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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
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7
8
9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
12
13
14 Unicode-related changes
15 -----------------------
16
17 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
18 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
19 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
20 changes:
21
22 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
23 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
24 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
25 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
26 backwards compatible except:
27
28 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
29 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
30 base class version.
31
32 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
33 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
34 should be replaced with an empty string.
35
36 - Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
37 return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
38 *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
39 the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
40 you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
41 explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
42 A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
43 with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
44 indicate the parsing success.
45
46 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
47 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
48 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
49 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
50
51 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
52 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
53 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
54 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
55 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
56 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
57 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
58
59
60 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
61 ------------------------------------
62
63 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
64 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
65 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
66
67 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
68 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
69 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
70 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
71 open for futher development by volunteers.
72
73 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
74 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
75
76
77 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
78 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
79
80 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
81 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
82
83 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
84 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
85 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
86
87 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
88 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
89 instead.
90
91 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
92 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
93 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
94 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
95 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
96 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
97
98 - Interpretation of font height in pixels parameter has changed in wxFont
99 ctor and SetPixelSize() in wxMSW: it is now used as character height and not
100 the total cell height. If you previously used negative height to explicitly
101 request character height matching, you may now change your code to use
102 positive value (passing negative height still works but is undocumented and
103 deprecated). If you used positive height before you should retest your code
104 to check if the changes correspond to your expectations. And if you do need
105 the old behaviour please contact us at wx-dev to let us know about it!
106
107 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
108 your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
109
110 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
111 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
112 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
113 you need the extra features.
114
115 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
116 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
117 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
118 derived classes to use const reference as well.
119
120 - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
121 Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
122
123 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
124
125 - If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
126 GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
127 more details.
128
129 - Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
130 Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
131 or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
132 See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
133
134 - wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only.
135
136 - Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is
137 changed. See the updated wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle() description in the
138 manual for more details.
139
140 - wxTreeCtrl::GetSelection now asserts if the tree has the wxTR_MULTIPLE style.
141 Instead use GetSelections() for multiple items; or if you want only the
142 single item last touched, the new wxTreeCtrl::GetFocusedItem.
143
144 - Custom log targets should be updated to override wxLog::DoLogRecord() method
145 instead of DoLog() or DoLogString() and must be updated if they call the base
146 class versions of these functions as this won't work any more; please see the
147 documentation of wxLog for more information.
148
149 - Confusing wxGridSizer(int cols, int vgap = 0, int hgap = 0) ctor which was
150 easy to mistake for wxGridSizer(int rows, int cols) overload was removed, you
151 will need to specify both vertical and horizontal gap if you want to use this
152 overload or specify both rows and columns and the gap otherwise. Use of the
153 new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
154 applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
155
156 - wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
157 and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
158 most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
159 space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
160
161 - wxTextCtrl::LoadFile no longer sends a text update event.
162
163 - wxXmlDocument::Save()'s indentstep argument's interpretation was fixed
164 to match the documentation: it now really is the number of spaces in
165 indentation instead of being its double. Its default value was changed
166 accordingly, to 2.
167
168 - wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING flag has no effect now, catalogs are converted
169 regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
170 legacy ANSI builds.
171
172 - wxNotebook::GetSelection() returns the new page index when called from
173 wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED event handler in wxMSW, not the old one.
174 The new behaviour is consistent with wxGTK and more logical but different
175 from the previous versions. Using wxNotebookEvent::GetSelection() instead of
176 querying the notebook selection avoids the problem and is recommended.
177
178 - wxMSW-specific wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() method now creates a new
179 instance if needed instead of failing if the application providing the
180 requested ProgID is not running. Pass wxAutomationInstance_UseExistingOnly
181 flag to it to revert to the old behaviour.
182
183
184 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
185 -----------------------------------------------------------
186
187 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
188 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
189
190 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
191 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
192 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
193
194 - wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
195 has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
196 GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
197 New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
198
199 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
200 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
201 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
202 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
203
204 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
205 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
206 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
207 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
208 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
209
210 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
211 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
212 this won't compile:
213 switch (str[i]) { ... }
214 and has to be replaced with this:
215 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
216
217 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
218 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
219 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
220 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
221
222 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
223 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
224 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
225 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
226 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
227
228 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
229 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
230 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
231 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
232
233 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
234 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
235 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
236 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
237
238 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
239 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
240
241 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
242 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
243 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
244 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
245 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
246 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
247
248 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
249
250 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
251 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
252 must be used instead.
253
254 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
255 with void pointers.
256
257 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
258
259 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
260 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
261
262 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
263 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
264 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
265
266 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
267 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
268 necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
269 next/previous control sibling instead.
270
271 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
272 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
273 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
274
275 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
276 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
277 wxBitmapType in your code.
278
279 - wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
280 functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
281 of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
282 written now.
283
284 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
285 be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
286
287 - wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
288 its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
289 to it under 64 bit platforms too).
290
291 - Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
292 You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
293 locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
294
295 - wxBitmapButton::GetBitmapXXX() overloads returning non-const wxBitmap
296 references have been removed, modifying the returned bitmaps never worked and
297 now results in compile-time error.
298
299 - wxLogXXX() are now macros, not functions. Because of this calling them with
300 an explicit scope resolution operator ("::wxLogError()") doesn't work any
301 longer, just remove it. Also notice that using them inside an "if" statement
302 without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
303 add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
304
305 - wxList::Member() now returns book and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
306 require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
307 presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
308 use Find() instead.
309
310 - wxLongLongFmtSpec is now a normal and not wide string so you will need to
311 change expressions of the form wxT("%") wxLongLongFmtSpec wxT("x") to
312 just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
313 concatenate with it.
314
315
316 Deprecated methods and their replacements
317 -----------------------------------------
318
319 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
320 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
321 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
322 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
323 specified so this style should simply be removed
324 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
325 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
326 to use
327 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
328 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
329 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
330 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
331 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
332 - Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
333 named new versions:
334 . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
335 . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
336 . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
337 . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
338 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
339 ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
340 plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
341 and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
342 - EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
343 don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
344 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
345 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
346 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
347 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
348 There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
349 not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
350 - wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
351 different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
352 passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
353 it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
354 code.
355 - wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
356 - wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
357 name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
358 - wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
359 wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
360 were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
361 - wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
362 documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
363 - wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
364 the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
365 - building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
366 wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
367 on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
368 You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
369 the static box itself.
370 - wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
371 consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
372 - wxFont::SetNoAntiAliasing() was deprecated, it never really worked in most
373 ports and was always marked as "experimental" API. It will be replaced with
374 wxDC-level anti-aliasing control in the future.
375 - wxValidator::SetBellOnError() incorrectly interpreted its argument (it
376 disabled the bell when it was true) and was replaced by SuppressBellOnError()
377 with more expected semantics.
378 - wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
379 wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
380
381
382 Major new features in this release
383 ----------------------------------
384
385 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
386 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
387 past.
388
389 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
390 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
391
392 - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
393
394 - new ribbon library for advanced toolbars.
395
396 - Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
397
398 - Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
399
400 - Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
401 wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
402
403 - Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
404 with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
405 of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
406 definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
407 welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
408 ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
409
410 - Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
411 was added.
412
413
414 2.9.2:
415 ------
416
417 All:
418
419 - Added cwd and env arguments to wxExecute() (Emilien Kia).
420 - Added "rest" argument to wxString::Before{First,Last}().
421 - Added wxThread::OnKill() and OnDelete() callbacks.
422 - Added wxFile::GetLastError() and ClearLastError() (ryazanov).
423 - Added negatable command line switches (Armel Asselin).
424 - Added wxVersionInfo and various GetLibraryVersionInfo() functions (troelsk).
425
426 Unix:
427
428 - Fix spurious errors when writing to child process pipe (ryazanov).
429
430 All (GUI):
431
432 - Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
433 - Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
434 - Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
435 - wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
436 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
437 - Added possibility to disable individual wxDataViewCtrl items (Neno Ganchev).
438 - wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
439 - wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
440 - Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
441 - Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
442 - Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
443 - Fix display of right aligned columns in wxGenericListCtrl (jl).
444 - Restore text drag-and-drop in wxSTC broken by Scintilla 2 update (Jens Lody).
445 - Improve wxGTK print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
446 - Add support for id ranges to XRC (David Hart).
447 - Added wxToolbook XRC handler (Andrea Zanellato).
448 - Added wxDocManager::FindTemplate() (troelsk).
449 - Return bool, not void, from wxImage::ConvertAlphaToMask() (troelsk).
450 - Fixed resizing columns in wxGrid when they were reordered.
451 - Added wxImage::Rotate180() (Jeff Tupper).
452 - Added support for saving TGA files.
453 - Added wxArtProvider returning higher quality icons from Tango project.
454 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "HasAlpha" attribute for wxColourProperty.
455 - Added support for saving PNG files with palette (troelsk).
456
457 GTK:
458
459 - Switch to GtkTooltip from deprecated GtkTooltips (Emilien Kia).
460
461 MSW:
462
463 - Native implementation of wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxProgressDialog under modern
464 Windows versions (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
465 - Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
466 - Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
467 - Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
468 - Center task dialog-based wxProgressDialog on the parent (John Roberts).
469 - wxAutomationObject::GetInstance() creates objects on demand (Kolya Kosenko).
470
471
472
473 2.9.1:
474 ------
475
476 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE SINCE 2.9.0
477
478 - wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
479 remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
480 2.9.0. Please use UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName | AppInfo_VendorName) explicitly
481 to use the vendor name in the paths returned by wxStandardPaths.
482
483 - wxDataViewModel::GetAttr() is now const, as it should have been from the very
484 beginning. You will need to change it to be const in your derived model
485 class too if you override it.
486
487
488 All:
489
490 - Added wxFileSystemWatcher (Bartosz Bekier, Google Summer of Code project).
491 - Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
492 - Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
493 - Added wxTempFile::Flush().
494 - Added support for wxLongLong and wxULongLong in wxVariant.
495 - Added wxVector::swap().
496 - Many wxLog improvements:
497 * wxLogXXX() functions are now thread-safe.
498 * Log levels can now be set independently for different log components.
499 * wxLog::DoLogRecord() has access to the location of the log message
500 (file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
501 * SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
502 - Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
503 - Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
504 - Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
505 - Added wxImage::ClearAlpha() (Javier Torres).
506 - Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
507 - Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
508 - Added wxAny class; a modern, backwards-incompatible replacement for
509 wxVariant.
510 - wxDateTime timezone functions now dynamic (no caching).
511 - Added wxHttp::GetCookie and wxHttp::HasCookies (dodge).
512 - Added support for unique volume names to wxFileName (Neno Ganchev).
513 - Correct bugs when using wxTextInputStream with wxConvAuto (Leon Buikstra).
514 - Don't crash when input is empty in wxFileConfig ctor (Lukasz Michalski).
515 - Correct wxSocket::Peek() to not block (Anders Larsen).
516 - Added IEC and SI units support to GetHumanReadableSize() (Julien Weinzorn).
517 - Add convenient wxString::ToStd{String,Wstring}() helpers.
518 - Added wxTranslations class to allow localization without changing locale.
519 It provides more flexible languages enumeration API as well.
520 - Added wxResourceTranslationsLoader for loading translations from Windows
521 resources.
522 - Added wxMessageQueue::Clear().
523 - Added wxConfig::Read(float *) overload (Terry Farnham).
524 - Always use decimal point (and not the current locale separator) in wxConfig.
525 - Fix posting of binary data using wxHTTP (Catalin Raceanu).
526
527 Unix:
528
529 - Return signed return code from wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC).
530 - Allow to use WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR environment var to override the return value
531 of wxStandardPaths::GetDataDir().
532
533 All (GUI):
534
535 - Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
536 - Added wxInfoBar.
537 - Added stretchable spaces support to wxToolBar.
538 - Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
539 - wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
540 - Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
541 - Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
542 - Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
543 - Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
544 - Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
545 - wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
546 - wxGrid: allow changing the horizontal alignment of numeric cells.
547 - wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
548 - wxHTML: add limited support for span elements styles (Nigel Paton).
549 - Added wxMouseEventsManager.
550 - Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
551 - Fixed wxDataViewCtrl::Set{Foreground,Background}Colour().
552 - Added wxDataViewRenderer::EnableEllipsize().
553 - Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
554 - Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
555 - Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
556 - Added wxTextWrapper helper class useful for wrapping lines of text.
557 - Added EVT_DATAVIEW_CACHE_HINT() event (Trigve).
558 - Added wxLB_NO_SB style (implemented for MSW only; Dario Senic).
559 - Added long version field to wxAboutDialogInfo (Jeff Tupper).
560 - Added wxWindow::CanScroll() behaving like the old HasScrollbar() and made
561 HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
562 - Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
563 - Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
564 - Fixed wxComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
565 - Fixed wxComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
566 dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
567 - wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
568 - wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
569 - wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behavior. Added
570 new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
571 - wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
572 - wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
573 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "Delimiter" attribute for wxArrayStringProperty.
574 - wxPropertyGridManager: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER,
575 wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer
576 control over borders. Borders around property grid are now native for
577 consistency.
578 - Added wxPropertyGridManager::ShowHeader().
579 - Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
580 - Added wxColour::Set/GetRGB() and Set/GetRGBA() methods (Marcel Haß).
581 - wxRTC: added wxRICHTEXT_HANDLER_USE_CSS flag for HTML handler to use CSS
582 where possible.
583 - wxRTC: corrected centring and right-justification spacing.
584 - wxRTC: fixed style selection reset after editing a style.
585 - wxRTC: can now edit line spacing in .1 increments from 1 to 2.
586 - wxRTC: added PaintAboveContent function for drawing on top of text.
587 - Added wxBORDER_THEME to XRC.
588 - wxGraphicsContext is now enabled by default if supported by the platform.
589 - Fix building with using system libpng 1.4 (Volker Grabsch).
590 - Add wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() methods (Igor Korot).
591 - Added wxTreeCtrl::SelectChildren() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
592 - Show pages icons in window list menu in wxAuiNotebook (Ronny Krüger).
593 - Add "initial selection" parameter to wxGetSingleChoice() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
594 - Implement wxDocument::Revert() (troelsk).
595 - Allow overriding print preview frame creation in docview (troelsk).
596 - Added support for gradient stops in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
597 - Added wxTransparentColour.
598 - Added wxToolBar::GetToolByPos().
599 - Added wxProgressDialog::Was{Cancelled,Skipped}() (Julien Weinzorn).
600 - Added wxTreeCtrl::{Clear,Set}FocusedItem() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
601 - Added "filter changed" event to wxFileCtrl (Bill Jones).
602 - wxAUI: update floating window position and not only size on resize (MacGyver).
603 - Added wxComboCtrl::SetTextCtrlStyle().
604 - Also update client data in wxRearrangeList control (John Roberts).
605 - Generate more click events in wxGrid when using native header (John Roberts).
606
607 GTK:
608
609 - wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
610 - Implement wxMask copy ctor.
611 - Partially implemented wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Romanov).
612 - Corrected themed border display.
613 - Fix wxClipboard::GetData() for asymmetric wxDataObjects (Timothy Lee).
614
615 Mac:
616
617 - Implement wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() in wxOSX/Cocoa.
618 - Correct min/max pages display in the print dialog (Auria).
619 - Fix wxDataViewColumn::GetWidth() in Cocoa (Neno Ganchev).
620
621 MSW:
622
623 - Translate wxMessageDialog labels to the language of the current locale.
624 - Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
625 - Update CRT environment block in wxSetEnv() too.
626 - Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
627 - Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
628 - Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
629 - Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
630 - Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
631 - Worked around child window and caret positioning bug (in Windows) when using
632 wxBORDER_THEME in a container window.
633 - Suppressed spurious character event for decimal key in numeric keypad.
634 - Allow to not create wxPaintDC in EVT_PAINT handler.
635 - Fix sending of wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_COL_DRAGGING events in wxListCtrl.
636 - Allow putting the UAC symbol on buttons (Chris Spencer).
637 - Fix wxTaskBarIcon for older Windows systems (Daniel Wyatt).
638 - Fixed wxOwnerDrawnComboBox keyboard handling: drop-down is no longer
639 displayed when arrow key is pressed (without Alt).
640 - In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
641 as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
642 - Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
643
644 i18n:
645
646 - Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
647 - Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
648
649
650 2.9.0
651 -----
652
653 All:
654
655 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
656 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
657 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
658 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
659 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
660 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
661 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
662 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
663 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
664 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
665 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
666 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
667 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
668 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
669 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
670 - Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
671 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
672 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
673 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
674 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
675 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
676 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
677 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
678 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
679 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
680 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
681 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
682 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
683 Linnakangas).
684 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
685 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
686 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
687 and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
688 wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
689 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
690 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
691 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
692 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
693 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
694 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
695 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
696 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
697 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
698 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
699 - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
700 - Added wxArray::swap().
701 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
702 - Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
703 - Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
704 - Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
705 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
706 - Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
707 - Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
708 - Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
709 protocols is 60 seconds.
710 - Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
711 - Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
712 - Added wxLog::Log().
713 - Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
714 - Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
715 - Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
716 - Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
717 - wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
718 - Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
719 - Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
720 - Store page setup data directly in wxDocManager (troelsk).
721
722 All (Unix):
723
724 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
725 - Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
726 - Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
727 if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
728 are automatically built.
729
730 All (GUI):
731
732 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
733 - Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
734 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
735 - Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
736 - Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
737 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
738 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
739 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
740 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
741 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
742 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
743 - Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
744 - Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
745 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
746 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
747 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
748 - Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
749 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
750 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
751 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
752 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
753 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
754 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
755 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
756 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
757 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
758 - Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
759 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
760 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
761 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
762 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
763 - Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
764 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
765 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
766 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
767 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
768 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
769 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
770 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
771 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
772 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
773 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
774 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
775 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
776 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
777 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
778 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
779 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
780 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
781 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
782 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
783 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
784 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
785 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
786 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
787 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
788 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
789 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
790 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
791 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
792 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
793 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
794 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
795 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
796 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
797 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
798 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
799 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
800 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
801 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
802 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
803 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
804 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
805 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
806 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
807 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
808 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
809 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
810 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
811 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
812 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
813 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
814 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
815 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
816 - Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
817 - Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
818 - Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
819 - Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
820 - Add column parameter to wxListCtrl::GetItemText() (Allann Jones).
821 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
822 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
823 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
824 - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
825 - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
826 marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
827 - Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
828 - Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
829 - Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
830 - Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
831 - Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
832 - Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
833 GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
834 no longer return bogus values.
835 - Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
836 - Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
837 added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
838 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
839 to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
840 (Perdana Panduwana)
841 - Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
842 - Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
843 a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
844 Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
845 - Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
846 - Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
847 - Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
848 - Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
849 - Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
850 - Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
851 new CheckFit() method for more information.
852 - Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
853 - Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
854 - Improved anchors handling in wxHTML.
855
856 wxGTK:
857
858 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
859 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
860 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
861 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
862 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
863 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
864 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
865 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
866 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
867 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
868 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
869 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
870 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
871 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
872 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
873 - Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
874
875 wxMac:
876
877 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
878 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
879 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
880 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
881 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
882 - Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
883
884 wxMSW:
885
886 - Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
887 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
888 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
889 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
890 - wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
891 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
892 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
893 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
894 - Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
895 - Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
896 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
897 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
898 - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
899 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
900 accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
901 preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
902 should be used.
903 - Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
904 - Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
905 - Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
906 by modern apps.
907 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
908 - Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
909 - Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
910
911 wxX11:
912
913 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
914 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
915
916 wxDFB:
917
918 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
919
920 i18n:
921 -----
922
923 - Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
924
925
926 2.8.10:
927 -------
928
929 All:
930
931 - wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
932 any more (Marcin Malich).
933 - Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
934 - Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
935 - Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
936 - Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
937 - Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
938 - Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
939 (Robert Wruck).
940 - Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
941 - Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
942
943 All (GUI):
944
945 - wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
946 Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
947 to key down handler.
948 - wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
949 - wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
950 pressing Delete.
951 - wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
952 formatting dialog.
953 - wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
954 indentation.
955 - wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
956 - wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
957 - wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
958 - wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
959 - wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
960 - Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
961 - Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
962 single-cell paragraphs.
963 - Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
964 - wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
965 - Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
966 - Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
967 wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
968 - Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
969 - Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
970 - Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
971 - Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
972
973 All (Unix):
974
975 - Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
976 occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
977
978 wxMSW:
979
980 - Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
981 - Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
982 - Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
983 - Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
984 if the event handler causes window update.
985 - Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
986 - Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
987 - Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
988 - Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
989 - Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
990 - Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
991 - Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
992 don't fit into the default size.
993 - Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
994 - Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
995 the item in wxTreeCtrl.
996
997
998 wxMSW/CE:
999
1000 - Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
1001
1002 wxGTK:
1003
1004 - Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
1005 - Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
1006 the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
1007 - Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
1008 as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
1009
1010 wxOS2:
1011
1012 - Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
1013
1014
1015 2.8.9
1016 -----
1017
1018 All:
1019
1020 - Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
1021 - Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
1022 - Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
1023 in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
1024 results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
1025
1026 All (GUI):
1027
1028 - Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
1029 - Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
1030 go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
1031 help window.
1032 - Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
1033 platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
1034 - Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
1035 - Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
1036 wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
1037 - Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
1038 - Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
1039 now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
1040 - Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1041 - Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
1042 - Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
1043 - Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
1044 - Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
1045 - Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
1046 - Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
1047 - Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
1048 and mouse-down events
1049 - wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
1050 - Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
1051 - Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
1052 - Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
1053 - Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
1054 - Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
1055 - wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
1056
1057 All (Unix):
1058
1059 - MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
1060 files and also the default application list.
1061 - Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
1062 must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
1063 mime types manager initialization penalty.
1064
1065 wxMSW:
1066
1067 - Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
1068 contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
1069 preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
1070 Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
1071 will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
1072 wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
1073 - Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
1074 - Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
1075 - Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
1076 - Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
1077 - Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
1078 - Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
1079 creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
1080 - Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
1081 was invalid.
1082 - Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
1083 - Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
1084 - Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
1085
1086 wxGTK:
1087
1088 - Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
1089 - Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
1090 - Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
1091 as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
1092 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1093
1094 wxMac:
1095
1096 - Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
1097 would cause the window to scroll.
1098
1099
1100 2.8.8
1101 -----
1102
1103 All:
1104
1105 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
1106 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
1107 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
1108 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
1109 - Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
1110
1111 All (GUI):
1112
1113 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
1114 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1115 - Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
1116 smaller than the minimal size.
1117 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1118 - wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
1119 - Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
1120 - Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
1121 - wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
1122 works.
1123 - When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
1124 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
1125 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1126 - SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
1127 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
1128 charset in ANSI build.
1129 - wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
1130 and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
1131 - Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1132 - Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
1133 - Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
1134 - Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
1135 wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
1136 - Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
1137 - Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
1138 - Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
1139 - Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
1140 - Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
1141 best size if needed.
1142 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1143 - Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
1144 - Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
1145 - wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
1146 - Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
1147 - Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
1148 - Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
1149
1150 All (Unix):
1151
1152 - Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
1153 --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
1154 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
1155 - Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
1156 - Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
1157
1158 wxMSW:
1159
1160 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
1161 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
1162 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
1163 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
1164 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
1165 - Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
1166 a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
1167 - Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
1168 to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
1169 - Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
1170 highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
1171 - Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
1172 corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
1173 - Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
1174 - Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
1175 - wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
1176 for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
1177 - Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
1178 SmartPhone.
1179 - Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
1180 using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
1181 - Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
1182 - Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
1183 - Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
1184 spin button's client size.
1185 - Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
1186 compiler (Matthias Bohm).
1187 - Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
1188 systems (Gerald Giese)
1189
1190 wxGTK:
1191
1192 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
1193 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
1194 - Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
1195 - Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
1196 with other applications.
1197 - Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
1198 change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
1199 - Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
1200 - Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
1201 processing all pending events.
1202 - wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
1203
1204 wxMac:
1205
1206 - Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
1207 - Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
1208 - wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
1209 - Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
1210
1211
1212 2.8.7
1213 -----
1214
1215 All:
1216
1217 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
1218
1219 wxMSW:
1220
1221 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
1222 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
1223
1224 wxGTK:
1225
1226 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
1227 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
1228 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
1229
1230
1231 2.8.6
1232 -----
1233
1234 All:
1235
1236 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
1237 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
1238
1239
1240 2.8.5
1241 -----
1242
1243 All (GUI):
1244
1245 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
1246 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
1247 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
1248 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
1249 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
1250 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
1251 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
1252 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
1253 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
1254 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
1255
1256 wxMSW:
1257
1258 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
1259 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
1260 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
1261 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
1262 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
1263 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
1264 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
1265
1266 wxGTK:
1267
1268 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
1269 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
1270 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
1271 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
1272 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
1273 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
1274 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
1275 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
1276 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
1277 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
1278 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
1279
1280
1281 2.8.4
1282 -----
1283
1284 All:
1285
1286 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1287 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
1288 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
1289 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
1290
1291 All (Unix):
1292
1293 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
1294
1295 All (GUI):
1296
1297 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
1298 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
1299 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
1300 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
1301
1302 wxMSW:
1303
1304 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
1305 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
1306 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
1307 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
1308 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
1309 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
1310 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
1311 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
1312 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
1313
1314 wxGTK:
1315
1316 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
1317 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
1318 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
1319
1320 wxMac:
1321
1322 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
1323
1324 wxUniv:
1325
1326 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
1327 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
1328 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
1329
1330
1331 2.8.3
1332 -----
1333
1334 All:
1335
1336 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
1337 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
1338
1339 wxMac:
1340
1341 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
1342
1343 wxMSW:
1344
1345 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
1346
1347 wxGTK:
1348
1349 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
1350
1351
1352 2.8.2
1353 -----
1354
1355 All:
1356
1357 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
1358 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
1359 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
1360 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
1361 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
1362 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
1363 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
1364 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
1365 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
1366
1367 Unix Ports:
1368
1369 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
1370
1371 wxMSW
1372
1373 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
1374 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
1375
1376 wxGTK
1377
1378 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
1379
1380 wxMac
1381
1382 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
1383 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
1384
1385 wxX11:
1386
1387 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
1388
1389 wxUniv:
1390
1391 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
1392
1393
1394 2.8.1
1395 -----
1396
1397 All:
1398
1399 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
1400 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
1401 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
1402 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
1403 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
1404 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
1405
1406 wxMSW:
1407
1408 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
1409 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
1410
1411 wxGTK:
1412
1413 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
1414
1415 wxUniv:
1416
1417 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
1418
1419
1420 2.8.0
1421 -----
1422
1423 All:
1424
1425 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
1426 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
1427 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
1428 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
1429 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
1430 a stream that is seekable.
1431 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
1432 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
1433 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
1434
1435 wxMSW:
1436
1437 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
1438 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
1439 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
1440 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
1441
1442 wxGTK:
1443
1444 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
1445 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
1446
1447
1448 2.7.2
1449 -----
1450
1451 All:
1452
1453 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
1454 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
1455 - Added wxTar streams.
1456 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
1457 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
1458
1459 All (GUI):
1460
1461 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
1462 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
1463 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
1464 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
1465 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
1466 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
1467 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
1468 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
1469 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
1470 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
1471 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
1472 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
1473 formatting.
1474 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
1475 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
1476 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
1477 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
1478
1479 Unix Ports:
1480
1481 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
1482 program (Francesco Montorsi).
1483
1484 wxGTK:
1485
1486 - More RTL work.
1487 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
1488 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
1489 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
1490 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
1491
1492
1493 2.7.1
1494 -----
1495
1496 All:
1497
1498 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
1499 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
1500 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
1501 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
1502 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
1503 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
1504 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
1505 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
1506 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
1507 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
1508 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
1509 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
1510 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
1511 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
1512 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
1513
1514 All (GUI):
1515
1516 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
1517 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
1518 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
1519 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
1520 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
1521 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
1522 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
1523 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
1524 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
1525 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
1526 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
1527 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
1528 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1529 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
1530
1531 wxMSW:
1532
1533 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
1534 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
1535 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
1536 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
1537 high-contrast theme).
1538 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
1539
1540 wxMac:
1541
1542 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
1543 to the SDK.
1544
1545 wxGTK:
1546
1547 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
1548 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
1549 - Implemented right-to-left support.
1550 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1551 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
1552
1553 wxUniv:
1554
1555 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
1556
1557
1558 2.7.0
1559 -----
1560
1561 All:
1562
1563 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
1564 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
1565 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
1566 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
1567 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
1568 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
1569 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
1570 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
1571 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
1572 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
1573 during a search and replace.
1574 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
1575 are both used in the same program.
1576 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
1577 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
1578 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
1579 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
1580 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
1581 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
1582 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
1583 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
1584 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
1585 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
1586 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
1587 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
1588 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
1589 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
1590 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
1591 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
1592 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
1593 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
1594 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
1595 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
1596 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
1597 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
1598 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
1599 the first time it was called.
1600 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
1601 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
1602 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
1603 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
1604 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
1605 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
1606 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
1607 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
1608 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
1609 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
1610
1611 All (GUI):
1612
1613 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
1614 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
1615 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
1616 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
1617 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
1618 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1619 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
1620 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
1621 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
1622 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
1623 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
1624 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
1625 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
1626 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
1627 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
1628 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
1629 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
1630 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
1631 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
1632 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
1633 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
1634 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
1635 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
1636 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
1637 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
1638 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
1639 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
1640 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
1641 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
1642 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
1643 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
1644 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
1645 by Sandro Sigala).
1646 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
1647 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
1648 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
1649 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
1650 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
1651 best size.
1652 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
1653 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
1654 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
1655 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
1656 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
1657 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
1658 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
1659 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
1660 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
1661 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
1662 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
1663 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
1664 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
1665 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
1666 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
1667 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
1668 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
1669 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
1670 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
1671 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
1672 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
1673 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
1674 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
1675 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
1676 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
1677 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
1678 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
1679 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
1680 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
1681 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
1682 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
1683 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
1684 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
1685 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
1686 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
1687 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
1688 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
1689 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
1690 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
1691 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
1692
1693 wxMSW:
1694
1695 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
1696 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
1697 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
1698 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
1699 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
1700 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
1701 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
1702 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
1703 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
1704 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
1705 wxMSW faq for details).
1706 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
1707 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
1708 to the link command.
1709 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
1710 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
1711 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
1712 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
1713 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
1714 show.
1715 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
1716 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
1717 initial construction.
1718 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
1719 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
1720 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
1721 events).
1722 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
1723 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
1724 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
1725 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
1726 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
1727 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
1728 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
1729 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
1730 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
1731 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
1732 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
1733 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
1734 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
1735 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
1736 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
1737 changes the system font.
1738 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
1739 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
1740 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
1741 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
1742 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
1743 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
1744
1745 wxGTK:
1746
1747 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
1748 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
1749 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
1750 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
1751 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
1752 implementation.
1753 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
1754 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
1755 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
1756 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
1757 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
1758 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
1759 previously unable to be focused before.
1760 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
1761 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
1762 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
1763 class was used.
1764 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
1765 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
1766 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
1767 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
1768 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
1769 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
1770 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
1771 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
1772 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
1773
1774 wxMac:
1775
1776 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
1777 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
1778 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
1779 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
1780 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
1781 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
1782 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
1783 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
1784 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
1785 - Corrected idle wake-up.
1786 - Corrected wxExecute.
1787 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
1788 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
1789 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
1790 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1791 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
1792 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
1793 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
1794 were found.
1795 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
1796 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
1797 under Mach-O.
1798 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
1799 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
1800 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
1801 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
1802 end of file with an error.
1803 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
1804 binaries.
1805 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
1806 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
1807 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
1808 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
1809 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
1810 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
1811 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
1812
1813 wxCocoa:
1814
1815 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
1816
1817 wxWinCE:
1818
1819 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
1820 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
1821 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
1822 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
1823 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
1824 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
1825 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
1826 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
1827 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
1828 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
1829 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
1830 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
1831 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
1832 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
1833 directly, however.
1834 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
1835 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
1836 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
1837 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
1838 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
1839
1840 wxUniv:
1841
1842 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
1843 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
1844 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
1845
1846 wxX11:
1847
1848 - Invisible text problem fixed.
1849 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
1850 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
1851 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
1852
1853 Unix:
1854
1855 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
1856
1857 wxMGL:
1858
1859 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
1860 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
1861
1862
1863 2.6.2
1864 -----
1865
1866 All:
1867
1868 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
1869 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
1870 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
1871 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
1872 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
1873 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
1874 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
1875 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
1876 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
1877 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
1878 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
1879 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
1880
1881 All (GUI):
1882
1883 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
1884 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
1885 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
1886 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
1887 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
1888 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
1889 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1890 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
1891 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
1892 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
1893 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
1894 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
1895
1896 wxMSW:
1897
1898 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
1899 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
1900 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
1901 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
1902 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
1903 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
1904 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1905 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
1906 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
1907 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
1908 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1909 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1910 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1911 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1912 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1913
1914 wxGTK:
1915
1916 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1917 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1918 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1919 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1920 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1921 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1922 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1923 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1924 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1925 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1926 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1927
1928 wxMac:
1929
1930 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1931 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1932 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1933 - Various text control bug fixes.
1934 - Automatic menu management improved.
1935 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1936 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1937 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1938 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1939 showing modally).
1940
1941 wxOS2
1942
1943 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1944
1945 wxUniv:
1946
1947 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1948 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1949
1950 wxMotif:
1951
1952 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1953 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1954 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1955 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1956 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1957 flag has been specified.
1958 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1959 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1960 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1961 showing modally).
1962
1963 wxMGL:
1964
1965 - Fixed crash on exit.
1966 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1967
1968 wxX11:
1969
1970 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1971
1972
1973 2.6.1
1974 -----
1975
1976 All:
1977
1978 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1979 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1980
1981 All (GUI):
1982
1983 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1984 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1985 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1986 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1987 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1988 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1989 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1990 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1991 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1992 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1993
1994 wxMSW:
1995
1996 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1997 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1998 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1999 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
2000 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
2001 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
2002 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
2003 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
2004 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
2005 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
2006 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
2007 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
2008 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
2009 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
2010 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
2011 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
2012 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
2013 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
2014 - Compiles again with WIN64.
2015 - Winelib compilation now works.
2016 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
2017 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
2018 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
2019 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
2020 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
2021 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
2022 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
2023 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
2024 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
2025 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
2026 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
2027 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
2028 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
2029
2030 wxWinCE:
2031
2032 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2033
2034 wxGTK:
2035
2036 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
2037 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
2038 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
2039 - Added bitmap support in menus.
2040
2041 wxMac:
2042
2043 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
2044 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
2045 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
2046 incorrect state.
2047 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
2048 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
2049 - Window menu now added automatically.
2050 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
2051 - Modified function key support fixed.
2052 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
2053
2054 wxX11:
2055
2056 - Menu problems fixed.
2057 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
2058 - Fixed a font memory leak.
2059 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
2060
2061
2062 2.6.0
2063 -----
2064
2065 All:
2066
2067 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
2068 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
2069
2070 All (GUI):
2071
2072 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
2073 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
2074
2075 wxMSW:
2076
2077 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
2078 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
2079 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
2080
2081 wxWinCE:
2082
2083 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
2084
2085 wxGTK:
2086 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
2087 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2088 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
2089 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2090 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
2091 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
2092 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
2093
2094 wxMac:
2095 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
2096
2097 2.5.5
2098 -----
2099
2100 All:
2101
2102 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
2103 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
2104 - Added wxDebugReport class.
2105 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
2106 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
2107 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
2108 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
2109 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
2110 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
2111
2112 All (GUI):
2113
2114 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
2115 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
2116 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
2117 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
2118 the whole virtual area.
2119 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
2120 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
2121 isn't used to set the window size.
2122 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
2123 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
2124 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
2125 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
2126
2127 Unix:
2128
2129 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
2130
2131 wxMSW:
2132
2133 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
2134 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
2135 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
2136 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
2137 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
2138 handling (Jamie Gadd).
2139
2140 wxGTK:
2141
2142 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
2143 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
2144 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
2145 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
2146 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
2147 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
2148 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
2149 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
2150
2151 wxMac:
2152
2153 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
2154
2155 wxPalmOS:
2156
2157 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
2158
2159 wxWinCE:
2160
2161 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
2162 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
2163 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
2164 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
2165 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
2166 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
2167 with correct titlebar style.
2168 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
2169 PocketPC guidelines
2170 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
2171 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
2172 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
2173 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
2174 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
2175 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
2176 to the dialog's toolbar.
2177
2178 2.5.4
2179 -----
2180
2181 All:
2182
2183 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
2184 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
2185 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
2186 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
2187 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2188 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
2189 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
2190 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
2191 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
2192 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
2193 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
2194 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
2195 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
2196 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
2197 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
2198 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
2199 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
2200 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
2201 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
2202 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
2203 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
2204 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
2205 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
2206 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
2207 printing stuff in the GTK port.
2208 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
2209 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
2210 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
2211 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
2212 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
2213 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
2214 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
2215 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
2216 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
2217 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
2218 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
2219 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
2220 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
2221 due to a rounding error.
2222 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
2223 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
2224 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
2225 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
2226 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
2227 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
2228 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
2229 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
2230
2231
2232 All (GUI):
2233
2234 - added wxMediaCtrl
2235 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
2236 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
2237 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2238 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
2239 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
2240 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
2241 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
2242 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
2243 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
2244 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
2245 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
2246 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
2247 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
2248 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
2249 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
2250 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
2251 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
2252
2253 Unix:
2254
2255 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
2256
2257 wxGTK:
2258
2259 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
2260 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
2261 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
2262 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
2263 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
2264 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
2265 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
2266 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
2267 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
2268 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
2269 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
2270 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
2271 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
2272 errors otherwise.
2273 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
2274 - Added wxRawBitmap support
2275 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
2276 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
2277 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
2278
2279 wxMac:
2280
2281 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
2282 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
2283 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
2284 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
2285
2286 wxMSW:
2287
2288 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
2289 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
2290 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
2291 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
2292 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
2293
2294 wxWinCE:
2295 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
2296 but not mentioned anywhere.
2297 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
2298
2299 wxUniv:
2300
2301 - wxBU_... button align flags support
2302 - vertical notebook orientation support
2303 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
2304 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
2305
2306 wxPalmOS:
2307
2308 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
2309 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
2310 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
2311 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
2312 - enumeration of available volumes
2313 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
2314 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
2315 - native wxColourDialog implementation
2316 - native wxSystemSettings colours
2317 - native wxButton implementation
2318 - native wxCheckBox implementation
2319 - native wxSlider implementation
2320 - native wxToggleButton implementation
2321 - native wxRadioButton implementation
2322 - native wxStaticText implementation
2323 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2324
2325
2326 2.5.3
2327 -----
2328
2329 All:
2330
2331 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
2332 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
2333 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2334 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
2335 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
2336 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
2337 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
2338 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
2339 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
2340 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
2341 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
2342 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
2343 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
2344 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
2345 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
2346 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
2347
2348 All (GUI):
2349
2350 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
2351 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
2352 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
2353 is discouraged
2354 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
2355 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
2356 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
2357 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
2358 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
2359 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
2360 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
2361 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
2362 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
2363 - added samples/splash
2364 - added support for stock buttons
2365 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
2366 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
2367 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
2368 - added wxChoicebook control
2369 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
2370 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
2371 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
2372 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
2373 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
2374 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
2375 supported, instead of zero.
2376 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
2377
2378 Unix:
2379
2380 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
2381 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
2382 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
2383 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
2384 - wx-config has new --version-full option
2385
2386 wxCocoa:
2387
2388 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2389 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
2390 - Tooltips now supported
2391 - wxSound now supported
2392 - wxDisplay now supported
2393 - Some stock cursors now supported
2394
2395 wxMac:
2396
2397 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
2398 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
2399 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2400 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
2401
2402 wxGTK:
2403
2404 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
2405 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
2406 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
2407 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
2408 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
2409 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
2410 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
2411 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
2412 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
2413 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
2414 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
2415 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
2416 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
2417 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
2418 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
2419 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
2420 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
2421 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
2422 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
2423
2424 wxMotif:
2425
2426 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
2427
2428 wxMSW:
2429
2430 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
2431 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
2432 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
2433 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
2434 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
2435 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
2436 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
2437 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
2438 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
2439 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
2440 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
2441 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2442 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
2443 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
2444
2445 wxUniv/X11:
2446
2447 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
2448
2449 wxWinCE:
2450
2451 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
2452 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
2453 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
2454 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
2455
2456 wxHTML:
2457
2458 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
2459 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
2460
2461
2462 2.5.2
2463 -----
2464
2465 All:
2466
2467 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
2468 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
2469 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
2470 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
2471 of run-time) now
2472 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
2473 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
2474 to forward declare these classes.
2475
2476 All (GUI):
2477
2478 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
2479 resulting in much better display of scaled images
2480 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
2481 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
2482 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
2483 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
2484 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
2485 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
2486 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
2487 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
2488 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
2489 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
2490 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
2491 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
2492 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
2493
2494 wxMSW:
2495
2496 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
2497 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
2498 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
2499 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
2500 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
2501 even try to do it by default -- now it does
2502 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
2503 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
2504 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
2505 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
2506 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
2507 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
2508
2509 wxGTK:
2510
2511 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
2512
2513 wxMotif:
2514
2515 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
2516 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
2517 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
2518 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
2519
2520 wxUniv/X11:
2521
2522 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
2523
2524 wxHTML:
2525
2526 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
2527 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
2528
2529 Unix:
2530
2531 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
2532 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
2533
2534 wxODBC:
2535
2536 - Full Unicode support is now available
2537 - BLOB support is working
2538
2539
2540 2.5.1
2541 -----
2542
2543 All:
2544
2545 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
2546 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
2547 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
2548 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
2549 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
2550 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
2551 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
2552 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
2553 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
2554 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
2555 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
2556 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
2557 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
2558 (as in 2.5.0).
2559 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
2560 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2561 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
2562 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
2563 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
2564 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2565 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
2566 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
2567 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
2568 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
2569 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
2570 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
2571
2572 All (GUI):
2573
2574 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2575 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
2576 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
2577 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
2578 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
2579 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
2580 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
2581 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
2582 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
2583 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
2584 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
2585 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
2586 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
2587 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
2588 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
2589 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
2590 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
2591 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2592 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
2593 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
2594 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
2595 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
2596 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
2597 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
2598 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
2599 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
2600
2601 wxMSW:
2602
2603 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
2604 - fixed DDE memory leaks
2605 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
2606 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
2607 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
2608 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
2609 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
2610 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
2611 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2612 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
2613 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
2614 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
2615 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
2616 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
2617 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
2618 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
2619 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
2620 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
2621 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2622 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
2623 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
2624 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
2625 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
2626 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
2627 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
2628 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
2629 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
2630 than the specified default size
2631 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
2632
2633 wxGTK:
2634
2635 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
2636 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
2637 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
2638 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
2639 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2640 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
2641 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
2642 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
2643 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
2644
2645 wxMac:
2646
2647 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2648 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
2649 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
2650 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
2651
2652 wxMotif:
2653
2654 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
2655
2656 wxHTML:
2657
2658 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
2659 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
2660
2661 Unix:
2662
2663 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
2664 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
2665 addition to existing OSS one
2666 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
2667
2668
2669 2.5.0
2670 -----
2671
2672 All:
2673
2674 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
2675 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
2676 separately compiled library
2677 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
2678 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2679 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
2680 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
2681 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
2682 - added wxArray::SetCount()
2683 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
2684 by default in Unicode mode
2685 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
2686 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
2687 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
2688 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
2689 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
2690 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
2691 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
2692 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
2693 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
2694 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
2695 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
2696 - added wxRecursionGuard class
2697 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
2698 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
2699 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
2700 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
2701 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
2702 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
2703 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
2704 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
2705
2706 wxBase:
2707
2708 - added Watcom makefiles
2709 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
2710
2711 All GUI ports:
2712
2713 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
2714 - added wxListbook control
2715 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
2716 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
2717 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
2718 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
2719 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
2720 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
2721 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
2722 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
2723 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
2724 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
2725 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
2726 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
2727 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
2728 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
2729 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
2730 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
2731 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
2732 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2733 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
2734 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
2735 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
2736 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
2737 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
2738 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
2739 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
2740 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
2741 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
2742 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
2743 default extension for the template
2744 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
2745 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
2746 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
2747 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
2748 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
2749 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
2750 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
2751 to allow better rich text support.
2752 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
2753 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
2754 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
2755 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
2756 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
2757 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
2758 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
2759 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
2760 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
2761 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
2762 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
2763 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
2764 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
2765 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
2766 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
2767 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
2768 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
2769 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
2770 - added wxMirrorDC class
2771 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
2772 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
2773 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
2774 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
2775 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
2776 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
2777 improved
2778
2779 Unix:
2780
2781 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
2782 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
2783 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
2784 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
2785 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
2786
2787 Generic controls:
2788
2789 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
2790 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
2791 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
2792 to contrib/src/deprecated
2793
2794 wxGTK:
2795
2796 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
2797 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
2798 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
2799 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
2800 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
2801 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
2802 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
2803 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
2804 be appended to filenames with no extension
2805 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
2806 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
2807 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
2808 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
2809
2810 wxMac:
2811
2812 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
2813 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2814
2815 wxMSW:
2816
2817 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
2818 - added wxCrashReport
2819 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
2820 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
2821 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
2822 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
2823 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
2824 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
2825 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
2826 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
2827 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
2828 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
2829 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
2830 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
2831 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
2832 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
2833 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
2834 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
2835 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
2836 - improved border handling under Windows XP
2837 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
2838 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
2839 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
2840 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
2841 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
2842 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
2843 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
2844
2845 wxMotif:
2846
2847 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
2848 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
2849 documentation for a detailed explanation
2850 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
2851 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
2852 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
2853 with Motif 1.x compatibility
2854 - implemented wxToggleButton
2855 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
2856 instead of a sunken border
2857 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
2858 - finished wxClipboard implementation
2859
2860 wxUniv:
2861
2862 - controls in toolbars now supported
2863
2864 wxHTML:
2865
2866 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
2867 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
2868 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
2869 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
2870 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
2871
2872
2873 OLD CHANGES
2874 ===========
2875
2876 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
2877 ================================
2878
2879 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
2880 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
2881 with '!' in the first column.
2882
2883 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
2884 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
2885 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
2886 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
2887 2.6 release.
2888
2889 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
2890 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
2891 (see the documentation) useful.
2892
2893
2894 wxBase:
2895
2896 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
2897 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
2898 code.
2899
2900 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
2901 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
2902 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
2903 arrays containing non-pointers.
2904
2905 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
2906 simply don't make sense for all objects
2907
2908 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2909 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2910 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2911
2912 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2913
2914 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2915 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2916 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2917 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2918 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2919
2920 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2921 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2922 the default assert handling.
2923
2924 All (GUI):
2925
2926 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2927 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2928 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2929
2930 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2931 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2932 instead!
2933
2934 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2935 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2936 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2937
2938 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2939 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2940 you want to get OnChar() as well
2941
2942 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2943 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2944 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2945
2946 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2947 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2948 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2949 will *NOT* work any longer:
2950
2951 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2952 ... do something ...
2953 if ( flags & wxYES )
2954 ... do something else ...
2955
2956 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2957 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2958 the ctor
2959
2960 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2961
2962 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2963 if you derived any classes from it
2964
2965 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2966 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2967
2968 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2969 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2970
2971 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2972 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2973
2974 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2975 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2976 from happening
2977
2978 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2979 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2980 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2981
2982 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2983 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2984 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2985 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2986
2987 wxMSW:
2988
2989 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2990 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2991 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2992 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2993 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2994 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2995 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2996 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2997 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2998 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2999
3000 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
3001 style to avoid it
3002
3003 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
3004 previously selected one instead of replacing it
3005
3006 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
3007 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
3008 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
3009
3010 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
3011 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
3012
3013
3014 Unix ports:
3015
3016 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
3017 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
3018 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
3019 to compile pure C files.
3020
3021
3022 wxThread and related classes:
3023
3024 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
3025 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
3026 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
3027 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
3028
3029 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
3030 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
3031 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
3032 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
3033
3034 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
3035 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
3036 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
3037
3038 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
3039 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
3040
3041
3042 OTHER CHANGES
3043 =============
3044
3045 2.4.0
3046 -----
3047
3048 wxMSW:
3049
3050 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
3051
3052 2.3.4
3053 -----
3054
3055 All:
3056
3057 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
3058 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
3059 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
3060
3061 Unix (Base/GUI):
3062
3063 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
3064 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
3065 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
3066
3067 wxGTK:
3068 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
3069 - Addition of native frame site grip.
3070
3071 wxX11:
3072 - Unicode support through Pango library.
3073
3074 wxMSW:
3075
3076 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
3077 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
3078
3079 wxHTML:
3080
3081 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
3082
3083 2.3.3
3084 -----
3085
3086 wxBase:
3087
3088 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
3089 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
3090 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
3091 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
3092 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
3093 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3094 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
3095 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
3096 after (non standard) STL hash_map
3097 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
3098 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
3099 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
3100 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
3101 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
3102 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
3103 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
3104
3105 Unix (Base/GUI):
3106
3107 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
3108 programs and not only GNU make
3109 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
3110 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
3111 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
3112 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
3113 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
3114
3115 All (GUI):
3116
3117 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
3118 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
3119 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
3120 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
3121 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
3122 wxWidgets dialogs
3123 - significantly improved native font support
3124 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
3125 wxHashTable
3126 - added IFF image handler
3127 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
3128 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
3129 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
3130 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3131 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
3132 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
3133 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3134 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
3135 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
3136 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
3137 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
3138 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
3139 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
3140 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3141 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
3142 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
3143 - wxMessageOutput class added
3144 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
3145 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
3146 table fills up
3147 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
3148 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
3149 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
3150 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
3151 (Rene Rivera).
3152 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
3153 whether a label edit was cancelled.
3154 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
3155
3156 wxMSW:
3157
3158 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
3159 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
3160 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
3161 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
3162 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
3163 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
3164 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
3165 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
3166 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
3167 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
3168 are changed
3169 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
3170 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
3171 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
3172 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
3173 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
3174 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
3175 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
3176 recursion any more
3177 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
3178 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
3179 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
3180 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
3181 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
3182 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
3183 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
3184 has the capture before release it.
3185 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
3186 - default button handling is now closer to expected
3187 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
3188 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
3189 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
3190 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
3191 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
3192 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
3193 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
3194 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
3195 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
3196 provided in wxFontData
3197 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
3198 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
3199
3200 wxGTK:
3201
3202 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
3203 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
3204 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
3205 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
3206 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
3207 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
3208 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
3209 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
3210 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
3211 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
3212 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
3213 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
3214 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
3215
3216 wxMotif:
3217
3218 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
3219 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
3220 - improved toolbar control alignment
3221 - implemented wxSpinButton
3222 - implemented wxCheckListBox
3223 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
3224 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
3225
3226 wxX11:
3227
3228 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
3229 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
3230
3231 wxMac:
3232
3233 - Many improvements
3234
3235 wxOS2:
3236
3237 - First alpha-quality release
3238
3239 wxHTML:
3240
3241 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
3242 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
3243 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
3244 - fixed alignment handling in tables
3245 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
3246
3247 2.3.2
3248 -----
3249
3250 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
3251
3252 wxBase:
3253
3254 - wxRegEx class added
3255 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
3256 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
3257 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
3258 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
3259 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
3260
3261 All (GUI):
3262
3263 - support for virtual list control added
3264 - column images in report mode of the list control
3265 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
3266 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
3267 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
3268 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
3269 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
3270 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3271 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
3272 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
3273 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
3274 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
3275 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3276 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
3277
3278 wxMSW:
3279
3280 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
3281 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
3282 project files
3283
3284 wxGTK:
3285
3286 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
3287 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
3288 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
3289 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
3290
3291 wxMac:
3292
3293 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
3294 Tools
3295
3296 wxHTML:
3297
3298 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
3299 to tags parsing
3300 - added support for animated GIFs
3301
3302 2.3.1
3303 -----
3304
3305 wxBase:
3306
3307 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
3308 - Fixed new charset detection code
3309 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
3310 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
3311 - Added wxDir::Traverse
3312 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
3313 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
3314 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
3315
3316 All (GUI):
3317
3318 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
3319 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
3320 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
3321 push on a custom event handler for example)
3322 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
3323 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
3324 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
3325 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
3326 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
3327 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
3328 first-time saved
3329 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
3330 - Various wxXML enhancements
3331 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
3332 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
3333 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
3334 instead of GetId()
3335 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
3336 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
3337
3338 wxMSW:
3339
3340 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
3341 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
3342 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
3343 alt or shift) now work
3344 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
3345 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
3346 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
3347 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
3348 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
3349 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
3350 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
3351 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
3352 - We now send iconize events
3353 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
3354 - Added mousewheel processing
3355 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
3356 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
3357 in wxDC
3358 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
3359 child frame styles are honoured
3360
3361 wxGTK:
3362
3363 - Fixed slider rounding bug
3364 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
3365 - We now send iconize events
3366 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
3367 GetSelection() results
3368
3369 2.3.0
3370 -----
3371
3372 wxBase:
3373
3374 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
3375 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
3376 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
3377 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
3378 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3379 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
3380 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
3381 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
3382 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
3383 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
3384
3385 All (GUI):
3386
3387 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
3388 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
3389 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
3390 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
3391 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
3392 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
3393 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
3394 wxImage methods and ctor)
3395 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
3396 - ODBC documentation complete!!
3397 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
3398 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
3399 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
3400 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
3401
3402 wxMSW:
3403
3404 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
3405 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
3406 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
3407 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
3408
3409 wxGTK:
3410
3411 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
3412
3413 wxHTML:
3414
3415 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
3416 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
3417
3418 2.2.0
3419 -----
3420
3421 wxBase:
3422
3423 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
3424 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
3425 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
3426 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
3427 - Completed Czech translations
3428 - Some stream corrections
3429 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
3430 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
3431 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
3432 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
3433
3434 All (GUI):
3435
3436 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
3437 flicker-free dragging is now possible
3438 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
3439 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
3440 - Paper names now translated
3441 - wxGrid fixes
3442 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
3443 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
3444 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
3445 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
3446 File dialog.
3447 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
3448 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
3449 writing code
3450 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
3451 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
3452 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
3453 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
3454
3455 wxMSW:
3456
3457 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
3458 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
3459 backward compatibility, please set
3460 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
3461 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
3462 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
3463 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
3464 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
3465 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
3466 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
3467 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
3468 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
3469 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
3470 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
3471 - wxFrame restores focus better
3472 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
3473 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
3474 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
3475 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
3476 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
3477 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
3478 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
3479 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
3480 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
3481 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
3482
3483 wxGTK:
3484
3485 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
3486
3487 wxMotif:
3488
3489 - Small compilation fixes
3490
3491 Documentation:
3492
3493 - wxCaret documented
3494
3495 2.1.16
3496 ------
3497
3498 wxBase:
3499
3500 All (GUI):
3501
3502 wxMSW:
3503
3504 - Various bug fixes
3505 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
3506 files. This works under VC++ only
3507 - Modal dialog handling improved
3508 - Printer dialog now modal
3509
3510 wxGTK:
3511
3512 - Various bug fixes
3513
3514 wxMotif:
3515
3516 - Various bug fixes
3517
3518 2.1.15
3519 ------
3520
3521 Documentation:
3522
3523 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
3524
3525 File hierarchy:
3526
3527 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
3528 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
3529
3530 wxBase:
3531
3532 - wxSocket support
3533 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
3534 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
3535 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
3536 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
3537 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
3538 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
3539 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
3540 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
3541 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
3542 only so far)
3543 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
3544 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
3545 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
3546 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
3547 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
3548 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
3549 is available)
3550 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
3551
3552 all (GUI):
3553
3554 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
3555 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
3556 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
3557 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
3558 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
3559 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
3560 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
3561 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
3562 John Norris)
3563 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
3564 MIME types if available (Unix only)
3565 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
3566 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
3567 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
3568 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
3569 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
3570 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
3571 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
3572 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
3573 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
3574 - wxDragImage class added
3575 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
3576 controllers, as well as native help
3577 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
3578
3579 wxMSW:
3580
3581 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
3582 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
3583 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
3584 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
3585 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
3586 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
3587 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
3588 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
3589 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
3590 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
3591 Unix ports
3592 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
3593 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
3594 - wxSetCursorEvent added
3595
3596 wxGTK:
3597
3598 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
3599 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
3600 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
3601
3602 wxMotif:
3603
3604 - wxMenu::Enable works
3605 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
3606 - OGL samples made to work again
3607
3608 wxHTML:
3609
3610 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
3611 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
3612 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
3613 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
3614 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
3615 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
3616 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
3617 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
3618 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
3619 - improved HTML printing
3620 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
3621 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
3622 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
3623 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
3624
3625
3626 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
3627 change log.
3628
3629 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
3630 -----------------------
3631
3632 wxGTK:
3633
3634 - JPEG support added.
3635 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
3636
3637 wxMSW:
3638
3639 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
3640 SetTabSize added.
3641 - JPEG support added.
3642 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
3643 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
3644 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
3645
3646 wxMotif:
3647
3648
3649 General:
3650
3651 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
3652
3653
3654 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
3655 -------------------------------
3656
3657 wxGTK:
3658
3659 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
3660 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
3661
3662 wxMSW:
3663
3664 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
3665 - Fixed window cursor setting.
3666 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
3667 - Some makefile fixes.
3668
3669 wxMotif:
3670
3671 - None.
3672
3673 General:
3674
3675 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
3676 - More topic overviews.
3677 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
3678 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
3679 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
3680
3681
3682 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
3683 --------------------------
3684
3685 wxGTK:
3686
3687 - wxExecute improved.
3688
3689 wxMSW:
3690
3691 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
3692 expected).
3693 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
3694 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
3695 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
3696 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
3697 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
3698 - Fixed focus-related crash.
3699
3700 wxMotif:
3701
3702 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
3703 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
3704
3705 General:
3706
3707 - wxLocale documented.
3708 - Added include filenames to class reference.
3709 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
3710 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
3711 (though doesn't display help yet).
3712
3713 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
3714 --------------------------
3715
3716 wxGTK:
3717
3718 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3719
3720 wxMSW:
3721
3722 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
3723 rationalised.
3724 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
3725
3726 wxMotif:
3727
3728 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
3729 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
3730 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
3731 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
3732 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
3733 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
3734 crashes for some reason).
3735 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
3736 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
3737
3738 General:
3739
3740 - Further doc improvements.
3741 - wxGenericValidator added.
3742 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
3743 automatically.
3744
3745 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
3746 -------------------------
3747
3748 wxGTK:
3749
3750 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
3751 - wxToolTip class added.
3752 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3753
3754 wxMSW:
3755
3756 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
3757 - Makefiles for more compilers.
3758 - TWIN32 support added.
3759 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
3760 factored out program/library settings.
3761 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
3762
3763 wxMotif:
3764
3765 - A few more colour fixes.
3766 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
3767 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
3768 - wxChoice crash fix.
3769 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
3770
3771 General:
3772
3773 - wxBusyCursor class added.
3774 - Added samples/dde.
3775 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
3776
3777 Beta 2, January 1999
3778 --------------------
3779
3780 wxGTK:
3781
3782 wxMSW:
3783
3784 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
3785
3786 wxMotif:
3787
3788 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
3789 the right place.
3790 - Cured some widget table clashes.
3791 - Added thread support (Robert).
3792 - wxPoem sample now works.
3793
3794 General:
3795
3796 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
3797 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
3798 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
3799 or below).
3800 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
3801 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
3802 sample.
3803 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
3804
3805 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
3806 --------------------------
3807
3808 wxGTK:
3809
3810 - Various
3811
3812 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
3813
3814
3815 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
3816 ----------------------------
3817
3818 wxMSW:
3819
3820 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
3821 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
3822 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
3823 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
3824 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
3825 on a tab.
3826 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
3827 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
3828 of Stefan Csomor.
3829
3830 wxMotif:
3831
3832 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
3833 without (permanently) resizing the window.
3834 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
3835 that disabled scrollbar paging.
3836 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
3837 colours correctly.
3838 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
3839 when any button was pressed.
3840 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
3841 have a white background.
3842 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
3843 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
3844 they have sensible colours by default.
3845 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
3846 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
3847 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
3848 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
3849 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
3850
3851 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
3852 ----------------------------
3853
3854 wxMSW:
3855
3856 - More documentation updates, especially for
3857 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
3858 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
3859 of wxTrace.
3860 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
3861 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
3862 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
3863 position.
3864 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
3865
3866 wxMotif:
3867
3868 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
3869 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
3870 child frames).
3871 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
3872 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
3873 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
3874 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
3875 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
3876 the debugging implementation.
3877 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
3878 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
3879 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
3880 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
3881 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
3882 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
3883 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
3884
3885 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
3886
3887 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
3888 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
3889 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
3890 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
3891 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
3892 - wxNotebook almost done.
3893 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
3894 to vertical toolbars).
3895
3896 More recently:
3897
3898 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
3899 to scrollbars).
3900 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
3901 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
3902 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
3903
3904 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
3905 ----------------------------
3906
3907 wxMSW:
3908
3909 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3910 sample.
3911 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3912 - A few more makefiles added.
3913 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3914 - Further doc updates.
3915 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3916
3917 wxMotif:
3918
3919 - First start at Motif port.
3920 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3921 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3922 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3923 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3924
3925 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3926 --------------------------
3927
3928 wxMSW:
3929
3930 - wxBitmap debugged.
3931 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3932 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3933 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3934 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3935 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3936 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3937 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3938
3939 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3940 ------------------------
3941
3942 wxMSW:
3943
3944 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3945 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3946 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3947 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3948 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3949 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3950 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3951 changes, wxNotebook.
3952 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3953
3954 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3955 -----------------------
3956
3957 wxMSW:
3958
3959 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3960 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3961 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3962 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3963 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3964 don't support it.
3965 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3966 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3967
3968 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3969 -----------------------
3970
3971 wxMSW:
3972
3973 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3974 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3975
3976 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3977 -----------------------
3978
3979 wxMSW:
3980
3981 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3982 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3983 wxMenuBar.
3984 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3985 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3986 wxMenuItem accessors.
3987 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3988 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3989 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3990 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3991 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3992 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3993 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3994 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3995 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3996 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3997 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3998 first, then doing the assignment.
3999 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
4000 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
4001
4002 Generic:
4003
4004 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
4005 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
4006
4007 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
4008 ----------------------
4009
4010 wxMSW:
4011
4012 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
4013 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
4014 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
4015 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
4016 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
4017 require application-supplied positioning code though.
4018 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
4019 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
4020 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
4021
4022 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
4023 ------------------------
4024
4025 wxMSW:
4026
4027 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
4028 fields were used.
4029 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4030 compilation and pragmas.
4031 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
4032 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
4033
4034 Generic:
4035
4036 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
4037 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4038 compilation and pragmas.
4039 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
4040
4041 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
4042 ------------------------
4043
4044 wxMSW:
4045
4046 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
4047 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
4048 some reason :-(
4049 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
4050 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
4051 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
4052 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
4053 startup/exit.
4054 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
4055 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
4056 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
4057 VADIM'S CHANGES:
4058 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
4059 compatibility functions.
4060 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
4061 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
4062 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
4063 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
4064 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
4065 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
4066 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
4067
4068 Generic:
4069
4070 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
4071 - Added samples/png.
4072 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
4073 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
4074 header files.
4075 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
4076
4077 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
4078 ------------------------
4079
4080 wxMSW:
4081
4082 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4083 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
4084 cleaned up properly before exit.
4085 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
4086 automatically.
4087 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
4088 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
4089 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
4090 unresolved issues.
4091 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
4092 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
4093 tray area.
4094 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
4095 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
4096 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
4097 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
4098
4099 Generic:
4100
4101 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4102 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
4103 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
4104 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
4105 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
4106 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
4107 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
4108 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
4109 allow better control of memory.
4110 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
4111 checking.
4112 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
4113 float to long in wxToolBar files.
4114
4115 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
4116 ------------------------
4117
4118 wxMSW:
4119
4120 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
4121 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
4122 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
4123 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
4124 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
4125 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
4126 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
4127 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
4128 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
4129 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
4130 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
4131 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
4132 IUnknown.
4133 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
4134 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
4135 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
4136 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
4137 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
4138 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
4139 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
4140 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
4141 internal implementation.
4142 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
4143 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
4144 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
4145
4146 Generic:
4147
4148 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
4149 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
4150 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
4151 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
4152 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
4153
4154 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
4155 --------------------------
4156
4157 wxMSW:
4158
4159 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4160 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4161 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
4162 changes.
4163 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
4164 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
4165 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
4166 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
4167 again.
4168 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
4169 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
4170 e.g. wxDC.
4171
4172 Generic:
4173
4174 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4175 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4176 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
4177 changes.
4178 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
4179 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
4180 docs/gtk.
4181 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
4182 created dynamically, not as a global object.
4183 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
4184 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
4185 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
4186 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
4187 - Added gcc pragmas.
4188 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
4189 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
4190 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
4191 added a few references to wxTransString.
4192 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
4193 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
4194 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
4195 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
4196 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
4197 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
4198 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
4199 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
4200 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
4201 MoreRequested.
4202
4203 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
4204 --------------------------
4205
4206 All:
4207
4208 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
4209 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
4210 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
4211 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
4212 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
4213 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
4214 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
4215 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
4216 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
4217 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
4218 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
4219 scrolling toolbars.
4220 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
4221 to help printing with multiple pages.
4222 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
4223 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
4224 implementation updated to use these base classes.
4225 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
4226 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
4227 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
4228 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
4229 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
4230 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
4231 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
4232 New files from Vadim:
4233 include\wx\string.h
4234 include\wx\debug.h
4235 include\wx\file.h
4236 include\wx\log.h
4237 include\wx\intl.h
4238 src\common\string.cpp
4239 src\common\log.cpp
4240 src\common\intl.cpp
4241 src\common\file.cpp
4242 No longer use GNU wxString files.
4243 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
4244 src\common\filefn.cpp.
4245 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
4246 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
4247 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
4248 including changes to defs.h.
4249 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
4250 introduced.
4251 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
4252 hidden).
4253 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
4254 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
4255 trick).
4256 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
4257
4258 Alpha 3, September 1997
4259 -----------------------
4260
4261 All:
4262
4263 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
4264 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
4265 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
4266 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
4267 - Started documentation.
4268
4269 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
4270 ------------------------
4271
4272 All:
4273
4274 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
4275 with MetroWerks compiler.
4276 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
4277 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
4278 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
4279 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
4280 for testing purposes.
4281 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
4282 handlers.
4283 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
4284 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
4285 fully).
4286 - Added back wxRadioBox.
4287 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
4288 a separate file.
4289
4290 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
4291 -----------------------
4292
4293 Generic:
4294
4295 At this point, the following has been achieved:
4296
4297 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
4298 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
4299 wxString instead of char *.
4300 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
4301 old system event system) and code size reduced.
4302 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
4303 as wxbWindow now removed.
4304 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
4305 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
4306 - PrologIO revised.
4307 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
4308 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
4309 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
4310 Windows settings.
4311 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
4312 settings mucho rationalised.
4313 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
4314 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
4315 classes removed.
4316 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
4317 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
4318 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
4319 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
4320 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
4321 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
4322 of event handlers.
4323 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
4324 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
4325 wxToolBarBase
4326 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
4327 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
4328 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
4329 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
4330 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
4331 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
4332 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
4333 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
4334 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
4335 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
4336 in the future.
4337 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
4338 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
4339 variables instead.
4340 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
4341 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
4342 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
4343 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
4344 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
4345 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
4346 Win95.
4347 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
4348 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
4349 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
4350 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
4351 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
4352 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).