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1 Recent Changes for wxPython
2 =====================================================================
3
4 2.7.0.0
5 -------
6
7 The following deprecated items have been removed:
8
9 * wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
10
11 * The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
12
13 * wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
14
15 * wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
16
17 * The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
18
19 * wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
20
21 * wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
22
23 * wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
24
25 * wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
26 GetIndexCnt methods
27
28
29 wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
30
31 Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
32 classes.
33
34 wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
35 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
36 empty stubs in wxPython.
37
38 Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
39 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
40 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
41 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
42 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
43 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
44 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
45 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
46 that is renaming the base class methods with a "base_*" prefix, for
47 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
48 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
49 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
50 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
51 your overridden methods like this::
52
53 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
54 # do something here
55 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
56
57 You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this::
58
59 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
60 # do something here
61 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
62
63 Or like this with super()::
64
65 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
66 # do something here
67 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
68
69
70 Note that the old way with the "base_*" function still works, but you
71 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
72 classes affected by this are:
73
74 * wx.DropSource
75 * wx.DropTarget
76 * wx.TextDropTarget
77 * wx.FileDropTarget
78 * wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
79 * wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
80 * wx.Printout
81 * wx.PyPrintPreview
82 * wx.PyPreviewFrame
83 * wx.PreviewControlBar
84 * wx.Process
85 * wx.PyControl
86 * wx.PyPanel
87 * wx.PyScrolledWindow
88 * wx.PyWindow
89 * wx.Timer
90 * wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
91 * wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
92 * wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
93 * wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
94 * wx.html.HtmlWindow
95 * wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
96
97
98 Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
99 methods.
100
101 wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2
102 widgets.
103
104 Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch 1446207
105
106 Bumped up to SWIG 1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance
107 boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new
108 things.
109
110 Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the
111 position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is
112 not a top-level window.
113
114 Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to
115 wx.StandardPaths.
116
117 Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can
118 use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the
119 source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which
120 of the component data objects to use to access the data.
121
122 Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.)
123 are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances
124 using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before
125 OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each obhect is initialized.
126 This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality
127 that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for
128 wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously
129 hidden under the covers.
130
131 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.
132
133 Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.
134
135 wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first
136 is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip
137 flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip
138 button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time
139 Update is called.
140
141 A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is
142 imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert
143 your code to use the new wx package instead.
144
145 Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in
146 wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more
147 work, but it is a great start.
148
149 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
150 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
151 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
152 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
153 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
154 it.
155
156 wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it
157 will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.
158
159 Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.
160
161 Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so
162 far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.
163
164 Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item that was
165 hit (if any) in addition to the item and flags.
166
167 Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl,
168 wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.
169
170 Patch #1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha
171 channel.
172
173 Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.
174
175
176
177
178
179 2.6.3.2
180 -------
181 * 3-April-2006
182
183 Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.
184
185 wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change
186 was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem
187 (contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a
188 wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being
189 investigated.
190
191 wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the
192 clipboard.
193
194 Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on 64-bit platforms. Used
195 the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of
196 sys.maxint.
197
198 wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap
199 buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button
200 it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly
201 generic button style.
202
203 XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.
204
205 Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic
206 data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a
207 TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return
208 a boolean as expected. For example::
209
210 wx.Colour(64,0,64) == 123 ==> False
211
212 wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on
213 a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is
214 already shown.
215
216 wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item
217 is selected only with the keyboard.
218
219
220
221 2.6.3.0
222 -------
223 * 27-March-2006
224
225 Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
226 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on
227 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
228 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
229
230 wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
231 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
232 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
233 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
234 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
235 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
236 column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.
237
238 Switched to using SWIG 1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
239 are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
240 wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
241 which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
242 need to modify any of the \*.i files or to add your own, then you will
243 want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
244 in the source tarball for details.
245
246 wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing
247 with the alpha channel.
248
249 wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
250 wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
251
252 wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
253 key events.
254
255 wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
256 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
257
258 wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
259 not available in the themed version.
260
261 Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
262
263 Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
264
265 Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
266
267 wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
268
269 wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
270
271 wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
272
273 wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
274 window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
275 flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
276
277 wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
278 into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to "timer.clock.seconds"
279 is the same as subscribing to ("timer", "clock", "seconds").
280
281 Applied patch #1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
282
283 Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
284
285 Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version 1.67 of Scintilla.
286 NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
287 you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
288
289 wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the
290 DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
291
292 Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
293 E. A. Tacao.
294
295 Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
296 Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
297
298 Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
299 scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
300 zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
301
302 XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
303
304 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch 1214360)
305
306
307
308
309
310
311 2.6.2.1
312 -------
313 * 10-Jan-2006
314
315 wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
316 bitmaps.
317
318 wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
319 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
320 platforms.
321
322 wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
323 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
324
325 Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
326
327 Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
328
329 Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
330
331 Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
332 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
333 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
334 can manage more than two child windows.
335
336 Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890
337 "Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features:
338
339 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
340 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
341 For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that
342 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad"
343 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
344
345 Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
346
347 XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
348
349 * Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
350 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
351 for an available parent control if no specific view
352 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
353 'stick' anymore).
354
355 * Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
356
357 * Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
358 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100
359 is not always good).
360
361 Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
362 Gavana.
363
364 Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
365 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
366 wx.TheClipboard.
367
368 Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
369
370 wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
371
372 wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.
373
374 wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
375 None.
376
377 Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
378 it doesn't fill up too soon.
379
380 Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
381
382 Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
383
384 Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
385 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
386
387 Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
388
389 Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
390 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
391 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
392 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() &
393 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
394 to synchronize with a single timer.
395
396 Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
397 result.
398
399 Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
400 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
401
402 Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"
403
404 Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager
405 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
406
407 Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
408 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
409 instead of a separate menu item.
410
411 Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
412 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
413 workaround a bug in MSLU!
414
415 wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
416 and other special keys properly.
417
418 Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
419 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
420 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
421
422 * The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
423 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
424
425 * In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
426 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
427 next run.
428
429 * Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
430 bindings.
431
432 * Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
433 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
434
435 * F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
436
437 * switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
438
439 * Display of line numbers can be toggled.
440
441 * F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
442 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
443 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
444 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
445 non-flashing caret.
446
447 * Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
448
449 * General code cleanup and fixes.
450
451 * Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
452 files.
453
454 * Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
455
456 * Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
457 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
458 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
459 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
460
461 * All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
462 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
463 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
464 place to do anything.
465
466 * Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
467 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
468 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
469
470 * Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
471 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
472
473 * PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
474 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
475 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
476
477 * Added an option for whether to insert text for function
478 parameters when popping up the call tip.
479
480 * Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
481 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
482
483
484 Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
485
486 * Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
487
488 * Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
489
490 * Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
491 one.
492
493 * Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
494 changes.
495
496 * Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
497 integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
498
499 * Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove
500 default sign key handlers if false, so that
501 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
502
503 * Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
504 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
505 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
506 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
507 rather than toggling the previous sign.
508
509 wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
510 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
511 will use by default.
512
513 Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
514 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
515 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
516 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
517 and the modifier keys.
518
519 Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
520
521 A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
522 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
523 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
524
525 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
526 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
527 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
528 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
529 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)
530
531
532
533
534 2.6.1.0
535 -------
536 * 4-June-2005
537
538 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
539 wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.
540
541 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
542
543 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
544 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
545 any unknown file type.
546
547 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
548 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
549
550 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
551 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
552 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
553 other.
554
555 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
556
557 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
558 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
559
560 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
561 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
562
563 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
564
565 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
566 calls.
567
568 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
569 change will get written at the next flush.
570
571
572
573
574
575 2.6.0.1
576 -------
577 * 30-May-2005
578
579 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
580 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
581 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
582
583 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
584 is not black.
585
586 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
587 both has an icon and is a submenu.
588
589 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
590 resized.
591
592 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
593 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
594 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
595 instead of current values.
596
597 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
598 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
599
600 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
601
602 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
603 extra null character at the end.
604
605 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
606 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
607
608 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
609 item.
610
611 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
612
613 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
614 a wx.StaticBox.
615
616 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
617
618 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
619 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
620 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
621 situations.
622
623 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
624 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
625 for details.
626
627 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
628 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
629 default browser in response to the clicks.
630
631 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
632 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
633 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
634 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
635 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
636 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
637 parameter, like this::
638
639 import wxversion
640 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
641 import wx
642
643 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
644 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
645 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
646
647 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
648 theme on XP.
649
650 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
651 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
652
653 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
654
655 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
656 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
657
658 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
659 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
660 while pasting).
661
662 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
663 self.history is None.
664
665 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
666 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
667 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
668
669 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
670 XP themes.
671
672 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
673 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
674 Subversion.
675
676 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
677 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
678 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
679 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
680
681 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
682
683 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
684 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
685 event as well.
686
687 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
688 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
689
690 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
691 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
692 printer.
693
694 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
695 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
696
697 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
698
699 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
700
701 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
702
703 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
704 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
705
706 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
707 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
708 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
709 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
710 shrink.
711
712 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
713 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
714
715 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
716 _setCallbackInfo.
717
718 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
719
720 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
721 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
722 usual.
723
724 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
725 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
726 of a wx.TextCtrl.)
727
728
729
730
731
732 2.6.0.0
733 -------
734 * 26-Apr-2005
735
736 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
737 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
738 supposed to.
739
740 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
741
742 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
743
744 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
745 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
746 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
747
748 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
749 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
750 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
751 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
752 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
753 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
754 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
755 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
756 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
757 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
758 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
759
760 =================== ====================
761 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
762 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
763 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
764 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
765 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
766 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
767 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
768 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
769 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
770 =================== ====================
771
772
773 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
774 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
775 a particular style.
776
777 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
778 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
779
780 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
781
782 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
783 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
784 * Hide command for test window.
785 * Replacing classes works better.
786 * Added Locate tool.
787
788
789
790
791 2.5.5.1
792 -------
793 * 8-Apr-2005
794
795 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
796
797 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
798 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
799 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
800 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
801 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
802
803 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
804
805 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
806 available.
807
808 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
809 wx.ImageHistogram.
810
811 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
812 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
813 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
814 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
815 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
816 2.5.4.1.
817
818 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
819 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
820 #1076226)
821
822 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
823 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
824
825 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
826 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
827 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
828 the width of any column.
829
830 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
831 now possible.
832
833 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
834
835 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
836
837 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
838 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
839
840 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
841 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
842 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
843 older generic file dialog is used.
844
845 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
846 #1166587)
847
848 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
849 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
850 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
851 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
852
853 Added MDI support to XRC
854
855 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
856 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
857
858 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
859 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
860
861 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
862 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
863
864 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
865 affecting the label.
866
867 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
868 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
869
870 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
871 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
872
873 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
874 folks.
875
876 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
877
878
879
880
881 2.5.4.1
882 -------
883 * 16-Mar-2005
884
885 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
886 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
887 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
888
889 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
890 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
891
892 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
893 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
894 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
895 then calling GetValue().
896
897 Some XRC changes:
898 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
899 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
900 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
901 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
902
903 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
904 bug.
905
906 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
907 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
908 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
909
910 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
911
912 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
913 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
914
915 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
916 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
917
918 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
919 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
920 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
921 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
922 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
923 the origin of the canvas.
924
925 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
926 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
927 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
928
929 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
930 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
931
932 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
933 internal scrollbar visible.
934
935 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
936 system paths for each platform.
937
938 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
939 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
940 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
941 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
942 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
943
944 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
945 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
946 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
947
948 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
949 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
950 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
951
952 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
953 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
954 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
955
956 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
957
958 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
959 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
960 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
961 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
962
963 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
964 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
965 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
966 of how to use the control.
967
968 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
969 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
970
971 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
972 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
973 running.
974
975 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
976 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
977
978 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
979 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
980 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
981 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
982 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
983 finished with the timer.
984
985 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
986 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
987 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
988 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
989 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
990 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
991 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
992 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
993 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
994 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
995
996 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
997 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
998 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
999 via the wxPython C API.
1000
1001 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
1002 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
1003 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
1004 when docstrings are added for those items.
1005
1006 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
1007 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
1008 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
1009 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
1010 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
1011 using long().
1012
1013 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
1014 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
1015 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
1016 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
1017 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
1018 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
1019 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
1020 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
1021 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
1022 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
1023 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
1024 encodings.
1025
1026 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
1027 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
1028 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
1029 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
1030 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
1031
1032 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
1033 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
1034
1035 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
1036 lots of surplus events)
1037
1038 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
1039 wx.SystemSettings.
1040
1041 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
1042 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
1043
1044 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
1045 and GTK+'s context menu code.
1046
1047 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
1048 (not all actions are allowed).
1049
1050 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
1051
1052 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
1053 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
1054 when GetString is called from an event handler.
1055
1056 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
1057 and max ends of the slider.
1058
1059 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
1060 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
1061 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
1062
1063 XRCed:
1064 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
1065 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
1066 not with labels/sizers.
1067 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
1068 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
1069 better.
1070
1071 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
1072 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
1073
1074 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
1075 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
1076 class.
1077
1078 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1079 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
1080 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
1081 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
1082 changed.
1083
1084 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
1085 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
1086
1087 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
1088
1089 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
1090 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
1091 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
1092 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
1093
1094 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
1095 buttons.
1096
1097 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
1098 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
1099
1100 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
1101
1102 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
1103
1104 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
1105 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
1106
1107 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
1108 controls.
1109
1110 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
1111 WXK_MENU
1112
1113 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
1114 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
1115 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
1116 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
1117 samples/docview.
1118
1119 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
1120
1121 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
1122
1123 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
1124 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
1125 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
1126 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
1127 for Add, and etc.
1128
1129 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
1130 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
1131
1132 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
1133 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
1134
1135 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
1136 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
1137 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
1138 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
1139 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
1140 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
1141
1142 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
1143 event.
1144
1145 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
1146 wx.Image.
1147
1148 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
1149
1150 wxGTK:
1151 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
1152 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
1153 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
1154 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
1155
1156
1157
1158
1159 2.5.3.1
1160 -------
1161 * 9-Nov-2004
1162
1163 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
1164
1165 Updated internal PNG library.
1166
1167 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
1168
1169 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
1170 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
1171
1172 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
1173 enabled (does an enable itself)
1174
1175 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
1176 OGL.
1177
1178 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
1179 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
1180 XRCed.
1181
1182 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
1183 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
1184 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
1185 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
1186 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
1187 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1188 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1189 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1190 also be an image of a red X::
1191
1192 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1193
1194
1195 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
1196
1197 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
1198
1199 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
1200
1201 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1202 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
1203 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
1204 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1205 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1206 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1207 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
1208
1209 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1210 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1211 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1212 the wxPython modules.
1213
1214 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1215 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1216 user that they should look at that window.
1217
1218 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1219 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
1220
1221 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
1222
1223 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1224 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1225 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1226 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1227 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1228 and PyGetDate methods.
1229
1230 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1231 also set the colour of the dropdown.
1232
1233 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
1234
1235 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
1236
1237 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
1238
1239 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1240 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1241 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
1242
1243 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
1244
1245 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
1246
1247 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
1248
1249 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1250 1001271)
1251
1252 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1253 (patch 1030021)
1254
1255 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
1256
1257 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1258 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1259 1019440)
1260
1261 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
1262
1263 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1264 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1265 button.
1266
1267 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1268 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1269 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
1270
1271 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1272 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1273 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1274 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1275 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1276 should notice no difference.
1277
1278 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1279 when a new one is selected.
1280
1281 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
1282
1283 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1284 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1285 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1286 more details and a warning.
1287
1288 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1289 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
1290
1291 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1292 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
1293
1294 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
1295
1296 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
1297
1298 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
1299
1300 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1301 holding down the mouse button.
1302
1303 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1304 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
1305
1306 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
1307
1308 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
1309 - Added bar graph demo
1310 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
1311 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1312 arguments
1313 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
1314 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
1315 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
1316 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
1317 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1318 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
1319 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1320 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1321 coords.
1322
1323 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
1324 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
1325 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
1326 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1327 creation
1328 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1329 epydoc support
1330 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1331 reflect package's public contents.
1332
1333 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1334 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1335 Migrarion Guide for more information.
1336
1337 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
1338 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
1339 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
1340 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1341 TextEditMixin)
1342 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
1343
1344 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1345 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1346 it.
1347
1348 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1349 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
1350
1351
1352
1353
1354
1355 2.5.2.8
1356 -------
1357 * 27-Aug-2004
1358
1359 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
1360
1361 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
1362
1363 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
1364
1365 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1366 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
1367
1368 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1369 flicker problems, and namespace use.
1370
1371 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
1372
1373 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
1374
1375 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
1376 parameter.
1377
1378 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
1379
1380 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1381 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
1382
1383 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1384 wxScrolledWindow.
1385
1386 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1387 wxCheckListBox.
1388
1389 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
1390
1391 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
1392
1393 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
1394
1395 * etc.
1396
1397
1398
1399
1400 2.5.2.7
1401 -------
1402 * 14-Aug-2004
1403
1404 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1405 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1406 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1407 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1408 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1409 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
1410 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1411 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1412 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
1413
1414 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1415 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
1416
1417 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
1418 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
1419 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1420 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1421 parameters.
1422
1423 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1424 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
1425
1426 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
1427
1428 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1429 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
1430
1431 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1432 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1433 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1434 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
1435 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1436 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1437 done.
1438
1439 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1440 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1441 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1442 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1443 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1444 problems.
1445
1446 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1447 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1448 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
1449
1450 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1451 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
1452
1453 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1454 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
1455
1456 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
1457 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1458 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1459 remaining compatible with "C".
1460
1461 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1462 wxCode project.
1463
1464 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1465 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1466 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1467 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1468 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1469 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1470 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1471 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1472 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
1473
1474 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1475
1476 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1477 Scintilla for several releases now.
1478
1479 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1480 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1481 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1482 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
1483
1484 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1485 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1486 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1487 after construction.
1488
1489 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1490 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1491 with a more modern reimplementation.
1492
1493 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1494 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
1495
1496 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1497 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1498 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
1499
1500 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1501 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1502 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1503 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1504 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
1505
1506 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1507 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1508 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1509 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1510 in the PyShell::
1511
1512 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
1513 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
1514 ... b.Move((x, 50))
1515 ... app.Yield(True)
1516 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
1517
1518
1519 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
1520 box.
1521
1522
1523
1524 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
1525 -----------------------------------------------
1526 * 2-Apr-2004
1527
1528 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
1529 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1530 adapt your code.)
1531
1532 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1533
1534
1535 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1536 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1537 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1538 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1539 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1540 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1541 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1542
1543
1544 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1545 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1546
1547 Added wxMirrorDC.
1548
1549 Added wxIconLocation
1550
1551 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1552 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1553
1554 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1555 from wxBookCtrl.
1556
1557 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1558 wx.lib.plot module.
1559
1560 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1561 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1562 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1563
1564 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1565 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1566 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1567 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1568 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1569 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1570 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1571 distros please send me a patch.
1572
1573 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1574 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1575
1576 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1577 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1578 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1579 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1580 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1581 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1582 want to put them.
1583
1584 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1585 different API.
1586
1587 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1588
1589 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1590
1591 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1592
1593 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1594 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1595 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1596 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1597 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1598 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1599 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1600 it.
1601
1602 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1603 "Adi" Sieker.
1604
1605 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1606
1607 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1608 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1609
1610 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1611 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1612 MigrationGuide for more details.
1613
1614 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1615 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1616 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1617 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1618 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1619 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1620 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1621 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1622 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1623 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1624 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1625 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1626 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1627 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1628 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1629 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1630 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
1631
1632 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
1633
1634 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
1635
1636
1637
1638
1639 2.4.2.4
1640 -------
1641 * 1-Oct-2003
1642
1643 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
1644
1645 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
1646
1647 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1648 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
1649
1650 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
1651
1652 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
1653
1654 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
1655
1656
1657
1658 2.4.1.2
1659 -------
1660 * 19-Jun-2003
1661
1662 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
1663
1664 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
1665
1666 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1667 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
1668 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1669 informative.
1670
1671 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1672 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1673 and wxWindows match.
1674
1675 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
1676 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
1677 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
1678 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
1679 to the new namespace.
1680
1681 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1682 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1683 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1684 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
1685
1686 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1687 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1688 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
1689 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
1690 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1691 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1692 package. These will be removed in a future release.
1693
1694 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1695 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1696 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
1697
1698 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
1699
1700 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1701 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
1702
1703 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1704 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
1705
1706 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1707 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
1708
1709 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1710 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1711 wxTreeCtrl.)
1712
1713 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1714 a call to any Python callable object.
1715
1716 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1717 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1718 to override the C++ virtual methods.
1719
1720 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1721 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
1722 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1723 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
1724 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
1725
1726 Added wxCursorFromBits.
1727
1728
1729
1730
1731
1732 2.4.0.7
1733 -------
1734 * 24-Mar-2003
1735
1736 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1737 TRUE/FALSE values.
1738
1739 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1740 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1741 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
1742
1743 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1744 unicode.
1745
1746 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1747 OOR.
1748
1749 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1750 wxSize and etc.
1751
1752 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
1753
1754 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1755 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1756 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
1757 details.
1758
1759
1760
1761
1762 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
1763 ------------------------------------------
1764 * 11-Mar-2003
1765
1766 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1767 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1768 think I am testing in the future...
1769
1770
1771
1772 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
1773 ----------------------------------------------
1774 * 7-Mar-2003
1775
1776 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
1777
1778 Updated pycolourchooser.
1779
1780 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
1781
1782
1783
1784 2.4.0.4
1785 -------
1786 * 7-Mar-2003
1787
1788 Added missing wxRect methods
1789
1790 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
1791
1792 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
1793
1794 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1795 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1796 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1797 problems.
1798
1799 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1800 return type.
1801
1802 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
1803
1804 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1805 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1806 the parent window.
1807
1808 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
1809
1810 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1811 wrapper.
1812
1813 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
1814
1815 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1816 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1817 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1818 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1819 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1820 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1821 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1822 static stable in the C++ class.
1823
1824 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1825 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1826 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1827 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1828 present.
1829
1830 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1831 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1832 always call them. The functions are::
1833
1834 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1835 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1836 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1837 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1838 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1839 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1840 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1841 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1842 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1843 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1844 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1845 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1846
1847 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1848 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
1849
1850 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1851 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1852 doesn't have a standard place for them.
1853
1854 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
1855
1856 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
1857
1858 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
1859
1860
1861
1862 2.4.0.2
1863 -------
1864 * 23-Jan-2003
1865
1866 Several bug fixes.
1867
1868 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1869
1870 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875 2.4.0.1
1876 -------
1877 * 10-Jan-2003
1878
1879 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1880 enhancements.
1881
1882 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1883 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
1884
1885
1886
1887 2.3.4.2
1888 -------
1889 * 21-Dec-2002
1890
1891 Various bug fixes.
1892
1893
1894
1895 2.3.4.1
1896 -------
1897 * 18-Dec-2002
1898
1899 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
1900
1901 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
1902
1903 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
1904
1905 Added wxHtmlFilter.
1906
1907 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1908 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1909 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1910 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1911 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
1912 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1913 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
1914 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1915 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1916 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1917 you can use to play with this new feature.
1918
1919 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1920 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
1921 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1922 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1923 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1924 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1925 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1926 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
1927
1928 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1929 derived from wxApp.
1930
1931 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1932 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1933 to wxGrid.
1934
1935 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
1936
1937 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1938 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
1939 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1940 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1941 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
1942
1943 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
1944
1945 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
1946
1947 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
1948
1949 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1950 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1951 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
1952
1953 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1954 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
1955 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
1956
1957 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1958 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
1959
1960 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
1961 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
1962 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
1963 windows when desired.
1964
1965 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
1966 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
1967 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972 2.3.3.1
1973 -------
1974 * 19-Sep-2002
1975
1976 Added wxSplashScreen.
1977
1978 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
1979
1980 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
1981
1982 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
1983 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
1984 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
1985
1986 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
1987 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
1988 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
1989
1990 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
1991 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
1992 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
1993
1994 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1995 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1996 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1997 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1998 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1999 wxFlexGridSizer.
2000
2001 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
2002
2003 Added wxBufferedDC.
2004
2005 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
2006 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
2007
2008 UNICODE!
2009 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
2010 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
2011 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
2012 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
2013 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
2014 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
2015 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
2016
2017 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
2018 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
2019 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
2020 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
2021 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
2022 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
2023 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
2024 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
2025 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
2026 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
2027 unicode build on win95.
2028
2029 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
2030 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
2031 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
2032 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
2033 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
2034 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
2035 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
2036 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
2037 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
2038 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
2039 method.
2040
2041 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
2042
2043 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
2044
2045 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
2046
2047 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
2048 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
2049 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
2050 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
2051 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
2052 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
2053 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
2054 for any class that is OOR aware.
2055
2056 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
2057 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
2058 derived classes.
2059
2060 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
2061 the image data. (Patch #546009)
2062
2063 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
2064 application.
2065
2066 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
2067 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
2068 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
2069 supported are:
2070
2071 DoMoveWindow
2072 DoSetSize
2073 DoSetClientSize
2074 DoSetVirtualSize
2075 DoGetSize
2076 DoGetClientSize
2077 DoGetPosition
2078 DoGetVirtualSize
2079 DoGetBestSize
2080 InitDialog
2081 TransferDataFromWindow
2082 TransferDataToWindow
2083 Validate
2084 AcceptsFocus
2085 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
2086 GetMaxSize
2087 AddChild
2088 RemoveChild
2089
2090 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
2091 please let me know.
2092
2093 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
2094 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
2095
2096 Added wxArtProvider.
2097
2098 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
2099 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
2100 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
2101 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
2102 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
2103
2104 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
2105
2106 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
2107 creating a ScrolledPanel.
2108
2109 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
2110 other menu stuff.
2111
2112 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
2113 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
2114 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
2115 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
2116
2117 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
2118 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
2119 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
2120 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
2121 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
2122
2123 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
2124 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
2125 respond to mouse events and etc.
2126
2127 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
2128 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
2129
2130 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
2131 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
2132 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
2133 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
2134 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
2135 started with just the "pycrust" command.
2136
2137 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
2138 displays the details of the event.
2139
2140 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
2141
2142 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
2143 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
2144 example.
2145
2146 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
2147
2148 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2149
2150
2151
2152
2153 2.3.2.1
2154 -------
2155 * 20-Dec-2001
2156
2157 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
2158 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
2159 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
2160
2161 Added some patches from library contributors.
2162
2163
2164
2165 2.3.2
2166 -----
2167 * 11-Dec-2001
2168
2169 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
2170 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
2171 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2172 and a demo to show them in action.
2173
2174 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
2175 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
2176
2177 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
2178
2179 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
2180
2181 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
2182 Rolinsky.
2183
2184 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
2185 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
2186 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
2187 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2188 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2189 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2190 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
2191 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2192 etc.
2193
2194 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2195 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2196 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2197 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2198 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2199 wxSTC flag accordingly.
2200
2201 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2202 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2203 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
2204
2205 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
2206
2207 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
2208
2209 Added pySketch to the samples.
2210
2211 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2212 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2213 multi-processor machine.
2214
2215 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2216 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
2217
2218 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
2219
2220 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2221 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2222 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2223 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2224 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2225 original C++ pointer.
2226
2227 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2228 DrawPointList.
2229
2230 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
2231
2232 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2233 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
2234
2235 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2236 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
2237 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2238 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
2239 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2240 wx-dev list.
2241
2242 Added wxStopWatch.
2243
2244 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
2245
2246 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2247 will now Disconnect the event.
2248
2249 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
2250
2251 Added wxFileHistory.
2252
2253 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2254 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2255 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2256 same document.
2257
2258 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
2259
2260 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2261 Feuer.
2262
2263 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
2264 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2265 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2266 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2267 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2268 also be useful by themselves.
2269
2270 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2271 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2272 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2273 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2274 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2275 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2276 details.
2277
2278
2279
2280
2281 2.3.1
2282 -----
2283 * 10-Jul-2001
2284
2285 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2286 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2287 on a custom event handler for example.)
2288
2289 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2290 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
2291
2292 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2293 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
2294
2295 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
2296
2297 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
2298
2299 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
2300
2301 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
2302
2303
2304
2305 2.3.0
2306 -----
2307 * 22-May-2001
2308
2309 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2310 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
2311
2312 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2313 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2314 ctor and dtors.
2315
2316 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
2317
2318 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2319 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2320 colour database.
2321
2322 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2323 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2324 access from non-GUI threads.
2325
2326 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2327 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
2328
2329 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
2330
2331 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2332 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
2333
2334 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2335 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
2336
2337 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2338 it gobs faster in certain situations.
2339
2340 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2341 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2342 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2343 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2344 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2345 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2346 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2347 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2348 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2349 the implementation.
2350
2351 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2352 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2353 many refreshes.
2354
2355 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2356 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
2357
2358 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
2359
2360 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
2361
2362 Added wxToggleButton.
2363
2364 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
2365
2366 Added some methods to wxGrid:
2367 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2368 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2369 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2370 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2371 GetGridWindow
2372 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2373 GetGridColLabelWindow
2374 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
2375
2376 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2377 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2378 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
2379
2380 OOR:
2381 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2382 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2383 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2384 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2385 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2386 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2387 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2388 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2389 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2390 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2391 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
2392 use weak references.)
2393
2394 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2395 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2396 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
2397 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2398 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2399 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2400 object-type related oddities to me.
2401
2402
2403 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2404 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2405 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2406 finally got done.
2407
2408 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2409 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
2410
2411 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
2412
2413 Added wxWave.
2414
2415 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2416 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2417 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2418 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2419 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2420 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
2421
2422 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2423 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2424 wxPython/samples.
2425
2426
2427
2428
2429 2.2.7
2430 -----
2431 * 19-Jun-2001
2432
2433 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2434 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2435
2436
2437
2438 2.2.5
2439 -----
2440 * 30-Jan-2001
2441
2442 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
2443 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2444 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2445 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
2446
2447 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
2448
2449 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
2450
2451 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2452 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
2453
2454 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2455 column in report mode.
2456
2457 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2458 bar after 2 seconds.
2459
2460 Added wxJoystick.
2461
2462 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2463 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2464 object, (usually a window.)
2465
2466 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
2467
2468 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
2469
2470 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2471 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2472 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2473 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2474 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
2475 wxPython/src/export.h
2476
2477 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2478 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2479 utils. Will probably add more later.
2480
2481 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2482 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2483 wxPrinterDC2 name.
2484
2485 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2486 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
2487
2488 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
2489
2490 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2491 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
2492
2493 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2494 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2495 XML-RPC server.
2496
2497
2498
2499 New in 2.2.2
2500 ------------
2501 * 26-Oct-2000
2502
2503 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2504 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2505 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2506 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2507 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2508 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2509 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2510 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2511 how things work.
2512
2513 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2514 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
2515 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2516 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2517 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2518 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2519 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
2520 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2521 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
2522
2523 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2524 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
2525
2526 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2527 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2528 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2529 stdin.
2530
2531 Removed the old python sizers.
2532
2533 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2534 and wxRealPoint.
2535
2536 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2537 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2538 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2539
2540 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2541
2542 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2543 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2544 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2545
2546
2547
2548
2549 New in 2.2.1
2550 ------------
2551 * 22-Aug-2000
2552
2553 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2554
2555 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2556
2557
2558
2559 New in 2.2.0
2560 ------------
2561 * 17-Jul-2000
2562
2563 Added wxLog and friends.
2564
2565 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2566
2567 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2568
2569
2570
2571 New in 2.1.16
2572 -------------
2573 * 12-Jun-2000
2574
2575 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2576 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2577 depressed state.
2578
2579 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2580
2581 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2582
2583 Added wxDragImage.
2584
2585 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2586
2587 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2588
2589 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2590
2591 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2592 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2593 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2594 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2595 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2596 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2597 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2598 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2599
2600 OnChar
2601 OnSize
2602 OnEraseBackground
2603 OnSysColourChanged
2604 OnInitDialog
2605 OnPaint
2606 OnIdle
2607 OnActivate
2608 OnMenuHighlight
2609 OnCloseWindow
2610 OnScroll
2611
2612 Added wxSpinCtrl.
2613
2614
2615
2616
2617 New in 2.1.15
2618 -------------
2619 * 25-Apr-2000
2620
2621 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2622 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2623
2624 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2625 GetSelections.
2626
2627 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2628 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2629
2630 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
2631
2632 Plugged a memory leak.
2633
2634 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2635 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2636 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2637 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2638 good...)
2639
2640 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2641 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2642 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
2643
2644 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2645 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2646 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2647 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2648 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2649 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2650 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2651 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2652 them.
2653
2654 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2655 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2656 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2657 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
2658
2659 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2660 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2661 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2662 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2663 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2664 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2665 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
2666 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2667 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
2668
2669
2670
2671
2672 What's new in 2.1.13
2673 --------------------
2674 * 3-Feb-2000
2675
2676 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
2677
2678 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2679 and some flicker problems.
2680
2681 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2682 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
2683
2684 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2685 "which" parameter.
2686
2687 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
2688
2689 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
2690
2691 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2692 with wxWindow.GetParent.
2693
2694 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2695 It is used like this:
2696
2697 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
2698
2699 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2700 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
2701
2702 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
2703
2704 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
2705
2706 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2707 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2708 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2709 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2710 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2711 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
2712
2713 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2714 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2715 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2716 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2717 methods look like this:
2718
2719 def AddTool(ID,
2720 bitmap,
2721 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2722 toggle = FALSE,
2723 clientData = NULL,
2724 shortHelpString = "",
2725 longHelpString = "")
2726
2727 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
2728 bitmap,
2729 shortHelpString = "",
2730 longHelpString = "",
2731 toggle=FALSE)
2732
2733
2734 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2735 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
2736
2737 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
2738
2739 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
2740
2741 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2742 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2743 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
2744
2745 Added some missing EVT functions.
2746
2747 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2748 package.
2749
2750 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
2751
2752 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2753 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2754 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
2755
2756
2757
2758
2759 What's new in 2.1.11
2760 --------------------
2761 * 13-Nov-1999
2762
2763 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2764 syncronized.
2765
2766 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2767 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2768 itself.
2769
2770 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2771 being added. This should remove the need for our
2772 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
2773
2774 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2775 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2776 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2777 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2778 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
2779
2780 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
2781
2782 Added new HTML printing classes.
2783
2784 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
2785
2786 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2787 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2788 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2789 wxPoint.)
2790
2791 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2792 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2793 thread from other threads.
2794
2795 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
2796
2797 Added wxFontEnumerator.
2798
2799 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
2800
2801 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2802 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
2803
2804 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
2805
2806 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2807 wxGTK...
2808
2809 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
2810
2811
2812
2813
2814 What's new in 2.1.5
2815 -------------------
2816 * 12-Oct-1999
2817
2818 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2819 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
2820 major features.
2821
2822
2823
2824 What's new in 2.1.4
2825 -------------------
2826 * 7-Oct-1999
2827
2828 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2829 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2830 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2831 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
2832 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2833 the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.
2834
2835 Now back to what's new...
2836
2837 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
2838
2839 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
2840
2841 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
2842 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2843 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2844 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2845 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2846 great!
2847
2848 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2849 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2850 default sort order.
2851
2852 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2853 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2854 example, the following are equivallent::
2855
2856 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
2857 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
2858
2859 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2860 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2861 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2862 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2863 pages. See the demo for an example.
2864
2865 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2866 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
2867
2868 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
2869
2870 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2871 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2872 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2873 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2874 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2875 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2876 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2877 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2878 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2879 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2880 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2881 further details.
2882
2883 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2884 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2885 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2886 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2887 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2888 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2889 for more info and examples in future releases.
2890
2891 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2892 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2893 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2894 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2895 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2896 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2897 to use them.
2898
2899 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2900 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2901 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2902 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2903 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2904 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2905 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2906 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2907 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2908 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2909 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
2910
2911 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2912 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2913 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2914 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2915 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2916 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2917 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2918 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2919 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2920 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2921 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2922 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2923 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2924 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2925 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2926 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
2927
2928 class MyApp(wxApp):
2929 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2930
2931 def OnInit(self):
2932 frame = MyFrame()
2933 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2934 return true
2935
2936 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2937 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2938 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2939 to really screw things up.
2940
2941 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2942 in the wxWindows docs...
2943
2944 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2945 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2946 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2947 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2948 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2949 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2950 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2951 problems...)
2952
2953
2954
2955
2956 What's new in 2.1b3
2957 --------------------
2958 * 1-Sep-1999
2959
2960 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
2961
2962 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
2963 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2964 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2965 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2966 features:
2967
2968 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2969 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2970 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
2971
2972 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
2973
2974 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2975 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2976 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2977 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
2978
2979
2980 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2981 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2982 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2983 see distrib/build.py for more details.
2984
2985 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2986 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2987 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2988 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
2989
2990
2991
2992
2993
2994 What's new in 2.1b2
2995 -------------------
2996 * 6-Aug-1999
2997
2998 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
2999
3000 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
3001 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
3002 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
3003 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
3004 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
3005
3006 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
3007 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
3008 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
3009 is being unloaded by Python.
3010
3011 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
3012 make wxPython look bad.
3013
3014 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
3015 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
3016
3017 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
3018
3019 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
3020 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
3021
3022 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
3023 code to show how to use it.
3024
3025 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
3026 matches MSW's.
3027
3028 Added wxGrid.GetCells
3029
3030 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
3031 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
3032
3033 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
3034 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
3035
3036 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
3037 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
3038
3039 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
3040 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
3041 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
3042
3043 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
3044 data transfer.
3045
3046 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
3047
3048 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
3049 for unix systems.
3050
3051 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
3052
3053 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
3054 in wx.cpp.
3055
3056
3057
3058
3059
3060 What's new in 2.1b1
3061 -------------------
3062 * 28-Jun-1999
3063
3064 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
3065 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
3066 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
3067
3068 Added the Printing Framework.
3069
3070 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
3071 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
3072 data after loading each extension module.
3073
3074 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
3075 wxWindows classes.
3076
3077 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
3078 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
3079 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
3080
3081 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
3082 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
3083 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
3084 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
3085
3086
3087
3088 What's new in 2.0b9
3089 -------------------
3090 * 1-May-1999
3091
3092 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
3093
3094 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
3095 wxPython application.
3096
3097 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
3098
3099 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
3100 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
3101 this feature off.
3102
3103 Added wxSafeYield function.
3104
3105 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
3106
3107 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
3108 how it all works.
3109
3110 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
3111 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
3112
3113 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
3114
3115 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
3116 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
3117
3118 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
3119
3120 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
3121 methods.
3122
3123
3124
3125 What's new in 2.0b8
3126 -------------------
3127 * 28-Mar-1999
3128
3129 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
3130
3131 Several missing methods from various classes.
3132
3133 Various bug fixes.
3134
3135
3136
3137 What's new in 2.0b7
3138 -------------------
3139 * 15-Mar-1999
3140
3141 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
3142
3143 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
3144
3145
3146
3147 What's new in 2.0b6
3148 -------------------
3149 * 4-Mar-1999
3150
3151 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
3152 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
3153
3154
3155 What's new in 2.0b5
3156 -------------------
3157 * 25-Feb-1999
3158
3159 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
3160 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
3161 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
3162 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
3163 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
3164
3165 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
3166 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
3167 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
3168 diverges from wxWindows.
3169
3170 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
3171 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
3172 it should just work... More news on this later.
3173
3174 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
3175
3176 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
3177 wxRegConfig class.
3178
3179 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
3180
3181
3182
3183 What's new in 0.5.3
3184 -------------------
3185 * 30-Jan-1999
3186
3187 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
3188
3189 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
3190 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
3191
3192
3193
3194 What's new in 0.5.0
3195 -------------------
3196 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
3197 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
3198 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
3199 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
3200
3201 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
3202
3203 Made the events work for wxGrid.
3204
3205 Added wxConfig.
3206
3207 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
3208
3209 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
3210 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
3211
3212 Other assorted fixes and additions.
3213
3214
3215
3216
3217 What's new in 0.4.2
3218 -------------------
3219 * 21-Oct-1998
3220
3221 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
3222 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
3223 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
3224 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
3225 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
3226 behavior was so different on different platforms.
3227
3228 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
3229 must have been a different issue all along...
3230
3231
3232
3233 What's New in 0.4
3234 -----------------
3235 * 2-Oct-1998
3236
3237 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3238 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3239 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3240 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3241 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3242 version segfault shortly after starting up.
3243
3244 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
3245
3246 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
3247
3248
3249
3250
3251 wxPython 0.3
3252 ------------
3253 * 9-Aug-1998
3254
3255 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
3256 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory
3257
3258