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14 <h1><a name=
"x">2.5.1.x
</a></h1>
15 <p>(See also the MigrationGuide.txt file for details about some of the
16 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
18 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
19 to wxWindows
2.5 that I have forgotten about.
</p>
20 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.
</p>
21 <p>Added wxIconLocation
</p>
22 <p>Added Python wrappers for the new wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox, and
23 wxHtmlListBox classes.
</p>
24 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
26 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
27 wx.lib.plot module.
</p>
28 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
29 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
30 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
</p>
31 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake in
32 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. They are also
33 installing icons and
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">*.desktop
</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and GNOME
34 locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu items on
35 non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my RH-
9 build
36 box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas for how to
37 improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more distros please
39 <p>The RPMs are now built on a RH-
9 box, and I have tested installing
40 them also on my main Mandrake
9.2 box.
</p>
41 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
42 Installer package now
<em>only
</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
43 extension modules and pacakges, and also the command-line tool
44 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
45 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
46 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
48 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
51 <div class=
"section" id=
"id1">
52 <h1><a name=
"id1">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
53 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
</p>
54 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
</p>
55 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
56 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
</p>
57 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
</p>
58 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
</p>
59 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
</p>
61 <div class=
"section" id=
"id2">
62 <h1><a name=
"id2">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
63 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
</p>
64 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
</p>
65 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
66 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">spam(*args,
</span> <span class=
"pre">**kw)
</span></tt> syntax
67 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
69 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
70 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
71 and wxWindows match.
</p>
72 <p>Added the new wx
"renamer
" package that will dynamically import from
73 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --
> FooBar. That means that
74 people can do imports without
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> and can use names like
75 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase
1 of a full transition
76 to the new namespace.
</p>
77 <p>Updated Scintilla to
1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
78 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
79 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
80 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
</p>
81 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
82 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
83 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as
"from wxPython
84 import py
" (or
"from wx import py
" using the new namespace.) There
85 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
86 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
87 package. These will be removed in a future release.
</p>
88 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
89 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
90 code like
"if obj: ...
" to be the same as
"if obj.IsOk(): ...
"</p>
91 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
</p>
92 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
93 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
</p>
94 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
95 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
</p>
96 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
97 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
</p>
98 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
99 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
101 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
102 a call to any Python callable object.
</p>
103 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
104 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
105 to override the C++ virtual methods.
</p>
106 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
107 the
"option
" parameter to
"proportion
" to match the docs (
"option
" is
108 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
109 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter,
110 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter
</p>
111 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.
</p>
113 <div class=
"section" id=
"id3">
114 <h1><a name=
"id3">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
115 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
116 TRUE/FALSE values.
</p>
117 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
118 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
119 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a
16-bit value.
</p>
120 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
122 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
124 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
126 <p>Updated PyCrust to version
0.9</p>
127 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
128 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
129 default behavior) is enough. See below in the
2.3.4.1 notes for more
132 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">
133 <h1><a 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>
134 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
135 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
136 think I am testing in the future...
</p>
138 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">
139 <h1><a 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>
140 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.
</p>
141 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.
</p>
142 <p>Updated to
0.9b of PyCrust.
</p>
144 <div class=
"section" id=
"id4">
145 <h1><a name=
"id4">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
146 <p>Added missing wxRect methods
</p>
147 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
</p>
148 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
</p>
149 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
150 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
151 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
153 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
155 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
</p>
156 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
157 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
158 the parent window.
</p>
159 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
</p>
160 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
162 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
</p>
163 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
164 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
165 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
166 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
167 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
168 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
169 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
170 static stable in the C++ class.
</p>
171 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
172 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
173 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
174 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
176 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
177 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
178 always call them. The functions are:
</p>
180 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
181 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
182 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
183 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
184 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
185 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
186 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
187 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
188 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
189 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
190 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
191 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
</blockquote>
192 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
193 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
</p>
194 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
195 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
196 doesn't have a standard place for them.
</p>
197 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
</p>
198 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
</p>
199 <p>Updated to the
0.9a version of PyCrust
</p>
201 <div class=
"section" id=
"id5">
202 <h1><a name=
"id5">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
203 <p>Several bug fixes.
</p>
204 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
205 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
</p>
207 <div class=
"section" id=
"id6">
208 <h1><a name=
"id6">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
209 <p>No major new features since
2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
211 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
212 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
</p>
214 <div class=
"section" id=
"id7">
215 <h1><a name=
"id7">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
216 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
218 <div class=
"section" id=
"id8">
219 <h1><a name=
"id8">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
220 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
</p>
221 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
</p>
222 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
</p>
223 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.
</p>
224 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
225 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
226 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
227 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
228 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
229 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
230 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
231 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
232 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
233 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
234 you can use to play with this new feature.
</p>
235 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
236 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
237 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
238 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
239 the old
"final
" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
240 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
241 2.3.3.1 and prior
"hybrid
" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
242 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
</p>
243 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
244 derived from wxApp.
</p>
245 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
246 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
248 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
</p>
249 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
250 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
251 they did before
2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
252 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
253 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
</p>
254 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
</p>
255 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
</p>
256 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
</p>
257 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
258 "Pythonic
" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
259 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
</p>
260 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
261 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
262 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
</p>
263 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
264 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
</p>
265 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
266 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
267 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
268 windows when desired.
</p>
269 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
270 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
271 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
</p>
273 <div class=
"section" id=
"id9">
274 <h1><a name=
"id9">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
275 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.
</p>
276 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
</p>
277 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
</p>
278 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
279 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
280 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
</p>
281 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
282 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
283 be loaded from any Python
"file-like
" object.
</p>
284 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
285 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
286 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
</p>
287 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
288 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
289 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
290 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
291 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
293 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
</p>
294 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.
</p>
295 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla
1.40 to Scintilla
1.45, and then again
296 to version
1.47, and one more time to
1.48!
<wink
></p>
299 <dd><p class=
"first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
300 disabled. Previous to wxPython
2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
301 used. Starting with
2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
302 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
303 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
304 the recent release of GTK+
2.0 it is only a matter of time until
305 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
</p>
306 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
307 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
308 same unicode binaries on win95/
98/ME platforms as well! This is
309 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
310 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
311 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
312 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
313 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
314 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
315 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
316 unicode build on win95.
</p>
317 <p class=
"last">So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
318 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
319 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
320 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
321 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
322 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
323 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
324 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
325 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
326 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
330 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
</p>
331 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
</p>
332 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
</p>
333 <p>A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
334 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
335 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
336 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
337 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
338 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
339 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
340 for any class that is OOR aware.
</p>
341 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
342 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
344 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
345 the image data. (Patch #
546009)
</p>
346 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
348 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
349 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
350 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
363 TransferDataFromWindow
367 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
371 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
372 please let me know.
</p>
374 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
375 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
</p>
376 <p>Added wxArtProvider.
</p>
377 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
378 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
379 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
380 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
381 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
</p>
382 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
</p>
383 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
384 creating a ScrolledPanel.
</p>
385 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
386 other menu stuff.
</p>
387 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
388 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
389 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
390 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
</p>
391 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
392 modules make a
"callback
" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
393 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
394 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
395 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
</p>
396 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
397 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
398 respond to mouse events and etc.
</p>
399 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -
1
400 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
</p>
401 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
402 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
403 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
404 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
405 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
406 started with just the
"pycrust
" command.
</p>
407 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
408 displays the details of the event.
</p>
409 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
</p>
410 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
411 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
413 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
</p>
414 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
416 <div class=
"section" id=
"id10">
417 <h1><a name=
"id10">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
418 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
419 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
420 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
</p>
421 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.
</p>
423 <div class=
"section" id=
"id11">
424 <h1><a name=
"id11">2.3.2</a></h1>
425 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
426 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
427 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
428 and a demo to show them in action.
</p>
429 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
430 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/
</a>. )
</p>
431 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
</p>
432 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
</p>
433 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
435 <p>Added a new
"constructor
" to most of the window classes that calls the
436 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
437 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a
2-step
438 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
439 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
440 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
441 resource. The name of the new
"constructor
" is the original name of
442 the class with a
"Pre
" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
444 <p>Updated to version
1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
445 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
446 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
447 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
448 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
449 wxSTC flag accordingly.
</p>
450 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
451 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
452 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
</p>
453 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
</p>
454 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
</p>
455 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.
</p>
456 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
457 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
458 multi-processor machine.
</p>
459 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
460 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
</p>
461 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
</p>
462 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
463 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
464 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
465 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
466 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
467 original C++ pointer.
</p>
468 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
470 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
</p>
471 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
472 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
</p>
473 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
474 and from web browsers. It's still not
100% bullet-proof for all types
475 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
476 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape
4.x works,
477 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
479 <p>Added wxStopWatch.
</p>
480 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
</p>
481 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
482 will now Disconnect the event.
</p>
483 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
</p>
484 <p>Added wxFileHistory.
</p>
485 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
486 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
487 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
489 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
</p>
490 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
492 <p>Added the
"SplitTree gizmos
" which are a collection of classes that
493 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
494 additional columns for each item. The classes are
495 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
496 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
497 also be useful by themselves.
</p>
498 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
499 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
500 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
501 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
502 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
503 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
506 <div class=
"section" id=
"id12">
507 <h1><a name=
"id12">2.3.1</a></h1>
508 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
509 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
510 on a custom event handler for example.)
</p>
511 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
512 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
513 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
514 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
</p>
515 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
</p>
516 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
</p>
517 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python
2.1.
</p>
518 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
</p>
520 <div class=
"section" id=
"id13">
521 <h1><a name=
"id13">2.3.0</a></h1>
522 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
523 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
</p>
524 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
525 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
527 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
</p>
528 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
529 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
531 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
532 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
533 access from non-GUI threads.
</p>
534 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
535 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
</p>
536 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
</p>
537 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
538 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
</p>
539 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
540 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
</p>
541 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
542 it gobs faster in certain situations.
</p>
543 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
544 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
545 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
546 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
547 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
548 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
549 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
550 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
551 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
552 the implementation.
</p>
553 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
554 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
556 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
557 the distutils that comes with Python
2.1.
</p>
558 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
</p>
559 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
</p>
560 <p>Added wxToggleButton.
</p>
561 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
</p>
563 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:
</dt>
564 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
565 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
566 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
567 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
569 GetGridRowLabelWindow
570 GetGridColLabelWindow
571 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
</dd>
573 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
574 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
575 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
</p>
578 <dd><p class=
"first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
579 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
580 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
581 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
582 "proper type
" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
583 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
584 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
585 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
586 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
587 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
588 will probably only work on Python
2.1 and beyond because it will
589 use weak references.)
</p>
590 <p class=
"last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
591 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
592 be transparent to you, however I'm not
100% sure that it didn't
593 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
594 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
595 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
596 object-type related oddities to me.
</p>
599 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
600 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
601 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
602 finally got done.
</p>
603 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
604 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
</p>
605 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
</p>
607 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
608 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
609 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
610 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
611 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
612 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
</p>
613 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
614 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
615 wxPython/samples.
</p>
617 <div class=
"section" id=
"id14">
618 <h1><a name=
"id14">2.2.6</a></h1>
619 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
620 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
</p>
622 <div class=
"section" id=
"id15">
623 <h1><a name=
"id15">2.2.5</a></h1>
624 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python
2.0 and beyond
625 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
626 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
627 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
</p>
628 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
</p>
629 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
</p>
630 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
631 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
</p>
632 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
633 column in report mode.
</p>
634 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
635 bar after
2 seconds.
</p>
636 <p>Added wxJoystick.
</p>
637 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
638 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
639 object, (usually a window.)
</p>
640 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
</p>
641 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
</p>
642 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
643 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
644 the
"export
" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
645 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
646 libraries. Should also be usable from
3rd party code, just include
647 wxPython/src/export.h
</p>
648 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
649 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
650 utils. Will probably add more later.
</p>
651 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
652 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
653 wxPrinterDC2 name.
</p>
654 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
655 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
</p>
656 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
</p>
657 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
658 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
</p>
659 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
660 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
663 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-2">
664 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-2">New in
2.2.2</a></h1>
665 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
666 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
667 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
668 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
669 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
670 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
671 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
672 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
674 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
675 of the distribution files. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
</a>)
676 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
677 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
678 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
679 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
680 wxPython for Python
1.5.2 or for
1.6, then you will need to get and
681 install version
1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
682 using Python
2.0 then you already have it.
</p>
683 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
684 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
</p>
685 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
686 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
687 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
689 <p>Removed the old python sizers.
</p>
690 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
692 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
693 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
694 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
</p>
695 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.
</p>
696 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
697 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
698 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
</p>
700 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-1">
701 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-1">New in
2.2.1</a></h1>
702 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
</p>
703 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
</p>
705 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-0">
706 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-0">New in
2.2.0</a></h1>
707 <p>Added wxLog and friends.
</p>
708 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
</p>
709 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
</p>
711 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-16">
712 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-16">New in
2.1.16</a></h1>
713 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
714 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
716 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
</p>
717 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
</p>
718 <p>Added wxDragImage.
</p>
719 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.
</p>
720 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
</p>
721 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.
</p>
722 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
723 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
724 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
725 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
726 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
727 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
728 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
729 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
</p>
741 OnScroll
</blockquote>
742 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.
</p>
744 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-15">
745 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-15">New in
2.1.15</a></h1>
746 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
747 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
</p>
748 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
750 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
751 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
</p>
752 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
</p>
753 <p>Plugged a memory leak.
</p>
754 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
755 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
756 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
757 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
759 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
760 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
761 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
</p>
762 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
763 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
764 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
765 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
766 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
767 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
768 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
769 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
771 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
772 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
773 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
774 "#RRGGBB
". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
</p>
775 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
776 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
777 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
778 but I've included a very readable source file in the
779 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
780 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
781 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
</a> to help fill in the gaps
782 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
783 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
</p>
785 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">
786 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in
2.1.13</a></h1>
787 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
</p>
788 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
789 and some flicker problems.
</p>
790 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
791 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/
</a>)
</p>
792 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
793 "which
" parameter.
</p>
794 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
795 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
796 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
797 with wxWindow.GetParent.
</p>
798 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
799 It is used like this:
</p>
801 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
</blockquote>
802 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
803 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
</p>
804 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
</p>
805 <p>Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
</p>
806 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
807 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
808 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
809 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
810 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
811 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
</p>
812 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
813 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
814 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
815 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
816 methods look like this:
</p>
819 <dt>def AddTool(ID,
</dt>
821 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
824 shortHelpString =
"",
825 longHelpString =
"")
</dd>
826 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,
</dt>
828 shortHelpString =
"",
829 longHelpString =
"",
833 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
834 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
</p>
835 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
</p>
836 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
</p>
837 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
838 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
839 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:
9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL
</a>.
</p>
840 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.
</p>
841 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
843 <p>Changed all the
"LIST
" parameter names to
"choices
" to match the docs.
</p>
844 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
845 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
846 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
</p>
848 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">
849 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in
2.1.11</a></h1>
850 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
852 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
853 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
855 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
856 being added. This should remove the need for our
857 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
</p>
858 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
859 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
860 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
861 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
862 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
</p>
863 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
</p>
864 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.
</p>
865 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle
</p>
866 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
867 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
868 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
870 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
871 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
872 thread from other threads.
</p>
873 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
</p>
874 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.
</p>
875 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
</p>
876 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
877 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
</p>
878 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
</p>
879 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
881 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
</p>
883 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">
884 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in
2.1.5</a></h1>
885 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
886 crept in at the last minute before
2.1.4 was called done. No new
889 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">
890 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in
2.1.4</a></h1>
891 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
892 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
893 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
894 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>)
895 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
896 the wxPy-
2-
1-
4 tag.
</p>
897 <p>Now back to what's new...
</p>
898 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
</p>
899 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
</p>
900 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a
<em>copy
</em>
901 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
902 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
903 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
904 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
906 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
907 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
908 default sort order.
</p>
909 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
910 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
911 example, the following are equivallent:
</p>
913 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(
100,
100))
914 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (
100,
100))
</blockquote>
915 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
916 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
917 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
918 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
919 pages. See the demo for an example.
</p>
920 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
921 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
</p>
922 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
</p>
923 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
924 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
925 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
926 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
927 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
928 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
929 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
930 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
931 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
932 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
933 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
935 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
936 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
937 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
938 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
939 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
940 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
941 for more info and examples in future releases.
</p>
942 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
943 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
944 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
945 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
946 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
947 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
949 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
950 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
951 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
952 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
953 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
954 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
955 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
956 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
957 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
958 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
959 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
</p>
960 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
961 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
962 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
963 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
964 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
965 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
966 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
967 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
968 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
969 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
970 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
971 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
972 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
973 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
974 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
975 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
</p>
978 <dt>class MyApp(wxApp):
</dt>
979 <dd><p class=
"first">outputWindowClass = MyClass
</p>
981 <dt>def OnInit(self):
</dt>
982 <dd>frame = MyFrame()
983 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
989 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
990 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
991 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
992 to really screw things up.
</p>
993 <p>Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
994 in the wxWindows docs...
</p>
995 <p>Some new
3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
996 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
997 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
998 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
999 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1000 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1001 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1004 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">
1005 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in
2.1b3
</a></h1>
1006 <p>This release is syncronized with release
2.1 snapshot
9 of wxWindows.
</p>
1007 <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>)
1008 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1009 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1010 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1014 <li><p class=
"first">Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1015 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1016 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
</p>
1018 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -
1, style = mystyle)
</p>
1021 <li><p class=
"first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1022 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1023 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1024 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
</p>
1028 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1029 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1030 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1031 see distrib/build.py for more details.
</p>
1032 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1033 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1034 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1035 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
</p>
1037 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">
1038 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in
2.1b2
</a></h1>
1039 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
</p>
1040 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1041 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1042 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1043 It was only a
1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1044 line
496 if you want to do it by hand.
</p>
1045 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1046 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1047 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1048 is being unloaded by Python.
</p>
1049 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1050 make wxPython look bad.
</p>
1051 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1052 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
</p>
1053 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
</p>
1054 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1055 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
</p>
1056 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1057 code to show how to use it.
</p>
1058 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1060 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells
</p>
1061 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1062 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
</p>
1063 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1064 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
</p>
1066 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
</dt>
1067 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth =
1)
</dd>
1069 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1070 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1071 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
</p>
1072 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1074 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
</p>
1075 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1076 for unix systems.
</p>
1077 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
</p>
1078 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
1081 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">
1082 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in
2.1b1
</a></h1>
1083 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1084 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1085 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
</p>
1086 <p>Added the Printing Framework.
</p>
1087 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1088 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1089 data after loading each extension module.
</p>
1090 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1091 wxWindows classes.
</p>
1092 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1093 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1094 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
</p>
1095 <p>wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1096 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1097 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1098 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
</p>
1100 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">
1101 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in
2.0b9
</a></h1>
1102 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
</p>
1103 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1104 wxPython application.
</p>
1105 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
</p>
1106 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1107 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1108 this feature off.
</p>
1109 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.
</p>
1110 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
</p>
1111 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1112 how it all works.
</p>
1113 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1114 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
</p>
1115 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.
</p>
1116 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1117 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
</p>
1118 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
1119 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1122 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">
1123 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in
2.0b8
</a></h1>
1124 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
</p>
1125 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.
</p>
1126 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
1128 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">
1129 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in
2.0b7
</a></h1>
1130 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
</p>
1131 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
</p>
1133 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">
1134 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in
2.0b6
</a></h1>
1135 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1136 Python
1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
</p>
1138 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">
1139 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in
2.0b5
</a></h1>
1140 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1141 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1142 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1143 wxWindows
1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1144 with the
2.0 version of wxWindows.
</p>
1145 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1146 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1147 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1148 diverges from wxWindows.
</p>
1149 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1150 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1151 it should just work... More news on this later.
</p>
1152 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
</p>
1153 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1154 wxRegConfig class.
</p>
1155 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
</p>
1157 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">
1158 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in
0.5.3</a></h1>
1159 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
</p>
1160 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1161 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
</p>
1163 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">
1164 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in
0.5.0</a></h1>
1165 <p>Changed the import semantics from
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> to
1166 <tt class=
"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
1167 namespace pollution, they can use
"from wxPython import wx
" and then
1168 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with
"wx.
"</p>
1169 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
</p>
1170 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.
</p>
1171 <p>Added wxConfig.
</p>
1172 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
</p>
1173 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1174 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
</p>
1175 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.
</p>
1177 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">
1178 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in
0.4.2</a></h1>
1179 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1180 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1181 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl">H.v.d.Heijden
@phys.tue.nl
</a>> for his astute detective work on tracking
1182 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1183 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1184 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
</p>
1185 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1186 must have been a different issue all along...
</p>
1188 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">
1189 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in
0.4</a></h1>
1190 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1191 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1192 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1193 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1194 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1195 version segfault shortly after starting up.
</p>
1196 <ol class=
"arabic simple" start=
"2">
1197 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
</li>
1198 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
</li>
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"footer" />
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"footer">
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