
2723
2724 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
2725
2726 wxGTK:
2727
2728 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
2729 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
2730 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
2731 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
2732 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
2733 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
2734 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
2735 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
2736 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
2737 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
2738 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
2739 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
2740 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
2741 errors otherwise.
2742 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
2743 - Added wxRawBitmap support
2744 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
2745 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
2746 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
2747
2748 wxMac:
2749
2750 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
2751 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
2752 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
2753 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
2754
2755 wxMSW:
2756
2757 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
2758 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
2759 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
2760 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
2761 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
2762
2763 wxWinCE:
2764 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
2765 but not mentioned anywhere.
2766 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
2767
2768 wxUniv:
2769
2770 - wxBU_... button align flags support
2771 - vertical notebook orientation support
2772 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
2773 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
2774
2775 wxPalmOS:
2776
2777 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
2778 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
2779 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
2780 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
2781 - enumeration of available volumes
2782 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
2783 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
2784 - native wxColourDialog implementation
2785 - native wxSystemSettings colours
2786 - native wxButton implementation
2787 - native wxCheckBox implementation
2788 - native wxSlider implementation
2789 - native wxToggleButton implementation
2790 - native wxRadioButton implementation
2791 - native wxStaticText implementation
2792 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2793
2794
2795 2.5.3
2796 -----
2797
2798 All:
2799
2800 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
2801 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
2802 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2803 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
2804 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
2805 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
2806 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
2807 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
2808 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
2809 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
2810 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
2811 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
2812 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
2813 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
2814 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
2815 - fixed wxString's behaviour with inserted null characters
2816
2817 All (GUI):
2818
2819 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
2820 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
2821 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
2822 is discouraged
2823 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
2824 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
2825 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
2826 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
2827 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
2828 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
2829 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
2830 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
2831 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
2832 - added samples/splash
2833 - added support for stock buttons
2834 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
2835 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
2836 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
2837 - added wxChoicebook control
2838 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
2839 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
2840 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
2841 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
2842 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
2843 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
2844 supported, instead of zero.
2845 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
2846
2847 Unix:
2848
2849 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
2850 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
2851 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
2852 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
2853 - wx-config has new --version-full option
2854
2855 wxCocoa:
2856
2857 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2858 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
2859 - Tooltips now supported
2860 - wxSound now supported
2861 - wxDisplay now supported
2862 - Some stock cursors now supported
2863
2864 wxMac:
2865
2866 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
2867 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
2868 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2869 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
2870
2871 wxGTK:
2872
2873 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
2874 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
2875 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
2876 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
2877 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
2878 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
2879 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
2880 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
2881 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
2882 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
2883 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
2884 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
2885 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
2886 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
2887 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
2888 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
2889 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
2890 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
2891 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
2892
2893 wxMotif:
2894
2895 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
2896
2897 wxMSW:
2898
2899 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
2900 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
2901 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
2902 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
2903 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
2904 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
2905 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
2906 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
2907 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
2908 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
2909 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
2910 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2911 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
2912 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
2913
2914 wxUniv/X11:
2915
2916 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
2917
2918 wxWinCE:
2919
2920 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
2921 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
2922 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
2923 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
2924
2925 wxHTML:
2926
2927 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
2928 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
2929
2930
2931 2.5.2
2932 -----
2933
2934 All:
2935
2936 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
2937 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
2938 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
2939 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
2940 of run-time) now
2941 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
2942 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
2943 to forward declare these classes.
2944
2945 All (GUI):
2946
2947 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
2948 resulting in much better display of scaled images
2949 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
2950 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
2951 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
2952 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
2953 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
2954 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
2955 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
2956 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
2957 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
2958 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
2959 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
2960 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
2961 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
2962
2963 wxMSW:
2964
2965 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
2966 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
2967 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
2968 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
2969 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
2970 even try to do it by default -- now it does
2971 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
2972 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
2973 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
2974 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
2975 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
2976 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
2977
2978 wxGTK:
2979
2980 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
2981
2982 wxMotif:
2983
2984 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
2985 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
2986 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
2987 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
2988
2989 wxUniv/X11:
2990
2991 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
2992
2993 wxHTML:
2994
2995 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
2996 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
2997
2998 Unix:
2999
3000 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
3001 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
3002
3003 wxODBC:
3004
3005 - Full Unicode support is now available
3006 - BLOB support is working
3007
3008
3009 2.5.1
3010 -----
3011
3012 All:
3013
3014 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
3015 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
3016 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
3017 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
3018 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
3019 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
3020 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
3021 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
3022 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
3023 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
3024 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
3025 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
3026 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
3027 (as in 2.5.0).
3028 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
3029 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
3030 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
3031 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
3032 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
3033 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
3034 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
3035 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
3036 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
3037 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
3038 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
3039 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
3040
3041 All (GUI):
3042
3043 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3044 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
3045 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
3046 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
3047 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
3048 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
3049 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
3050 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
3051 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
3052 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
3053 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
3054 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
3055 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
3056 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
3057 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
3058 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
3059 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
3060 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
3061 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
3062 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
3063 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
3064 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
3065 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
3066 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
3067 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
3068 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
3069
3070 wxMSW:
3071
3072 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
3073 - fixed DDE memory leaks
3074 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
3075 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
3076 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
3077 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
3078 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
3079 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
3080 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
3081 - MDI child frames are not always resizable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
3082 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
3083 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
3084 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
3085 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
3086 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
3087 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
3088 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
3089 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
3090 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
3091 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
3092 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
3093 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
3094 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
3095 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
3096 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
3097 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
3098 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
3099 than the specified default size
3100 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
3101
3102 wxGTK:
3103
3104 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
3105 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
3106 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
3107 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
3108 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
3109 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
3110 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
3111 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
3112 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
3113
3114 wxMac:
3115
3116 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
3117 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
3118 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
3119 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
3120
3121 wxMotif:
3122
3123 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
3124
3125 wxHTML:
3126
3127 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
3128 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
3129
3130 Unix:
3131
3132 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
3133 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
3134 addition to existing OSS one
3135 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
3136
3137
3138 2.5.0
3139 -----
3140
3141 All:
3142
3143 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
3144 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
3145 separately compiled library
3146 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
3147 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3148 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
3149 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
3150 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
3151 - added wxArray::SetCount()
3152 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
3153 by default in Unicode mode
3154 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
3155 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
3156 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
3157 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
3158 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
3159 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
3160 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
3161 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
3162 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
3163 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
3164 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
3165 - added wxRecursionGuard class
3166 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
3167 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
3168 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
3169 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
3170 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
3171 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
3172 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
3173 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
3174
3175 wxBase:
3176
3177 - added Watcom makefiles
3178 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
3179
3180 All GUI ports:
3181
3182 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
3183 - added wxListbook control
3184 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
3185 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
3186 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
3187 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
3188 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizable (Robert Vazan)
3189 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
3190 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
3191 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
3192 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
3193 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
3194 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
3195 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
3196 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
3197 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
3198 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
3199 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
3200 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
3201 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3202 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
3203 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
3204 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
3205 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
3206 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
3207 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
3208 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
3209 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
3210 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
3211 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
3212 default extension for the template
3213 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
3214 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
3215 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
3216 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
3217 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
3218 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
3219 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
3220 to allow better rich text support.
3221 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
3222 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
3223 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
3224 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
3225 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
3226 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
3227 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
3228 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
3229 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
3230 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
3231 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
3232 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
3233 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
3234 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
3235 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
3236 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
3237 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
3238 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
3239 - added wxMirrorDC class
3240 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
3241 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
3242 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
3243 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
3244 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
3245 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
3246 improved
3247
3248 Unix:
3249
3250 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
3251 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
3252 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
3253 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
3254 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
3255
3256 Generic controls:
3257
3258 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
3259 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
3260 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
3261 to contrib/src/deprecated
3262
3263 wxGTK:
3264
3265 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
3266 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
3267 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
3268 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
3269 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
3270 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
3271 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
3272 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
3273 be appended to filenames with no extension
3274 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
3275 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
3276 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
3277 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
3278
3279 wxMac:
3280
3281 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
3282 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3283
3284 wxMSW:
3285
3286 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
3287 - added wxCrashReport
3288 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
3289 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
3290 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
3291 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
3292 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
3293 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
3294 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
3295 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
3296 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
3297 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
3298 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
3299 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
3300 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
3301 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
3302 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
3303 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
3304 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
3305 - improved border handling under Windows XP
3306 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
3307 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
3308 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
3309 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
3310 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
3311 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
3312 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
3313
3314 wxMotif:
3315
3316 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
3317 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
3318 documentation for a detailed explanation
3319 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
3320 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
3321 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
3322 with Motif 1.x compatibility
3323 - implemented wxToggleButton
3324 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
3325 instead of a sunken border
3326 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
3327 - finished wxClipboard implementation
3328
3329 wxUniv:
3330
3331 - controls in toolbars now supported
3332
3333 wxHTML:
3334
3335 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
3336 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
3337 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
3338 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
3339 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
3340
3341
3342 OLD CHANGES
3343 ===========
3344
3345 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
3346 ================================
3347
3348 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
3349 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
3350 with '!' in the first column.
3351
3352 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
3353 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
3354 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
3355 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
3356 2.6 release.
3357
3358 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
3359 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
3360 (see the documentation) useful.
3361
3362
3363 wxBase:
3364
3365 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
3366 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
3367 code.
3368
3369 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
3370 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
3371 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
3372 arrays containing non-pointers.
3373
3374 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
3375 simply don't make sense for all objects
3376
3377 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
3378 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
3379 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
3380
3381 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
3382
3383 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
3384 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
3385 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
3386 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
3387 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
3388
3389 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
3390 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
3391 the default assert handling.
3392
3393 All (GUI):
3394
3395 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
3396 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
3397 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
3398
3399 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
3400 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
3401 instead!
3402
3403 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
3404 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
3405 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
3406
3407 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
3408 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
3409 you want to get OnChar() as well
3410
3411 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
3412 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
3413 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
3414
3415 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
3416 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
3417 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
3418 will *NOT* work any longer:
3419
3420 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
3421 ... do something ...
3422 if ( flags & wxYES )
3423 ... do something else ...
3424
3425 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
3426 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
3427 the ctor
3428
3429 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
3430
3431 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
3432 if you derived any classes from it
3433
3434 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
3435 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
3436
3437 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
3438 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
3439
3440 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
3441 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
3442
3443 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
3444 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
3445 from happening
3446
3447 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
3448 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
3449 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
3450
3451 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
3452 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
3453 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
3454 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
3455
3456 wxMSW:
3457
3458 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
3459 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
3460 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
3461 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
3462 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
3463 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
3464 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
3465 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
3466 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
3467 is only present for the DLLs builds.
3468
3469 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
3470 style to avoid it
3471
3472 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
3473 previously selected one instead of replacing it
3474
3475 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
3476 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
3477 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
3478
3479 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
3480 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
3481
3482
3483 Unix ports:
3484
3485 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
3486 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
3487 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
3488 to compile pure C files.
3489
3490
3491 wxThread and related classes:
3492
3493 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
3494 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
3495 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
3496 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
3497
3498 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
3499 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
3500 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
3501 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
3502
3503 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
3504 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
3505 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
3506
3507 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
3508 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
3509
3510
3511 OTHER CHANGES
3512 =============
3513
3514 2.4.0
3515 -----
3516
3517 wxMSW:
3518
3519 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
3520
3521 2.3.4
3522 -----
3523
3524 All:
3525
3526 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
3527 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
3528 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
3529
3530 Unix (Base/GUI):
3531
3532 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
3533 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
3534 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
3535
3536 wxGTK:
3537 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
3538 - Addition of native frame site grip.
3539
3540 wxX11:
3541 - Unicode support through Pango library.
3542
3543 wxMSW:
3544
3545 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
3546 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
3547
3548 wxHTML:
3549
3550 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
3551
3552 2.3.3
3553 -----
3554
3555 wxBase:
3556
3557 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
3558 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
3559 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
3560 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
3561 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
3562 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3563 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
3564 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
3565 after (non standard) STL hash_map
3566 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
3567 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
3568 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
3569 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
3570 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
3571 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
3572 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
3573
3574 Unix (Base/GUI):
3575
3576 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
3577 programs and not only GNU make
3578 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
3579 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
3580 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
3581 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
3582 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
3583
3584 All (GUI):
3585
3586 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
3587 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
3588 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
3589 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
3590 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
3591 wxWidgets dialogs
3592 - significantly improved native font support
3593 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
3594 wxHashTable
3595 - added IFF image handler
3596 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
3597 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
3598 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
3599 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3600 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
3601 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
3602 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3603 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
3604 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
3605 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
3606 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
3607 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
3608 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
3609 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3610 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
3611 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
3612 - wxMessageOutput class added
3613 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
3614 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
3615 table fills up
3616 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
3617 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
3618 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
3619 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
3620 (Rene Rivera).
3621 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
3622 whether a label edit was cancelled.
3623 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
3624
3625 wxMSW:
3626
3627 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
3628 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
3629 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
3630 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
3631 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
3632 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
3633 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
3634 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
3635 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
3636 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
3637 are changed
3638 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
3639 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
3640 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
3641 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
3642 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
3643 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
3644 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
3645 recursion any more
3646 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
3647 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
3648 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
3649 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
3650 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
3651 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
3652 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
3653 has the capture before release it.
3654 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
3655 - default button handling is now closer to expected
3656 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
3657 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
3658 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
3659 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
3660 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
3661 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
3662 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
3663 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
3664 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
3665 provided in wxFontData
3666 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
3667 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
3668
3669 wxGTK:
3670
3671 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
3672 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
3673 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
3674 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
3675 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
3676 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
3677 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
3678 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
3679 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
3680 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
3681 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
3682 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
3683 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
3684
3685 wxMotif:
3686
3687 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
3688 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
3689 - improved toolbar control alignment
3690 - implemented wxSpinButton
3691 - implemented wxCheckListBox
3692 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
3693 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
3694
3695 wxX11:
3696
3697 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
3698 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
3699
3700 wxMac:
3701
3702 - Many improvements
3703
3704 wxOS2:
3705
3706 - First alpha-quality release
3707
3708 wxHTML:
3709
3710 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
3711 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
3712 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
3713 - fixed alignment handling in tables
3714 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
3715
3716 2.3.2
3717 -----
3718
3719 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
3720
3721 wxBase:
3722
3723 - wxRegEx class added
3724 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
3725 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
3726 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
3727 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
3728 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
3729
3730 All (GUI):
3731
3732 - support for virtual list control added
3733 - column images in report mode of the list control
3734 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
3735 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
3736 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
3737 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
3738 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
3739 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3740 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
3741 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
3742 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
3743 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
3744 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3745 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
3746
3747 wxMSW:
3748
3749 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
3750 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
3751 project files
3752
3753 wxGTK:
3754
3755 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
3756 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
3757 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
3758 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
3759
3760 wxMac:
3761
3762 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
3763 Tools
3764
3765 wxHTML:
3766
3767 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
3768 to tags parsing
3769 - added support for animated GIFs
3770
3771 2.3.1
3772 -----
3773
3774 wxBase:
3775
3776 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
3777 - Fixed new charset detection code
3778 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
3779 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
3780 - Added wxDir::Traverse
3781 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
3782 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
3783 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
3784
3785 All (GUI):
3786
3787 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
3788 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
3789 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
3790 push on a custom event handler for example)
3791 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
3792 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
3793 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
3794 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
3795 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
3796 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
3797 first-time saved
3798 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
3799 - Various wxXML enhancements
3800 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
3801 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
3802 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
3803 instead of GetId()
3804 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
3805 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
3806
3807 wxMSW:
3808
3809 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
3810 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
3811 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
3812 alt or shift) now work
3813 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
3814 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
3815 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
3816 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
3817 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
3818 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
3819 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
3820 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
3821 - We now send iconize events
3822 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
3823 - Added mousewheel processing
3824 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
3825 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
3826 in wxDC
3827 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
3828 child frame styles are honoured
3829
3830 wxGTK:
3831
3832 - Fixed slider rounding bug
3833 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
3834 - We now send iconize events
3835 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
3836 GetSelection() results
3837
3838 2.3.0
3839 -----
3840
3841 wxBase:
3842
3843 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
3844 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
3845 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
3846 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
3847 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3848 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
3849 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
3850 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
3851 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
3852 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
3853
3854 All (GUI):
3855
3856 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
3857 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
3858 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
3859 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
3860 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
3861 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
3862 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
3863 wxImage methods and ctor)
3864 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
3865 - ODBC documentation complete!!
3866 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
3867 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
3868 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
3869 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
3870
3871 wxMSW:
3872
3873 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
3874 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
3875 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
3876 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
3877
3878 wxGTK:
3879
3880 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
3881
3882 wxHTML:
3883
3884 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
3885 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
3886
3887 2.2.0
3888 -----
3889
3890 wxBase:
3891
3892 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
3893 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
3894 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
3895 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
3896 - Completed Czech translations
3897 - Some stream corrections
3898 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
3899 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
3900 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
3901 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
3902
3903 All (GUI):
3904
3905 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
3906 flicker-free dragging is now possible
3907 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
3908 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
3909 - Paper names now translated
3910 - wxGrid fixes
3911 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
3912 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
3913 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
3914 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
3915 File dialog.
3916 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
3917 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
3918 writing code
3919 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
3920 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
3921 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
3922 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
3923
3924 wxMSW:
3925
3926 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
3927 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
3928 backward compatibility, please set
3929 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
3930 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
3931 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
3932 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
3933 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
3934 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
3935 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
3936 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
3937 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
3938 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
3939 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
3940 - wxFrame restores focus better
3941 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
3942 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
3943 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
3944 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
3945 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
3946 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
3947 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
3948 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
3949 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizable again
3950 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
3951
3952 wxGTK:
3953
3954 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
3955
3956 wxMotif:
3957
3958 - Small compilation fixes
3959
3960 Documentation:
3961
3962 - wxCaret documented
3963
3964 2.1.16
3965 ------
3966
3967 wxBase:
3968
3969 All (GUI):
3970
3971 wxMSW:
3972
3973 - Various bug fixes
3974 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
3975 files. This works under VC++ only
3976 - Modal dialog handling improved
3977 - Printer dialog now modal
3978
3979 wxGTK:
3980
3981 - Various bug fixes
3982
3983 wxMotif:
3984
3985 - Various bug fixes
3986
3987 2.1.15
3988 ------
3989
3990 Documentation:
3991
3992 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
3993
3994 File hierarchy:
3995
3996 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
3997 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
3998
3999 wxBase:
4000
4001 - wxSocket support
4002 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
4003 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
4004 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
4005 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
4006 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
4007 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
4008 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
4009 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
4010 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
4011 only so far)
4012 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
4013 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
4014 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
4015 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
4016 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
4017 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
4018 is available)
4019 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
4020
4021 all (GUI):
4022
4023 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
4024 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
4025 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
4026 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
4027 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
4028 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
4029 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
4030 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
4031 John Norris)
4032 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
4033 MIME types if available (Unix only)
4034 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
4035 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
4036 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
4037 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
4038 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
4039 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
4040 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
4041 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
4042 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
4043 - wxDragImage class added
4044 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
4045 controllers, as well as native help
4046 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
4047
4048 wxMSW:
4049
4050 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
4051 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
4052 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
4053 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
4054 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
4055 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
4056 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
4057 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
4058 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
4059 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
4060 Unix ports
4061 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
4062 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
4063 - wxSetCursorEvent added
4064
4065 wxGTK:
4066
4067 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
4068 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
4069 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
4070
4071 wxMotif:
4072
4073 - wxMenu::Enable works
4074 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
4075 - OGL samples made to work again
4076
4077 wxHTML:
4078
4079 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
4080 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
4081 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
4082 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
4083 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
4084 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
4085 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
4086 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
4087 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
4088 - improved HTML printing
4089 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
4090 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
4091 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
4092 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
4093
4094
4095 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
4096 change log.
4097
4098 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
4099 -----------------------
4100
4101 wxGTK:
4102
4103 - JPEG support added.
4104 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
4105
4106 wxMSW:
4107
4108 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
4109 SetTabSize added.
4110 - JPEG support added.
4111 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
4112 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
4113 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
4114
4115 wxMotif:
4116
4117
4118 General:
4119
4120 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
4121
4122
4123 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
4124 -------------------------------
4125
4126 wxGTK:
4127
4128 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
4129 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
4130
4131 wxMSW:
4132
4133 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
4134 - Fixed window cursor setting.
4135 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
4136 - Some makefile fixes.
4137
4138 wxMotif:
4139
4140 - None.
4141
4142 General:
4143
4144 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
4145 - More topic overviews.
4146 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
4147 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
4148 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
4149
4150
4151 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
4152 --------------------------
4153
4154 wxGTK:
4155
4156 - wxExecute improved.
4157
4158 wxMSW:
4159
4160 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
4161 expected).
4162 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
4163 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
4164 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
4165 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
4166 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
4167 - Fixed focus-related crash.
4168
4169 wxMotif:
4170
4171 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
4172 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
4173
4174 General:
4175
4176 - wxLocale documented.
4177 - Added include filenames to class reference.
4178 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
4179 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
4180 (though doesn't display help yet).
4181
4182 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
4183 --------------------------
4184
4185 wxGTK:
4186
4187 - Miscellaneous fixes.
4188
4189 wxMSW:
4190
4191 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
4192 rationalised.
4193 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
4194
4195 wxMotif:
4196
4197 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
4198 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
4199 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
4200 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
4201 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
4202 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
4203 crashes for some reason).
4204 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
4205 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
4206
4207 General:
4208
4209 - Further doc improvements.
4210 - wxGenericValidator added.
4211 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
4212 automatically.
4213
4214 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
4215 -------------------------
4216
4217 wxGTK:
4218
4219 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
4220 - wxToolTip class added.
4221 - Miscellaneous fixes.
4222
4223 wxMSW:
4224
4225 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
4226 - Makefiles for more compilers.
4227 - TWIN32 support added.
4228 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
4229 factored out program/library settings.
4230 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
4231
4232 wxMotif:
4233
4234 - A few more colour fixes.
4235 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
4236 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
4237 - wxChoice crash fix.
4238 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
4239
4240 General:
4241
4242 - wxBusyCursor class added.
4243 - Added samples/dde.
4244 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
4245
4246 Beta 2, January 1999
4247 --------------------
4248
4249 wxGTK:
4250
4251 wxMSW:
4252
4253 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
4254
4255 wxMotif:
4256
4257 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
4258 the right place.
4259 - Cured some widget table clashes.
4260 - Added thread support (Robert).
4261 - wxPoem sample now works.
4262
4263 General:
4264
4265 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
4266 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
4267 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
4268 or below).
4269 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
4270 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
4271 sample.
4272 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
4273
4274 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
4275 --------------------------
4276
4277 wxGTK:
4278
4279 - Various
4280
4281 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
4282
4283
4284 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
4285 ----------------------------
4286
4287 wxMSW:
4288
4289 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
4290 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
4291 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
4292 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
4293 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
4294 on a tab.
4295 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
4296 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
4297 of Stefan Csomor.
4298
4299 wxMotif:
4300
4301 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
4302 without (permanently) resizing the window.
4303 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
4304 that disabled scrollbar paging.
4305 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
4306 colours correctly.
4307 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
4308 when any button was pressed.
4309 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
4310 have a white background.
4311 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
4312 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
4313 they have sensible colours by default.
4314 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
4315 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
4316 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
4317 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
4318 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
4319
4320 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
4321 ----------------------------
4322
4323 wxMSW:
4324
4325 - More documentation updates, especially for
4326 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
4327 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
4328 of wxTrace.
4329 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
4330 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
4331 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
4332 position.
4333 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
4334
4335 wxMotif:
4336
4337 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
4338 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
4339 child frames).
4340 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
4341 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
4342 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
4343 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
4344 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
4345 the debugging implementation.
4346 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
4347 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
4348 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
4349 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
4350 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
4351 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
4352 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
4353
4354 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
4355
4356 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
4357 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
4358 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
4359 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
4360 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
4361 - wxNotebook almost done.
4362 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
4363 to vertical toolbars).
4364
4365 More recently:
4366
4367 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
4368 to scrollbars).
4369 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
4370 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
4371 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
4372
4373 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
4374 ----------------------------
4375
4376 wxMSW:
4377
4378 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
4379 sample.
4380 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
4381 - A few more makefiles added.
4382 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
4383 - Further doc updates.
4384 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
4385
4386 wxMotif:
4387
4388 - First start at Motif port.
4389 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
4390 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
4391 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
4392 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
4393
4394 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
4395 --------------------------
4396
4397 wxMSW:
4398
4399 - wxBitmap debugged.
4400 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
4401 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
4402 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
4403 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
4404 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
4405 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
4406 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
4407
4408 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
4409 ------------------------
4410
4411 wxMSW:
4412
4413 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
4414 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
4415 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
4416 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
4417 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
4418 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
4419 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
4420 changes, wxNotebook.
4421 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
4422
4423 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
4424 -----------------------
4425
4426 wxMSW:
4427
4428 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
4429 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
4430 Windows functions, for efficiency.
4431 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
4432 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
4433 don't support it.
4434 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
4435 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
4436
4437 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
4438 -----------------------
4439
4440 wxMSW:
4441
4442 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
4443 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
4444
4445 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
4446 -----------------------
4447
4448 wxMSW:
4449
4450 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
4451 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
4452 wxMenuBar.
4453 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
4454 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
4455 wxMenuItem accessors.
4456 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
4457 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
4458 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
4459 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
4460 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
4461 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
4462 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
4463 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
4464 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
4465 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
4466 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
4467 first, then doing the assignment.
4468 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
4469 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
4470
4471 Generic:
4472
4473 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
4474 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
4475
4476 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
4477 ----------------------
4478
4479 wxMSW:
4480
4481 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
4482 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
4483 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
4484 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
4485 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
4486 require application-supplied positioning code though.
4487 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
4488 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
4489 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
4490
4491 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
4492 ------------------------
4493
4494 wxMSW:
4495
4496 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
4497 fields were used.
4498 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4499 compilation and pragmas.
4500 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
4501 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
4502
4503 Generic:
4504
4505 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
4506 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4507 compilation and pragmas.
4508 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
4509
4510 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
4511 ------------------------
4512
4513 wxMSW:
4514
4515 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
4516 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
4517 some reason :-(
4518 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
4519 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
4520 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
4521 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
4522 startup/exit.
4523 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
4524 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
4525 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
4526 VADIM'S CHANGES:
4527 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
4528 compatibility functions.
4529 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
4530 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
4531 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
4532 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
4533 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
4534 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
4535 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
4536
4537 Generic:
4538
4539 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
4540 - Added samples/png.
4541 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
4542 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
4543 header files.
4544 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
4545
4546 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
4547 ------------------------
4548
4549 wxMSW:
4550
4551 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4552 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
4553 cleaned up properly before exit.
4554 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
4555 automatically.
4556 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
4557 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
4558 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
4559 unresolved issues.
4560 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
4561 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
4562 tray area.
4563 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
4564 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
4565 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
4566 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
4567
4568 Generic:
4569
4570 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4571 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
4572 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
4573 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
4574 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
4575 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
4576 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
4577 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
4578 allow better control of memory.
4579 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
4580 checking.
4581 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
4582 float to long in wxToolBar files.
4583
4584 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
4585 ------------------------
4586
4587 wxMSW:
4588
4589 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
4590 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
4591 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
4592 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
4593 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
4594 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
4595 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
4596 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
4597 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
4598 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
4599 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
4600 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
4601 IUnknown.
4602 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
4603 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
4604 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
4605 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
4606 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
4607 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
4608 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
4609 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
4610 internal implementation.
4611 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
4612 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
4613 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
4614
4615 Generic:
4616
4617 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
4618 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
4619 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
4620 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
4621 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
4622
4623 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
4624 --------------------------
4625
4626 wxMSW:
4627
4628 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4629 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4630 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
4631 changes.
4632 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
4633 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
4634 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
4635 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
4636 again.
4637 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
4638 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
4639 e.g. wxDC.
4640
4641 Generic:
4642
4643 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4644 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4645 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
4646 changes.
4647 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
4648 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
4649 docs/gtk.
4650 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
4651 created dynamically, not as a global object.
4652 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
4653 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
4654 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
4655 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
4656 - Added gcc pragmas.
4657 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
4658 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
4659 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
4660 added a few references to wxTransString.
4661 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
4662 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
4663 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
4664 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
4665 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
4666 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
4667 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
4668 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
4669 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
4670 MoreRequested.
4671
4672 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
4673 --------------------------
4674
4675 All:
4676
4677 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
4678 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
4679 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
4680 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
4681 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
4682 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
4683 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
4684 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
4685 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
4686 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
4687 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
4688 scrolling toolbars.
4689 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
4690 to help printing with multiple pages.
4691 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
4692 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
4693 implementation updated to use these base classes.
4694 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
4695 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
4696 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
4697 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
4698 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
4699 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
4700 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
4701 New files from Vadim:
4702 include\wx\string.h
4703 include\wx\debug.h
4704 include\wx\file.h
4705 include\wx\log.h
4706 include\wx\intl.h
4707 src\common\string.cpp
4708 src\common\log.cpp
4709 src\common\intl.cpp
4710 src\common\file.cpp
4711 No longer use GNU wxString files.
4712 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
4713 src\common\filefn.cpp.
4714 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
4715 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
4716 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
4717 including changes to defs.h.
4718 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
4719 introduced.
4720 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
4721 hidden).
4722 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
4723 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
4724 trick).
4725 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
4726
4727 Alpha 3, September 1997
4728 -----------------------
4729
4730 All:
4731
4732 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
4733 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
4734 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
4735 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
4736 - Started documentation.
4737
4738 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
4739 ------------------------
4740
4741 All:
4742
4743 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
4744 with MetroWerks compiler.
4745 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
4746 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
4747 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
4748 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
4749 for testing purposes.
4750 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
4751 handlers.
4752 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
4753 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
4754 fully).
4755 - Added back wxRadioBox.
4756 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
4757 a separate file.
4758
4759 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
4760 -----------------------
4761
4762 Generic:
4763
4764 At this point, the following has been achieved:
4765
4766 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
4767 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
4768 wxString instead of char *.
4769 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
4770 old system event system) and code size reduced.
4771 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
4772 as wxbWindow now removed.
4773 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
4774 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
4775 - PrologIO revised.
4776 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
4777 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
4778 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
4779 Windows settings.
4780 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
4781 settings mucho rationalised.
4782 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
4783 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
4784 classes removed.
4785 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
4786 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
4787 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
4788 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
4789 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
4790 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
4791 of event handlers.
4792 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
4793 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
4794 wxToolBarBase
4795 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
4796 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
4797 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
4798 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
4799 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
4800 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
4801 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
4802 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
4803 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
4804 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
4805 in the future.
4806 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
4807 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
4808 variables instead.
4809 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
4810 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
4811 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
4812 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
4813 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
4814 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
4815 Win95.
4816 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
4817 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
4818 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
4819 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
4820 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
4821 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).