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294 <h1 class=
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295 <div class=
"section">
296 <h1><a id=
"id1" name=
"id1">2.7.1.3</a></h1>
300 <p>wxGTK: The wx.ALWAYS_SHOW_SB style is now supported.
</p>
301 <p>Fixed name errors in the old wxPython package namespace. As a
302 reminder, use of this package is deprecated and you are encouraged to
303 switch your programs over to the wx package.
</p>
304 <p>Fixed wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas.SetCurrent to be compatible with prevoius
306 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths.GetTmpDir.
</p>
307 <p>Bug fixes in the wx.ListCtrl on Mac from Kevin Olivier, allowing it to
308 send events properly again. There is also a new native implementation
309 of wx.ListCtrl available, which will be used for wx.LC_REPORT style
310 list controls if you set the
"mac.listctrl.always_use_generic
"
311 SystemOption to zero. In a future release this will be the default.
</p>
312 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows some of what can be done with
313 the new wx.GraphicsContext and wx.GraphicsPath classes.
</p>
315 <div class=
"section">
316 <h1><a id=
"id2" name=
"id2">2.7.1.2</a></h1>
320 <p>Fixed a bug in the MaskedEdit controls caused by conflicting IsEmpty
322 <p>Patch #
1579280: Some mimetype optimizations on unix-like systems.
</p>
323 <p>wxMac: Several wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl enhancements/fixes, including:
</p>
326 <li>new methods for increasing/decreasing text size, getting
327 selection, getting/setting scroll position, printing, enabling
328 editing, and running JavaScripts on the page.
</li>
329 <li>added new event (wx.webkit.WebKitBeforeLoadEvent) for catching, and
330 possibly vetoing, load events before they occur.
</li>
331 <li>wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl now fires mouse events for certain events
332 that it was eating before. This improves wxSplitterWindow
333 resizing behavior.
</li>
334 <li>refactoring of the sizing logic to move the Cocoa view. Tested
335 with splitter windows, panels, notebooks and all position
336 correctly with this.
</li>
339 <p>Some improvements to the drawing code in CustomTreeCtrl.
</p>
340 <p>Fixed refcount leak in wx.Window.GetChildren.
</p>
342 <div class=
"section">
343 <h1><a id=
"id3" name=
"id3">2.7.1.1</a></h1>
347 <p>The following deprecated items have been removed:
</p>
350 <li>wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
</li>
351 <li>The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
</li>
352 <li>wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
</li>
353 <li>wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
</li>
354 <li>The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
</li>
355 <li>wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
</li>
356 <li>wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
</li>
357 <li>wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
</li>
358 <li>wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
359 GetIndexCnt methods
</li>
362 <p>wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
</p>
363 <p>Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
365 <p>wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
366 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
367 empty stubs in wxPython.
</p>
368 <p>Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
369 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
370 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
371 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
372 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
373 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
374 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
375 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
376 that is renaming the base class methods with a
"base_*
" prefix, for
377 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
378 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
379 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
380 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
381 your overridden methods like this:
</p>
382 <pre class=
"literal-block">
383 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
385 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
387 <p>You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this:
</p>
388 <pre class=
"literal-block">
389 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
391 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
393 <p>Or like this with super():
</p>
394 <pre class=
"literal-block">
395 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
397 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
399 <p>Note that the old way with the
"base_*
" function still works, but you
400 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
401 classes affected by this are:
</p>
404 <li>wx.DropSource
</li>
405 <li>wx.DropTarget
</li>
406 <li>wx.TextDropTarget
</li>
407 <li>wx.FileDropTarget
</li>
408 <li>wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
</li>
409 <li>wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
</li>
411 <li>wx.PyPrintPreview
</li>
412 <li>wx.PyPreviewFrame
</li>
413 <li>wx.PreviewControlBar
</li>
415 <li>wx.PyControl
</li>
417 <li>wx.PyScrolledWindow
</li>
420 <li>wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
</li>
421 <li>wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
</li>
422 <li>wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
</li>
423 <li>wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
</li>
424 <li>wx.html.HtmlWindow
</li>
425 <li>wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
</li>
428 <p>Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
430 <p>wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2
432 <p>Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch
1446207</p>
433 <p>Bumped up to SWIG
1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance
434 boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new
436 <p>Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the
437 position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is
438 not a top-level window.
</p>
439 <p>Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to
440 wx.StandardPaths.
</p>
441 <p>Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can
442 use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the
443 source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which
444 of the component data objects to use to access the data.
</p>
445 <p>Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.)
446 are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances
447 using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before
448 OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each object is initialized.
449 This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality
450 that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for
451 wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously
452 hidden under the covers.
</p>
453 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.
</p>
454 <p>Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.
</p>
455 <p>wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first
456 is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip
457 flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip
458 button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time
459 Update is called.
</p>
460 <p>A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is
461 imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert
462 your code to use the new wx package instead.
</p>
463 <p>Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in
464 wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more
465 work, but it is a great start.
</p>
466 <p>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
467 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
468 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
469 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
470 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
472 <p>wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it
473 will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.
</p>
474 <p>Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.
</p>
475 <p>Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so
476 far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.
</p>
477 <p>Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item (i.e. the
478 column in report mode) that was hit (if any) in addition to the item
480 <p>Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl,
481 wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.
</p>
482 <p>Patch #
1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha
484 <p>Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.
</p>
485 <p>Added the PseudoDC class from Paul Lanier. It provides a way to
486 record operations on a DC and then play them back later.
</p>
487 <p>Upgraded to Scintilla
1.70 for wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl.
</p>
488 <p>Added CanSetTransparent and SetTransparent methods to the
489 wx.TopLevelWindow class, with implementations (so far) for wxMSW and
491 <p>SetDefaultItem() and GetDefaultItem() are now members of
492 wx.TopLevelWindow, not wx.Panel.
</p>
493 <p>wxGTK: Stock items (icons) will be used for menu items with stock
495 <p>Added wx.lib.combotreebox from Frank Niessink
</p>
496 <p>Added wx.ImageFromBuffer, wx.BitmapFromBuffer and
497 wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA factory functions. They enable loading of an
498 image or bitmap directly from a Python object that implements the
499 buffer interface, such as strings, arrays, etc.
</p>
500 <p>Added wx.App.IsDisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a
501 GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an
502 implementation for wxMSW...)
</p>
503 <p>The wx.html.HTML_FONT_SIZE_x constants are no longer available as the
504 default sizes are now calculated at runtime based on the size of the
506 <p>wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to
507 wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new
508 alpha blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing
509 with pens and brushes on a wx.DC.
</p>
510 <p>Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator
511 and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access
512 to the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.
</p>
513 <p>The beginnings of support for RTL languages has been added, thanks to
514 a Google SoC project.
</p>
515 <p>Added wx.lib.dragscroller from Riaan Booysen. It provides a helper
516 class that can used to scroll a wx.ScrolledWindow in response to a
518 <p>Applied patch
1551409: Adds support for indeterminate mode gauges.
</p>
519 <p>wxMac: I've turned on the compile option for using the native toolbar
520 on the Mac now that it supports hosting of controls. If the toolbar
521 is managed by the frame via either CreateToolBar() or SetToolBar()
522 then the native toolbar will be used. Additional toolbars, or
523 toolbars that are not children of the frame, are managed by sizers or
524 what-not will still use the emulated toolbar because of platform
525 restrictions in how/where the native toolbar can be used.
</p>
526 <p>Added Python properties for many of the getter/setter methods of wx
527 classes. In order for the names to be predicatble for somebody
528 already familiar with wxPython the property names are simply the name
529 of the getter with the
"Get
" dropped. For example, wx.Window has a
530 property named
"Size
" that maps to GetSize and SetSize. So far there
531 is only one known name conflict using this naming convention, and that
532 is wx.KeyEvent.KeyCode, however since KeyCode was formerly a
533 compatibility alias for GetKeyCode (and has been for a long time) it
534 was decided to just switch it to a property. If you want to use the
535 method then change your calls to event.KeyCode() to
536 event.GetKeyCode(), otherwise you can use it as a property just by
537 dropping the parentheses.
</p>
538 <p>Updated the C++ code for wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl from the wxCode
539 project. This has resulted in some minor API changes, most of which
540 were worked around in the wrapper code.
</p>
541 <p>Added wx.lib.delayedresult from Oliver Schoenborn.
</p>
542 <p>Added wx.lib.expando, a multi-line textctrl that exands as more lines
544 <p>wx.Image.Scale and Rescale methods now take an extra parameter
545 specifying type of method to use for resampling the image. It
546 defaults to the current behavior of just replicating pixels, if
547 wx.IMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH is passed then it uses bicubic and box averaging
548 resampling methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively.
</p>
549 <p>Added the wx.lib.buttonpanel module, which is a tweaked version of
550 Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.
</p>
551 <p>Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.
</p>
552 <p>Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like
553 wx.CallAfter. wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater
554 for compatibility of older code.
</p>
555 <p>Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl module from Andrea Gavana.
</p>
556 <p>Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook
557 and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't
558 send the change events.
</p>
559 <p>Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but
560 doesn't send the text changed event.
</p>
561 <p>For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have
562 IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't
563 been deprecated yet
</p>
564 <p>Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class. They
565 provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which
566 will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info
567 is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.
</p>
568 <p>The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the code wxWidgets
569 library, and refactored a bit along the way. For wxPython it still
570 exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two
571 classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl. You load
572 the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats
573 in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the
574 AnimatedCtrl for display. See the demo for an example. There is also
575 still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards
576 compatibility with the old implementation.
</p>
577 <p>wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a
578 Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default. This means that all
579 drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the
580 old Quick Draw API. There are, however, a few places where Quartz and
581 wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for
582 logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there is work in progress
583 to provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with
584 Quartz and also on the other platforms.
</p>
585 <p>The first parts of a new
2D drawing API has been added with the
586 wx.GraphicsPath and wx.GraphicsContext classes. They wrap GDI+ on
587 Windows, Cairo on wxGTK and CoreGraphics on OS X. They allow path-based
588 drawing with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, and use a floating
589 point cooridnate system. Currently they can only target drawing to
590 windows, but other wx.DC backends are forthcoming. The APIs may
591 evolve a bit more before they are finalaized with the
2.8 release, but
592 there is enough there now to get a good feel for how things will work.
593 There is also a transitional wx.GCDC class that provides the wx.DC API
594 on top of wx.GraphicsContext. Docs and a demo are still MIA.
</p>
595 <p>Added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC on
596 platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of
597 wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't. You can use this
598 class to help avoid the overhead of buffering when it is not
599 needed. There is also a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory function that
600 does a little more and actually tests if the window has
601 double-buffering enabled and then decides whether to return a
602 wx.PaintDC or wx.BufferedPaintDC. This uses the new
603 wx.Window.IsDoubleBuffered method.
</p>
605 <div class=
"section">
606 <h1><a id=
"id4" name=
"id4">2.6.3.3</a></h1>
608 <li>15-July-
2006</li>
610 <dl class=
"docutils">
611 <dt>wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn:
</dt>
612 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
613 <li>fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects
</li>
614 <li>now supports listeners that use *args as an argument
615 (listener(*args) was not passing the validity test)
</li>
616 <li>corrected some mistakes in documentation
</li>
617 <li>added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time
619 <li>changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented
620 pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher
</li>
623 <dt>DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua:
</dt>
624 <dd>New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to
625 the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in
626 the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging.
627 Not important for python development, but at least that means the
628 debugger framework is more generalized.
</dd>
630 <p>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
631 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
632 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
633 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
634 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
636 <p>Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog.
</p>
637 <p>Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python
2.5. There
638 may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and
64-bit
639 machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it
640 have been resolved.
</p>
642 <div class=
"section">
643 <h1><a id=
"id5" name=
"id5">2.6.3.2</a></h1>
645 <li>3-April-
2006</li>
647 <p>Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.
</p>
648 <p>wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change
649 was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem
650 (contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a
651 wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being
653 <p>wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the
655 <p>Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on
64-bit platforms. Used
656 the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of
658 <p>wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap
659 buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button
660 it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly
661 generic button style.
</p>
662 <p>XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.
</p>
663 <p>Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic
664 data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a
665 TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return
666 a boolean as expected. For example:
</p>
667 <pre class=
"literal-block">
668 wx.Colour(
64,
0,
64) ==
123 ==
> False
670 <p>wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on
671 a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is
673 <p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item
674 is selected only with the keyboard.
</p>
676 <div class=
"section">
677 <h1><a id=
"id6" name=
"id6">2.6.3.0</a></h1>
679 <li>27-March-
2006</li>
681 <p>Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
682 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -
1. This ensures that on
683 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
684 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
</p>
685 <p>wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
686 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
687 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
688 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
689 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
690 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
691 column zero, or returns -
1 for other columns.
</p>
692 <p>Switched to using SWIG
1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
693 are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
694 wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
695 which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
696 need to modify any of the *.i files or to add your own, then you will
697 want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
698 in the source tarball for details.
</p>
699 <p>wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing
700 with the alpha channel.
</p>
701 <p>wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
702 wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
</p>
703 <p>wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
705 <p>wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
706 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
</p>
707 <p>wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
708 not available in the themed version.
</p>
709 <p>Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
</p>
710 <p>Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
</p>
711 <p>Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
</p>
712 <p>wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
</p>
713 <p>wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
</p>
714 <p>wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
</p>
715 <p>wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
716 window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
717 flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
</p>
718 <p>wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
719 into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to
"timer.clock.seconds
"
720 is the same as subscribing to (
"timer
",
"clock
",
"seconds
").
</p>
721 <p>Applied patch #
1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
</p>
722 <p>Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
</p>
723 <p>Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version
1.67 of Scintilla.
724 NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
725 you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
</p>
726 <p>wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #
1436503. Delay the start of the
727 DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
</p>
728 <p>Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
730 <p>Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
731 Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
</p>
732 <p>Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
733 scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
734 zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
</p>
735 <p>XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
</p>
736 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch
1214360)
</p>
738 <div class=
"section">
739 <h1><a id=
"id7" name=
"id7">2.6.2.1</a></h1>
743 <p>wxMSW: Fix for bug #
1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
745 <p>wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
746 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
748 <p>wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
749 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
</p>
750 <p>Fixes for bug #
1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
</p>
751 <p>Fix for bug #
1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
</p>
752 <p>Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
</p>
753 <p>Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
754 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
755 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
756 can manage more than two child windows.
</p>
757 <p>Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #
1217890
758 "Closing view crashes Python
" plus some new features:
</p>
760 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
761 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
762 For example you can add a
"Notepad
" extension (under windows) that
763 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new
"Notepad
"
764 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
</blockquote>
765 <p>Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
</p>
766 <p>XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
</p>
769 <li>Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
770 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
771 for an available parent control if no specific view
772 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
773 'stick' anymore).
</li>
774 <li>Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
</li>
775 <li>Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
776 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default
0/
100
777 is not always good).
</li>
780 <p>Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
782 <p>Fix for Bug #
1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
783 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
785 <p>Fix for Bug #
1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
</p>
786 <p>wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
</p>
787 <p>wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #
1384440.
</p>
788 <p>wxMSW: Fix for Bug #
1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
790 <p>Fix for Bug #
1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
791 it doesn't fill up too soon.
</p>
792 <p>Applied Patch #
1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
</p>
793 <p>Applied Patch #
1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
</p>
794 <p>Applied Patch # #
1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
795 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
</p>
796 <p>Applied patch #
1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
</p>
797 <p>Applied patch #
1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
798 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
799 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
800 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement()
&
801 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
802 to synchronize with a single timer.
</p>
803 <p>Fix for bug #
1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
805 <p>Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
806 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
</p>
807 <p>Applied patch #
1326241: Supporting
"setup.py install --install-headers=path
"</p>
808 <p>Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #
1219423: CommandManager
809 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
</p>
810 <p>Applied patch #
1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
811 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
812 instead of a separate menu item.
</p>
813 <p>Fix for bug #
1266745 and #
1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
814 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
815 workaround a bug in MSLU!
</p>
816 <p>wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
817 and other special keys properly.
</p>
818 <p>Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
819 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
820 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
</p>
823 <li>The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
824 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
</li>
825 <li>In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
826 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
828 <li>Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
830 <li>Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
831 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
</li>
832 <li>F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
</li>
833 <li>switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
</li>
834 <li>Display of line numbers can be toggled.
</li>
835 <li>F12 toggles a
"free edit
" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
836 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
837 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
838 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
839 non-flashing caret.
</li>
840 <li>Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
</li>
841 <li>General code cleanup and fixes.
</li>
842 <li>Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
844 <li>Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
</li>
845 <li>Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
846 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
847 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
848 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
</li>
849 <li>All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
850 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
851 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
852 place to do anything.
</li>
853 <li>Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
854 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
855 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
</li>
856 <li>Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
857 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
</li>
858 <li>PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
859 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
860 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
</li>
861 <li>Added an option for whether to insert text for function
862 parameters when popping up the call tip.
</li>
863 <li>Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
864 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
</li>
867 <p>Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
</p>
870 <li>Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
</li>
871 <li>Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
</li>
872 <li>Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
874 <li>Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
876 <li>Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
877 integerwidth=
1 numctrl, if the current value was
0.
</li>
878 <li>Fixed logic involving processing of
"_signOk
" flag, to remove
879 default sign key handlers if false, so that
880 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
</li>
881 <li>Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
882 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
883 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
884 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
885 rather than toggling the previous sign.
</li>
888 <p>wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
889 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
890 will use by default.
</p>
891 <p>Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
892 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
893 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
894 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
895 and the modifier keys.
</p>
896 <p>Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
</p>
897 <p>A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
898 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
899 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
</p>
901 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
902 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
903 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
904 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
905 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---
> (...(x,y), ...)
</blockquote>
907 <div class=
"section">
908 <h1><a id=
"id8" name=
"id8">2.6.1.0</a></h1>
912 <p>wx.ListCtrl: patch #
1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
913 wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.
</p>
914 <p>Applied patch #
208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
</p>
915 <p>DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
916 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
917 any unknown file type.
</p>
918 <p>wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
919 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
</p>
920 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
921 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
922 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
924 <p>wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
</p>
925 <p>wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
926 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
</p>
927 <p>wxMSW: Applied patch #
1213290 incorrect logic in
928 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
</p>
929 <p>Applied patch #
1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
</p>
930 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
932 <p>wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
933 change will get written at the next flush.
</p>
935 <div class=
"section">
936 <h1><a id=
"id9" name=
"id9">2.6.0.1</a></h1>
940 <p>Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
941 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
942 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
</p>
943 <p>wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
945 <p>wxGTK: Patch #
1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
946 both has an icon and is a submenu.
</p>
947 <p>wxMSW: Patch #
1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
949 <p>wxMSW: Patch #
1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
950 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
951 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
952 instead of current values.
</p>
953 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
954 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
</p>
955 <p>Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
</p>
956 <p>wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
957 extra null character at the end.
</p>
958 <p>Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
959 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
</p>
960 <p>wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
962 <p>Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
</p>
963 <p>wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
965 <p>wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
</p>
966 <p>Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
967 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
968 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
970 <p>Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
971 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
973 <p>Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
974 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
975 default browser in response to the clicks.
</p>
976 <p>Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
977 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
978 required. For example, if you ask for
"2.6-unicode
" but only the ansi
979 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
980 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
981 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
982 parameter, like this:
</p>
983 <pre class=
"literal-block">
985 wxversion.select(
"2.6-unicode
", True)
988 <p>Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
989 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
990 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
</p>
991 <p>wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
993 <p>Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
994 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
</p>
995 <p>wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
</p>
996 <p>wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
997 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
</p>
998 <p>XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
999 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
1001 <p>wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
1002 self.history is None.
</p>
1003 <p>wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
1004 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
1005 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
</p>
1006 <p>wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
1008 <p>More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
1009 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
1011 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
1012 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
1013 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
1014 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
</p>
1015 <p>wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch
1206023]
</p>
1016 <p>wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
1017 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
1019 <p>wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
1020 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #
1204069)
</p>
1021 <p>Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
1022 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
1024 <p>wxMac: Applied patch for bug #
1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
1025 also applied patch for bug #
1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
</p>
1026 <p>wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
</p>
1027 <p>wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
</p>
1028 <p>wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
</p>
1029 <p>Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
1030 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
</p>
1031 <p>The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
1032 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
1033 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
1034 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
1036 <p>wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
1037 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
</p>
1038 <p>Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
1039 _setCallbackInfo.
</p>
1040 <p>wxMSW: patch #
1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
</p>
1041 <p>wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #
1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
1042 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
1044 <p>Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
1045 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
1046 of a wx.TextCtrl.)
</p>
1048 <div class=
"section">
1049 <h1><a id=
"id10" name=
"id10">2.6.0.0</a></h1>
1051 <li>26-Apr-
2005</li>
1053 <p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
1054 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
1056 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #
1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
</p>
1057 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
</p>
1058 <p>wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+
1.2.x or
2.x has
1059 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
1060 either '
1', '
2' or 'any'. The default is '
2'.
</p>
1061 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
1062 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
1063 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
1064 through the same string/unicode
<--
> wxString conversions. The
"Raw
"
1065 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
1066 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-
8 encoding and in an ansi
1067 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The
"UTF8
" functions
1068 will attempt to always get/set utf-
8 text, which it will always be
1069 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
1070 the content of the utf-
8 used being compatible with the current
1071 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
</p>
1073 <table border=
"1" class=
"docutils">
1078 <tbody valign=
"top">
1079 <tr><td>AddTextRaw
</td>
1080 <td>AddTextUTF8
</td>
1082 <tr><td>InsertTextRaw
</td>
1083 <td>InsertTextUTF8
</td>
1085 <tr><td>GetCurLineRaw
</td>
1086 <td>GetCurLineUTF8
</td>
1088 <tr><td>GetLineRaw
</td>
1089 <td>GetLineUTF8
</td>
1091 <tr><td>GetSelectedTextRaw
</td>
1092 <td>GetSelectedTextUTF8
</td>
1094 <tr><td>GetTextRangeRaw
</td>
1095 <td>GetTextRangeUTF8
</td>
1097 <tr><td>SetTextRaw
</td>
1098 <td>SetTextUTF8
</td>
1100 <tr><td>GetTextRaw
</td>
1101 <td>GetTextUTF8
</td>
1103 <tr><td>AppendTextRaw
</td>
1104 <td>AppendTextUTF8
</td>
1109 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
1110 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
1111 a particular style.
</p>
1112 <p>wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
1113 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
</p>
1114 <p>wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
</p>
1115 <dl class=
"docutils">
1116 <dt>XRCed: Updated to version
0.1.5.
</dt>
1117 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1118 <li>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
</li>
1119 <li>Hide command for test window.
</li>
1120 <li>Replacing classes works better.
</li>
1121 <li>Added Locate tool.
</li>
1126 <div class=
"section">
1127 <h1><a id=
"id11" name=
"id11">2.5.5.1</a></h1>
1131 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #
1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
</p>
1132 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #
1163384. Moved the code that handles
1133 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
1134 so the character inserted into the editor will be the
"cooked
" char
1135 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
1136 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
</p>
1137 <p>Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
</p>
1138 <p>wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit
4.1 if
1140 <p>Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
1141 wx.ImageHistogram.
</p>
1142 <p>wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
1143 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
1144 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
1145 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
1146 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
1148 <p>wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
1149 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
1151 <p>wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
1152 crash when using nVidia cards (patch
1155132)
</p>
1153 <dl class=
"docutils">
1154 <dt>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
</dt>
1155 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1156 <li>Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
</li>
1157 <li>Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
1158 the width of any column.
</li>
1162 <p>wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
1164 <p>wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a
2nd time.
</p>
1165 <p>wxMSW: Applied patch #
1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
</p>
1166 <p>Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
1167 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
</p>
1168 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
1169 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
1170 used on GTK2
>=
2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
1171 older generic file dialog is used.
</p>
1172 <p>wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
1174 <p>wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
1175 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
1176 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
1177 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
</p>
1178 <p>Added MDI support to XRC
</p>
1179 <p>Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
1180 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
</p>
1181 <p>wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
1182 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
</p>
1183 <p>wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
1184 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
</p>
1185 <p>wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
1186 affecting the label.
</p>
1187 <p>wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
1188 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
</p>
1189 <p>Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
1190 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
</p>
1191 <p>Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
1193 <p>Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
</p>
1195 <div class=
"section">
1196 <h1><a id=
"id12" name=
"id12">2.5.4.1</a></h1>
1198 <li>16-Mar-
2005</li>
1200 <p>wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
1201 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
1202 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
</p>
1203 <p>Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
1204 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
</p>
1205 <p>wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
1206 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
1207 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
1208 then calling GetValue().
</p>
1209 <dl class=
"docutils">
1210 <dt>Some XRC changes:
</dt>
1211 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1212 <li>Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
</li>
1213 <li>No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
</li>
1214 <li>Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
</li>
1215 <li>added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #
1038207)
</li>
1219 <p>wxMSW: fix for [
1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
1221 <p>Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
1222 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
1223 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
</p>
1224 <p>OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
</p>
1226 <p>Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
1227 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:
</p>
1228 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1229 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
1230 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
1232 <p>was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
1233 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
1234 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
1235 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
1236 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
1237 the origin of the canvas.
</p>
1238 <p>The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
1239 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
1240 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
</p>
1242 <p>Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
1243 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
</p>
1244 <p>Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
1245 internal scrollbar visible.
</p>
1246 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
1247 system paths for each platform.
</p>
1248 <p>wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
1249 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
1250 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
1251 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
1252 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
</p>
1253 <p>wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
1254 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
1255 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
</p>
1256 <p>wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
1257 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
1258 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
</p>
1259 <p>Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
1260 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
1261 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
</p>
1262 <p>wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
</p>
1263 <p>Added
"gravity
" for splitter window (patch
1046105). Gravity is a
1264 floating-point factor between
0.0 and
1.0 which controls position of
1265 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
1266 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
</p>
1267 <p>wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
1268 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
1269 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
1270 of how to use the control.
</p>
1271 <p>wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
1272 focus (a slightly modified patch
1084592.)
</p>
1273 <p>Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
1274 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
1276 <p>wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
1277 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
</p>
1278 <p>Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
1279 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
1280 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
1281 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
1282 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
1283 finished with the timer.
</p>
1284 <p>Updated to
1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
1285 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
1286 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
1287 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
1288 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
1289 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG
1.3.24 plus this patch
1290 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
1291 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
1292 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
1293 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
</p>
1296 <li>Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
1297 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
1298 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
1299 via the wxPython C API.
</li>
1300 <li>The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
1301 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
1302 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
1303 when docstrings are added for those items.
</li>
1304 <li>The
"this
" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
1305 string containing a
"swigified pointer
", but rather a custom
1306 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
1307 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
1308 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
1312 <p>Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
1313 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
1314 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
1315 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
1316 sitecustomize.py file it is always
"ascii
", which would result in
1317 errors if the strings contained character codes
>=
128.
1318 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
1319 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
1320 value of
<cite>locale.getdefaultlocale()[
1]
</cite> when wxPython is first
1321 imported. Please see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html">http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
</a>
1322 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
1324 <p>Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
1325 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
1326 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each
<cite>wx.Button
</cite>
1327 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
1328 ID's. Then call
<cite>Realize
</cite> and the sizer will take care of the rest.
</p>
1329 <p>wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -
1) to the
1330 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
</p>
1331 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
1332 lots of surplus events)
</p>
1333 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
1334 wx.SystemSettings.
</p>
1335 <p>wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #
1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
1336 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
</p>
1337 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
1338 and GTK+'s context menu code.
</p>
1339 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #
1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
1340 (not all actions are allowed).
</p>
1341 <p>Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch
1104355)
</p>
1342 <p>For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
1343 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
1344 when GetString is called from an event handler.
</p>
1345 <p>Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
1346 and max ends of the slider.
</p>
1347 <p>Several patches applied, such as #
1111174, #
1110252 and others, that
1348 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
1349 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
</p>
1350 <dl class=
"docutils">
1352 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1353 <li>Edit-
>Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
1354 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
1355 not with labels/sizers.
</li>
1356 <li>Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
1357 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
1362 <p>wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
1363 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
</p>
1364 <p>wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
1365 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
1367 <p>The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1368 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
1369 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
1370 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
1372 <p>Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
1373 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to
0.
</p>
1374 <p>wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla
1.62.
</p>
1375 <p>Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to
1 to
1376 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
1377 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
1378 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before
2.6.
</p>
1379 <p>wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
1381 <p>wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
1382 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
</p>
1383 <p>Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
</p>
1384 <p>wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
</p>
1385 <p>Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
1386 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
</p>
1387 <p>wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
1389 <p>wxMSW:
"Alt
" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
1391 <p>Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
1392 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
1393 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
1394 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
1395 samples/docview.
</p>
1396 <p>Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
</p>
1397 <p>wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
</p>
1398 <p>wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
1399 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
1400 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
1401 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
1402 for Add, and etc.
</p>
1403 <p>The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
1404 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
</p>
1405 <p>The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
1406 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
</p>
1407 <p>Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
1408 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
1409 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
1410 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
1411 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
1412 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
</p>
1413 <p>wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
1415 <p>Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
1417 <p>Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
</p>
1418 <dl class=
"docutils">
1420 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1421 <li>Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
</li>
1422 <li>Corrected default button size handling for different themes
</li>
1423 <li>Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
</li>
1424 <li>Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
</li>
1429 <div class=
"section">
1430 <h1><a id=
"id13" name=
"id13">2.5.3.1</a></h1>
1434 <p>wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
</p>
1435 <p>Updated internal PNG library.
</p>
1436 <p>wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
</p>
1437 <p>wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
1438 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
</p>
1439 <p>wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
1440 enabled (does an enable itself)
</p>
1441 <p>Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
1443 <p>Added support to XRC and XRCed for the
3-state checkbox flags and also
1444 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
1446 <p>It is now possible to create
"stock
" buttons. Basically this means
1447 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
1448 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
1449 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
1450 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
1451 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1452 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1453 button with
"Cancel
" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1454 also be an image of a red X:
</p>
1455 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1456 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1458 <p>Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
</p>
1459 <p>Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
</p>
1460 <p>Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
</p>
1461 <p>Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1462 I am no longer doing builds on Python
2.1 the newest distutils is no
1463 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python
2.2 distutils
1464 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1465 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1466 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1467 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
</p>
1468 <p>Updated to SWIG
1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1469 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1470 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1471 the wxPython modules.
</p>
1472 <p>Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1473 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1474 user that they should look at that window.
</p>
1475 <p>"Fixed
" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1476 them register the editor or renderer for the
"string
" data type.
</p>
1477 <p>Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
</p>
1478 <p>Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1479 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1480 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1481 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1482 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1483 and PyGetDate methods.
</p>
1484 <p>wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1485 also set the colour of the dropdown.
</p>
1486 <p>wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
</p>
1487 <p>wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
</p>
1488 <p>wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
</p>
1489 <p>wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1490 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1491 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
</p>
1492 <p>wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
</p>
1493 <p>wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
</p>
1494 <p>Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch
992813)
</p>
1495 <p>Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1497 <p>Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1499 <p>Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch
910272)
</p>
1500 <p>wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1501 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1503 <p>Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
</p>
1504 <p>wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1505 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1507 <p>Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1508 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1509 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
</p>
1510 <p>The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1511 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1512 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1513 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1514 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1515 should notice no difference.
</p>
1516 <p>wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1517 when a new one is selected.
</p>
1518 <p>wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
</p>
1519 <p>wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1520 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1521 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1522 more details and a warning.
</p>
1523 <p>Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1524 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
</p>
1525 <p>Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1526 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
</p>
1527 <p>Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version
1.61</p>
1528 <p>Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
</p>
1529 <p>Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
</p>
1530 <p>wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1531 holding down the mouse button.
</p>
1532 <p>wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1533 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
</p>
1534 <p>FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
</p>
1535 <dl class=
"docutils">
1536 <dt>PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
</dt>
1537 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1538 <li>Added bar graph demo
</li>
1539 <li>Modified line end shape from round to square.
</li>
1540 <li>Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1542 <li>Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
</li>
1543 <li>Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
</li>
1544 <li>Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
</li>
1545 <li>Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
</li>
1546 <li>Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1547 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
</li>
1548 <li>Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1549 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1553 <dt>MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
</dt>
1554 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1555 <li>Added '*' mask char that means
"all ansii chars
" (ords
32-
255)
</li>
1556 <li>Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
</li>
1557 <li>Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1559 <li>Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1561 <li>lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1562 reflect package's public contents.
</li>
1566 <p>Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1567 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1568 Migrarion Guide for more information.
</p>
1569 <dl class=
"docutils">
1570 <dt>Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies
4 files:
</dt>
1571 <dd><ul class=
"first last simple">
1572 <li>wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
</li>
1573 <li>wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
</li>
1574 <li>wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1576 <li>wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
</li>
1580 <p>Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1581 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1583 <p>wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1584 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
</p>
1586 <div class=
"section">
1587 <h1><a id=
"id14" name=
"id14">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
1589 <li>27-Aug-
2004</li>
1591 <p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.
</p>
1594 <li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
</li>
1595 <li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
</li>
1596 <li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1597 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
</li>
1598 <li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1599 flicker problems, and namespace use.
</li>
1600 <li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
</li>
1601 <li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
</li>
1602 <li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented
2nd
1604 <li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
</li>
1605 <li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1606 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
</li>
1607 <li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1608 wxScrolledWindow.
</li>
1609 <li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1610 wxCheckListBox.
</li>
1611 <li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
</li>
1612 <li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
</li>
1613 <li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
</li>
1618 <div class=
"section">
1619 <h1><a id=
"id15" name=
"id15">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
1621 <li>14-Aug-
2004</li>
1623 <p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1624 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1625 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1626 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1627 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1628 that it will
<em>not
</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
1629 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1630 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1631 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
</p>
1632 <p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1633 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
</p>
1634 <p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in
2.5.1.5
1635 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the
2.4
1636 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1637 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1639 <p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1640 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
</p>
1641 <p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
</p>
1642 <p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1643 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
</p>
1644 <p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1645 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1646 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1647 buttons.py to handle attribute (font
& colour) defaults and
1648 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1649 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1651 <p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1652 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1653 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1654 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1655 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1657 <p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1658 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1659 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
</p>
1660 <p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1661 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
</p>
1662 <p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1663 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
</p>
1664 <p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to
"C
" (compatibility) when
1665 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1666 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1667 remaining compatible with
"C
".
</p>
1668 <p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1670 <p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1671 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1672 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1673 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1674 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1675 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1676 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1677 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1678 <a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details.
</p>
1679 <p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1680 Scintilla for several releases now.
</p>
1681 <p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1682 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1683 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1684 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
</p>
1685 <p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1686 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1687 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1688 after construction.
</p>
1689 <p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1690 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1691 with a more modern reimplementation.
</p>
1692 <p>Added a new version (
0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1693 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
</p>
1694 <p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1695 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1696 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
</p>
1697 <p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1698 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:svip123@fastmail.fm">svip123
@fastmail.fm
</a>> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1699 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1700 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1701 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
</p>
1702 <p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1703 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1704 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1705 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1707 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1708 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[
0]
1709 >>> for x in range(
0,
500,
10):
1712 ... wx.MilliSleep(
10)
1714 <p>wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#
1098374) for text control and combo
1717 <div class=
"section">
1718 <h1><a id=
"the-this-is-not-a-joke-release" name=
"the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">2.5.1.5 (the 'this is
<em>not
</em> a joke' release)
</a></h1>
1722 <p>(See also the
<a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details about some of the
1723 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1724 adapt your code.)
</p>
1725 <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1726 see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm
</a> for more details. This won't
1727 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1728 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1729 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1730 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1731 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
</p>
1732 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1733 to wxWidgets
2.5 that I have forgotten about.
</p>
1734 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.
</p>
1735 <p>Added wxIconLocation
</p>
1736 <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1737 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
</p>
1738 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1739 from wxBookCtrl.
</p>
1740 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1741 wx.lib.plot module.
</p>
1742 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1743 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1744 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
</p>
1745 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1746 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1747 also installing icons and
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">*.desktop
</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
1748 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1749 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1750 RH-
9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1751 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1752 distros please send me a patch.
</p>
1753 <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-
9 box, and I have tested
1754 installing them also on my main Mandrake
9.2 box.
</p>
1755 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1756 Installer package now
<em>only
</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1757 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1758 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1759 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1760 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1761 want to put them.
</p>
1762 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1764 <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
</p>
1765 <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
</p>
1766 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version
1.58 of Scintilla.
</p>
1767 <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1768 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1769 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1770 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1771 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1772 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1773 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1775 <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1776 "Adi
" Sieker.
</p>
1777 <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
</p>
1778 <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1779 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
</p>
1780 <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1781 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1782 MigrationGuide for more details.
</p>
1783 <p>Created a new extension module
"activex
" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1784 newest
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX
</a> class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1785 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1786 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1787 controls in a wx.Window,
<strong>without
</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
1788 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1789 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1790 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1791 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1792 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1793 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1794 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1795 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1796 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1797 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1798 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1799 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
</p>
1800 <p>Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
</p>
1802 <div class=
"section">
1803 <h1><a id=
"id17" name=
"id17">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
1807 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
</p>
1808 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
</p>
1809 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1810 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
</p>
1811 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
</p>
1812 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
</p>
1813 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
</p>
1815 <div class=
"section">
1816 <h1><a id=
"id18" name=
"id18">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
1818 <li>19-Jun-
2003</li>
1820 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
</p>
1821 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
</p>
1822 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1823 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">spam(*args,
</span> <span class=
"pre">**kw)
</span></tt> syntax
1824 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1826 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1827 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1828 and wxWindows match.
</p>
1829 <p>Added the new wx
"renamer
" package that will dynamically import from
1830 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --
> FooBar. That means that
1831 people can do imports without
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">"import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> and can use names like
1832 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase
1 of a full transition
1833 to the new namespace.
</p>
1834 <p>Updated Scintilla to
1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1835 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1836 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1837 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
</p>
1838 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1839 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1840 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as
"from wxPython
1841 import py
" (or
"from wx import py
" using the new namespace.) There
1842 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1843 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1844 package. These will be removed in a future release.
</p>
1845 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1846 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1847 code like
"if obj: ...
" to be the same as
"if obj.IsOk(): ...
"</p>
1848 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
</p>
1849 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1850 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
</p>
1851 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1852 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
</p>
1853 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1854 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
</p>
1855 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1856 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1858 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1859 a call to any Python callable object.
</p>
1860 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1861 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1862 to override the C++ virtual methods.
</p>
1863 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1864 the
"option
" parameter to
"proportion
" to match the docs (
"option
" is
1865 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1866 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter,
1867 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter
</p>
1868 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.
</p>
1870 <div class=
"section">
1871 <h1><a id=
"id19" name=
"id19">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
1873 <li>24-Mar-
2003</li>
1875 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1876 TRUE/FALSE values.
</p>
1877 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1878 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1879 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a
16-bit value.
</p>
1880 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1882 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1884 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1886 <p>Updated PyCrust to version
0.9</p>
1887 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1888 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1889 default behavior) is enough. See below in the
2.3.4.1 notes for more
1892 <div class=
"section">
1893 <h1><a id=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release" name=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
</a></h1>
1895 <li>11-Mar-
2003</li>
1897 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1898 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1899 think I am testing in the future...
</p>
1901 <div class=
"section">
1902 <h1><a id=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release" name=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
</a></h1>
1906 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.
</p>
1907 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.
</p>
1908 <p>Updated to
0.9b of PyCrust.
</p>
1910 <div class=
"section">
1911 <h1><a id=
"id20" name=
"id20">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
1915 <p>Added missing wxRect methods
</p>
1916 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
</p>
1917 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
</p>
1918 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1919 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1920 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1922 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1924 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
</p>
1925 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1926 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1927 the parent window.
</p>
1928 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
</p>
1929 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1931 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
</p>
1932 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1933 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1934 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1935 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1936 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1937 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1938 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1939 static stable in the C++ class.
</p>
1940 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1941 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1942 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1943 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1945 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1946 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1947 always call them. The functions are:
</p>
1948 <pre class=
"literal-block">
1949 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1950 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1951 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1952 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1953 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1954 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1955 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1956 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1957 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1958 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1959 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1960 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1962 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1963 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
</p>
1964 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1965 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1966 doesn't have a standard place for them.
</p>
1967 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
</p>
1968 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
</p>
1969 <p>Updated to the
0.9a version of PyCrust
</p>
1971 <div class=
"section">
1972 <h1><a id=
"id21" name=
"id21">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
1974 <li>23-Jan-
2003</li>
1976 <p>Several bug fixes.
</p>
1977 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
1978 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
</p>
1980 <div class=
"section">
1981 <h1><a id=
"id22" name=
"id22">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
1983 <li>10-Jan-
2003</li>
1985 <p>No major new features since
2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1987 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1988 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
</p>
1990 <div class=
"section">
1991 <h1><a id=
"id23" name=
"id23">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
1993 <li>21-Dec-
2002</li>
1995 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
1997 <div class=
"section">
1998 <h1><a id=
"id24" name=
"id24">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
2000 <li>18-Dec-
2002</li>
2002 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
</p>
2003 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
</p>
2004 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
</p>
2005 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.
</p>
2006 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
2007 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
2008 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
2009 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
2010 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
2011 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
2012 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
2013 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
2014 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
2015 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
2016 you can use to play with this new feature.
</p>
2017 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
2018 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
2019 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
2020 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
2021 the old
"final
" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
2022 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
2023 2.3.3.1 and prior
"hybrid
" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
2024 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
</p>
2025 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
2026 derived from wxApp.
</p>
2027 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
2028 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
2030 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
</p>
2031 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
2032 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
2033 they did before
2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
2034 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
2035 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
</p>
2036 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
</p>
2037 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
</p>
2038 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
</p>
2039 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
2040 "Pythonic
" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
2041 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
</p>
2042 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
2043 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
2044 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
</p>
2045 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
2046 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
</p>
2047 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
2048 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
2049 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
2050 windows when desired.
</p>
2051 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
2052 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
2053 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
</p>
2055 <div class=
"section">
2056 <h1><a id=
"id25" name=
"id25">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
2058 <li>19-Sep-
2002</li>
2060 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.
</p>
2061 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
</p>
2062 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
</p>
2063 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
2064 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
2065 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
</p>
2066 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
2067 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
2068 be loaded from any Python
"file-like
" object.
</p>
2069 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
2070 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
2071 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
</p>
2072 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
2073 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
2074 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
2075 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
2076 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
2077 wxFlexGridSizer.
</p>
2078 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
</p>
2079 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.
</p>
2080 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla
1.40 to Scintilla
1.45, and then again
2081 to version
1.47, and one more time to
1.48!
<wink
></p>
2082 <dl class=
"docutils">
2084 <dd><p class=
"first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
2085 disabled. Previous to wxPython
2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
2086 used. Starting with
2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
2087 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
2088 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
2089 the recent release of GTK+
2.0 it is only a matter of time until
2090 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
</p>
2091 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
2092 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
2093 same unicode binaries on win95/
98/ME platforms as well! This is
2094 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
2095 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
2096 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
2097 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
2098 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
2099 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
2100 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
2101 unicode build on win95.
</p>
2102 <p class=
"last">So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
2103 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
2104 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
2105 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
2106 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
2107 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
2108 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
2109 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
2110 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
2111 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
2115 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
</p>
2116 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
</p>
2117 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
</p>
2118 <p>A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
2119 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
2120 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
2121 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
2122 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
2123 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
2124 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
2125 for any class that is OOR aware.
</p>
2126 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
2127 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
2128 derived classes.
</p>
2129 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
2130 the image data. (Patch #
546009)
</p>
2131 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
2133 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
2134 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
2135 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
2148 TransferDataFromWindow
2149 TransferDataToWindow
2152 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
2156 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
2157 please let me know.
</p>
2159 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
2160 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
</p>
2161 <p>Added wxArtProvider.
</p>
2162 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
2163 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
2164 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
2165 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
2166 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
</p>
2167 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
</p>
2168 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
2169 creating a ScrolledPanel.
</p>
2170 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
2171 other menu stuff.
</p>
2172 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
2173 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
2174 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
2175 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
</p>
2176 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
2177 modules make a
"callback
" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
2178 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
2179 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
2180 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
</p>
2181 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
2182 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
2183 respond to mouse events and etc.
</p>
2184 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -
1
2185 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
</p>
2186 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
2187 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
2188 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
2189 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
2190 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
2191 started with just the
"pycrust
" command.
</p>
2192 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
2193 displays the details of the event.
</p>
2194 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
</p>
2195 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
2196 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
2198 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
</p>
2199 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
2201 <div class=
"section">
2202 <h1><a id=
"id26" name=
"id26">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
2204 <li>20-Dec-
2001</li>
2206 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
2207 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
2208 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
</p>
2209 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.
</p>
2211 <div class=
"section">
2212 <h1><a id=
"id27" name=
"id27">2.3.2</a></h1>
2214 <li>11-Dec-
2001</li>
2216 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
2217 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
2218 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2219 and a demo to show them in action.
</p>
2220 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
2221 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/
</a>. )
</p>
2222 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
</p>
2223 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
</p>
2224 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
2226 <p>Added a new
"constructor
" to most of the window classes that calls the
2227 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
2228 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a
2-step
2229 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2230 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2231 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2232 resource. The name of the new
"constructor
" is the original name of
2233 the class with a
"Pre
" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2235 <p>Updated to version
1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2236 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2237 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2238 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2239 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2240 wxSTC flag accordingly.
</p>
2241 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2242 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2243 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
</p>
2244 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
</p>
2245 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
</p>
2246 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.
</p>
2247 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2248 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2249 multi-processor machine.
</p>
2250 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2251 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
</p>
2252 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
</p>
2253 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2254 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2255 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2256 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2257 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2258 original C++ pointer.
</p>
2259 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2261 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
</p>
2262 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2263 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
</p>
2264 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2265 and from web browsers. It's still not
100% bullet-proof for all types
2266 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2267 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape
4.x works,
2268 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2270 <p>Added wxStopWatch.
</p>
2271 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
</p>
2272 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2273 will now Disconnect the event.
</p>
2274 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
</p>
2275 <p>Added wxFileHistory.
</p>
2276 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2277 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2278 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2280 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
</p>
2281 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2283 <p>Added the
"SplitTree gizmos
" which are a collection of classes that
2284 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2285 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2286 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2287 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2288 also be useful by themselves.
</p>
2289 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2290 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2291 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2292 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2293 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2294 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2297 <div class=
"section">
2298 <h1><a id=
"id28" name=
"id28">2.3.1</a></h1>
2300 <li>10-Jul-
2001</li>
2302 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2303 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2304 on a custom event handler for example.)
</p>
2305 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2306 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
2307 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2308 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
</p>
2309 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
</p>
2310 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
</p>
2311 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python
2.1.
</p>
2312 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
</p>
2314 <div class=
"section">
2315 <h1><a id=
"id29" name=
"id29">2.3.0</a></h1>
2317 <li>22-May-
2001</li>
2319 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2320 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
</p>
2321 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2322 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2324 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
</p>
2325 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2326 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2327 colour database.
</p>
2328 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2329 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2330 access from non-GUI threads.
</p>
2331 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2332 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
</p>
2333 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
</p>
2334 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2335 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
</p>
2336 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2337 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
</p>
2338 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2339 it gobs faster in certain situations.
</p>
2340 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2341 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2342 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2343 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2344 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2345 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2346 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2347 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2348 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2349 the implementation.
</p>
2350 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2351 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2353 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2354 the distutils that comes with Python
2.1.
</p>
2355 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
</p>
2356 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
</p>
2357 <p>Added wxToggleButton.
</p>
2358 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
</p>
2359 <dl class=
"docutils">
2360 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:
</dt>
2361 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2362 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2363 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2364 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2366 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2367 GetGridColLabelWindow
2368 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
</dd>
2370 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2371 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2372 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
</p>
2373 <dl class=
"docutils">
2375 <dd><p class=
"first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2376 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2377 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2378 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2379 "proper type
" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2380 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2381 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2382 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2383 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2384 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2385 will probably only work on Python
2.1 and beyond because it will
2386 use weak references.)
</p>
2387 <p class=
"last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2388 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2389 be transparent to you, however I'm not
100% sure that it didn't
2390 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2391 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2392 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2393 object-type related oddities to me.
</p>
2396 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2397 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2398 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2399 finally got done.
</p>
2400 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2401 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
</p>
2402 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
</p>
2403 <p>Added wxWave.
</p>
2404 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2405 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2406 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2407 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2408 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2409 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
</p>
2410 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2411 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2412 wxPython/samples.
</p>
2414 <div class=
"section">
2415 <h1><a id=
"id30" name=
"id30">2.2.7</a></h1>
2417 <li>19-Jun-
2001</li>
2419 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2420 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
</p>
2422 <div class=
"section">
2423 <h1><a id=
"id31" name=
"id31">2.2.5</a></h1>
2425 <li>30-Jan-
2001</li>
2427 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python
2.0 and beyond
2428 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2429 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2430 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
</p>
2431 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
</p>
2432 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
</p>
2433 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2434 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
</p>
2435 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2436 column in report mode.
</p>
2437 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2438 bar after
2 seconds.
</p>
2439 <p>Added wxJoystick.
</p>
2440 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2441 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2442 object, (usually a window.)
</p>
2443 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
</p>
2444 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
</p>
2445 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2446 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2447 the
"export
" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2448 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2449 libraries. Should also be usable from
3rd party code, just include
2450 wxPython/src/export.h
</p>
2451 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2452 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2453 utils. Will probably add more later.
</p>
2454 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2455 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2456 wxPrinterDC2 name.
</p>
2457 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2458 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
</p>
2459 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
</p>
2460 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2461 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
</p>
2462 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2463 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2466 <div class=
"section">
2467 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-2-2" name=
"new-in-2-2-2">New in
2.2.2</a></h1>
2469 <li>26-Oct-
2000</li>
2471 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2472 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2473 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2474 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2475 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2476 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2477 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2478 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2479 how things work.
</p>
2480 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2481 of the distribution files. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
</a>)
2482 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2483 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2484 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2485 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2486 wxPython for Python
1.5.2 or for
1.6, then you will need to get and
2487 install version
1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2488 using Python
2.0 then you already have it.
</p>
2489 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2490 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
</p>
2491 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2492 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2493 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2495 <p>Removed the old python sizers.
</p>
2496 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2497 and wxRealPoint.
</p>
2498 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2499 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2500 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
</p>
2501 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.
</p>
2502 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2503 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2504 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
</p>
2506 <div class=
"section">
2507 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-2-1" name=
"new-in-2-2-1">New in
2.2.1</a></h1>
2509 <li>22-Aug-
2000</li>
2511 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
</p>
2512 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
</p>
2514 <div class=
"section">
2515 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-2-0" name=
"new-in-2-2-0">New in
2.2.0</a></h1>
2517 <li>17-Jul-
2000</li>
2519 <p>Added wxLog and friends.
</p>
2520 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
</p>
2521 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
</p>
2523 <div class=
"section">
2524 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-1-16" name=
"new-in-2-1-16">New in
2.1.16</a></h1>
2526 <li>12-Jun-
2000</li>
2528 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2529 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2530 depressed state.
</p>
2531 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
</p>
2532 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
</p>
2533 <p>Added wxDragImage.
</p>
2534 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.
</p>
2535 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
</p>
2536 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.
</p>
2537 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2538 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2539 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2540 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2541 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2542 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2543 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2544 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
</p>
2556 OnScroll
</blockquote>
2557 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.
</p>
2559 <div class=
"section">
2560 <h1><a id=
"new-in-2-1-15" name=
"new-in-2-1-15">New in
2.1.15</a></h1>
2562 <li>25-Apr-
2000</li>
2564 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2565 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
</p>
2566 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2568 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2569 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
</p>
2570 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
</p>
2571 <p>Plugged a memory leak.
</p>
2572 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2573 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2574 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2575 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2577 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2578 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2579 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
</p>
2580 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2581 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2582 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2583 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2584 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2585 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2586 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2587 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2589 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2590 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2591 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2592 "#RRGGBB
". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
</p>
2593 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2594 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2595 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2596 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2597 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2598 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2599 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
</a> to help fill in the gaps
2600 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2601 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
</p>
2603 <div class=
"section">
2604 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in
2.1.13</a></h1>
2608 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
</p>
2609 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2610 and some flicker problems.
</p>
2611 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2612 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/
</a>)
</p>
2613 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2614 "which
" parameter.
</p>
2615 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
2616 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
2617 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2618 with wxWindow.GetParent.
</p>
2619 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2620 It is used like this:
</p>
2622 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
</blockquote>
2623 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2624 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
</p>
2625 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
</p>
2626 <p>Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
</p>
2627 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2628 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2629 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2630 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2631 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2632 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
</p>
2633 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2634 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2635 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2636 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2637 methods look like this:
</p>
2639 <dl class=
"docutils">
2640 <dt>def AddTool(ID,
</dt>
2642 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2645 shortHelpString =
"",
2646 longHelpString =
"")
</dd>
2647 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,
</dt>
2649 shortHelpString =
"",
2650 longHelpString =
"",
2654 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2655 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
</p>
2656 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
</p>
2657 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
</p>
2658 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2659 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2660 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:
9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL
</a>.
</p>
2661 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.
</p>
2662 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2664 <p>Changed all the
"LIST
" parameter names to
"choices
" to match the docs.
</p>
2665 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2666 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2667 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
</p>
2669 <div class=
"section">
2670 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in
2.1.11</a></h1>
2672 <li>13-Nov-
1999</li>
2674 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2676 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2677 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2679 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2680 being added. This should remove the need for our
2681 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
</p>
2682 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2683 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2684 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2685 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2686 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
</p>
2687 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
</p>
2688 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.
</p>
2689 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle
</p>
2690 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2691 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2692 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2694 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2695 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2696 thread from other threads.
</p>
2697 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
</p>
2698 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.
</p>
2699 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
</p>
2700 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2701 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
</p>
2702 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
</p>
2703 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2705 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
</p>
2707 <div class=
"section">
2708 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in
2.1.5</a></h1>
2710 <li>12-Oct-
1999</li>
2712 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2713 crept in at the last minute before
2.1.4 was called done. No new
2716 <div class=
"section">
2717 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in
2.1.4</a></h1>
2721 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2722 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2723 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2724 wxGTK from CVS. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm
</a>)
2725 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2726 the wxPy-
2-
1-
4 tag.
</p>
2727 <p>Now back to what's new...
</p>
2728 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
</p>
2729 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
</p>
2730 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a
<em>copy
</em>
2731 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2732 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2733 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2734 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2736 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2737 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2738 default sort order.
</p>
2739 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2740 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2741 example, the following are equivallent:
</p>
2742 <pre class=
"literal-block">
2743 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(
100,
100))
2744 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (
100,
100))
2746 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2747 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2748 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2749 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2750 pages. See the demo for an example.
</p>
2751 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2752 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
</p>
2753 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
</p>
2754 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2755 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2756 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2757 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2758 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2759 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2760 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2761 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2762 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2763 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2764 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2765 further details.
</p>
2766 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2767 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2768 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2769 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2770 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2771 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2772 for more info and examples in future releases.
</p>
2773 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2774 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2775 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2776 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2777 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2778 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2780 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2781 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2782 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2783 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2784 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2785 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2786 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2787 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2788 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2789 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2790 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
</p>
2791 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2792 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2793 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2794 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2795 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2796 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2797 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2798 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2799 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2800 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2801 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2802 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2803 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2804 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2805 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2806 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
</p>
2807 <pre class=
"literal-block">
2809 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2813 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2816 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2817 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2818 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2819 to really screw things up.
</p>
2820 <p>Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2821 in the wxWindows docs...
</p>
2822 <p>Some new
3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2823 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2824 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2825 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2826 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2827 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2828 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2831 <div class=
"section">
2832 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in
2.1b3
</a></h1>
2836 <p>This release is syncronized with release
2.1 snapshot
9 of wxWindows.
</p>
2837 <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html
</a>)
2838 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2839 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2840 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2844 <li><p class=
"first">Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2845 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2846 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
</p>
2848 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -
1, style = mystyle)
</p>
2851 <li><p class=
"first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2852 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2853 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2854 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
</p>
2858 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2859 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2860 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2861 see distrib/build.py for more details.
</p>
2862 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2863 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2864 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2865 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
</p>
2867 <div class=
"section">
2868 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in
2.1b2
</a></h1>
2872 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
</p>
2873 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
2874 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
2875 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
2876 It was only a
1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
2877 line
496 if you want to do it by hand.
</p>
2878 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
2879 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
2880 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
2881 is being unloaded by Python.
</p>
2882 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
2883 make wxPython look bad.
</p>
2884 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
2885 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
</p>
2886 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
</p>
2887 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2888 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
</p>
2889 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2890 code to show how to use it.
</p>
2891 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2893 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells
</p>
2894 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2895 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
</p>
2896 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2897 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
</p>
2898 <dl class=
"docutils">
2899 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
</dt>
2900 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth =
1)
</dd>
2902 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2903 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2904 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
</p>
2905 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2907 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
</p>
2908 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2909 for unix systems.
</p>
2910 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
</p>
2911 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2914 <div class=
"section">
2915 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in
2.1b1
</a></h1>
2917 <li>28-Jun-
1999</li>
2919 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2920 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2921 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
</p>
2922 <p>Added the Printing Framework.
</p>
2923 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2924 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2925 data after loading each extension module.
</p>
2926 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2927 wxWindows classes.
</p>
2928 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2929 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2930 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
</p>
2931 <p>wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2932 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2933 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2934 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
</p>
2936 <div class=
"section">
2937 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in
2.0b9
</a></h1>
2941 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
</p>
2942 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2943 wxPython application.
</p>
2944 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
</p>
2945 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2946 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2947 this feature off.
</p>
2948 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.
</p>
2949 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
</p>
2950 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2951 how it all works.
</p>
2952 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2953 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
</p>
2954 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.
</p>
2955 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2956 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
</p>
2957 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
2958 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2961 <div class=
"section">
2962 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in
2.0b8
</a></h1>
2964 <li>28-Mar-
1999</li>
2966 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
</p>
2967 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.
</p>
2968 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
2970 <div class=
"section">
2971 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in
2.0b7
</a></h1>
2973 <li>15-Mar-
1999</li>
2975 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
</p>
2976 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
</p>
2978 <div class=
"section">
2979 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in
2.0b6
</a></h1>
2983 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2984 Python
1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
</p>
2986 <div class=
"section">
2987 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5" name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in
2.0b5
</a></h1>
2989 <li>25-Feb-
1999</li>
2991 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2992 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2993 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2994 wxWindows
1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2995 with the
2.0 version of wxWindows.
</p>
2996 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2997 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2998 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2999 diverges from wxWindows.
</p>
3000 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
3001 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
3002 it should just work... More news on this later.
</p>
3003 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
</p>
3004 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
3005 wxRegConfig class.
</p>
3006 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
</p>
3008 <div class=
"section">
3009 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in
0.5.3</a></h1>
3011 <li>30-Jan-
1999</li>
3013 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
</p>
3014 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
3015 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
</p>
3017 <div class=
"section">
3018 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in
0.5.0</a></h1>
3019 <p>Changed the import semantics from
<tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> to
3020 <tt class=
"docutils literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython.wx
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> This is for people who are worried about
3021 namespace pollution, they can use
"from wxPython import wx
" and then
3022 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with
"wx.
"</p>
3023 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
</p>
3024 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.
</p>
3025 <p>Added wxConfig.
</p>
3026 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
</p>
3027 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
3028 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
</p>
3029 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.
</p>
3031 <div class=
"section">
3032 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in
0.4.2</a></h1>
3034 <li>21-Oct-
1998</li>
3036 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
3037 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
3038 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
3039 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
3040 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
3041 behavior was so different on different platforms.
</p>
3042 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
3043 must have been a different issue all along...
</p>
3045 <div class=
"section">
3046 <h1><a id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4" name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in
0.4</a></h1>
3050 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3051 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3052 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3053 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3054 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3055 version segfault shortly after starting up.
</p>
3056 <ol class=
"arabic simple" start=
"2">
3057 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
</li>
3058 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
</li>
3061 <div class=
"section">
3062 <h1><a id=
"wxpython-0-3" name=
"wxpython-0-3">wxPython
0.3</a></h1>
3066 <p>The first
"modern
" version of wxPython. See
3067 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory">http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory
</a></p>
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