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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
15 - added wxDialog::SetEscapeId()
16 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
17 wxComboBox and wxChoice)
18 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too
22 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson)
23 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd)
27 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it
35 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
36 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
37 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
38 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
39 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
40 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
41 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
42 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
43 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
44 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
45 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
46 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
50 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
51 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
52 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
53 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
54 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
55 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
56 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
57 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
58 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
59 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
60 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
61 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
65 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
66 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
67 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
68 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
69 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
70 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
71 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
72 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
73 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
74 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
75 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
76 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
77 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
78 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
79 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
83 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
84 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
85 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
86 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
87 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
88 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
89 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
90 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
91 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
92 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
93 - Fixed domain socket handling.
97 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
98 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
99 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
100 - Various text control bug fixes.
101 - Automatic menu management improved.
102 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
103 due to dangling cycle pointers.
104 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
105 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
110 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
114 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
115 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
119 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
120 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
121 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
122 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
123 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
124 flag has been specified.
125 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
126 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
127 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
132 - Fixed crash on exit.
133 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
137 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
145 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
146 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
150 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
151 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
152 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
153 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
154 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
155 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
156 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
157 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
158 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
159 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
163 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
164 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
165 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
166 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
167 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
168 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
169 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
170 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
171 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
172 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
173 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
174 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
175 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
176 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
177 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
178 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
179 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
180 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
181 - Compiles again with WIN64.
182 - Winelib compilation now works.
183 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
184 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
185 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
186 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
187 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
188 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
189 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
190 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
191 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
192 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
193 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
194 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
195 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
199 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
203 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
204 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
205 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
206 - Added bitmap support in menus.
210 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
211 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
212 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
214 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
215 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
216 - Window menu now added automatically.
217 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
218 - Modified function key support fixed.
219 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
223 - Menu problems fixed.
224 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
225 - Fixed a font memory leak.
226 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
234 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
235 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
239 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
240 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
244 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
245 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
246 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
250 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
253 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
254 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
255 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
256 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
257 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
258 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
259 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
262 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
269 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
270 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
271 - Added wxDebugReport class.
272 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
273 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
274 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
275 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
276 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
277 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
281 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
282 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
283 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
284 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
285 the whole virtual area.
286 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
287 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
288 isn't used to set the window size.
289 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
290 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
291 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
292 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
296 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
300 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
301 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
302 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
303 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
304 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
305 handling (Jamie Gadd).
309 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
310 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
311 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
312 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
313 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
314 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
315 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
316 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
320 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
324 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
328 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
329 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
330 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
331 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
332 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
333 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
334 with correct titlebar style.
335 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
337 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
338 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
339 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
340 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
341 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
342 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
343 to the dialog's toolbar.
350 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
351 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
352 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
353 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
354 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
355 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
356 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
357 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
358 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
359 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
360 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
361 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
362 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
363 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
364 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
365 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
366 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
367 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
368 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
369 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
370 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
371 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
372 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
373 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
374 printing stuff in the GTK port.
375 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
376 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
377 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
378 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
379 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
380 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
381 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
382 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
383 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
384 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
385 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
386 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
387 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
388 due to a rounding error.
389 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
390 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
391 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
392 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
393 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
394 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
395 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
396 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
402 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
403 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
404 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
405 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
406 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
407 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
408 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
409 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
410 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
411 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
412 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
413 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
414 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
415 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
416 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
417 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
418 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
422 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
426 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
427 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
428 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
429 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
430 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
431 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
432 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
433 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
434 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
435 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
436 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
437 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
438 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
440 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
441 - Added wxRawBitmap support
442 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
443 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
444 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
448 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
449 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
450 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
451 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
455 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
456 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
457 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
458 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
459 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
462 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
463 but not mentioned anywhere.
464 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
468 - wxBU_... button align flags support
469 - vertical notebook orientation support
470 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
471 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
475 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
476 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
477 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
478 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
479 - enumeration of available volumes
480 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
481 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
482 - native wxColourDialog implementation
483 - native wxSystemSettings colours
484 - native wxButton implementation
485 - native wxCheckBox implementation
486 - native wxSlider implementation
487 - native wxToggleButton implementation
488 - native wxRadioButton implementation
489 - native wxStaticText implementation
490 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
498 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
499 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
500 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
501 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
502 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
503 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
504 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
505 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
506 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
507 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
508 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
509 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
510 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
511 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
512 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
513 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
517 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
518 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
519 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
521 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
522 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
523 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
524 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
525 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
526 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
527 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
528 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
529 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
530 - added samples/splash
531 - added support for stock buttons
532 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
533 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
534 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
535 - added wxChoicebook control
536 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
537 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
538 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
539 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
540 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
541 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
542 supported, instead of zero.
543 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
547 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
548 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
549 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
550 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
551 - wx-config has new --version-full option
555 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
556 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
557 - Tooltips now supported
558 - wxSound now supported
559 - wxDisplay now supported
560 - Some stock cursors now supported
564 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
565 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
566 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
567 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
571 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
572 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
573 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
574 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
575 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
576 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
577 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
578 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
579 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
580 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
581 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
582 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
583 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
584 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
585 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
586 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
587 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
588 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
589 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
593 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
597 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
598 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
599 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
600 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
601 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
602 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
603 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
604 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
605 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
606 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
607 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
608 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
609 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
610 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
614 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
618 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
619 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
620 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
621 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
625 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
626 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
634 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
635 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
636 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
637 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
639 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
640 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
641 to forward declare these classes.
645 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
646 resulting in much better display of scaled images
647 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
648 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
649 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
650 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
651 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
652 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
653 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
654 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
655 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
656 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
657 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
658 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
659 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
663 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
664 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
665 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
666 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
667 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
668 even try to do it by default -- now it does
669 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
670 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
671 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
672 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
673 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
674 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
678 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
682 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
683 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
684 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
685 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
689 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
693 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
694 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
698 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
699 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
703 - Full Unicode support is now available
704 - BLOB support is working
712 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
713 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
714 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
715 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
716 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
717 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
718 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
719 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
720 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
721 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
722 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
723 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
724 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
726 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
727 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
728 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
729 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
730 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
731 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
732 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
733 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
734 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
735 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
736 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
737 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
741 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
742 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
743 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
744 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
745 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
746 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
747 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
748 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
749 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
750 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
751 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
752 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
753 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
754 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
755 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
756 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
757 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
758 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
759 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
760 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
761 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
762 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
763 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
764 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
765 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
766 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
770 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
771 - fixed DDE memory leaks
772 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
773 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
774 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
775 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
776 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
777 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
778 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
779 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
780 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
781 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
782 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
783 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
784 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
785 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
786 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
787 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
788 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
789 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
790 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
791 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
792 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
793 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
794 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
795 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
796 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
797 than the specified default size
798 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
802 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
803 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
804 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
805 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
806 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
807 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
808 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
809 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
810 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
814 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
815 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
816 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
817 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
821 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
825 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
826 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
830 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
831 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
832 addition to existing OSS one
833 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
841 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
842 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
843 separately compiled library
844 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
845 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
846 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
847 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
848 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
849 - added wxArray::SetCount()
850 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
851 by default in Unicode mode
852 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
853 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
854 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
855 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
856 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
857 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
858 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
859 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
860 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
861 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
862 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
863 - added wxRecursionGuard class
864 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
865 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
866 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
867 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
868 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
869 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
870 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
871 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
875 - added Watcom makefiles
876 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
880 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
881 - added wxListbook control
882 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
883 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
884 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
885 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
886 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
887 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
888 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
889 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
890 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
891 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
892 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
893 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
894 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
895 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
896 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
897 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
898 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
899 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
900 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
901 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
902 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
903 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
904 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
905 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
906 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
907 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
908 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
909 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
910 default extension for the template
911 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
912 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
913 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
914 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
915 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
916 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
917 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
918 to allow better rich text support.
919 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
920 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
921 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
922 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
923 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
924 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
925 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
926 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
927 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
928 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
929 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
930 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
931 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
932 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
933 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
934 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
935 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
936 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
937 - added wxMirrorDC class
938 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
939 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
940 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
941 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
942 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
943 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
948 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
949 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
950 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
951 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
952 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
956 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
957 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
958 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
959 to contrib/src/deprecated
963 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
964 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
965 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
966 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
967 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
968 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
969 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
970 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
971 be appended to filenames with no extension
972 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
973 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
974 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
975 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
979 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
980 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
984 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
985 - added wxCrashReport
986 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
987 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
988 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
989 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
990 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
991 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
992 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
993 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
994 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
995 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
996 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
997 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
998 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
999 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1000 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1001 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1002 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1003 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1004 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1005 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1006 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1007 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1008 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1009 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1010 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1014 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1015 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1016 documentation for a detailed explanation
1017 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1018 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1019 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1020 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1021 - implemented wxToggleButton
1022 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1023 instead of a sunken border
1024 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1025 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1029 - controls in toolbars now supported
1033 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1034 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1035 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1036 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1037 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1043 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1044 ================================
1046 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1047 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1048 with '!' in the first column.
1050 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1051 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1052 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1053 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1056 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1057 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1058 (see the documentation) useful.
1063 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1064 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1067 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1068 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1069 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1070 arrays containing non-pointers.
1072 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1073 simply don't make sense for all objects
1075 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1076 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1077 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1079 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1081 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1082 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1083 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1084 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1085 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1087 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1088 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1089 the default assert handling.
1093 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1094 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1095 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1097 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1098 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1101 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1102 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1103 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1105 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1106 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1107 you want to get OnChar() as well
1109 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1110 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1111 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1113 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1114 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1115 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1116 will *NOT* work any longer:
1118 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1119 ... do something ...
1120 if ( flags & wxYES )
1121 ... do something else ...
1123 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1124 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1127 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1129 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1130 if you derived any classes from it
1132 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1133 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1135 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1136 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1138 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1139 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1141 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1142 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1145 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1146 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1147 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1149 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1150 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1151 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1152 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1156 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1157 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1158 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1159 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1160 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1161 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1162 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1163 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1164 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1165 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1167 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1170 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1171 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1173 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1174 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1175 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1177 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1178 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1183 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1184 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1185 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1186 to compile pure C files.
1189 wxThread and related classes:
1191 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1192 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1193 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1194 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1196 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1197 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1198 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1199 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1201 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1202 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1203 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1205 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1206 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1217 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1224 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1225 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1226 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1230 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1231 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1232 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1235 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1236 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1239 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1243 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1244 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1248 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1255 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1256 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1257 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1258 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1259 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1260 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1261 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1262 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1263 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1264 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1265 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1266 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1267 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1268 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1269 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1270 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1274 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1275 programs and not only GNU make
1276 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1277 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1278 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1279 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1280 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1284 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1285 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1286 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1287 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1288 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1290 - significantly improved native font support
1291 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1293 - added IFF image handler
1294 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1295 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1296 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1297 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1298 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1299 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1300 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1301 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1302 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1303 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1304 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1305 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1306 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1307 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1308 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1309 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1310 - wxMessageOutput class added
1311 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1312 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1314 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1315 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1316 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1317 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1319 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1320 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1321 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1325 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1326 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1327 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1328 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1329 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1330 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1331 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1332 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1333 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1334 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1336 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1337 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1338 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1339 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1340 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1341 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1342 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1344 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1345 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1346 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1347 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1348 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1349 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1350 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1351 has the capture before release it.
1352 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1353 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1354 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1355 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1356 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1357 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1358 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1359 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1360 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1361 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1362 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1363 provided in wxFontData
1364 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1365 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1369 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1370 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1371 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1372 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1373 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1374 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1375 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1376 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1377 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1378 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1379 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1380 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1381 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1385 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1386 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1387 - improved toolbar control alignment
1388 - implemented wxSpinButton
1389 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1390 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1391 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1395 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1396 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1404 - First alpha-quality release
1408 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1409 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1410 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1411 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1412 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1417 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1421 - wxRegEx class added
1422 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1423 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1424 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1425 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1426 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1430 - support for virtual list control added
1431 - column images in report mode of the list control
1432 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1433 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1434 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1435 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1436 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1437 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1438 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1439 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1440 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1441 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1442 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1443 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1447 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1448 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1453 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1454 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1455 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1456 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1460 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1465 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1467 - added support for animated GIFs
1475 - Fixed new charset detection code
1476 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1477 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1478 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1479 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1480 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1481 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1485 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1486 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1487 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1488 push on a custom event handler for example)
1489 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1490 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1491 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1492 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1493 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1494 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1496 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1497 - Various wxXML enhancements
1498 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1499 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1500 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1502 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1503 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1507 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1508 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1509 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1510 alt or shift) now work
1511 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1512 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1513 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1514 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1515 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1516 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1517 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1518 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1519 - We now send iconize events
1520 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1521 - Added mousewheel processing
1522 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1523 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1525 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1526 child frame styles are honoured
1530 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1531 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1532 - We now send iconize events
1533 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1534 GetSelection() results
1541 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1542 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1543 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1544 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1545 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1546 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1547 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1548 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1549 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1550 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1554 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1555 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1556 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1557 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1558 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1559 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1560 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1561 wxImage methods and ctor)
1562 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1563 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1564 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1565 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1566 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1567 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1571 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1572 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1573 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1574 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1578 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1582 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1583 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1590 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1591 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1592 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1593 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1594 - Completed Czech translations
1595 - Some stream corrections
1596 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1597 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1598 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1599 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1603 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1604 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1605 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1606 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1607 - Paper names now translated
1609 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1610 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1611 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1612 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1614 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1615 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1617 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1618 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1619 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1620 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1624 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1625 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1626 backward compatibility, please set
1627 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1628 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1629 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1630 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1631 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1632 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1633 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1634 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1635 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1636 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1637 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1638 - wxFrame restores focus better
1639 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1640 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1641 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1642 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1643 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1644 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1645 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1646 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1647 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1648 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1652 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1656 - Small compilation fixes
1660 - wxCaret documented
1672 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1673 files. This works under VC++ only
1674 - Modal dialog handling improved
1675 - Printer dialog now modal
1690 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1694 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1695 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1700 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1701 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1702 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1703 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1704 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1705 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1706 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1707 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1708 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1710 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1711 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1712 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1713 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1714 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1715 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1717 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1721 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1722 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1723 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1724 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1725 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1726 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1727 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1728 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1730 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1731 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1732 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1733 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1734 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1735 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1736 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1737 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1738 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1739 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1740 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1741 - wxDragImage class added
1742 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1743 controllers, as well as native help
1744 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1748 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1749 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1750 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1751 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1752 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1753 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1754 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1755 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1756 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1757 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1759 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1760 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1761 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1765 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1766 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1767 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1771 - wxMenu::Enable works
1772 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1773 - OGL samples made to work again
1777 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1778 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1779 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1780 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1781 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1782 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1783 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1784 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1785 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1786 - improved HTML printing
1787 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1788 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1789 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1790 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1793 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1796 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1797 -----------------------
1801 - JPEG support added.
1802 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1806 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1808 - JPEG support added.
1809 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1810 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1811 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1818 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1821 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1822 -------------------------------
1827 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1831 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1832 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1833 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1834 - Some makefile fixes.
1842 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1843 - More topic overviews.
1844 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1845 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1846 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1849 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1850 --------------------------
1854 - wxExecute improved.
1858 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1860 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1861 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1862 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1863 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1864 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1865 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1869 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1870 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1874 - wxLocale documented.
1875 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1876 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1877 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1878 (though doesn't display help yet).
1880 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1881 --------------------------
1885 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1889 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1891 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1895 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1896 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1897 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1898 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1899 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1900 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1901 crashes for some reason).
1902 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1903 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1907 - Further doc improvements.
1908 - wxGenericValidator added.
1909 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1912 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1913 -------------------------
1917 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1918 - wxToolTip class added.
1919 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1923 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1924 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1925 - TWIN32 support added.
1926 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1927 factored out program/library settings.
1928 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1932 - A few more colour fixes.
1933 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1934 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1935 - wxChoice crash fix.
1936 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1940 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1941 - Added samples/dde.
1942 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1944 Beta 2, January 1999
1945 --------------------
1951 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1955 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1957 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1958 - Added thread support (Robert).
1959 - wxPoem sample now works.
1963 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1964 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1965 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1967 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1968 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1970 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1972 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1973 --------------------------
1979 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1982 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1983 ----------------------------
1987 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1988 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1989 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1990 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1991 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1993 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1994 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1999 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2000 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2001 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2002 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2003 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2005 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2006 when any button was pressed.
2007 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2008 have a white background.
2009 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2010 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2011 they have sensible colours by default.
2012 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2013 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2014 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2015 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2016 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2018 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2019 ----------------------------
2023 - More documentation updates, especially for
2024 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2025 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2027 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2028 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2029 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2031 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2035 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2036 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2038 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2039 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2040 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2041 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2042 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2043 the debugging implementation.
2044 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2045 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2046 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2047 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2048 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2049 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2050 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2052 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2054 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2055 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2056 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2057 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2058 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2059 - wxNotebook almost done.
2060 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2061 to vertical toolbars).
2065 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2067 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2068 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2069 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2071 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2072 ----------------------------
2076 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2078 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2079 - A few more makefiles added.
2080 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2081 - Further doc updates.
2082 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2086 - First start at Motif port.
2087 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2088 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2089 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2090 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2092 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2093 --------------------------
2097 - wxBitmap debugged.
2098 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2099 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2100 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2101 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2102 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2103 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2104 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2106 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2107 ------------------------
2111 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2112 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2113 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2114 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2115 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2116 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2117 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2118 changes, wxNotebook.
2119 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2121 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2122 -----------------------
2126 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2127 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2128 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2129 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2130 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2132 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2133 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2135 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2136 -----------------------
2140 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2141 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2143 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2144 -----------------------
2148 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2149 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2151 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2152 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2153 wxMenuItem accessors.
2154 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2155 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2156 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2157 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2158 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2159 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2160 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2161 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2162 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2163 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2164 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2165 first, then doing the assignment.
2166 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2167 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2171 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2172 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2174 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2175 ----------------------
2179 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2180 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2181 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2182 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2183 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2184 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2185 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2186 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2187 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2189 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2190 ------------------------
2194 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2196 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2197 compilation and pragmas.
2198 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2199 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2203 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2204 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2205 compilation and pragmas.
2206 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2208 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2209 ------------------------
2213 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2214 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2216 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2217 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2218 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2219 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2221 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2222 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2223 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2225 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2226 compatibility functions.
2227 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2228 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2229 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2230 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2231 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2232 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2233 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2237 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2238 - Added samples/png.
2239 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2240 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2242 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2244 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2245 ------------------------
2249 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2250 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2251 cleaned up properly before exit.
2252 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2254 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2255 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2256 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2258 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2259 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2261 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2262 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2263 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2264 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2268 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2269 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2270 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2271 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2272 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2273 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2274 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2275 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2276 allow better control of memory.
2277 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2279 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2280 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2282 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2283 ------------------------
2287 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2288 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2289 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2290 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2291 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2292 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2293 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2294 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2295 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2296 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2297 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2298 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2300 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2301 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2302 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2303 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2304 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2305 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2306 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2307 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2308 internal implementation.
2309 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2310 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2311 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2315 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2316 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2317 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2318 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2319 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2321 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2322 --------------------------
2326 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2327 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2328 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2330 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2331 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2332 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2333 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2335 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2336 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2341 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2342 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2343 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2345 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2346 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2348 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2349 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2350 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2351 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2352 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2353 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2354 - Added gcc pragmas.
2355 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2356 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2357 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2358 added a few references to wxTransString.
2359 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2360 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2361 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2362 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2363 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2364 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2365 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2366 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2367 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2370 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2371 --------------------------
2375 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2376 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2377 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2378 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2379 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2380 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2381 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2382 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2383 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2384 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2385 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2387 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2388 to help printing with multiple pages.
2389 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2390 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2391 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2392 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2393 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2394 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2395 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2396 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2397 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2398 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2399 New files from Vadim:
2405 src\common\string.cpp
2409 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2410 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2411 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2412 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2413 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2414 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2415 including changes to defs.h.
2416 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2418 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2420 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2421 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2423 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2425 Alpha 3, September 1997
2426 -----------------------
2430 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2431 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2432 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2433 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2434 - Started documentation.
2436 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2437 ------------------------
2441 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2442 with MetroWerks compiler.
2443 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2444 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2445 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2446 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2447 for testing purposes.
2448 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2450 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2451 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2453 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2454 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2457 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2458 -----------------------
2462 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2464 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2465 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2466 wxString instead of char *.
2467 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2468 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2469 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2470 as wxbWindow now removed.
2471 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2472 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2474 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2475 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2476 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2478 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2479 settings mucho rationalised.
2480 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2481 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2483 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2484 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2485 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2486 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2487 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2488 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2490 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2491 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2493 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2494 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2495 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2496 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2497 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2498 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2499 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2500 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2501 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2502 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2504 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2505 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2507 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2508 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2509 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2510 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2511 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2512 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2514 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2515 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2516 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2517 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2518 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2519 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).