2 *** wxWindows 2.3.3 ***
4 wxStaticBox honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
6 Reworked wxConfig class interface.
8 Reworked wxDynamicLibary class for loading classes (particularly
9 wxWindows classes) from dynmic libraries.
11 Removed wxObjectStream class.
13 Further improvements to wxFileName class.
15 *** wxWindows 2.3.2 ***
17 Addition of wxFileName class to handler DOS, Unix, Mac and VMS filenames
18 and paths in a platform independant way.
20 Addition of a wxPopupWindow class to imitate temporary windows such
21 as those used combo boxes or in tool tips.
23 Addition of wxToggleButton which was missing in wxWindows 2.2.
25 Support for virtual lists in wxListCtrl.
27 Addition wxSingleInstanceChecker which does just that.
29 Addition of wxRegEx for regular expression parsing either
30 using the built-in Unix function or a freeware add-on library.
32 wxScrolledWindow completely reimplemented as a native GTK widget.
34 Reimplemented event cloning used for inter-thread communication.
36 Big improvements to the HTML display engine. Handles many more tags
39 Partial rewrite and enhancements to the XML based resource system wxXRC.
40 It is now based on the Expat parser.
42 Wider image type support including read/write support for XPM and
43 reading support for ICO files. BMP can be saved in various bit depths now.
45 Fixed some incompatibilities with GTK 1.2.10.
47 Partially reworked build system for installation of multiple builds and
50 Improved wxSizer-based layout system for better support for dynamic
53 *** wxWindows 2.3.0 ***
55 scaling for map modes other than wxMM_TEXT works correctly (Derry Bryson)
57 *** wxWindows 2.2.6 ***
59 wxGauge now supports wxGA_VERTICAL (Shane Forsythe)
61 *** 29th January 2001: wxWindows 2.2.5 released ***
63 Synchronized with wxMSW 2.2.5, include macros
64 for upwards 2.4.0 compatibility.
66 Added missing wxEntry prototype to wx/gtk/app.h.
68 Fixed compilation with --enable-no_rtti/no_exceptions
71 *** 15th January 2001: wxWindows 2.2.4 released ***
73 Corrected wxYield() to handle recursive calls
74 more gracefully (and with a warning in debug mode).
75 This fixes a problem with crashing wxTreeCtrl's
76 built-in drag'n'drop and probably some other as
79 Corrected wxMenuItem::GetLabel() to handle deliberate '_'
82 Patch for better 8-bit-display support.
84 Corrected log error message box.
86 Implememted wxCommandEvent::IsSelection() for wxListBox.
88 Corrected wxListBox::Set() for sorted mode.
90 Added EVT_TEXT_UPDATED for spin ctrl.
92 Corrected wrongly rounded value in slider and scrollbar
95 Small fix for wxTextFile type guessing.
101 Synchronized release with wxMSW again.
103 *** 3rd November: wxWindows 2.2.3 released ***
105 Fixed bugs in HTTP code.
107 Implemented wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE whenever possible
108 and reduced flicker a little (no longer diables GTK's own
111 Always have a clipping region equivalent to the update
112 region in OnPaint events (such as under wxMSW and wxMac).
114 Implemented wxListBox::SetFirstItem().
116 Fixed some minor problems in HTML code, wxListCtrl,
119 Fixed compilation on RedHat 7.0.
121 Updated many translations, added Swedish.
123 Changed default screenpixels-per-inch from 100 to 75 in
126 Updated AFM font metrics for Ghostscript fonts and let
127 Linux and FreeBSD default to using GS fonts (and not
130 *** 20th September: wxWindows 2.2.2 released ***
132 Fixed wxSizer bug that made items with option
133 flags greater than 1 report a wrong size.
135 Fixed many incompatibilties with GTK themes -
136 essentially a backport from the 2.3 branch.
138 Added missing wxImage::Paste() for transparent
141 Fixed a drawing error for ellipses and arc in both
142 the DC code and the PostScript code.
144 Fixed wxListCtrl::HitTest() for report mode.
148 *** 20th August 2000: wxWindows 2.2.1 released ***
152 Use the wxCommmandEvent::IsChecked() function for checkable
153 menu items. This mean that the m_int parameter no longer
154 contains the ID of the menu!
156 Fixed major problems in ODBC logging code. This change is
157 binary backward incompatible.
159 Fixed reentry problems in DnD code.
161 Changed PostScript code so that it can handle a higher
164 Minor improvements to wxGrid code.
166 Corrected guffow-scrolling so that no surplus expose
167 events are generated.
169 Corrected bug in wxMask creation on 16-bit displays.
171 Minor correction to wxDC::DrawRoundedRectangle.
173 Added support for <INSERT> and <DELETE> menu accelerators.
175 Made wxComboBox case-sensitive.
177 Minor correction to doc-view architecture.
179 Minor wxCommandLineParser changes.
181 *** 10th July 2000: wxWindows 2.2.0 released ***
183 Added code for writing BMP images.
185 Added code for writing TIFF images.
187 Fixed problem with best visuals (on SGI)
189 Applied a number of compile fixes for various Unix variants.
191 Fixed wrong background colours appearing sometimes and fix
192 for resetting the default font in controls.
194 Speed-up to wxListCtrl.
196 Fixed bug wxTextStream::ReadLine()
198 Various improvements commandline parser.
200 Changed wxColour unequal operator to compare colours.
202 Fixed wxMenuBar::Replace bug.
204 Added new position to slider update event.
206 Minor fix to idle handling (now wxGTK events come after all GTK events).
208 Various fixes to the new wxGrid class.
212 *** 4th June 2000: wxWindows pre-2.2 release ***
214 Complete freeze now. Only vital bug-fixes allowed.
216 Various enhancements to wxSizer.
218 Added wxGridSizer and wxFlexGridSizer.
224 *** 22th March 2000: wxWindows 2.1.15 released ***
226 Build fix. RPMs no loner require GTK's include files.
228 An extra library for the OpenGl class now gets builts
229 *** 19th March 2000: wxWindows 2.1.14 released ***
231 An extra library for the OpenGl class now gets builts
232 and installed. There is also an extra RPM for this
235 Added possibility to compile wxGTK with already installed
236 image libraries (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, ZLIB) if you really
237 know what you are doing.
239 Added support for pipes and a stream class to get data
242 Added memory file system (so you can save html pages with
245 Added wxDragImage class for dragging easily images.
247 The DEB and RPM packages now conform better to various
250 Renamed wx-config to wxgtk-config so that motif can be co-installed
251 on the same machine (with wxmotif-config).
253 Speed up for drawing by resuing once created DCs instead of
254 creating and destroying them all the time.
256 Corrections to clipping region code (among others related to
257 simultaneous bitmap clipping).
259 A few more improvements to tab traversal.
261 A number of changes to socket code.
263 Added code for rotating images.
265 Much work on the new grid class has been done. Very cool now.
267 wxPlotWindow is now useful and works. Added on-off lines useful for
268 displaying trigger signals.
270 Corrected one more bug in the TIFF handler.
272 It is now possible to run wxGTK apps in the best visual
273 instead of only the default on system that support this
276 Added default keyboard handling to wxScrolledWindow.
278 Fixed slightly overoptimized window colour and style handling.
279 This will expose a bug in the GtkPixmap theme, or more exactly
280 in ImLib's image cashing so that wxGTK currently doesn't work
281 well with pixmap themes. As a result, wxGTK will disable all
282 widget settings when using this theme.
284 Fixed bug in drawing code that made GTK pick the wrong pen
285 style when using the default.
287 The L-GPL iODBC library must now be enables explicitly so as
288 to not mislead people into reading the license wrong.
290 *** 24th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.13 released ***
292 Corrections to TAB handling in notebooks.
294 Added scroll event to indicate when the thumb has
295 been released (as opposed to only changed).
297 Fixed crashes with GTK Pixmap theme.
299 Fixed endianness problems in image code.
301 Minor fixes for sockets related to GUI reentrance. Also
302 improved the IPV address class and added more error
303 checking and rekated things.
305 Many enhancements to wxHTML, more tags supported, better support
306 for non-western texts etc.
308 Corrected code handling mono-bitmaps and their conversion to
309 wxImage etc. Added experimental ConvertToMonoBitmap() to
312 Fixed a few minor problems in wxListCtrl.
314 The MIME-type code in now reads KDE and GNOME mime-type bindings
315 including icon information. This is used in the file dialog.
317 Small fix for problems with code that didn't changed the size of a
318 window, but its client size and thus sent no wxSizeEvent.
320 Fixed problem with shared contexts in OpenGl canvas.
322 Fixed keyboard handling in wxCheckListBox.
324 Corrected the completely unfunctional TIFF code.
326 Various minor corrections to wxWizard, wxCalendarCtrl and other
329 Revamped code for TCP based connections between programs.
331 Updates to the ODBC classes (George Tasker).
333 Build-fixes for various platforms and compilers.
335 *** 6th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.12 released ***
337 Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc or PowerPC) that runs a 15
338 and/or 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this
339 person could help me by running a small testprogram and sending
342 Improved support for GTK's themes, changes in font sizes (and
343 the dialogs' ability to react to that) and related things.
345 Added Calendar control.
347 Added classes for recoding text (e.g. from Windows encoding to ISO encoding
348 and for converting to and from Unicode).
350 Updated the 64-bit long class (a class that substitutes a 64-bit int
351 type on platforms which don't provide a native one).
353 Added wxImage::Replace() (for replacing colours) and wxImage::GetSubImage().
354 Also corrected conversion from mono bitmaps to wxImage.
356 Added wxBitmap::GetSubBitmap().
358 Removed some flicker from tree ctrl. Minor optical changes.
360 Added support for multiple font and colour support for items in
361 list ctrls and tree ctrls.
363 Added support for multiple-selection file dialog.
365 Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is
366 also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that.
368 Enhanced wxMimeTypesManager to read GNOME and KDE file ending
369 bindings to MIME types and icons.
371 Corrected wxExecute to longer eat up all memory and crash under
372 certain circumstances (Karsten Ballueder).
374 wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog
375 before entering the main loop.
377 Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some
378 more string related things.
380 Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective
381 stream classes. Documented some more stream classes.
383 Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing,
384 history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc).
386 Corrected wxRegion::GetBox().
388 Added wxNotebookSizer for combining notebooks and sizers.
390 Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst()
393 Fixed Y2000 bug in file dialog (sic.)
395 Added wxStopWatch class.
397 wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject.
399 Added inlined classes for 2D geometry calculations.
401 wxSpinCtrl now has its own event, intercepted using EVT_SPINCTRL.
403 The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they
404 are to use forward-only cursors or not.
406 Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate
407 have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDateTime.
409 Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the
410 thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or
411 if the main thread must delete the C++ class.
413 Added TIFF reading code, PCX writing code.
415 Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures.
417 Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and
418 centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer.
420 Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool.
422 Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for
423 setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream.
425 Added code to send events from one thread to another and added
426 function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread
429 Corrected wrongly set flag in dialogs which broke its tab code.
430 Also corrected navigation on wxRadioBox.
432 Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using
433 several such canvasses.
435 Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem.
437 Speed-up for new encoding related font code. Minor fixes.
439 Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by
440 the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message.
442 More minor changes and fixes.
444 Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner).
446 *** 7st November '99: wxWindows 2.1.11 released ***
448 There is still an unresolved problem with bitmap to image
449 conversion on big-endian architectures (such as Solaris),
450 where color values get exchanged. I'd need help on this
451 one as I have no BE computer.
453 Enlightment has struck the majority of the developers and
454 they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme
455 for wxWindows from now on. This means that the next stable
456 release will be called wxWindows 2.2.X, development snapshots
457 will be called 2.1.X.
459 A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a
460 once released stable version. It was almost universally
461 agreed that only a commercial entity will have the motivation
462 ($$$) to do that - so far there is no wxWindows Inc.
464 Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. This version has
465 been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it might
466 not work with some other versions.
468 Rewritten the support for multiple-format Drag'n'Drop and
469 clipboard under both GTK and MSW. There are probably some
470 problems here and there left.
472 wxListBox and wxChoice can now handle only either void
473 client data (which it will not delete on destruction) or
474 client data of the wxClientData type (which it will delete),
475 instead of both at the same time. The same will happen
476 to wxComboBox some time. Also, wxListBox can now sort its
479 Many build fixes for various platforms have been applied,
480 try again, poor AIX, HP-UX and *BSD users, but don't reckon
481 with immediate success. Actually, when using GNU compilers,
482 your chances are quite good.
484 My rewrite of the wxWindows underlying GTK widget
485 has turned scrolling including subwindows from barely
486 functional to pretty and fast. I also added scrolling
487 of foreign windows to wxScrolledWindow.
489 Setting size hints for the window manager might work now.
491 wxSocket and Co. have been improved up to the point of
492 calling it a rewrite. It works on wxMSW now too and
493 seems pretty stable, but testing is still welcome.
495 The ODBC classes contributed by Remstar Inc. have been
496 overhauled (incl the sample) and have been tested with
497 all relevant SQL databases (even DBase). For that reason
498 I have reawakened the iODBC code from wxGTK 2.0 so you
499 can now use wxODBC from wxMSW and wxGTK.
501 Several printing things fixed. More work needs to be done
504 HTML widget and the wxWindows' help system based upon
505 it have been reorganized and improved for easier use
506 from Python and C++. Also HTML printing has been added.
508 wxSpinCtrl added. Like a wxSpinButton and a wxTextCtrl.
510 Changed the beaviour of the popular new wxFileDialog to
511 not forget the once typed file name when changing the
514 Implemented the wxSIMPLE_BORDER flag (simple black line
515 without shadow affect).
517 Michael is writing a complete rewrite of the antiquated
518 wxGrid. This is still work-in-progress and might not make
519 it into wxWindows 2.2, we'll see. Help would be welcome
522 Made wxMenu code lose less memory, also added wxMenu::Delete().
524 Added code to send wxActivateEvent to MDI windows.
526 Vadim added configure things to compile wxWindows without any
527 GUI library. This is probably work in progress. He'll also add
528 a wxFontEnumerator class and has enhanced wxFont to make use
531 wxSlider, wxWindow, wxScrollBar now emit the correct events
532 for scrolling (like page up, line up etc) instead of just
533 "thumb-track" as before.
535 Corrected Reparent() code, including the special case for
536 wxToolBar (as the toolbar sits in a different window than
539 Corrected key accelerator code for toplevel child windows
540 and added support for more key combinations - pretty much
543 Corrected cursor handling in a number of special cases.
545 wxGLCanvas now waits until all expose events have been sent
546 and then emits its own redraw event. Also removed flicker
547 for wxGLCanvas and in some other places.
549 A handler to read PCX file (in most variants) has been added.
551 A number of problems with compressed and socket streams have
554 Changed behavour of wxTextStream to make use of deliminators
555 and default to space as the standard C++ stream do.
557 Changes to tab traversal code to better reflect MSW code.
559 Corrected problems with wxGenericValidator and certain controls.
561 Made default button action work in more cases.
563 28th August '99: Ninth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
565 As the old makefile system didn't work, I trashed it and wrote
566 a new one - mo more GNU. This, of course, caused a lot of people
567 to start sing their song of complaints - any change is a good
568 opportunity to complain, but the effect of the change is that
569 we now have shared library support on Linux and Solaris (and
570 probably others as well) and that the Linux shared library no
571 longer depends on libstdc++, so that we can finally create an
572 RPM that works on different Linux distributions. Also, the
573 Unix make system is now much simpler and directly mirrors its
574 Windows counterparts, making it easier to understand and maintain.
575 As it is independent of the various GNU tools, the requirements
576 for using CVS versions are also much less (any make, any compiler,
579 Split RPMs into two, one for run-time requirements and one
580 for developement (mostly headers).
582 Addition of new layout classes that work like Java's, GTK's
583 or Qt`s - basically, you pack item in a box and let it tell
584 you how much space it needs. These class are called wxSizer
585 and I consider them a great addition as they make true cross-
586 platform dialogs a child's play and are very quick to write
587 and easy to read. Do consider using them.
589 Rewritten all dialogs to make use of the new sizers. Also
590 added a new wxFileDialog like Win95 and replaced the generic
591 wxFontDialog with GTK's native font selection dialog - this
592 probably isn't perfect though.
594 A few more fixes to wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, implemented
595 more options and modes like the wxMSW version.
597 New handler for PNM files. Added CanRead() function to image
598 handlers, updates to GIF handler for preparing the new wxAnimation
599 class. We'll also get a PCX and hopefully a TIFF handler so
600 that we support all common general-purpose file formats I know
601 about. PhotoShop and PhotoPaint images are not general purpose.
602 I also tried to correct a wxImage bug in connection with big-endian
603 vs. little-endian problems, but I have no Sparc to actually test
606 Inclusion of wxMultiMedia. Can play most sound formats on GTK
607 and MSW and (using xanim on Unix and Win95's MM functions)
608 display a video in a wxWindow. This will probably be moved to
611 Small updates to socket code. The MSW version is still missing.
613 Implemented wxBitmapDataObject class.
615 Added wxFFileStream using FILE* instead if file desrcriptor.
616 Useful for creating a "cerr" like class as in normal C++.
617 Also added "endl" for use with wxTextStream and fixed a few
618 minor problems with buffered streams etc.
620 Corrected Tabbing code in wxPanel and made it work with wxNotebook.
622 Small cursor fixes in connection with text control.
624 Added experimental wxWizard class. Work in progress.
626 A few more minor fixes.
628 6th August '99: Eight wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
630 The new makefile system is not able to produce shared libraries
631 on Unix with the exception of Linux - libtool is really great.
632 Therefore, the build system defaults to static libraries on
633 anything but Linux for now.
635 Work in wxPen, wxBrush and wxDC to match wxMSW more exactly and
636 to implement missing feature etc.
638 Reimplemented radio buttons. The first of a group of such buttons
639 is now marked by having the wxRB_GROUP style.
641 Complete redesign of all stream classes, including tests for them
644 Controls now send the same messages (or more importantly none if
645 changed programmatically) as per wxMSW.
647 New implementation of wxSocket using an intermediate library called
648 GSocket. This willl hopefully change in the future.
650 Reworked in-place editing of wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl.
652 Fixed bug reporting two refreshes when scrolling.
654 Corrected bug in wxComboBox client data code.
656 Corrected reported but unverified bug in BMP loading code.
658 Added a few more methods to wxStaticBitmap.
660 Integration of wxHTML code in the main library, including wxZIPStream,
661 wxFilesystem, wxHTMLHelpController and others.
663 Added a wrapper for ffile() etc functions.
665 Updates to wxDynamicLibrary.
669 New version of wxPython, of course.
671 Fixed in unenclosed number of other bugs...
673 25th June '99: Seventh wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
675 Many fixes to th new makefile system. The last version gave
676 immediate crashes on all Unices except Linux when linked
677 dynamically against an application. I reordered the object
678 files in the library as I guess that this was the cause.
680 Added icons to message box. This also slightly killed the
681 layout so this needs to be changed again.
683 wxGTK now chooses the best visual available on the display instead
686 Fixed wxProgressDialog again.
688 Some more corrections I forgot.
690 New wxPython (includes new layout system and printing).
692 15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
695 The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile
696 system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake
697 is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that
698 people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The
699 new makefile sytem also handles dependencies correctly, allows for
700 shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for
701 concurrent builds wihtin one source tree, uses libtool for greater
702 shared-library platform support, has a functinonal "make uninstall",
703 works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards
704 as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to
707 Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2.
709 Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping
710 with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample.
711 Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on
714 Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare
715 RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask,
716 corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible
717 to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't
718 make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.)
720 Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard
723 Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out
724 of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug).
726 Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions
729 Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal().
731 Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made
732 this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed
733 a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for
736 Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame
739 Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's
740 sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this
741 is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors
744 New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items.
746 Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections
747 and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not
748 exist in the native Win32 tree control.
750 Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed
751 another cursor misbehaviour.
753 Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes
754 in wxWindows 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of
755 cross-platform issues as well as platform differences.
757 Many other fixes, mainly by others...
759 Further compile fixes for different architectures.
763 25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
767 This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny
768 times to make wxGTK work well with different micro
769 versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible.
770 All versions give warnings, although their number might
771 vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get wanrnings in
772 one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in
773 GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings
774 getting spitted out for what seems like no reason.
776 This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of
777 headers, meaning that in the future all ports will
778 use the same headers and will share a lot more code.
779 We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and
780 hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported
781 primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin).
783 Rewritten char and key event propagation routines
784 to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK
785 as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars
786 and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you
787 are interested in which key actually got pressed,
788 intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer).
790 Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer
791 get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary
792 negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes.
794 wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the
795 wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent
796 so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders
797 or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur.
799 Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background
800 work such as printing.
802 Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of
803 which show some misbehaviours...
805 When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses
806 GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical
807 mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some
808 rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then
809 you should change wxINVERT.
811 Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation.
813 More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly
816 You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well,
817 at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look
818 at the threads sample.
820 wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists
821 over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker.
824 wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches
825 wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page
826 number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent
827 switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also,
828 wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty.
830 Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel).
832 Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when
833 given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser).
835 Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard,
836 wxString, wxThreads and many others.
838 Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release...
842 11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
845 This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread,
846 and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window
847 placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now.
849 Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finshed).
851 Updated wxPython to beta 9.
853 Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now...
855 wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't
856 yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows
857 (although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly
858 due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well).
862 Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard
863 handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow.
865 By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much
866 *** different in the final wxWindows 2.1 release. Please test as ***
869 The next release will have a new build system.
873 3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
876 Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt.
878 Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in
879 both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim.
881 Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental
882 wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS).
884 New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1.
885 This now includes a very comprensive test/demo suite. Thanks to
886 Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man...
888 More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets.
890 Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental).
891 Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux.
893 wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does,
894 indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys
895 such as in wxXt and wxMSW.
897 Rewritten MDI subsystem.
899 Correcetions and additions to the printing framework including
900 a paper type database (Julian).
902 Several controls now support more style flags for modifying
903 look (and feel) of the controls and windows.
905 New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle
906 event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which
907 is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly.
908 This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having
909 to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to
910 the application if desired.
912 wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWindows) now accepts keyboard input.
914 The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved.
918 21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
921 Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very
922 cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then
923 you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode".
925 More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible
928 Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging
929 and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite
930 good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing.
931 I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken
932 and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it.
934 I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been
935 added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In
936 the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on
937 the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will
938 ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading
939 of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten
940 different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the
941 PNG code to the newest PNG version.
943 wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by
944 GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics
947 Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed
948 to only with GTK 1.2.1 now.
950 wxPython still doesn't compile, I think.
954 12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
957 This is the first developers' version of wxWindows 2.1 for GTK. It's main
958 new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which
959 will make development within the GNOME evironment a lot easier.
961 Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were
962 required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been
963 made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard,
964 wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig)
965 and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with
966 scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab
967 traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets).
969 There have been slight changes to the priting dialogs and their
970 setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous
971 versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed
972 (actually not tested).
974 Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not
975 to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are,
976 pf course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate
979 I think I preserved backward compatility with GTK 1.0 and if not it
980 should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care.
982 Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently
983 doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to
986 Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure
987 system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duppah frame layout
988 stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME
989 gooddies, possibly world domination.
993 *** 5th March '99: wxWindows 2.0 released ***
996 This is the final version of wxWindows 2.0 for GTK. The versions for
997 Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's
998 site. The Mac version is still under development.
1002 *** 19th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 5 ***
1005 This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
1006 updates for documentation.
1008 Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers).
1012 *** 12th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 4 ***
1015 This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
1016 updates for documentation.
1018 Tracked a few more cases, where the bahaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK
1019 differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as
1020 for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some
1021 other minor details.
1023 Most standard dialogs have been face-liftet a little.
1025 Implememted default buttons for GTK.
1027 Fixed many bugs. You guessed it.
1031 *** 29th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 3 ***
1034 This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes.
1036 There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that
1037 it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in
1038 GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that
1039 we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although
1040 we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWindows 2.0 (being
1041 based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support.
1043 The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely
1044 rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works
1047 Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added.
1049 There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and
1050 Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying...
1052 Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the
1055 The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless.
1057 A few member functions of wxString have been renamed.
1059 For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which
1060 now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK
1061 now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the
1062 generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times.
1064 It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header
1065 files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer
1066 is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled
1067 with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will not work in
1068 SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package.
1072 *** 6th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 2 ***
1075 This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and
1076 bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems,
1077 commercial Unices and Windows.
1081 *** 20th December '98: wxWindows 2.0 beta 1 ***
1084 This is the first beta release and we have used the time before
1085 this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from
1086 now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility
1087 for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of
1088 the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent
1089 conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release
1090 we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any
1091 program statically with wxGTK.
1093 We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of
1094 the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous
1095 versions of wxWindows for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on.
1097 As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different
1098 development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll
1099 wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting
1102 wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on
1103 Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't
1104 as easy as it sounds...
1106 Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWindows.
1107 Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution.
1108 Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say.
1110 Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished
1111 up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and
1112 all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions
1113 much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is fucntional but probably won't
1114 be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features.
1116 wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been
1117 tested carefully yet.
1119 wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars
1120 etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to
1121 include his very nice work later.
1123 wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden).
1125 The entite "tab traveral" system for moving from item to item in
1126 a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the
1127 not-so-well-done GTK native tab system.
1129 Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now
1130 available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related
1131 to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale
1132 bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context
1135 Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have
1136 received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible
1137 to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc)
1138 has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also
1139 greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and
1142 We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour)
1143 which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users
1144 resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these
1147 As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples
1148 is steadialy rising the core classes of wxWindows for MSW and GTK 1.0
1149 can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't
1150 seen a crash for weeks now and wxWindows' internal debug features also
1151 have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost
1152 completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself
1153 (when in debug mode).