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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
6 ================================
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)
21 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
22 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
23 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
24 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
25 - finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
26 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
27 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
28 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
29 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
30 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
31 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
32 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
33 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
34 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
35 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
36 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
37 - wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
38 - wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
39 - wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
40 other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
41 stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
42 - wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
43 Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
44 now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
45 - wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
46 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode,
47 switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
48 - when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation
49 not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1),
50 the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node*
52 - non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen()
53 don't exist any more, please fix your code -- it never worked correctly
54 anyhow if you modified the objects returned by these methods so you should
55 simply switch to using const methods.
56 - EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event
57 handler's argument will no longer compile.
61 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
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64 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
65 versions, please update your code to not use them.
67 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
68 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
69 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
70 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
71 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
72 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
73 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
74 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
75 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
76 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
77 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
78 methods taking wxArrayString
79 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
80 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
81 - wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
82 and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
83 accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
84 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
85 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
86 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
87 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
88 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
89 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
91 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
92 - The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
93 and has now been removed
94 - wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
105 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
109 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now recommended way
110 of showing popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
115 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
116 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
120 - fixed wrong colour of tooltips under some themes
121 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
122 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
126 - added 3 state checkbox
134 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
135 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
136 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
137 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
139 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
140 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
141 to forward declare these classes.
145 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
146 resulting in much better display of scaled images
147 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
148 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
149 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
150 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
151 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
152 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
153 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
154 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
155 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
156 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
157 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
158 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
159 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
163 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
164 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
165 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
166 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
167 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
168 even try to do it by default -- now it does
169 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
170 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
171 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
172 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
173 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
174 - subdindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
178 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
182 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
183 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
184 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
185 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
189 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
193 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
194 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
198 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
199 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
203 - Full Unicode support is now available
204 - BLOB support is working
212 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
213 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
214 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
215 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
216 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
217 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
218 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
219 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
220 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
221 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
222 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
223 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
224 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
226 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
227 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
228 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
229 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
230 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
231 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
232 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
233 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
234 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
235 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
236 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
237 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
241 - added wxListBook control
242 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
243 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
244 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
245 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
246 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
247 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
248 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
249 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
250 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
251 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
252 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
253 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
254 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
255 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
256 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
257 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
258 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
259 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
260 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
261 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
262 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
263 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
264 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
265 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
266 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
267 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
271 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
272 - fixed DDE memory leaks
273 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
274 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
275 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
276 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
277 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
278 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
279 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
280 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
281 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
282 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
283 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
284 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
285 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
286 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
287 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
288 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
289 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
290 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
291 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
292 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
293 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
294 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
295 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
296 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
297 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
298 than the specified default size
299 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
303 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
304 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
305 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
306 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
307 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
308 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
309 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
310 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
311 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
315 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
316 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
317 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
318 - use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
322 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
326 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
327 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
331 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
332 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
333 addition to existing OSS one
334 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
342 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
343 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
344 separately compiled library
345 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
346 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
347 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
348 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
349 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
350 - added wxArray::SetCount()
351 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
352 by default in Unicode mode
353 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
354 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
355 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
356 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
357 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
358 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
359 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
360 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
361 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
362 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
363 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
364 - added wxRecursionGuard class
365 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
366 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
367 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
368 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
369 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
370 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
371 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
372 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
376 - added Watcom makefiles
377 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
381 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
383 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
384 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
385 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
386 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
387 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
388 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
389 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
390 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
391 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
392 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
393 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
394 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
395 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
396 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
397 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
398 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
399 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
400 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
401 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
402 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
403 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
404 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
405 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
406 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
407 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
408 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
409 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
410 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
411 default extension for the template
412 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
413 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
414 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
415 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
416 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
417 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
418 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
419 to allow better rich text support.
420 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
421 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
422 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
423 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
424 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
425 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
426 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
427 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
428 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
429 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
430 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
431 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
432 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
433 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
434 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
435 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
436 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
437 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
438 - added wxMirrorDC class
439 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
440 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
441 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
442 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
443 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
444 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
449 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
450 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
451 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
452 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
453 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
457 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
458 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
459 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
460 to contrib/src/deprecated
464 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
465 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
466 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
467 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
468 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
469 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
470 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
471 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
472 be appended to filenames with no extension
473 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
474 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
475 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
476 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
480 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
481 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
485 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
486 - added wxCrashReport
487 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
488 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
489 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
490 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
491 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
492 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
493 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
494 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
495 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
496 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
497 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
498 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
499 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
500 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
501 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
502 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
503 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
504 - improved border handling under Windows XP
505 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
506 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
507 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
508 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
509 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
510 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
511 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
515 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
516 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
517 documentation for a detailed explanation
518 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
519 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
520 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
521 with Motif 1.x compatibility
522 - implemented wxToggleButton
523 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
524 instead of a sunken border
525 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
526 - finished wxClipboard implementation
530 - controls in toolbars now supported
534 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
535 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
536 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
537 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
538 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
544 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
545 ================================
547 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
548 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
549 with '!' in the first column.
551 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
552 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
553 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
554 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
557 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
558 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
559 (see the documentation) useful.
564 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
565 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
568 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
569 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
570 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
571 arrays containing non-pointers.
573 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
574 simply don't make sense for all objects
576 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
577 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
578 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
580 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
582 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
583 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
584 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
585 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
586 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
588 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
589 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
590 the default assert handling.
594 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
595 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
596 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
598 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
599 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
602 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
603 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
604 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
606 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
607 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
608 you want to get OnChar() as well
610 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
611 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
612 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
614 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
615 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
616 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
617 will *NOT* work any longer:
619 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
622 ... do something else ...
624 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
625 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
628 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
630 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
631 if you derived any classes from it
633 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
634 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
636 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
637 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
639 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
640 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
642 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
643 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
646 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
647 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
648 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
650 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
651 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
652 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
653 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
657 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
658 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
659 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
660 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
661 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
662 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
663 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
664 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
665 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
666 is only present for the DLLs builds.
668 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
671 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
672 previously selected one instead of replacing it
674 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
675 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
676 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
678 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
679 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
684 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
685 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
686 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
687 to compile pure C files.
690 wxThread and related classes:
692 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
693 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
694 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
695 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
697 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
698 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
699 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
700 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
702 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
703 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
704 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
706 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
707 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
718 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
725 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
726 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
727 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
731 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
732 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
733 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
736 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
737 - Addition of native frame site grip.
740 - Unicode support through Pango library.
744 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
745 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
749 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
756 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
757 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
758 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
759 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
760 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
761 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
762 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
763 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
764 after (non standard) STL hash_map
765 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
766 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
767 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
768 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
769 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
770 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
771 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
775 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
776 programs and not only GNU make
777 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
778 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
779 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
780 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
781 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
785 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
786 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
787 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
788 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
789 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
791 - significantly improved native font support
792 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
794 - added IFF image handler
795 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
796 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
797 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
798 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
799 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
800 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
801 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
802 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
803 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
804 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
805 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
806 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
807 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
808 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
809 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
810 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
811 - wxMessageOutput class added
812 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
813 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
815 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
816 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
817 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
818 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
820 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
821 whether a label edit was cancelled.
822 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
826 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
827 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
828 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
829 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
830 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
831 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
832 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
833 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
834 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
835 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
837 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
838 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
839 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
840 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
841 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
842 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
843 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
845 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
846 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
847 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
848 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
849 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
850 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
851 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
852 has the capture before release it.
853 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
854 - default button handling is now closer to expected
855 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
856 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
857 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
858 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
859 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
860 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
861 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
862 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
863 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
864 provided in wxFontData
865 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
866 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
870 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
871 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
872 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
873 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
874 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
875 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
876 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
877 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
878 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
879 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
880 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
881 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
882 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
886 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
887 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
888 - improved toolbar control alignment
889 - implemented wxSpinButton
890 - implemented wxCheckListBox
891 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
892 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
896 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
897 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
905 - First alpha-quality release
909 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
910 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
911 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
912 - fixed alignment handling in tables
913 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
918 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
922 - wxRegEx class added
923 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
924 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
925 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
926 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
927 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
931 - support for virtual list control added
932 - column images in report mode of the list control
933 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
934 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
935 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
936 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
937 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
938 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
939 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
940 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
941 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
942 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
943 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
944 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
948 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
949 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
954 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
955 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
956 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
957 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
961 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
966 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
968 - added support for animated GIFs
976 - Fixed new charset detection code
977 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
978 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
979 - Added wxDir::Traverse
980 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
981 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
982 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
986 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
987 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
988 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
989 push on a custom event handler for example)
990 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
991 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
992 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
993 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
994 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
995 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
997 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
998 - Various wxXML enhancements
999 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1000 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1001 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1003 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1004 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1008 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1009 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1010 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1011 alt or shift) now work
1012 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1013 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1014 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1015 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1016 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1017 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1018 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1019 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1020 - We now send iconize events
1021 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1022 - Added mousewheel processing
1023 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1024 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1026 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1027 child frame styles are honoured
1031 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1032 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1033 - We now send iconize events
1034 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1035 GetSelection() results
1042 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1043 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1044 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1045 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1046 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1047 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1048 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1049 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1050 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1051 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1055 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1056 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1057 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1058 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1059 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1060 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1061 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1062 wxImage methods and ctor)
1063 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1064 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1065 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1066 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1067 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1068 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1072 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1073 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1074 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1075 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1079 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1083 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1084 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1091 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1092 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1093 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1094 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1095 - Completed Czech translations
1096 - Some stream corrections
1097 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1098 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1099 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1100 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1104 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1105 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1106 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1107 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1108 - Paper names now translated
1110 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1111 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1112 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1113 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1115 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1116 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1118 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1119 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1120 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1121 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1125 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1126 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1127 backward compatibility, please set
1128 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1129 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1130 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1131 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1132 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1133 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1134 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1135 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1136 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1137 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1138 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1139 - wxFrame restores focus better
1140 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1141 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1142 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1143 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1144 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1145 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1146 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1147 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1148 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1149 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1153 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1157 - Small compilation fixes
1161 - wxCaret documented
1173 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1174 files. This works under VC++ only
1175 - Modal dialog handling improved
1176 - Printer dialog now modal
1191 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1195 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1196 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1201 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1202 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1203 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1204 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1205 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1206 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1207 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1208 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1209 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1211 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1212 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1213 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1214 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1215 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1216 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1218 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1222 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1223 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1224 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1225 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1226 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1227 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1228 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1229 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1231 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1232 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1233 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1234 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1235 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1236 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1237 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1238 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1239 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1240 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1241 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1242 - wxDragImage class added
1243 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1244 controllers, as well as native help
1245 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1249 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1250 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1251 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1252 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1253 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1254 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1255 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1256 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1257 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1258 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1260 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1261 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1262 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1266 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1267 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1268 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1272 - wxMenu::Enable works
1273 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1274 - OGL samples made to work again
1278 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1279 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1280 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1281 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1282 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1283 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1284 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1285 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1286 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1287 - improved HTML printing
1288 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1289 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1290 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1291 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1294 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1297 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1298 -----------------------
1302 - JPEG support added.
1303 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1307 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1309 - JPEG support added.
1310 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1311 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1312 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1319 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1322 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1323 -------------------------------
1328 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1332 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1333 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1334 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1335 - Some makefile fixes.
1343 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1344 - More topic overviews.
1345 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1346 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1347 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1350 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1351 --------------------------
1355 - wxExecute improved.
1359 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1361 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1362 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1363 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1364 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1365 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1366 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1370 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1371 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1375 - wxLocale documented.
1376 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1377 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1378 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1379 (though doesn't display help yet).
1381 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1382 --------------------------
1386 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1390 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1392 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1396 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1397 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1398 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1399 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1400 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1401 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1402 crashes for some reason).
1403 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1404 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1408 - Further doc improvements.
1409 - wxGenericValidator added.
1410 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1413 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1414 -------------------------
1418 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1419 - wxToolTip class added.
1420 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1424 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1425 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1426 - TWIN32 support added.
1427 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1428 factored out program/library settings.
1429 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1433 - A few more colour fixes.
1434 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1435 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1436 - wxChoice crash fix.
1437 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1441 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1442 - Added samples/dde.
1443 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1445 Beta 2, January 1999
1446 --------------------
1452 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1456 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1458 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1459 - Added thread support (Robert).
1460 - wxPoem sample now works.
1464 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1465 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1466 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1468 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1469 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1471 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1473 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1474 --------------------------
1480 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1483 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1484 ----------------------------
1488 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1489 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1490 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1491 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1492 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1494 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1495 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1500 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1501 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1502 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1503 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1504 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1506 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1507 when any button was pressed.
1508 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1509 have a white background.
1510 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1511 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1512 they have sensible colours by default.
1513 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1514 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1515 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1516 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1517 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1519 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1520 ----------------------------
1524 - More documentation updates, especially for
1525 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1526 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1528 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1529 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1530 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1532 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1536 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1537 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1539 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1540 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1541 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1542 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1543 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1544 the debugging implementation.
1545 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1546 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1547 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1548 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1549 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1550 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1551 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1553 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1555 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1556 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1557 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1558 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1559 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1560 - wxNotebook almost done.
1561 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1562 to vertical toolbars).
1566 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1568 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1569 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1570 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1572 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1573 ----------------------------
1577 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1579 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1580 - A few more makefiles added.
1581 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1582 - Further doc updates.
1583 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1587 - First start at Motif port.
1588 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1589 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1590 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1591 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1593 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1594 --------------------------
1598 - wxBitmap debugged.
1599 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1600 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1601 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1602 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1603 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1604 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1605 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1607 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1608 ------------------------
1612 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1613 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1614 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1615 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1616 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1617 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1618 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1619 changes, wxNotebook.
1620 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1622 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1623 -----------------------
1627 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1628 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1629 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1630 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1631 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1633 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1634 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1636 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1637 -----------------------
1641 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1642 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1644 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1645 -----------------------
1649 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1650 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1652 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1653 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1654 wxMenuItem accessors.
1655 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1656 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1657 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1658 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1659 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1660 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1661 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1662 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1663 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1664 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1665 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1666 first, then doing the assignment.
1667 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1668 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1672 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1673 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1675 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1676 ----------------------
1680 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1681 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1682 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1683 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1684 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1685 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1686 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1687 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1688 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1690 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1691 ------------------------
1695 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1697 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1698 compilation and pragmas.
1699 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1700 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1704 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1705 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1706 compilation and pragmas.
1707 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1709 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1710 ------------------------
1714 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1715 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1717 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1718 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1719 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1720 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1722 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1723 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1724 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1726 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1727 compatibility functions.
1728 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1729 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1730 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1731 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1732 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1733 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1734 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1738 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1739 - Added samples/png.
1740 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1741 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1743 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1745 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1746 ------------------------
1750 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1751 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1752 cleaned up properly before exit.
1753 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1755 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1756 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1757 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1759 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1760 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1762 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1763 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1764 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1765 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1769 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1770 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1771 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1772 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1773 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1774 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1775 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1776 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1777 allow better control of memory.
1778 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1780 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1781 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1783 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1784 ------------------------
1788 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1789 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1790 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1791 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1792 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1793 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1794 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1795 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1796 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1797 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1798 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1799 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1801 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1802 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1803 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1804 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1805 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1806 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1807 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1808 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1809 internal implementation.
1810 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1811 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1812 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1816 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1817 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1818 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1819 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1820 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1822 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1823 --------------------------
1827 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1828 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1829 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1831 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1832 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1833 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1834 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1836 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1837 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1842 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1843 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1844 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1846 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1847 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1849 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1850 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1851 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1852 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1853 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1854 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1855 - Added gcc pragmas.
1856 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1857 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1858 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1859 added a few references to wxTransString.
1860 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1861 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1862 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1863 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1864 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1865 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1866 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1867 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1868 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1871 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1872 --------------------------
1876 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1877 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1878 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1879 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1880 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1881 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1882 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1883 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1884 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1885 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1886 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1888 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1889 to help printing with multiple pages.
1890 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1891 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1892 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1893 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1894 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1895 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1896 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1897 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1898 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1899 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1900 New files from Vadim:
1906 src\common\string.cpp
1910 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1911 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1912 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1913 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1914 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1915 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1916 including changes to defs.h.
1917 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1919 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1921 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1922 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1924 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1926 Alpha 3, September 1997
1927 -----------------------
1931 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1932 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1933 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1934 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1935 - Started documentation.
1937 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1938 ------------------------
1942 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1943 with MetroWerks compiler.
1944 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1945 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1946 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1947 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1948 for testing purposes.
1949 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1951 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1952 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1954 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1955 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1958 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1959 -----------------------
1963 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1965 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1966 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1967 wxString instead of char *.
1968 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1969 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1970 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1971 as wxbWindow now removed.
1972 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1973 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1975 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1976 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1977 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1979 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1980 settings mucho rationalised.
1981 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1982 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1984 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1985 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1986 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1987 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1988 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1989 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1991 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1992 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1994 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1995 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1996 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1997 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1998 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1999 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2000 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2001 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2002 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2003 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2005 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2006 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2008 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2009 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2010 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2011 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2012 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2013 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2015 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2016 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2017 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2018 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2019 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2020 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).