2 24th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.13 released
4 Corrections to TAB handling in notebooks.
6 Added scroll event to indicate when the thumb has
7 been released (as opposed to only changed).
9 Fixed crashes with GTK Pixmap theme.
11 Fixed endianness problems in image code.
13 Minor fixes for sockets related to GUI reentrance. Also
14 improved the IPV address class and added more error
15 checking and rekated things.
17 Many enhancements to wxHTML, more tags supported, better support
18 for non-western texts etc.
20 Corrected code handling mono-bitmaps and their conversion to
21 wxImage etc. Added experimental ConvertToMonoBitmap() to
24 Fixed a few minor problems in wxListCtrl.
26 The MIME-type code in now reads KDE and GNOME mime-type bindings
27 including icon information. This is used in the file dialog.
29 Small fix for problems with code that didn't changed the size of a
30 window, but its client size and thus sent no wxSizeEvent.
32 Fixed problem with shared contexts in OpenGl canvas.
34 Fixed keyboard handling in wxCheckListBox.
36 Corrected the completely unfunctional TIFF code.
38 Various minor corrections to wxWizard, wxCalendarCtrl and other
41 Revamped code for TCP based connections between programs.
43 Updates to the ODBC classes (George Tasker).
45 Build-fixes for various platforms and compilers.
47 6th January '2000: wxWindows 2.1.12 released
49 Who has a BigEndian computer (e.g. Sparc or PowerPC) that runs a 15
50 and/or 16 bit colour mode? I need this for testing purposes, i.e. this
51 person could help me by running a small testprogram and sending
54 Improved support for GTK's themes, changes in font sizes (and
55 the dialogs' ability to react to that) and related things.
57 Added Calendar control.
59 Added classes for recoding text (e.g. from Windows encoding to ISO encoding
60 and for converting to and from Unicode).
62 Updated the 64-bit long class (a class that substitutes a 64-bit int
63 type on platforms which don't provide a native one).
65 Added wxImage::Replace() (for replacing colours) and wxImage::GetSubImage().
66 Also corrected conversion from mono bitmaps to wxImage.
68 Added wxBitmap::GetSubBitmap().
70 Removed some flicker from tree ctrl. Minor optical changes.
72 Added support for multiple font and colour support for items in
73 list ctrls and tree ctrls.
75 Added support for multiple-selection file dialog.
77 Implemented wxMenuBar::Insert() and wxMenu::Insert(). There is
78 also a Remove() method now, but the GTK doesn't really like that.
80 Enhanced wxMimeTypesManager to read GNOME and KDE file ending
81 bindings to MIME types and icons.
83 Corrected wxExecute to longer eat up all memory and crash under
84 certain circumstances (Karsten Ballueder).
86 wxGTK no longer gives warnings if the application shows a dialog
87 before entering the main loop.
89 Added string to long/ulong/float conversion routines and some
90 more string related things.
92 Updated documentation for wxFile, wxFFile and their respective
93 stream classes. Documented some more stream classes.
95 Improved wxHTML and its help system. Options dialog, better printing,
96 history index. Also implemented more (cite, definition lists, etc).
98 Corrected wxRegion::GetBox().
100 Added wxNotebookSizer for combining notebooks and sizers.
102 Added wxDir class. Useful as a replacement for wxFileGetFirst()
105 Fixed Y2000 bug in file dialog (sic.)
107 Added wxStopWatch class.
109 wxBitmap now derives from wxGDIObject.
111 Added inlined classes for 2D geometry calculations.
113 wxSpinCtrl now has its own event, intercepted using EVT_SPINCTRL.
115 The ODBC classes can now be configured at run-time if they
116 are to use forward-only cursors or not.
118 Added wxDateTime class. The existing classes wxTime and wxDate
119 have been reimplemented and corrected using wxDateTime.
121 Rewritten wxThread to have a flag controlling if the
122 thread will delete its C++ class itself ("delete this") or
123 if the main thread must delete the C++ class.
125 Added TIFF reading code, PCX writing code.
127 Minor compile and build fixes for different architectures.
129 Added more flags to wxSizer for proportional sizing and
130 centering and alignment combination and a wxNotebookSizer.
132 Added controls to wxToolBars (e.g. combobox) and DeleteTool.
134 Fixed several problems with buffered streams. Added support for
135 setting the end-of-line mode (Mac,DOS,Unix) in wxTextOutputStream.
137 Added code to send events from one thread to another and added
138 function to wake up idle system (needed for sending inter-thread
141 Corrected wrongly set flag in dialogs which broke its tab code.
142 Also corrected navigation on wxRadioBox.
144 Corrected segfaults in wxGLCanvas and stupid race when using
145 several such canvasses.
147 Some minor updates to wxSockets. Fixed timeout problem.
149 Speed-up for new encoding related font code. Minor fixes.
151 Changed wxListBox to send deferred events, i.e. events emitted by
152 the listbox won't get processed before the next idle message.
154 More minor changes and fixes.
156 Began work on a new dialog and resource editor (wxDesigner).
158 7st November '99: wxWindows 2.1.11 released
160 There is still an unresolved problem with bitmap to image
161 conversion on big-endian architectures (such as Solaris),
162 where color values get exchanged. I'd need help on this
163 one as I have no BE computer.
165 Enlightment has struck the majority of the developers and
166 they have chosen to use the Linux kernel numbering scheme
167 for wxWindows from now on. This means that the next stable
168 release will be called wxWindows 2.2.X, development snapshots
169 will be called 2.1.X.
171 A lot of discussion has been wasted on how to maintain a
172 once released stable version. It was almost universally
173 agreed that only a commercial entity will have the motivation
174 ($$$) to do that - so far there is no wxWindows Inc.
176 Support for GTK 1.0 has been dropped. This version has
177 been tested with GTK 1.2.3 and GTK 1.2.6 - it might
178 not work with some other versions.
180 Rewritten the support for multiple-format Drag'n'Drop and
181 clipboard under both GTK and MSW. There are probably some
182 problems here and there left.
184 wxListBox and wxChoice can now handle only either void
185 client data (which it will not delete on destruction) or
186 client data of the wxClientData type (which it will delete),
187 instead of both at the same time. The same will happen
188 to wxComboBox some time. Also, wxListBox can now sort its
191 Many build fixes for various platforms have been applied,
192 try again, poor AIX, HP-UX and *BSD users, but don't reckon
193 with immediate success. Actually, when using GNU compilers,
194 your chances are quite good.
196 My rewrite of the wxWindows underlying GTK widget
197 has turned scrolling including subwindows from barely
198 functional to pretty and fast. I also added scrolling
199 of foreign windows to wxScrolledWindow.
201 Setting size hints for the window manager might work now.
203 wxSocket and Co. have been improved up to the point of
204 calling it a rewrite. It works on wxMSW now too and
205 seems pretty stable, but testing is still welcome.
207 The ODBC classes contributed by Remstar Inc. have been
208 overhauled (incl the sample) and have been tested with
209 all relevant SQL databases (even DBase). For that reason
210 I have reawakened the iODBC code from wxGTK 2.0 so you
211 can now use wxODBC from wxMSW and wxGTK.
213 Several printing things fixed. More work needs to be done
216 HTML widget and the wxWindows' help system based upon
217 it have been reorganized and improved for easier use
218 from Python and C++. Also HTML printing has been added.
220 wxSpinCtrl added. Like a wxSpinButton and a wxTextCtrl.
222 Changed the beaviour of the popular new wxFileDialog to
223 not forget the once typed file name when changing the
226 Implemented the wxSIMPLE_BORDER flag (simple black line
227 without shadow affect).
229 Michael is writing a complete rewrite of the antiquated
230 wxGrid. This is still work-in-progress and might not make
231 it into wxWindows 2.2, we'll see. Help would be welcome
234 Made wxMenu code lose less memory, also added wxMenu::Delete().
236 Added code to send wxActivateEvent to MDI windows.
238 Vadim added configure things to compile wxWindows without any
239 GUI library. This is probably work in progress. He'll also add
240 a wxFontEnumerator class and has enhanced wxFont to make use
243 wxSlider, wxWindow, wxScrollBar now emit the correct events
244 for scrolling (like page up, line up etc) instead of just
245 "thumb-track" as before.
247 Corrected Reparent() code, including the special case for
248 wxToolBar (as the toolbar sits in a different window than
251 Corrected key accelerator code for toplevel child windows
252 and added support for more key combinations - pretty much
255 Corrected cursor handling in a number of special cases.
257 wxGLCanvas now waits until all expose events have been sent
258 and then emits its own redraw event. Also removed flicker
259 for wxGLCanvas and in some other places.
261 A handler to read PCX file (in most variants) has been added.
263 A number of problems with compressed and socket streams have
266 Changed behavour of wxTextStream to make use of deliminators
267 and default to space as the standard C++ stream do.
269 Changes to tab traversal code to better reflect MSW code.
271 Corrected problems with wxGenericValidator and certain controls.
273 Made default button action work in more cases.
275 28th August '99: Ninth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
277 As the old makefile system didn't work, I trashed it and wrote
278 a new one - mo more GNU. This, of course, caused a lot of people
279 to start sing their song of complaints - any change is a good
280 opportunity to complain, but the effect of the change is that
281 we now have shared library support on Linux and Solaris (and
282 probably others as well) and that the Linux shared library no
283 longer depends on libstdc++, so that we can finally create an
284 RPM that works on different Linux distributions. Also, the
285 Unix make system is now much simpler and directly mirrors its
286 Windows counterparts, making it easier to understand and maintain.
287 As it is independent of the various GNU tools, the requirements
288 for using CVS versions are also much less (any make, any compiler,
291 Split RPMs into two, one for run-time requirements and one
292 for developement (mostly headers).
294 Addition of new layout classes that work like Java's, GTK's
295 or Qt`s - basically, you pack item in a box and let it tell
296 you how much space it needs. These class are called wxSizer
297 and I consider them a great addition as they make true cross-
298 platform dialogs a child's play and are very quick to write
299 and easy to read. Do consider using them.
301 Rewritten all dialogs to make use of the new sizers. Also
302 added a new wxFileDialog like Win95 and replaced the generic
303 wxFontDialog with GTK's native font selection dialog - this
304 probably isn't perfect though.
306 A few more fixes to wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, implemented
307 more options and modes like the wxMSW version.
309 New handler for PNM files. Added CanRead() function to image
310 handlers, updates to GIF handler for preparing the new wxAnimation
311 class. We'll also get a PCX and hopefully a TIFF handler so
312 that we support all common general-purpose file formats I know
313 about. PhotoShop and PhotoPaint images are not general purpose.
314 I also tried to correct a wxImage bug in connection with big-endian
315 vs. little-endian problems, but I have no Sparc to actually test
318 Inclusion of wxMultiMedia. Can play most sound formats on GTK
319 and MSW and (using xanim on Unix and Win95's MM functions)
320 display a video in a wxWindow. This will probably be moved to
323 Small updates to socket code. The MSW version is still missing.
325 Implemented wxBitmapDataObject class.
327 Added wxFFileStream using FILE* instead if file desrcriptor.
328 Useful for creating a "cerr" like class as in normal C++.
329 Also added "endl" for use with wxTextStream and fixed a few
330 minor problems with buffered streams etc.
332 Corrected Tabbing code in wxPanel and made it work with wxNotebook.
334 Small cursor fixes in connection with text control.
336 Added experimental wxWizard class. Work in progress.
338 A few more minor fixes.
340 6th August '99: Eight wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
342 The new makefile system is not able to produce shared libraries
343 on Unix with the exception of Linux - libtool is really great.
344 Therefore, the build system defaults to static libraries on
345 anything but Linux for now.
347 Work in wxPen, wxBrush and wxDC to match wxMSW more exactly and
348 to implement missing feature etc.
350 Reimplemented radio buttons. The first of a group of such buttons
351 is now marked by having the wxRB_GROUP style.
353 Complete redesign of all stream classes, including tests for them
356 Controls now send the same messages (or more importantly none if
357 changed programmatically) as per wxMSW.
359 New implementation of wxSocket using an intermediate library called
360 GSocket. This willl hopefully change in the future.
362 Reworked in-place editing of wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl.
364 Fixed bug reporting two refreshes when scrolling.
366 Corrected bug in wxComboBox client data code.
368 Corrected reported but unverified bug in BMP loading code.
370 Added a few more methods to wxStaticBitmap.
372 Integration of wxHTML code in the main library, including wxZIPStream,
373 wxFilesystem, wxHTMLHelpController and others.
375 Added a wrapper for ffile() etc functions.
377 Updates to wxDynamicLibrary.
381 New version of wxPython, of course.
383 Fixed in unenclosed number of other bugs...
385 25th June '99: Seventh wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
387 Many fixes to th new makefile system. The last version gave
388 immediate crashes on all Unices except Linux when linked
389 dynamically against an application. I reordered the object
390 files in the library as I guess that this was the cause.
392 Added icons to message box. This also slightly killed the
393 layout so this needs to be changed again.
395 wxGTK now chooses the best visual available on the display instead
398 Fixed wxProgressDialog again.
400 Some more corrections I forgot.
402 New wxPython (includes new layout system and printing).
404 15th June '99: Sixth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
407 The biggest change is the completely rewritten configure/makefile
408 system using automake. The main argument for switching to automake
409 is that the resulting makefiles should be more portable so that
410 people can use the native make utilities instead of GNU make. The
411 new makefile sytem also handles dependencies correctly, allows for
412 shared-only compilation, can be invoked from any directory for
413 concurrent builds wihtin one source tree, uses libtool for greater
414 shared-library platform support, has a functinonal "make uninstall",
415 works with GTK, Motif and WINE, conforms better to GNU standards
416 as far as configure option names are concerned and is easier to
419 Applied patches to compile wxGTK on OS/2.
421 Configure checks for byte-order and new defines for byte swapping
422 with respect to the byte-order. Added test for this to typetest sample.
423 Also made BMP handler bigendian safe so that it should work on
426 Small changes to basic drawing stuff: made wxColour actually compare
427 RGB values in the == operator, added new constructor to wxMask,
428 corrected initial background colour for DCs, it is now possible
429 to use a wxWindowDC etc before there is any window (this doesn't
430 make any sense, but it is what wxMSW does.)
432 Added support for the PRIMARY SELECTION to the wxClipboard
435 Fixed redraw bug when scrolling window-less widgets out
436 of the visible area (actually a work-around for a GTK bug).
438 Regrouped some samples, created new one for various versions
441 Added wxWindow::Reparent() and wxFrame::MakeModal().
443 Improved handling of column width in wxListCtrl and made
444 this more compatible with the wxMSW version. Also removed
445 a bug from the wxImageList returning an off-by-one id for
448 Fixed keyboard hotkeys and resizing for wxMDIChildFrame
451 Added flag to wxSplitterWindow to update its children's
452 sizes "live" instead of moving a XOR'ed bar around - this
453 is a resource-draining option. Also corrected cursors
456 New way to show "disabled" or greyed toolbar items.
458 Rewrote parts of the tree ctrl to allow multiple selections
459 and variable size items (Sylvain). These new function do not
460 exist in the native Win32 tree control.
462 Implemented global cursors and wxBusyCursor etc. Also removed
463 another cursor misbehaviour.
465 Updated many parts of the documentation to reflect changes
466 in wxWindows 2.1, wxPython and more exact description of
467 cross-platform issues as well as platform differences.
469 Many other fixes, mainly by others...
471 Further compile fixes for different architectures.
475 25th May '99: Fifth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
479 This is mostly a bug-fix release. We are having funny
480 times to make wxGTK work well with different micro
481 versions of GTK 1.2 - which is very close to impossible.
482 All versions give warnings, although their number might
483 vary a lot. I use GTK 1.2.3 and only get wanrnings in
484 one sample (notebook) and that one is due to a bug in
485 GTK - some people using GTK 1.2.2 reported hundreds of warnings
486 getting spitted out for what seems like no reason.
488 This snapshot contains the beginnings of our merging of
489 headers, meaning that in the future all ports will
490 use the same headers and will share a lot more code.
491 We have taken this moment to reorganize some code and
492 hope to have eliminated much bad C++ code, as reported
493 primarily by SGI's compilers (Vadim Zeitlin).
495 Rewritten char and key event propagation routines
496 to reflect documentation and do the same on wxGTK
497 as on wxMSW. If you are interested in ascii chars
498 and cursor key etc, intercept EVT_CHAR, if you
499 are interested in which key actually got pressed,
500 intercept EVT_KEYDOWN (Norbert Irmer).
502 Control that are given -1 as their ID no longer
503 get arbitrary positive IDs assigned but arbitrary
504 negative IDs. This had caused some trouble with ID clashes.
506 wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow no longer use the
507 wxScrollEvent, but the newly invented wxScrollWinEvent
508 so that no mixing up of events sent from wxSliders
509 or wxScrollbars placed in a wxWindow can occur.
511 Added wxProgressDialog for use with long background
512 work such as printing.
514 Added drawing sample and scrolling sample, both of
515 which show some misbehaviours...
517 When drawing with the wxXOR logical mode, wxGTK now uses
518 GdkXOR (instead of GdkInvert) and when drawing in wxINVERT logical
519 mode, wxGTK now uses GdkInvert (as before). When you did some
520 rubberband dragging and you used wxXOR and a black pen, then
521 you should change wxINVERT.
523 Applied more patches for SGI and HP-UX compilation.
525 More updates for wxSockets (Guilhem Lavaux). Seems to be nearly
528 You can now use threads within your GUI again. Well,
529 at least if you know what you are doing and you had a look
530 at the threads sample.
532 wxGLCanvas updated so that it can share display lists
533 over several windows and to not exhibit any flicker.
536 wxNotebook revamped so that its process of creation matches
537 wxMSW's more closely, also avoiding problems with wrong page
538 number. Added InsertPage() and the possibility to prevent
539 switching pages by intercepting the PAGE_CHANGING event. Also,
540 wxNotebooks now get shown even if all pages are empty.
542 Added Activate() to wxMDIChildFrame (Russel).
544 Improved wxSplitterWindow behaviour and visual feed-back when
545 given a minimal size etc (Bruce DeVisser).
547 Minor updates to wxTreeCtrl, wxListBox, printing, wxClipboard,
548 wxString, wxThreads and many others.
550 Also wxMSW got a big face-lift, not to mention the new wxMac release...
554 11th May '99: Fourth wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
557 This is mostly a bug-fix release. This affects wxSocket, wxThread,
558 and a few GUI classes. Also more work has been done and window
559 placement and decorations etc. which we hope to have finished now.
561 Applied patches for FreeBSD and SGI compilation (not yet finshed).
563 Updated wxPython to beta 9.
565 Made wxGLCanvas work again - strangely it flickers now...
567 wxStaticText is currently broken with GTK 1.2.2 (which I don't
568 yet have and thus could not fix). Also, scrolling subwindows
569 (although much improved including a sample) doesn't work perfectly
570 due to a bug in GTK 1.2.1 (probably 1.2.2 as well).
574 Note that the next release might bring about changes to keyboard
575 handling and scroll event intercepting from wxScrolledWindow.
577 By and large much of the code has stabilized and won't be much
578 different in the final wxWindows 2.1 release. Please test as
581 The next release will have a new build system.
585 3rd May '99: Third wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
588 Updated INSTALL.txt and SYMBOLS.txt.
590 Support for Unicode is now almost complete. Most samples work in
591 both Unicode and non-Unicode mode. Thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim.
593 Internal changes required for wxOLE and addition of a very experimental
594 wxOLE code section using GNOME's Bonobo library (from GNOME's CVS).
596 New version of wxPython that works with the wxGTK 2.1.
597 This now includes a very comprensive test/demo suite. Thanks to
598 Robin Dunn, Harm v.d. Heijden and others. Beware of the hang-man...
600 More fine tuning of focus handling and GUI widgets.
602 Complete rewrite of wxSocket classes (still experimental).
603 Thanks to Guilhem Lavaux.
605 wxMenuBar supports underlined shortcuts like Windows does,
606 indicated by a leading & character. wxMenus now have hotkeys
607 such as in wxXt and wxMSW.
609 Rewritten MDI subsystem.
611 Correcetions and additions to the printing framework including
612 a paper type database (Julian).
614 Several controls now support more style flags for modifying
615 look (and feel) of the controls and windows.
617 New implementation of idle handlers, which now send an idle
618 event only once after the event queue has been emptied (which
619 is what happens in the wxMSW port as well), not regularly.
620 This no longer forces wxGTK applications to sleep (by having
621 to call usleep()) in idle time - giving more CPU slices to
622 the application if desired.
624 wxGLCanvas (the OpenGl for wxWindows) now accepts keyboard input.
626 The usual number of compile and bug fixes from all involved.
630 21st April '99: Second wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
633 Added much code for Unicode support. Still experimental, but looks very
634 cool - thanks to Ove Kaaven and Vadim Zeitlin. If you are very brave, then
635 you can compile wxGTK with "configure --with-unicode".
637 More updates on the dreaded issue of making frames and dialogs impossible
640 Drag and Drop works now under GTK 1.2 - at least basically when dragging
641 and dropping text. The API is not entirely fixed yet but seems quite
642 good now. Support for different actions (copy/move/link/..) still missing.
643 I also removed support for GTK 1.0 Drag and Drop - this is just broken
644 and unusable in GTK 1.0 and I don't want to fix it.
646 I now embed the JPEG library and handlers for JPEG and GIF have been
647 added to the existing PNG and BMP (and XPM for GTK version only). In
648 the future, the RPMs will not contain these libraries but depend on
649 the image libraries to be preinstalled whereas the source *.tgz will
650 ship with everything that is needed for wxGTK so that no downloading
651 of ten image libs will be required - also avoiding problems with ten
652 different kinds of libJPEG-6.0.1.7.IV beta 7. We also updated the
653 PNG code to the newest PNG version.
655 wxImage now makes use of the fast rendering code as provided by
656 GTK 1.2 whenever possible. This should mean a speed-up for graphics
659 Many fixes all over. Also should compile with GTK 1.2.0 as opposed
660 to only with GTK 1.2.1 now.
662 wxPython still doesn't compile, I think.
666 12th April '99: First wxGTK 2.1 snapshot released
669 This is the first developers' version of wxWindows 2.1 for GTK. It's main
670 new feature is that it supports GTK 1.2 (as opposed to GTK 1.0) which
671 will make development within the GNOME evironment a lot easier.
673 Apart from the move to GTK 1.2 and the changes (some major) that were
674 required as part of that work, enhancement or corrections have been
675 made to many of the non-GUI classes and functions (such as wxClipboard,
676 wxThread, wxSocket, wxConfig)
677 and a few GUI classes (accelerators in menus, listbox always with
678 scrollbar, wxFrame honours Motif Window Manager hints, corrected tab
679 traversal for broken GTK 1.0 widgets).
681 There have been slight changes to the priting dialogs and their
682 setup data (which might break apps using this code in previous
683 versions). Also, a bug concerning printing white has been fixed
684 (actually not tested).
686 Although this is only the first 2.1 snapshot, there is little reason not
687 to use it as many bugs from version 2.0 have been corrected. There are,
688 pf course, still a few problem left with GTK 1.2 (some of which relate
691 I think I preserved backward compatility with GTK 1.0 and if not it
692 should be easy to fix - but mostly I don't care.
694 Drag'N'Drop is currently completely broken. Also, wxPython currently
695 doesn't compile with this release. The OpenGL canvas still seems to
698 Major targets for the final release (still a long way): a new configure
699 system, support JPEG and GIF formats, wxHTML, super-duppah frame layout
700 stuff, syntax-highlighting editor, possibly Unicode, possibly some GNOME
701 gooddies, possibly world domination.
705 5th March '99: wxWindows 2.0 released
708 This is the final version of wxWindows 2.0 for GTK. The versions for
709 Windows and Motif (and also this version) are available form Julian Smart's
710 site. The Mac version is still under development.
714 19th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 5
717 This is the fifth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
718 updates for documentation.
720 Applied compile fixes for Solaris (different flavours and compilers).
724 12th February '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 4
727 This is the fourth beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes and
728 updates for documentation.
730 Tracked a few more cases, where the bahaviour between wxMSW and wxGTK
731 differed. This was the case for closing a dialog or frame as well as
732 for clearing a device context or setting its background colour and some
735 Most standard dialogs have been face-liftet a little.
737 Implememted default buttons for GTK.
739 Fixed many bugs. You guessed it.
743 29th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 3
746 This is the third beta release and it contains mostly bug fixes.
748 There is one field where we haven't been able to fix the API yet, and that
749 it Drag'n'Drop. This is mostly due to the fact that DnD in
750 GTK 1.0 is hardly usable and much different from GTK 1.2 which means that
751 we have to design a common API for Windows, GTK 1.0 and GTK 1.2. Although
752 we are trying to prevent that, it is possible that wxWindows 2.0 (being
753 based on GTK 1.0) will not have proper DnD support.
755 The major changes are that tool tips have been added, threads have been completely
756 rewritten, the ODBC code has been updated and improved, the socket code works
759 Classes for managing MIME-types under Windows and Unix have been added.
761 There is now a wxGLCanvas class for OpenGl/Mesa for the Windows, GTK and
762 Motif ports. Come see the penguins flying...
764 Documentation has received a big face lift - it now covers nearly all the
767 The usual amount of bug fixes. Countless.
769 A few member functions of wxString have been renamed.
771 For those who are using the ever-so-popular wxImage class (which
772 now available on Motif and Windows as well) in 8-bit mode: wxGTK
773 now creates a color cube upon start-up in 8-bit mode and thus the
774 generation of bitmaps from images has been speeded up 20 times.
776 It is now possible to develop with wxGTK without having the GTK 1.0 header
777 files installed so that having the GTK 1.2 header files installed no longer
778 is any problem. We also provide RPMs for RedHat glibc 2 based systems, compiled
779 with egcs 1.1.1 on SuSE 6.0. Note that the RPM will not work in
780 SuSE 6.0 as SuSE decided to ship 6.0 with a broken GTK+ package.
784 6th January '99: wxWindows 2.0 beta 2
787 This is the second beta release and contains it mostly build and
788 bug fixes. Threads work well now on (up-to-date) glibc 2 systems,
789 commercial Unices and Windows.
793 20th December '98: wxWindows 2.0 beta 1
796 This is the first beta release and we have used the time before
797 this release to tidy up some parts of the API. All releases from
798 now on will be source code compatible but we reserve binary compatibility
799 for the final release. Because of this, the actual library name of
800 the beta version will not be 2.0 but 1.99, so that we prevent
801 conflicts with the final library later on. After the final release
802 we'll only fix bugs so that there will be no reason to link any
803 program statically with wxGTK.
805 We changed the name of the shared library to include the version of
806 the GTK used so that no conflicts emerge with simultaneous
807 versions of wxWindows for GTK 1.0 and for GTK 1.2 and so on.
809 As you can see, we have not moved to GTK 1.1.X as the different
810 development versions are too different and buggy to be useful. We'll
811 wait for a stable GTK 1.2 release (hardly 1.2.0) and start porting
814 wxGTK now compiles without problems on anything between gcc 2.7.2 on
815 Linux-x86 and egcs 1.1 on Linux-Alpha and egcs 1.0 on Sparc. This isn't
816 as easy as it sounds...
818 Available form this site are the Python bindings of wxWindows.
819 Thanks to Robin Dunn for this tremendous contribution.
820 Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say.
822 Although only a few new classes have been added, many have been polished
823 up substantially, the most visible are wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl and
824 all classes related to printing. Also the DialogEd now functions
825 much better than before. Drag'n'Drop is fucntional but probably won't
826 be perfect until we use GTK 1.2 and its much improved DnD features.
828 wxClipboard has arrived and works for text. Other formats have not been
829 tested carefully yet.
831 wxMiniFrame has been added which might be useful for docking toolbars
832 etc. Someone has already done that for the MSW port and we hope to
833 include his very nice work later.
835 wxDirDialog has been added (thanks to Harm von der Heijden).
837 The entite "tab traveral" system for moving from item to item in
838 a dialog has been rewritten. It now completely overrides the
839 not-so-well-done GTK native tab system.
841 Quite much has been done to improve the wxImage class, which is now
842 available in the Windows port as well. Very useful for anything related
843 to image processing. wxGTK also uses this class internally e.g. to scale
844 bitmaps when the scale factor (e.g. zooming) of a drawing context
847 Some of the small and handy classes (wxDate, wxTime, wxVariant) have
848 received a face-lift. wxList has been rewritten to make it possible
849 to write type-safe lists. The collection of utility functions (wxFileFind etc)
850 has been revamped and cleaned-up (thanks to Vadim Zeitlin, who has also
851 greatly enhanced many basic classes, ranging wxString to the debug and
854 We removed some constructors of GDI classes (such as wxPen, wxColour)
855 which took a pointer as a parameter. This lead to many errors among users
856 resulting in unexpected behaviour so it was decided to remove these
859 As the number of users and the number of test programs and samples
860 is steadialy rising the core classes of wxWindows for MSW and GTK 1.0
861 can be considered to be very stable if not outright bug-free. I haven't
862 seen a crash for weeks now and wxWindows' internal debug features also
863 have improved every week, making stepping-through with a debugger almost
864 completely unnecessary as the library reports possible errors itself
865 (when in debug mode).