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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
11 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
12 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
13 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
14 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
15 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
16 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
17 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
18 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
19 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
20 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars
21 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
22 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
23 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
24 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
25 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey ODonnell)
26 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
27 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
28 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
29 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
30 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
31 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
32 printing stuff in the GTK port.
33 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
34 - The samples\db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
35 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
39 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
40 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
41 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
42 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
43 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
44 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
45 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
46 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
47 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
48 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
49 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
50 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
54 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
58 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
59 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
60 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
61 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
62 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
63 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
64 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
65 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
66 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
67 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
68 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
69 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
70 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
75 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
76 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
80 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
81 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
82 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
85 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
86 but not mentioned anywhere.
90 - wxBU_... button align flags support
91 - vertical notebook orientation support
92 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
93 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
97 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
98 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
99 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
100 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
101 - enumeration of available volumes
102 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
103 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
111 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
112 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
113 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
114 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
115 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
116 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
117 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
118 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
119 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
120 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
121 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
122 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
123 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
124 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
125 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
126 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
130 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
131 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
132 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
134 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
135 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
136 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
137 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
138 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
139 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
140 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
141 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
142 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
143 - added samples/splash
144 - added support for stock buttons
145 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
146 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
147 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
148 - added wxChoicebook control
149 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
150 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
151 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
152 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
153 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
154 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
155 supported, instead of zero.
159 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
160 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
161 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
162 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
163 - wx-config has new --version-full option
167 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
168 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
169 - Tooltips now supported
170 - wxSound now supported
171 - wxDisplay now supported
172 - Some stock cursors now supported
176 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
177 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
178 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
179 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
183 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
184 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
185 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
186 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
187 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
188 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
189 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
190 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
191 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
192 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
193 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
194 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
195 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
196 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
197 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
198 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
199 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
200 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
201 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
205 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
209 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
210 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
211 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
212 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
213 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
214 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
215 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
216 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
217 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
218 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
219 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
220 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
221 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
222 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
226 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
230 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
231 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
232 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
233 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
237 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
238 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
246 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
247 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
248 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
249 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
251 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
252 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
253 to forward declare these classes.
257 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
258 resulting in much better display of scaled images
259 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
260 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
261 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
262 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
263 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
264 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
265 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
266 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
267 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
268 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
269 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
270 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
271 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
275 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
276 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
277 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
278 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
279 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
280 even try to do it by default -- now it does
281 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
282 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
283 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
284 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
285 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
286 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
290 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
294 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
295 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
296 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
297 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
301 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
305 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
306 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
310 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
311 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
315 - Full Unicode support is now available
316 - BLOB support is working
324 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
325 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
326 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
327 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
328 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
329 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
330 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
331 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
332 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
333 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
334 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
335 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
336 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
338 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
339 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
340 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
341 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
342 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
343 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
344 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
345 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
346 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
347 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
348 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
349 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
353 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
354 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
355 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
356 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
357 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
358 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
359 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
360 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
361 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
362 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
363 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
364 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
365 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
366 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
367 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
368 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
369 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
370 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
371 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
372 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
373 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
374 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
375 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
376 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
377 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
378 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
382 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
383 - fixed DDE memory leaks
384 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
385 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
386 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
387 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
388 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
389 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
390 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
391 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
392 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
393 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
394 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
395 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
396 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
397 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
398 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
399 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
400 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
401 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
402 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
403 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
404 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
405 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
406 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
407 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
408 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
409 than the specified default size
410 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
414 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
415 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
416 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
417 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
418 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
419 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
420 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
421 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
422 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
426 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
427 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
428 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
429 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
433 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
437 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
438 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
442 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
443 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
444 addition to existing OSS one
445 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
453 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
454 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
455 separately compiled library
456 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
457 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
458 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
459 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
460 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
461 - added wxArray::SetCount()
462 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
463 by default in Unicode mode
464 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
465 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
466 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
467 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
468 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
469 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
470 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
471 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
472 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
473 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
474 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
475 - added wxRecursionGuard class
476 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
477 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
478 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
479 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
480 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
481 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
482 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
483 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
487 - added Watcom makefiles
488 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
492 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
493 - added wxListbook control
494 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
495 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
496 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
497 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
498 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
499 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
500 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
501 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
502 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
503 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
504 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
505 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
506 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
507 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
508 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
509 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
510 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
511 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
512 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
513 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
514 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
515 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
516 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
517 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
518 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
519 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
520 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
521 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
522 default extension for the template
523 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
524 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
525 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
526 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
527 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
528 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
529 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
530 to allow better rich text support.
531 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
532 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
533 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
534 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
535 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
536 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
537 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
538 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
539 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
540 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
541 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
542 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
543 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
544 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
545 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
546 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
547 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
548 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
549 - added wxMirrorDC class
550 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
551 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
552 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
553 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
554 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
555 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
560 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
561 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
562 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
563 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
564 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
568 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
569 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
570 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
571 to contrib/src/deprecated
575 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
576 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
577 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
578 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
579 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
580 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
581 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
582 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
583 be appended to filenames with no extension
584 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
585 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
586 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
587 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
591 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
592 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
596 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
597 - added wxCrashReport
598 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
599 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
600 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
601 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
602 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
603 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
604 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
605 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
606 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
607 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
608 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
609 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
610 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
611 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
612 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
613 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
614 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
615 - improved border handling under Windows XP
616 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
617 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
618 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
619 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
620 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
621 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
622 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
626 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
627 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
628 documentation for a detailed explanation
629 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
630 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
631 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
632 with Motif 1.x compatibility
633 - implemented wxToggleButton
634 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
635 instead of a sunken border
636 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
637 - finished wxClipboard implementation
641 - controls in toolbars now supported
645 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
646 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
647 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
648 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
649 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
655 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
656 ================================
658 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
659 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
660 with '!' in the first column.
662 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
663 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
664 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
665 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
668 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
669 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
670 (see the documentation) useful.
675 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
676 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
679 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
680 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
681 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
682 arrays containing non-pointers.
684 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
685 simply don't make sense for all objects
687 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
688 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
689 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
691 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
693 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
694 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
695 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
696 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
697 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
699 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
700 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
701 the default assert handling.
705 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
706 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
707 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
709 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
710 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
713 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
714 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
715 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
717 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
718 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
719 you want to get OnChar() as well
721 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
722 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
723 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
725 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
726 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
727 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
728 will *NOT* work any longer:
730 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
733 ... do something else ...
735 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
736 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
739 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
741 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
742 if you derived any classes from it
744 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
745 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
747 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
748 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
750 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
751 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
753 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
754 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
757 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
758 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
759 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
761 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
762 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
763 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
764 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
768 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
769 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
770 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
771 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
772 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
773 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
774 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
775 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
776 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
777 is only present for the DLLs builds.
779 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
782 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
783 previously selected one instead of replacing it
785 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
786 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
787 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
789 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
790 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
795 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
796 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
797 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
798 to compile pure C files.
801 wxThread and related classes:
803 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
804 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
805 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
806 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
808 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
809 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
810 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
811 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
813 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
814 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
815 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
817 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
818 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
829 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
836 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
837 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
838 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
842 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
843 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
844 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
847 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
848 - Addition of native frame site grip.
851 - Unicode support through Pango library.
855 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
856 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
860 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
867 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
868 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
869 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
870 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
871 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
872 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
873 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
874 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
875 after (non standard) STL hash_map
876 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
877 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
878 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
879 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
880 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
881 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
882 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
886 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
887 programs and not only GNU make
888 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
889 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
890 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
891 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
892 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
896 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
897 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
898 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
899 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
900 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
902 - significantly improved native font support
903 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
905 - added IFF image handler
906 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
907 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
908 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
909 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
910 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
911 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
912 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
913 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
914 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
915 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
916 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
917 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
918 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
919 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
920 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
921 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
922 - wxMessageOutput class added
923 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
924 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
926 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
927 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
928 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
929 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
931 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
932 whether a label edit was cancelled.
933 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
937 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
938 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
939 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
940 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
941 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
942 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
943 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
944 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
945 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
946 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
948 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
949 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
950 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
951 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
952 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
953 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
954 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
956 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
957 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
958 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
959 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
960 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
961 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
962 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
963 has the capture before release it.
964 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
965 - default button handling is now closer to expected
966 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
967 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
968 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
969 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
970 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
971 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
972 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
973 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
974 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
975 provided in wxFontData
976 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
977 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
981 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
982 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
983 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
984 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
985 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
986 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
987 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
988 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
989 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
990 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
991 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
992 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
993 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
997 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
998 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
999 - improved toolbar control alignment
1000 - implemented wxSpinButton
1001 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1002 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1003 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1007 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1008 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1016 - First alpha-quality release
1020 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1021 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1022 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1023 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1024 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1029 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1033 - wxRegEx class added
1034 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1035 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1036 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1037 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1038 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1042 - support for virtual list control added
1043 - column images in report mode of the list control
1044 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1045 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1046 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1047 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1048 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1049 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1050 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1051 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1052 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1053 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1054 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1055 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1059 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1060 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1065 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1066 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1067 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1068 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1072 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1077 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1079 - added support for animated GIFs
1087 - Fixed new charset detection code
1088 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1089 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1090 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1091 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1092 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1093 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1097 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1098 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1099 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1100 push on a custom event handler for example)
1101 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1102 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1103 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1104 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1105 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1106 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1108 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1109 - Various wxXML enhancements
1110 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1111 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1112 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1114 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1115 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1119 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1120 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1121 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1122 alt or shift) now work
1123 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1124 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1125 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1126 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1127 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1128 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1129 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1130 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1131 - We now send iconize events
1132 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1133 - Added mousewheel processing
1134 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1135 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1137 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1138 child frame styles are honoured
1142 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1143 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1144 - We now send iconize events
1145 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1146 GetSelection() results
1153 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1154 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1155 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1156 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1157 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1158 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1159 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1160 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1161 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1162 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1166 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1167 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1168 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1169 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1170 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1171 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1172 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1173 wxImage methods and ctor)
1174 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1175 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1176 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1177 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1178 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1179 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1183 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1184 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1185 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1186 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1190 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1194 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1195 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1202 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1203 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1204 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1205 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1206 - Completed Czech translations
1207 - Some stream corrections
1208 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1209 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1210 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1211 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1215 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1216 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1217 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1218 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1219 - Paper names now translated
1221 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1222 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1223 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1224 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1226 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1227 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1229 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1230 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1231 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1232 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1236 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1237 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1238 backward compatibility, please set
1239 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1240 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1241 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1242 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1243 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1244 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1245 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1246 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1247 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1248 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1249 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1250 - wxFrame restores focus better
1251 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1252 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1253 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1254 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1255 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1256 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1257 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1258 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1259 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1260 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1264 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1268 - Small compilation fixes
1272 - wxCaret documented
1284 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1285 files. This works under VC++ only
1286 - Modal dialog handling improved
1287 - Printer dialog now modal
1302 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1306 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1307 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1312 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1313 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1314 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1315 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1316 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1317 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1318 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1319 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1320 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1322 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1323 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1324 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1325 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1326 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1327 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1329 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1333 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1334 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1335 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1336 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1337 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1338 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1339 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1340 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1342 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1343 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1344 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1345 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1346 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1347 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1348 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1349 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1350 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1351 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1352 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1353 - wxDragImage class added
1354 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1355 controllers, as well as native help
1356 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1360 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1361 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1362 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1363 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1364 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1365 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1366 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1367 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1368 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1369 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1371 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1372 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1373 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1377 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1378 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1379 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1383 - wxMenu::Enable works
1384 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1385 - OGL samples made to work again
1389 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1390 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1391 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1392 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1393 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1394 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1395 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1396 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1397 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1398 - improved HTML printing
1399 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1400 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1401 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1402 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1405 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1408 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1409 -----------------------
1413 - JPEG support added.
1414 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1418 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1420 - JPEG support added.
1421 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1422 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1423 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1430 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1433 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1434 -------------------------------
1439 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1443 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1444 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1445 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1446 - Some makefile fixes.
1454 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1455 - More topic overviews.
1456 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1457 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1458 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1461 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1462 --------------------------
1466 - wxExecute improved.
1470 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1472 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1473 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1474 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1475 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1476 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1477 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1481 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1482 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1486 - wxLocale documented.
1487 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1488 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1489 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1490 (though doesn't display help yet).
1492 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1493 --------------------------
1497 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1501 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1503 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1507 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1508 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1509 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1510 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1511 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1512 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1513 crashes for some reason).
1514 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1515 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1519 - Further doc improvements.
1520 - wxGenericValidator added.
1521 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1524 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1525 -------------------------
1529 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1530 - wxToolTip class added.
1531 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1535 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1536 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1537 - TWIN32 support added.
1538 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1539 factored out program/library settings.
1540 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1544 - A few more colour fixes.
1545 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1546 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1547 - wxChoice crash fix.
1548 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1552 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1553 - Added samples/dde.
1554 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1556 Beta 2, January 1999
1557 --------------------
1563 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1567 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1569 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1570 - Added thread support (Robert).
1571 - wxPoem sample now works.
1575 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1576 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1577 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1579 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1580 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1582 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1584 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1585 --------------------------
1591 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1594 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1595 ----------------------------
1599 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1600 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1601 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1602 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1603 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1605 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1606 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1611 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1612 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1613 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1614 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1615 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1617 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1618 when any button was pressed.
1619 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1620 have a white background.
1621 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1622 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1623 they have sensible colours by default.
1624 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1625 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1626 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1627 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1628 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1630 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1631 ----------------------------
1635 - More documentation updates, especially for
1636 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1637 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1639 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1640 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1641 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1643 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1647 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1648 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1650 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1651 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1652 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1653 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1654 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1655 the debugging implementation.
1656 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1657 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1658 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1659 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1660 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1661 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1662 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1664 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1666 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1667 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1668 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1669 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1670 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1671 - wxNotebook almost done.
1672 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1673 to vertical toolbars).
1677 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1679 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1680 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1681 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1683 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1684 ----------------------------
1688 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1690 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1691 - A few more makefiles added.
1692 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1693 - Further doc updates.
1694 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1698 - First start at Motif port.
1699 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1700 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1701 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1702 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1704 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1705 --------------------------
1709 - wxBitmap debugged.
1710 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1711 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1712 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1713 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1714 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1715 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1716 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1718 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1719 ------------------------
1723 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1724 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1725 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1726 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1727 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1728 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1729 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1730 changes, wxNotebook.
1731 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1733 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1734 -----------------------
1738 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1739 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1740 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1741 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1742 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1744 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1745 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1747 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1748 -----------------------
1752 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1753 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1755 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1756 -----------------------
1760 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1761 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1763 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1764 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1765 wxMenuItem accessors.
1766 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1767 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1768 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1769 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1770 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1771 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1772 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1773 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1774 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1775 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1776 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1777 first, then doing the assignment.
1778 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1779 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1783 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1784 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1786 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1787 ----------------------
1791 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1792 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1793 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1794 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1795 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1796 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1797 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1798 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1799 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1801 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1802 ------------------------
1806 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1808 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1809 compilation and pragmas.
1810 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1811 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1815 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1816 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1817 compilation and pragmas.
1818 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1820 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1821 ------------------------
1825 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1826 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1828 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1829 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1830 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1831 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1833 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1834 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1835 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1837 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1838 compatibility functions.
1839 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1840 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1841 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1842 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1843 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1844 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1845 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1849 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1850 - Added samples/png.
1851 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1852 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1854 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1856 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1857 ------------------------
1861 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1862 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1863 cleaned up properly before exit.
1864 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1866 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1867 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1868 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1870 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1871 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1873 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1874 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1875 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1876 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1880 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1881 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1882 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1883 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1884 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1885 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1886 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1887 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1888 allow better control of memory.
1889 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1891 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1892 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1894 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1895 ------------------------
1899 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1900 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1901 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1902 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1903 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1904 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1905 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1906 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1907 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1908 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1909 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1910 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1912 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1913 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1914 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1915 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1916 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1917 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1918 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1919 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1920 internal implementation.
1921 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1922 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1923 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1927 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1928 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1929 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1930 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1931 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1933 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1934 --------------------------
1938 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1939 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1940 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1942 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1943 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1944 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1945 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1947 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1948 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1953 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1954 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1955 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1957 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1958 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1960 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1961 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1962 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1963 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1964 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1965 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1966 - Added gcc pragmas.
1967 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1968 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1969 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1970 added a few references to wxTransString.
1971 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1972 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1973 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1974 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1975 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1976 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1977 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1978 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1979 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1982 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1983 --------------------------
1987 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1988 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1989 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1990 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1991 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1992 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1993 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1994 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1995 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1996 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1997 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1999 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2000 to help printing with multiple pages.
2001 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2002 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2003 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2004 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2005 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2006 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2007 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2008 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2009 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2010 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2011 New files from Vadim:
2017 src\common\string.cpp
2021 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2022 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2023 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2024 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2025 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2026 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2027 including changes to defs.h.
2028 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2030 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2032 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2033 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2035 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2037 Alpha 3, September 1997
2038 -----------------------
2042 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2043 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2044 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2045 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2046 - Started documentation.
2048 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2049 ------------------------
2053 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2054 with MetroWerks compiler.
2055 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2056 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2057 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2058 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2059 for testing purposes.
2060 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2062 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2063 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2065 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2066 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2069 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2070 -----------------------
2074 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2076 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2077 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2078 wxString instead of char *.
2079 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2080 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2081 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2082 as wxbWindow now removed.
2083 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2084 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2086 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2087 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2088 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2090 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2091 settings mucho rationalised.
2092 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2093 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2095 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2096 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2097 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2098 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2099 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2100 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2102 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2103 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2105 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2106 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2107 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2108 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2109 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2110 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2111 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2112 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2113 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2114 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2116 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2117 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2119 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2120 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2121 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2122 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2123 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2124 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2126 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2127 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2128 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2129 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2130 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2131 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).