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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
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8 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
9 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
10 with '!' in the first column.
12 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
13 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
16 ! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
17 wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE still
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
20 ! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer
21 always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access
22 them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary.
25 ! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2
26 and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right
27 Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit
28 about how things used to work:
30 * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed
31 to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by
32 default when calculating layout size and positions, and the
33 sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size.
35 * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag
36 then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be
37 used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used.
39 The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like
40 wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of
41 the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs)
42 instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these
45 * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old
46 behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when
47 Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it
48 will not be readjusted on each layout.
50 * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or
51 SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set)
52 as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not
53 set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is
54 fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize.
55 wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the
56 size to be used by the sizers.
58 * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to
59 recalculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was
60 added and should be called (usually just internally in control
61 methods) whenever something is done that would make the best
64 * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed
65 to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real
66 size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize.
67 wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this,
68 although most controls don't need to call it directly because it
69 is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base
72 At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as
73 before is the following:
75 win = new SomeWidget(parent);
76 win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize);
79 In this case the old code would have used the new size as the
80 minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum
81 rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move
82 the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that
83 SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls
84 do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize.
86 In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls
87 or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on
88 how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for
89 non-control custom windows.)
91 * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method
92 that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once
93 that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to
94 CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason
95 you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout.
97 * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that
98 the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it
99 will be recalculated the next time it is needed.
101 * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure
102 that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the
103 control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size.
104 This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize.
106 ! wxURL has undergone some radical changes.
108 * Many accessors of wxURL - GetHostName, GetProtocolName, and GetPath,
109 have been replaced by its parent's (wxURI) counterparts - GetServer,
110 GetScheme, and GetPath, respectively.
112 * ConvertToValidURI has been replaced by wxURI. Do not use
113 ConvertToValidURI for future applications.
115 * ConvertFromURI has been replaced by wxURI::Unescape.
117 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
118 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
119 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
120 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
121 - finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
122 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
123 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
124 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
125 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
126 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
127 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
128 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
129 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
130 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
131 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
132 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
133 - wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
134 - wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
135 - wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
136 other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
137 stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
138 - wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
139 Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
140 now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
141 - wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
142 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibility mode,
143 switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
144 - when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation
145 not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1),
146 the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node*
147 instead of a wxNode*.
148 - non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen()
149 as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more,
150 please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the
151 objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const
153 - wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference
154 - EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event
155 handler's argument will no longer compile.
156 - Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard,
157 wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs
158 is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter
159 - wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- they are no longer
160 needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly
161 into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code.
162 - wxFile methods now return either wxFileOffset or wxFileSize_t which may be a
163 64 bit integer type, even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the
164 return value of wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t
165 variable any more (the compiler might warn you about this)
166 - wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility
168 - wxSizer::Add/Insert returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added so conditions
169 writeen with if(Add(..)==true) will not work. Use if(Add(..)) instead.
172 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
173 ==============================
175 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
176 versions, please update your code to not use them.
178 - wxURL::GetInputStream() and similar functionality has been depreciated in
179 favor of other ways of connecting, such as though sockets or wxFileSystem.
180 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
181 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
182 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
183 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
184 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
185 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
186 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
187 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
188 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
189 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
190 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
191 methods taking wxArrayString
192 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
193 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
194 - wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
195 and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
196 accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
197 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
198 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
199 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
200 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
201 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
202 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
204 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
205 - The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
206 and has now been removed
207 - wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
208 - obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed
209 - wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead
220 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
221 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
222 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
223 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
224 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
225 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
226 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars
227 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
228 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
229 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
230 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
231 - BLOB example added to samples\db (thanks to Casey ODonnell)
232 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
236 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
237 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
238 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
239 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
243 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
247 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
251 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
252 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
256 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
257 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
265 - support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
266 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
267 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
268 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
269 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
270 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
271 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
272 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
273 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
274 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
275 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
276 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
277 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
278 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
279 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
280 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
284 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
285 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
286 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
288 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
289 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
290 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
291 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
292 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
293 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
294 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
295 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
296 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
297 - added samples/splash
298 - added support for stock buttons
299 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
300 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
301 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
302 - added wxChoicebook control
303 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
304 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
305 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
306 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
307 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
308 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
309 supported, instead of zero.
313 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
314 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
315 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
316 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
317 - wx-config has new --version-full option
321 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
322 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
323 - Tooltips now supported
324 - wxSound now supported
325 - wxDisplay now supported
326 - Some stock cursors now supported
330 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
331 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
332 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
333 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
337 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
338 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
339 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
340 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
341 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
342 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
343 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
344 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
345 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
346 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
347 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
348 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
349 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
350 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
351 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
352 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
353 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
354 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
355 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
359 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
363 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
364 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
365 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
366 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
367 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
368 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
369 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
370 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
371 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
372 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
373 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
374 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
375 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
376 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
380 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
384 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
385 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
386 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
387 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
391 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
392 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
400 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
401 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
402 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
403 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
405 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
406 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
407 to forward declare these classes.
411 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
412 resulting in much better display of scaled images
413 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
414 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
415 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
416 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
417 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
418 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
419 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
420 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
421 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
422 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
423 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
424 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
425 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
429 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
430 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
431 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
432 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
433 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
434 even try to do it by default -- now it does
435 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
436 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
437 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
438 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
439 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
440 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
444 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
448 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
449 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
450 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
451 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
455 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
459 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
460 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
464 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
465 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
469 - Full Unicode support is now available
470 - BLOB support is working
478 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
479 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
480 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
481 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
482 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
483 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
484 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
485 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
486 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
487 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
488 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
489 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
490 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
492 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
493 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
494 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
495 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
496 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
497 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
498 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
499 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
500 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
501 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
502 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
503 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
507 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
508 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
509 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
510 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
511 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
512 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
513 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
514 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
515 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
516 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
517 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
518 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
519 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
520 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
521 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
522 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
523 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
524 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
525 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
526 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
527 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
528 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
529 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
530 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
531 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
532 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
536 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
537 - fixed DDE memory leaks
538 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
539 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
540 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
541 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
542 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
543 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
544 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
545 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
546 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
547 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
548 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
549 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
550 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
551 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
552 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
553 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
554 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
555 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
556 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
557 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
558 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
559 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
560 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
561 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
562 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
563 than the specified default size
564 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
568 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
569 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
570 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
571 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
572 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
573 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
574 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
575 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
576 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
580 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
581 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
582 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
583 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
587 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
591 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
592 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
596 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
597 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
598 addition to existing OSS one
599 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
607 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
608 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
609 separately compiled library
610 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
611 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
612 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
613 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
614 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
615 - added wxArray::SetCount()
616 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
617 by default in Unicode mode
618 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
619 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
620 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
621 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
622 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
623 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
624 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
625 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
626 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
627 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
628 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
629 - added wxRecursionGuard class
630 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
631 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
632 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
633 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
634 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
635 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
636 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
637 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
641 - added Watcom makefiles
642 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
646 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
647 - added wxListbook control
648 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
649 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
650 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
651 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
652 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
653 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
654 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
655 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
656 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
657 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
658 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
659 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
660 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
661 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
662 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
663 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
664 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
665 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
666 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
667 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
668 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
669 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
670 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
671 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
672 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
673 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
674 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
675 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
676 default extension for the template
677 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
678 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
679 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
680 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
681 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
682 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
683 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
684 to allow better rich text support.
685 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
686 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
687 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
688 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
689 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
690 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
691 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
692 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
693 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
694 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
695 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
696 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
697 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
698 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
699 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
700 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
701 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
702 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
703 - added wxMirrorDC class
704 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
705 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
706 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
707 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
708 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
709 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
714 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
715 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
716 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
717 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
718 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
722 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
723 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
724 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
725 to contrib/src/deprecated
729 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
730 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
731 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
732 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
733 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
734 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
735 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
736 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
737 be appended to filenames with no extension
738 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
739 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
740 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
741 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
745 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
746 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
750 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
751 - added wxCrashReport
752 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
753 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
754 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
755 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
756 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
757 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
758 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
759 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
760 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
761 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
762 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
763 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
764 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
765 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
766 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
767 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
768 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
769 - improved border handling under Windows XP
770 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
771 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
772 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
773 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
774 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
775 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
776 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
780 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
781 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
782 documentation for a detailed explanation
783 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
784 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
785 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
786 with Motif 1.x compatibility
787 - implemented wxToggleButton
788 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
789 instead of a sunken border
790 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
791 - finished wxClipboard implementation
795 - controls in toolbars now supported
799 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
800 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
801 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
802 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
803 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
809 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
810 ================================
812 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
813 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
814 with '!' in the first column.
816 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
817 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
818 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
819 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
822 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
823 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
824 (see the documentation) useful.
829 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
830 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
833 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
834 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
835 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
836 arrays containing non-pointers.
838 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
839 simply don't make sense for all objects
841 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
842 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
843 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
845 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
847 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
848 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
849 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
850 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
851 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
853 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
854 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
855 the default assert handling.
859 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
860 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
861 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
863 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
864 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
867 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
868 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
869 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
871 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
872 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
873 you want to get OnChar() as well
875 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
876 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
877 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
879 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
880 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
881 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
882 will *NOT* work any longer:
884 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
887 ... do something else ...
889 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
890 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
893 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
895 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
896 if you derived any classes from it
898 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
899 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
901 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
902 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
904 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
905 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
907 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
908 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
911 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
912 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
913 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
915 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
916 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
917 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
918 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
922 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
923 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
924 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
925 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
926 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
927 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
928 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
929 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
930 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
931 is only present for the DLLs builds.
933 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
936 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
937 previously selected one instead of replacing it
939 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
940 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
941 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
943 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
944 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
949 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
950 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
951 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
952 to compile pure C files.
955 wxThread and related classes:
957 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
958 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
959 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
960 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
962 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
963 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
964 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
965 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
967 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
968 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
969 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
971 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
972 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
983 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
990 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
991 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
992 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
996 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
997 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
998 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1001 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1002 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1005 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1009 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1010 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1014 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1021 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1022 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1023 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1024 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1025 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1026 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1027 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1028 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1029 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1030 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1031 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1032 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1033 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1034 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1035 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1036 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1040 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1041 programs and not only GNU make
1042 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1043 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1044 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1045 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1046 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1050 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1051 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1052 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1053 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1054 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1056 - significantly improved native font support
1057 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1059 - added IFF image handler
1060 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1061 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1062 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1063 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1064 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1065 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1066 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1067 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1068 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1069 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1070 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1071 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1072 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1073 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1074 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1075 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1076 - wxMessageOutput class added
1077 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1078 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1080 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1081 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1082 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1083 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1085 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1086 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1087 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1091 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1092 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1093 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1094 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1095 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1096 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1097 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1098 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1099 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1100 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1102 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1103 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1104 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1105 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1106 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1107 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1108 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1110 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1111 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1112 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1113 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1114 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1115 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1116 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1117 has the capture before release it.
1118 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1119 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1120 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1121 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1122 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1123 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1124 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1125 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1126 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1127 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1128 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1129 provided in wxFontData
1130 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1131 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1135 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1136 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1137 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1138 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1139 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1140 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1141 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1142 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1143 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1144 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1145 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1146 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1147 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1151 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1152 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1153 - improved toolbar control alignment
1154 - implemented wxSpinButton
1155 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1156 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1157 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1161 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1162 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1170 - First alpha-quality release
1174 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1175 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1176 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1177 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1178 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1183 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1187 - wxRegEx class added
1188 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1189 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1190 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1191 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1192 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1196 - support for virtual list control added
1197 - column images in report mode of the list control
1198 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1199 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1200 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1201 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1202 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1203 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1204 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1205 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1206 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1207 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1208 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1209 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1213 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1214 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1219 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1220 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1221 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1222 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1226 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1231 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1233 - added support for animated GIFs
1241 - Fixed new charset detection code
1242 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1243 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1244 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1245 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1246 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1247 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1251 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1252 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1253 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1254 push on a custom event handler for example)
1255 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1256 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1257 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1258 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1259 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1260 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1262 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1263 - Various wxXML enhancements
1264 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1265 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1266 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1268 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1269 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1273 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1274 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1275 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1276 alt or shift) now work
1277 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1278 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1279 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1280 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1281 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1282 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1283 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1284 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1285 - We now send iconize events
1286 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1287 - Added mousewheel processing
1288 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1289 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1291 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1292 child frame styles are honoured
1296 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1297 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1298 - We now send iconize events
1299 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1300 GetSelection() results
1307 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1308 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1309 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1310 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1311 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1312 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1313 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1314 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1315 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1316 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1320 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1321 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1322 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1323 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1324 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1325 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1326 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1327 wxImage methods and ctor)
1328 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1329 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1330 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1331 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1332 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1333 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1337 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1338 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1339 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1340 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1344 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1348 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1349 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1356 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1357 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1358 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1359 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1360 - Completed Czech translations
1361 - Some stream corrections
1362 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1363 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1364 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1365 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1369 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1370 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1371 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1372 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1373 - Paper names now translated
1375 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1376 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1377 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1378 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1380 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1381 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1383 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1384 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1385 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1386 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1390 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1391 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1392 backward compatibility, please set
1393 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1394 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1395 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1396 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1397 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1398 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1399 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1400 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1401 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1402 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1403 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1404 - wxFrame restores focus better
1405 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1406 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1407 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1408 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1409 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1410 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1411 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1412 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1413 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1414 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1418 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1422 - Small compilation fixes
1426 - wxCaret documented
1438 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1439 files. This works under VC++ only
1440 - Modal dialog handling improved
1441 - Printer dialog now modal
1456 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1460 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1461 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1466 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1467 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1468 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1469 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1470 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1471 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1472 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1473 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1474 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1476 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1477 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1478 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1479 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1480 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1481 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1483 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1487 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1488 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1489 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1490 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1491 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1492 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1493 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1494 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1496 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1497 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1498 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1499 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1500 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1501 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1502 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1503 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1504 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1505 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1506 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1507 - wxDragImage class added
1508 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1509 controllers, as well as native help
1510 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1514 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1515 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1516 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1517 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1518 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1519 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1520 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1521 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1522 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1523 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1525 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1526 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1527 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1531 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1532 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1533 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1537 - wxMenu::Enable works
1538 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1539 - OGL samples made to work again
1543 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1544 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1545 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1546 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1547 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1548 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1549 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1550 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1551 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1552 - improved HTML printing
1553 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1554 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1555 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1556 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1559 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1562 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1563 -----------------------
1567 - JPEG support added.
1568 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1572 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1574 - JPEG support added.
1575 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1576 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1577 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1584 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1587 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1588 -------------------------------
1593 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1597 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1598 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1599 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1600 - Some makefile fixes.
1608 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1609 - More topic overviews.
1610 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1611 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1612 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1615 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1616 --------------------------
1620 - wxExecute improved.
1624 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1626 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1627 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1628 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1629 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1630 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1631 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1635 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1636 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1640 - wxLocale documented.
1641 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1642 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1643 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1644 (though doesn't display help yet).
1646 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1647 --------------------------
1651 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1655 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1657 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1661 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1662 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1663 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1664 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1665 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1666 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1667 crashes for some reason).
1668 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1669 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1673 - Further doc improvements.
1674 - wxGenericValidator added.
1675 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1678 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1679 -------------------------
1683 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1684 - wxToolTip class added.
1685 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1689 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1690 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1691 - TWIN32 support added.
1692 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1693 factored out program/library settings.
1694 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1698 - A few more colour fixes.
1699 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1700 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1701 - wxChoice crash fix.
1702 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1706 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1707 - Added samples/dde.
1708 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1710 Beta 2, January 1999
1711 --------------------
1717 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1721 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1723 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1724 - Added thread support (Robert).
1725 - wxPoem sample now works.
1729 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1730 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1731 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1733 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1734 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1736 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1738 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1739 --------------------------
1745 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1748 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1749 ----------------------------
1753 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1754 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1755 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1756 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1757 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1759 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1760 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1765 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1766 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1767 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1768 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1769 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1771 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1772 when any button was pressed.
1773 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1774 have a white background.
1775 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1776 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1777 they have sensible colours by default.
1778 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1779 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1780 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1781 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1782 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1784 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1785 ----------------------------
1789 - More documentation updates, especially for
1790 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1791 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1793 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1794 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1795 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1797 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1801 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1802 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1804 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1805 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1806 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1807 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1808 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1809 the debugging implementation.
1810 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1811 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1812 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1813 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1814 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1815 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1816 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1818 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1820 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1821 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1822 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1823 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1824 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1825 - wxNotebook almost done.
1826 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1827 to vertical toolbars).
1831 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1833 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1834 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1835 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1837 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1838 ----------------------------
1842 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1844 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1845 - A few more makefiles added.
1846 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1847 - Further doc updates.
1848 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1852 - First start at Motif port.
1853 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1854 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1855 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1856 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1858 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1859 --------------------------
1863 - wxBitmap debugged.
1864 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1865 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1866 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1867 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1868 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1869 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1870 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1872 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1873 ------------------------
1877 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1878 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1879 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1880 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1881 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1882 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1883 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1884 changes, wxNotebook.
1885 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1887 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1888 -----------------------
1892 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1893 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1894 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1895 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1896 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1898 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1899 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1901 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1902 -----------------------
1906 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1907 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1909 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1910 -----------------------
1914 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1915 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1917 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1918 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1919 wxMenuItem accessors.
1920 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1921 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1922 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1923 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1924 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1925 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1926 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1927 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1928 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1929 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1930 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1931 first, then doing the assignment.
1932 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1933 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1937 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1938 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1940 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1941 ----------------------
1945 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1946 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1947 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1948 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1949 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1950 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1951 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1952 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1953 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1955 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1956 ------------------------
1960 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1962 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1963 compilation and pragmas.
1964 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1965 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1969 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1970 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1971 compilation and pragmas.
1972 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1974 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1975 ------------------------
1979 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1980 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1982 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1983 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1984 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1985 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1987 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1988 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1989 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1991 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1992 compatibility functions.
1993 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1994 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1995 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1996 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1997 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1998 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1999 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2003 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2004 - Added samples/png.
2005 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2006 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2008 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2010 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2011 ------------------------
2015 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2016 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2017 cleaned up properly before exit.
2018 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2020 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2021 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2022 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2024 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2025 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2027 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2028 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2029 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2030 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2034 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2035 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2036 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2037 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2038 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2039 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2040 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2041 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2042 allow better control of memory.
2043 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2045 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2046 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2048 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2049 ------------------------
2053 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2054 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2055 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2056 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2057 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2058 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2059 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2060 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2061 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2062 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2063 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2064 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2066 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2067 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2068 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2069 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2070 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2071 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2072 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2073 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2074 internal implementation.
2075 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2076 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2077 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2081 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2082 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2083 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2084 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2085 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2087 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2088 --------------------------
2092 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2093 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2094 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2096 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2097 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2098 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2099 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2101 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2102 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2107 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2108 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2109 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2111 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2112 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2114 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2115 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2116 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2117 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2118 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2119 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2120 - Added gcc pragmas.
2121 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2122 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2123 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2124 added a few references to wxTransString.
2125 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2126 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2127 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2128 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2129 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2130 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2131 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2132 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2133 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2136 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2137 --------------------------
2141 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2142 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2143 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2144 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2145 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2146 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2147 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2148 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2149 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2150 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2151 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2153 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2154 to help printing with multiple pages.
2155 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2156 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2157 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2158 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2159 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2160 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2161 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2162 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2163 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2164 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2165 New files from Vadim:
2171 src\common\string.cpp
2175 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2176 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2177 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2178 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2179 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2180 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2181 including changes to defs.h.
2182 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2184 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2186 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2187 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2189 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2191 Alpha 3, September 1997
2192 -----------------------
2196 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2197 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2198 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2199 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2200 - Started documentation.
2202 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2203 ------------------------
2207 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2208 with MetroWerks compiler.
2209 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2210 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2211 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2212 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2213 for testing purposes.
2214 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2216 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2217 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2219 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2220 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2223 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2224 -----------------------
2228 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2230 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2231 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2232 wxString instead of char *.
2233 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2234 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2235 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2236 as wxbWindow now removed.
2237 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2238 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2240 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2241 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2242 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2244 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2245 settings mucho rationalised.
2246 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2247 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2249 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2250 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2251 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2252 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2253 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2254 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2256 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2257 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2259 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2260 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2261 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2262 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2263 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2264 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2265 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2266 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2267 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2268 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2270 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2271 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2273 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2274 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2275 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2276 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2277 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2278 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2280 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2281 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2282 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2283 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2284 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2285 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).