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2 wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
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16 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
20 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
24 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
28 - Implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter
30 - Improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
31 - Fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
32 - Implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
37 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
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40 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
41 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
42 with '!' in the first column.
44 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
45 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
46 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
47 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
50 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
51 of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
52 (see the documentation) useful.
57 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
58 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
61 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
62 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
63 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
64 arrays containing non-pointers.
66 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
67 simply don't make sense for all objects
69 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
70 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
71 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
73 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
75 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
76 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
77 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
78 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
79 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
81 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
82 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
83 the default assert handling.
87 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
88 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
89 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
91 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
92 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
95 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
96 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
97 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
99 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
100 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
101 you want to get OnChar() as well
103 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
104 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
105 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
107 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
108 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
109 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
110 will *NOT* work any longer:
112 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
115 ... do something else ...
117 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
118 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
121 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
123 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
124 if you derived any classes from it
126 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
127 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
129 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
130 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
132 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
133 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
135 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
136 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
139 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
140 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
141 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
143 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
144 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
145 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
146 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
150 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
151 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx/include
152 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
153 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
154 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
155 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
156 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
157 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[u][d][ver].(lib|dll)
158 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
159 is only present for the DLLs builds.
161 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
164 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
165 previously selected one instead of replacing it
167 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
168 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
169 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
171 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
172 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
177 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
178 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
179 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
180 to compile pure C files.
183 wxThread and related classes:
185 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
186 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
187 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
188 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
190 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
191 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
192 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
193 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
195 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
196 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
197 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
199 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
200 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
211 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
218 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
219 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
220 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
224 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
225 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
226 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
229 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
230 - Addition of native frame site grip.
233 - Unicode support through Pango library.
237 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
238 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
242 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
249 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
250 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
251 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
252 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
253 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
254 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
255 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
256 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
257 after (non standard) STL hash_map
258 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
259 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
260 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
261 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
262 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
263 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
264 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
268 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
269 programs and not only GNU make
270 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
271 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
272 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
273 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
274 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
278 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
279 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
280 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
281 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
282 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
284 - significantly improved native font support
285 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
287 - added IFF image handler
288 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
289 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
290 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
291 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
292 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
293 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
294 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
295 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
296 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
297 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
298 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
299 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
300 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
301 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
302 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
303 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
304 - wxMessageOutput class added
305 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
306 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
308 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
309 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
310 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
311 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
313 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
314 whether a label edit was cancelled.
315 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
320 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
321 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
322 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
323 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
324 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
325 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
326 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
327 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
328 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
329 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
331 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
332 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
333 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
334 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
335 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
336 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
337 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
339 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
340 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
341 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
342 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
343 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
344 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
345 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
346 has the capture before release it.
347 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
348 - default button handling is now closer to expected
349 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
350 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
351 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
352 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
353 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
354 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
355 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
356 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
357 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
358 provided in wxFontData
359 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
360 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
364 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
365 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
366 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
367 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
368 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
369 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
370 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
371 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
372 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
373 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
374 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
375 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
376 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
380 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
381 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
382 - improved toolbar control alignment
383 - implemented wxSpinButton
384 - implemented wxCheckListBox
385 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
386 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
390 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
391 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
399 - First alpha-quality release
403 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
404 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
405 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
406 - fixed alignment handling in tables
407 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
412 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
416 - wxRegEx class added
417 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
418 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
419 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
420 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
421 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
425 - support for virtual list control added
426 - column images in report mode of the list control
427 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
428 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
429 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
430 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
431 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
432 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
433 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
434 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
435 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
436 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
437 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
438 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
442 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
443 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
448 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
449 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
450 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
451 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
455 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
460 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
462 - added support for animated GIFs
470 - Fixed new charset detection code
471 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
472 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
473 - Added wxDir::Traverse
474 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
475 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
476 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
480 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
481 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
482 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
483 push on a custom event handler for example)
484 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
485 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
486 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
487 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
488 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
489 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
491 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
492 - Various wxXML enhancements
493 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
494 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
495 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
497 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
498 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
502 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
503 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
504 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
505 alt or shift) now work
506 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
507 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
508 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
509 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
510 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
511 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
512 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
513 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
514 - We now send iconize events
515 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
516 - Added mousewheel processing
517 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
518 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
520 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
521 child frame styles are honoured
525 - Fixed slider rounding bug
526 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
527 - We now send iconize events
528 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
529 GetSelection() results
536 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
537 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
538 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
539 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
540 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
541 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
542 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
543 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
544 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
545 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
549 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
550 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
551 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
552 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
553 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
554 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
555 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
556 wxImage methods and ctor)
557 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
558 - ODBC documentation complete!!
559 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
560 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
561 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
562 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
566 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
567 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
568 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
569 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
573 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
577 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
578 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
585 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
586 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
587 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
588 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
589 - Completed Czech translations
590 - Some stream corrections
591 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
592 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
593 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
594 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
598 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
599 flicker-free dragging is now possible
600 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
601 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
602 - Paper names now translated
604 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
605 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
606 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
607 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
609 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
610 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
612 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
613 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
614 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
615 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
619 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
620 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
621 backward compatibility, please set
622 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
623 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
624 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
625 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
626 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
627 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
628 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
629 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
630 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
631 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
632 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
633 - wxFrame restores focus better
634 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
635 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
636 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
637 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
638 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
639 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
640 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
641 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
642 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
643 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
647 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
651 - Small compilation fixes
667 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
668 files. This works under VC++ only
669 - Modal dialog handling improved
670 - Printer dialog now modal
685 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
689 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
690 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
695 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
696 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
697 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
698 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
699 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
700 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
701 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
702 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
703 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
705 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
706 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
707 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
708 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
709 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
710 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
712 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
716 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
717 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
718 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
719 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
720 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
721 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
722 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
723 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
725 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
726 MIME types if available (Unix only)
727 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
728 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
729 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
730 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
731 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
732 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
733 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
734 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
735 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
736 - wxDragImage class added
737 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
738 controllers, as well as native help
739 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
743 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
744 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
745 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
746 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
747 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
748 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
749 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
750 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
751 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
752 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
754 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
755 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
756 - wxSetCursorEvent added
760 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
761 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
762 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
766 - wxMenu::Enable works
767 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
768 - OGL samples made to work again
772 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
773 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
774 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
775 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
776 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
777 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
778 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
779 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
780 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
781 - improved HTML printing
782 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
783 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
784 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
785 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
788 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
791 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
792 -----------------------
796 - JPEG support added.
797 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
801 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
803 - JPEG support added.
804 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
805 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
806 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
813 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
816 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
817 -------------------------------
822 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
826 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
827 - Fixed window cursor setting.
828 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
829 - Some makefile fixes.
837 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
838 - More topic overviews.
839 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
840 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
841 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
844 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
845 --------------------------
849 - wxExecute improved.
853 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
855 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
856 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
857 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
858 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
859 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
860 - Fixed focus-related crash.
864 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
865 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
869 - wxLocale documented.
870 - Added include filenames to class reference.
871 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
872 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
873 (though doesn't display help yet).
875 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
876 --------------------------
880 - Miscellaneous fixes.
884 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
886 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
890 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
891 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
892 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
893 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
894 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
895 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
896 crashes for some reason).
897 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
898 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
902 - Further doc improvements.
903 - wxGenericValidator added.
904 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
907 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
908 -------------------------
912 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
913 - wxToolTip class added.
914 - Miscellaneous fixes.
918 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
919 - Makefiles for more compilers.
920 - TWIN32 support added.
921 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
922 factored out program/library settings.
923 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
927 - A few more colour fixes.
928 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
929 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
930 - wxChoice crash fix.
931 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
935 - wxBusyCursor class added.
937 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
946 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
950 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
952 - Cured some widget table clashes.
953 - Added thread support (Robert).
954 - wxPoem sample now works.
958 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
959 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
960 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
962 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
963 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
965 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
967 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
968 --------------------------
974 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
977 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
978 ----------------------------
982 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
983 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
984 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
985 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
986 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
988 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
989 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
994 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
995 without (permanently) resizing the window.
996 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
997 that disabled scrollbar paging.
998 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1000 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1001 when any button was pressed.
1002 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1003 have a white background.
1004 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1005 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1006 they have sensible colours by default.
1007 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1008 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1009 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1010 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1011 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1013 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1014 ----------------------------
1018 - More documentation updates, especially for
1019 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1020 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1022 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1023 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1024 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1026 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1030 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1031 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1033 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1034 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1035 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1036 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1037 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1038 the debugging implementation.
1039 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1040 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1041 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1042 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1043 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1044 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1045 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1047 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1049 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1050 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1051 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1052 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1053 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1054 - wxNotebook almost done.
1055 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1056 to vertical toolbars).
1060 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1062 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1063 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1064 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1066 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1067 ----------------------------
1071 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1073 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1074 - A few more makefiles added.
1075 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1076 - Further doc updates.
1077 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1081 - First start at Motif port.
1082 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1083 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1084 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1085 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1087 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1088 --------------------------
1092 - wxBitmap debugged.
1093 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1094 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1095 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1096 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1097 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1098 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1099 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1101 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1102 ------------------------
1106 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1107 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1108 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1109 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1110 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1111 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1112 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1113 changes, wxNotebook.
1114 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1116 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1117 -----------------------
1121 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1122 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1123 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1124 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1125 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1127 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1128 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1130 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1131 -----------------------
1135 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1136 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1138 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1139 -----------------------
1143 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1144 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1146 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1147 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1148 wxMenuItem accessors.
1149 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1150 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1151 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1152 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1153 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1154 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1155 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1156 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1157 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1158 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1159 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1160 first, then doing the assignment.
1161 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1162 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1166 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1167 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1169 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1170 ----------------------
1174 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1175 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1176 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1177 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1178 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1179 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1180 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1181 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1182 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1184 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1185 ------------------------
1189 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1191 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1192 compilation and pragmas.
1193 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1194 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1198 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1199 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1200 compilation and pragmas.
1201 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1203 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1204 ------------------------
1208 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1209 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1211 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1212 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1213 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1214 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1216 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1217 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1218 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1220 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1221 compatibility functions.
1222 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1223 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1224 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1225 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1226 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1227 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1228 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1232 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1233 - Added samples/png.
1234 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1235 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1237 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1239 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1240 ------------------------
1244 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1245 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1246 cleaned up properly before exit.
1247 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1249 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1250 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1251 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1253 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1254 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1256 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1257 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1258 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1259 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1263 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1264 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1265 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1266 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1267 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1268 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1269 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1270 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1271 allow better control of memory.
1272 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1274 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1275 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1277 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1278 ------------------------
1282 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1283 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1284 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1285 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1286 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1287 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1288 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1289 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1290 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1291 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1292 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1293 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1295 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1296 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1297 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1298 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1299 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1300 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1301 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1302 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1303 internal implementation.
1304 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1305 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1306 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1310 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1311 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1312 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1313 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1314 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1316 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1317 --------------------------
1321 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1322 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1323 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1325 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1326 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1327 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1328 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1330 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1331 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1336 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1337 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1338 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1340 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1341 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1343 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1344 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1345 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1346 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1347 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1348 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1349 - Added gcc pragmas.
1350 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1351 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1352 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1353 added a few references to wxTransString.
1354 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1355 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1356 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1357 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1358 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1359 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1360 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1361 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1362 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1365 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1366 --------------------------
1370 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1371 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1372 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1373 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1374 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1375 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1376 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1377 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1378 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1379 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1380 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1382 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1383 to help printing with multiple pages.
1384 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1385 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1386 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1387 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1388 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1389 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1390 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1391 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1392 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1393 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1394 New files from Vadim:
1400 src\common\string.cpp
1404 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1405 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1406 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1407 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1408 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1409 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1410 including changes to defs.h.
1411 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1413 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1415 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1416 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1418 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1420 Alpha 3, September 1997
1421 -----------------------
1425 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1426 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1427 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1428 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1429 - Started documentation.
1431 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1432 ------------------------
1436 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1437 with MetroWerks compiler.
1438 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1439 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1440 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1441 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1442 for testing purposes.
1443 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1445 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1446 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1448 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1449 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1452 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1453 -----------------------
1457 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1459 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1460 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1461 wxString instead of char *.
1462 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1463 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1464 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1465 as wxbWindow now removed.
1466 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1467 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1469 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1470 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1471 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1473 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1474 settings mucho rationalised.
1475 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1476 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1478 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1479 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1480 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1481 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1482 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1483 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1485 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1486 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1488 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1489 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1490 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1491 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1492 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1493 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1494 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1495 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1496 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1497 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1499 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1500 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1502 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1503 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1504 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1505 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1506 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1507 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1509 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1510 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1511 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1512 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1513 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1514 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).