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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
11 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
12 - Added wxDebugReport class.
13 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
14 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
15 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
16 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent)
20 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
21 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
22 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
23 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
24 the whole virtual area.
25 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
26 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
27 isn't used to set the window size.
31 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64
35 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11. (Mart Raudsepp)
36 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
37 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
38 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
39 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
43 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
47 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
51 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
52 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
53 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
54 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
55 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
56 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
57 with correct titlebar style.
58 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
60 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
61 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
62 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
63 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
64 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
65 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
66 to the dialog's toolbar.
73 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
74 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
75 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
76 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
77 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
78 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
79 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
80 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
81 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
82 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
83 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
84 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
85 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
86 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
87 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
88 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
89 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
90 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
91 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
92 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
93 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
94 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
95 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
96 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
97 printing stuff in the GTK port.
98 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
99 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
100 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
101 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
102 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
103 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
104 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
105 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
106 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
107 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
108 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
109 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
110 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
111 due to a rounding error.
112 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
113 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
114 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
115 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
116 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
117 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
118 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
119 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
125 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
126 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
127 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
128 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
129 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
130 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
131 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
132 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
133 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
134 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
135 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
136 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
137 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
138 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
139 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
140 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
141 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
145 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
149 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
150 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
151 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
152 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
153 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
154 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
155 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
156 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
157 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
158 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
159 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
160 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
161 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
163 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
164 - Added wxRawBitmap support
165 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
166 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
167 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
171 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
172 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
173 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
174 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
178 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
179 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
180 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
181 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
182 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
185 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
186 but not mentioned anywhere.
187 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
191 - wxBU_... button align flags support
192 - vertical notebook orientation support
193 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
194 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
198 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
199 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
200 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
201 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
202 - enumeration of available volumes
203 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
204 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
205 - native wxColourDialog implementation
206 - native wxSystemSettings colours
207 - native wxButton implementation
208 - native wxCheckBox implementation
209 - native wxSlider implementation
210 - native wxToggleButton implementation
211 - native wxRadioButton implementation
212 - native wxStaticText implementation
213 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
221 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
222 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
223 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
224 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
225 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
226 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
227 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
228 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
229 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
230 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
231 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
232 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
233 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
234 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
235 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
236 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
240 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
241 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
242 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
244 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
245 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
246 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
247 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
248 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
249 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
250 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
251 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
252 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
253 - added samples/splash
254 - added support for stock buttons
255 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
256 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
257 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
258 - added wxChoicebook control
259 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
260 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
261 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
262 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
263 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
264 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
265 supported, instead of zero.
266 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
270 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
271 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
272 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
273 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
274 - wx-config has new --version-full option
278 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
279 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
280 - Tooltips now supported
281 - wxSound now supported
282 - wxDisplay now supported
283 - Some stock cursors now supported
287 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
288 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
289 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
290 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
294 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
295 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
296 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
297 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
298 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
299 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
300 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
301 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
302 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
303 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
304 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
305 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
306 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
307 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
308 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
309 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
310 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
311 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
312 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
316 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
320 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
321 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
322 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
323 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
324 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
325 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
326 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
327 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
328 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
329 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
330 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
331 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
332 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
333 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
337 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
341 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
342 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
343 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
344 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
348 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
349 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
357 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
358 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
359 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
360 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
362 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
363 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
364 to forward declare these classes.
368 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
369 resulting in much better display of scaled images
370 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
371 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
372 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
373 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
374 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
375 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
376 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
377 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
378 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
379 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
380 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
381 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
382 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
386 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
387 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
388 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
389 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
390 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
391 even try to do it by default -- now it does
392 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
393 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
394 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
395 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
396 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
397 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
401 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
405 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
406 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
407 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
408 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
412 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
416 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
417 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
421 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
422 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
426 - Full Unicode support is now available
427 - BLOB support is working
435 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
436 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
437 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
438 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
439 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
440 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
441 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
442 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
443 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
444 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
445 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
446 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
447 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
449 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
450 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
451 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
452 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
453 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
454 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
455 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
456 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
457 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
458 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
459 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
460 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
464 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
465 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
466 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
467 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
468 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
469 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
470 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
471 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
472 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
473 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
474 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
475 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
476 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
477 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
478 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
479 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
480 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
481 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
482 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
483 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
484 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
485 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
486 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
487 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
488 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
489 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
493 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
494 - fixed DDE memory leaks
495 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
496 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
497 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
498 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
499 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
500 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
501 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
502 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
503 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
504 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
505 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
506 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
507 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
508 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
509 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
510 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
511 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
512 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
513 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
514 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
515 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
516 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
517 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
518 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
519 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
520 than the specified default size
521 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
525 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
526 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
527 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
528 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
529 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
530 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
531 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
532 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
533 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
537 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
538 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
539 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
540 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
544 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
548 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
549 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
553 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
554 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
555 addition to existing OSS one
556 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
564 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
565 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
566 separately compiled library
567 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
568 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
569 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
570 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
571 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
572 - added wxArray::SetCount()
573 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
574 by default in Unicode mode
575 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
576 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
577 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
578 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
579 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
580 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
581 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
582 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
583 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
584 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
585 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
586 - added wxRecursionGuard class
587 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
588 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
589 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
590 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
591 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
592 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
593 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
594 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
598 - added Watcom makefiles
599 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
603 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
604 - added wxListbook control
605 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
606 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
607 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
608 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
609 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
610 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
611 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
612 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
613 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
614 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
615 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
616 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
617 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
618 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
619 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
620 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
621 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
622 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
623 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
624 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
625 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
626 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
627 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
628 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
629 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
630 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
631 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
632 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
633 default extension for the template
634 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
635 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
636 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
637 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
638 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
639 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
640 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
641 to allow better rich text support.
642 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
643 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
644 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
645 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
646 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
647 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
648 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
649 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
650 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
651 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
652 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
653 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
654 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
655 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
656 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
657 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
658 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
659 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
660 - added wxMirrorDC class
661 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
662 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
663 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
664 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
665 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
666 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
671 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
672 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
673 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
674 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
675 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
679 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
680 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
681 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
682 to contrib/src/deprecated
686 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
687 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
688 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
689 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
690 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
691 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
692 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
693 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
694 be appended to filenames with no extension
695 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
696 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
697 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
698 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
702 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
703 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
707 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
708 - added wxCrashReport
709 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
710 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
711 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
712 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
713 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
714 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
715 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
716 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
717 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
718 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
719 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
720 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
721 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
722 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
723 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
724 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
725 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
726 - improved border handling under Windows XP
727 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
728 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
729 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
730 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
731 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
732 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
733 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
737 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
738 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
739 documentation for a detailed explanation
740 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
741 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
742 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
743 with Motif 1.x compatibility
744 - implemented wxToggleButton
745 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
746 instead of a sunken border
747 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
748 - finished wxClipboard implementation
752 - controls in toolbars now supported
756 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
757 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
758 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
759 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
760 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
766 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
767 ================================
769 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
770 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
771 with '!' in the first column.
773 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
774 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
775 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
776 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
779 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
780 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
781 (see the documentation) useful.
786 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
787 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
790 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
791 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
792 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
793 arrays containing non-pointers.
795 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
796 simply don't make sense for all objects
798 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
799 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
800 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
802 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
804 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
805 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
806 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
807 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
808 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
810 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
811 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
812 the default assert handling.
816 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
817 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
818 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
820 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
821 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
824 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
825 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
826 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
828 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
829 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
830 you want to get OnChar() as well
832 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
833 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
834 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
836 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
837 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
838 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
839 will *NOT* work any longer:
841 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
844 ... do something else ...
846 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
847 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
850 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
852 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
853 if you derived any classes from it
855 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
856 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
858 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
859 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
861 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
862 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
864 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
865 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
868 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
869 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
870 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
872 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
873 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
874 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
875 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
879 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
880 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
881 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
882 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
883 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
884 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
885 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
886 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
887 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
888 is only present for the DLLs builds.
890 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
893 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
894 previously selected one instead of replacing it
896 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
897 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
898 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
900 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
901 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
906 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
907 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
908 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
909 to compile pure C files.
912 wxThread and related classes:
914 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
915 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
916 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
917 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
919 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
920 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
921 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
922 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
924 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
925 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
926 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
928 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
929 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
940 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
947 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
948 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
949 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
953 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
954 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
955 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
958 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
959 - Addition of native frame site grip.
962 - Unicode support through Pango library.
966 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
967 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
971 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
978 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
979 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
980 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
981 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
982 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
983 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
984 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
985 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
986 after (non standard) STL hash_map
987 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
988 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
989 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
990 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
991 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
992 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
993 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
997 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
998 programs and not only GNU make
999 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1000 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1001 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1002 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1003 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1007 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1008 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1009 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1010 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1011 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1013 - significantly improved native font support
1014 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1016 - added IFF image handler
1017 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1018 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1019 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1020 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1021 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1022 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1023 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1024 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1025 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1026 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1027 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1028 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1029 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1030 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1031 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1032 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1033 - wxMessageOutput class added
1034 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1035 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1037 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1038 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1039 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1040 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1042 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1043 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1044 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1048 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1049 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1050 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1051 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1052 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1053 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1054 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1055 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1056 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1057 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1059 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1060 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1061 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1062 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1063 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1064 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1065 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1067 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1068 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1069 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1070 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1071 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1072 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1073 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1074 has the capture before release it.
1075 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1076 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1077 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1078 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1079 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1080 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1081 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1082 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1083 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1084 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1085 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1086 provided in wxFontData
1087 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1088 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1092 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1093 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1094 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1095 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1096 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1097 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1098 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1099 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1100 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1101 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1102 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1103 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1104 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1108 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1109 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1110 - improved toolbar control alignment
1111 - implemented wxSpinButton
1112 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1113 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1114 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1118 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1119 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1127 - First alpha-quality release
1131 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1132 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1133 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1134 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1135 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1140 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1144 - wxRegEx class added
1145 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1146 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1147 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1148 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1149 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1153 - support for virtual list control added
1154 - column images in report mode of the list control
1155 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1156 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1157 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1158 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1159 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1160 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1161 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1162 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1163 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1164 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1165 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1166 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1170 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1171 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1176 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1177 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1178 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1179 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1183 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1188 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1190 - added support for animated GIFs
1198 - Fixed new charset detection code
1199 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1200 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1201 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1202 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1203 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1204 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1208 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1209 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1210 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1211 push on a custom event handler for example)
1212 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1213 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1214 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1215 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1216 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1217 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1219 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1220 - Various wxXML enhancements
1221 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1222 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1223 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1225 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1226 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1230 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1231 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1232 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1233 alt or shift) now work
1234 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1235 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1236 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1237 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1238 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1239 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1240 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1241 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1242 - We now send iconize events
1243 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1244 - Added mousewheel processing
1245 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1246 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1248 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1249 child frame styles are honoured
1253 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1254 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1255 - We now send iconize events
1256 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1257 GetSelection() results
1264 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1265 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1266 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1267 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1268 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1269 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1270 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1271 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1272 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1273 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1277 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1278 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1279 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1280 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1281 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1282 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1283 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1284 wxImage methods and ctor)
1285 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1286 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1287 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1288 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1289 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1290 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1294 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1295 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1296 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1297 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1301 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1305 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1306 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1313 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1314 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1315 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1316 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1317 - Completed Czech translations
1318 - Some stream corrections
1319 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1320 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1321 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1322 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1326 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1327 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1328 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1329 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1330 - Paper names now translated
1332 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1333 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1334 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1335 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1337 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1338 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1340 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1341 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1342 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1343 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1347 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1348 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1349 backward compatibility, please set
1350 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1351 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1352 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1353 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1354 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1355 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1356 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1357 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1358 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1359 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1360 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1361 - wxFrame restores focus better
1362 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1363 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1364 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1365 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1366 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1367 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1368 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1369 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1370 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1371 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1375 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1379 - Small compilation fixes
1383 - wxCaret documented
1395 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1396 files. This works under VC++ only
1397 - Modal dialog handling improved
1398 - Printer dialog now modal
1413 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1417 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1418 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1423 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1424 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1425 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1426 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1427 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1428 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1429 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1430 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1431 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1433 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1434 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1435 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1436 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1437 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1438 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1440 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1444 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1445 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1446 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1447 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1448 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1449 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1450 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1451 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1453 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1454 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1455 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1456 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1457 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1458 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1459 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1460 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1461 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1462 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1463 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1464 - wxDragImage class added
1465 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1466 controllers, as well as native help
1467 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1471 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1472 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1473 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1474 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1475 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1476 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1477 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1478 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1479 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1480 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1482 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1483 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1484 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1488 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1489 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1490 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1494 - wxMenu::Enable works
1495 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1496 - OGL samples made to work again
1500 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1501 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1502 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1503 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1504 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1505 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1506 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1507 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1508 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1509 - improved HTML printing
1510 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1511 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1512 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1513 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1516 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1519 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1520 -----------------------
1524 - JPEG support added.
1525 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1529 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1531 - JPEG support added.
1532 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1533 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1534 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1541 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1544 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1545 -------------------------------
1550 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1554 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1555 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1556 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1557 - Some makefile fixes.
1565 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1566 - More topic overviews.
1567 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1568 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1569 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1572 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1573 --------------------------
1577 - wxExecute improved.
1581 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1583 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1584 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1585 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1586 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1587 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1588 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1592 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1593 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1597 - wxLocale documented.
1598 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1599 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1600 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1601 (though doesn't display help yet).
1603 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1604 --------------------------
1608 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1612 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1614 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1618 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1619 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1620 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1621 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1622 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1623 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1624 crashes for some reason).
1625 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1626 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1630 - Further doc improvements.
1631 - wxGenericValidator added.
1632 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1635 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1636 -------------------------
1640 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1641 - wxToolTip class added.
1642 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1646 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1647 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1648 - TWIN32 support added.
1649 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1650 factored out program/library settings.
1651 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1655 - A few more colour fixes.
1656 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1657 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1658 - wxChoice crash fix.
1659 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1663 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1664 - Added samples/dde.
1665 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1667 Beta 2, January 1999
1668 --------------------
1674 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1678 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1680 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1681 - Added thread support (Robert).
1682 - wxPoem sample now works.
1686 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1687 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1688 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1690 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1691 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1693 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1695 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1696 --------------------------
1702 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1705 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1706 ----------------------------
1710 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1711 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1712 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1713 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1714 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1716 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1717 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1722 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1723 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1724 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1725 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1726 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1728 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1729 when any button was pressed.
1730 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1731 have a white background.
1732 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1733 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1734 they have sensible colours by default.
1735 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1736 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1737 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1738 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1739 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1741 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1742 ----------------------------
1746 - More documentation updates, especially for
1747 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1748 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1750 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1751 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1752 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1754 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1758 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1759 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1761 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1762 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1763 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1764 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1765 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1766 the debugging implementation.
1767 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1768 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1769 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1770 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1771 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1772 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1773 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1775 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1777 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1778 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1779 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1780 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1781 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1782 - wxNotebook almost done.
1783 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1784 to vertical toolbars).
1788 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1790 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1791 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1792 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1794 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1795 ----------------------------
1799 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1801 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1802 - A few more makefiles added.
1803 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1804 - Further doc updates.
1805 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1809 - First start at Motif port.
1810 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1811 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1812 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1813 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1815 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1816 --------------------------
1820 - wxBitmap debugged.
1821 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1822 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1823 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1824 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1825 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1826 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1827 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1829 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1830 ------------------------
1834 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1835 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1836 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1837 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1838 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1839 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1840 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1841 changes, wxNotebook.
1842 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1844 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1845 -----------------------
1849 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1850 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1851 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1852 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1853 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1855 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1856 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1858 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1859 -----------------------
1863 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1864 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1866 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1867 -----------------------
1871 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1872 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1874 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1875 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1876 wxMenuItem accessors.
1877 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1878 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1879 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1880 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1881 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1882 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1883 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1884 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1885 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1886 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1887 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1888 first, then doing the assignment.
1889 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1890 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1894 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1895 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1897 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1898 ----------------------
1902 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1903 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1904 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1905 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1906 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1907 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1908 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1909 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1910 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1912 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1913 ------------------------
1917 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1919 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1920 compilation and pragmas.
1921 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1922 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1926 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1927 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1928 compilation and pragmas.
1929 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1931 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1932 ------------------------
1936 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1937 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1939 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1940 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1941 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1942 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1944 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1945 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1946 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1948 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1949 compatibility functions.
1950 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1951 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1952 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1953 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1954 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1955 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1956 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1960 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1961 - Added samples/png.
1962 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1963 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1965 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1967 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1968 ------------------------
1972 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1973 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1974 cleaned up properly before exit.
1975 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1977 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1978 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1979 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1981 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1982 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1984 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1985 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1986 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1987 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1991 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1992 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1993 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1994 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1995 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1996 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1997 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1998 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1999 allow better control of memory.
2000 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2002 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2003 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2005 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2006 ------------------------
2010 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2011 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2012 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2013 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2014 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2015 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2016 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2017 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2018 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2019 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2020 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2021 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2023 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2024 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2025 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2026 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2027 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2028 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2029 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2030 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2031 internal implementation.
2032 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2033 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2034 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2038 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2039 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2040 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2041 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2042 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2044 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2045 --------------------------
2049 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2050 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2051 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2053 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2054 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2055 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2056 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2058 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2059 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2064 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2065 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2066 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2068 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2069 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2071 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2072 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2073 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2074 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2075 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2076 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2077 - Added gcc pragmas.
2078 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2079 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2080 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2081 added a few references to wxTransString.
2082 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2083 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2084 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2085 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2086 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2087 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2088 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2089 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2090 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2093 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2094 --------------------------
2098 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2099 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2100 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2101 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2102 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2103 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2104 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2105 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2106 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2107 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2108 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2110 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2111 to help printing with multiple pages.
2112 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2113 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2114 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2115 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2116 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2117 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2118 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2119 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2120 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2121 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2122 New files from Vadim:
2128 src\common\string.cpp
2132 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2133 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2134 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2135 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2136 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2137 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2138 including changes to defs.h.
2139 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2141 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2143 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2144 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2146 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2148 Alpha 3, September 1997
2149 -----------------------
2153 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2154 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2155 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2156 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2157 - Started documentation.
2159 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2160 ------------------------
2164 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2165 with MetroWerks compiler.
2166 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2167 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2168 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2169 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2170 for testing purposes.
2171 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2173 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2174 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2176 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2177 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2180 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2181 -----------------------
2185 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2187 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2188 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2189 wxString instead of char *.
2190 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2191 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2192 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2193 as wxbWindow now removed.
2194 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2195 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2197 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2198 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2199 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2201 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2202 settings mucho rationalised.
2203 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2204 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2206 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2207 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2208 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2209 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2210 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2211 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2213 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2214 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2216 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2217 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2218 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2219 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2220 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2221 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2222 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2223 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2224 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2225 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2227 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2228 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2230 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2231 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2232 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2233 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2234 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2235 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2237 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2238 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2239 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2240 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2241 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2242 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).