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2 wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
6 ================================
8 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
9 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
10 with '!' in the first column.
12 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
13 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
16 ! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
17 wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE stll
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
21 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
22 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
23 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
24 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
25 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
26 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
27 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
28 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
29 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
30 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
31 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
32 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
33 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
34 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
35 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
38 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
39 ==============================
41 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
42 versions, please update your code to not use them.
44 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
45 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
46 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
47 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
48 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
49 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
50 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
51 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
52 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
53 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
54 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows
55 methods taking wxArrayString
56 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
57 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
58 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
59 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
60 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
61 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
62 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
63 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
65 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
76 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
77 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
78 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
79 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
80 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
81 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
82 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
83 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
84 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
85 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
86 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
87 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
89 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
90 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
91 - Changed built-in regex library to a unicode-compatible one (Ryan Norton)
92 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
93 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
94 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
95 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
96 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
97 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
98 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
99 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
103 - added wxListBook control
104 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
105 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
106 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
107 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
108 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
109 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
110 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
111 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
112 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
113 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
114 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
115 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
116 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
117 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
118 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
119 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
120 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
121 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
122 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
123 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
124 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
128 - fixed DDE memory leaks
129 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
130 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
131 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
132 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
133 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
134 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
135 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
136 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
137 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
138 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
139 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
140 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
141 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
142 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
143 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file
148 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
149 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
150 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
151 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
152 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
153 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
154 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
158 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
159 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
160 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
161 - use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
165 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
169 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
170 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
174 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
175 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
176 addition to existing OSS one
184 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
185 huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
186 separately compiled library
187 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
188 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
189 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
190 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
191 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
192 - added wxArray::SetCount()
193 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
194 by default in Unicode mode
195 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
196 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
197 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
198 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
199 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
200 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
201 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
202 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
203 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
204 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
205 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
206 - added wxRecursionGuard class
207 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
208 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
209 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
210 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
211 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
212 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
213 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
214 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
218 - added Watcom makefiles
219 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
223 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
225 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
226 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
227 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
228 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
229 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
230 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
231 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
232 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
233 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
234 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
235 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
236 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
237 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
238 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
239 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
240 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
241 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
242 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
243 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
244 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
245 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
246 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
247 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
248 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
249 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
250 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
251 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
252 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
253 default extension for the template
254 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
255 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
256 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
257 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
258 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
259 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
260 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
261 to allow better rich text support.
262 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
263 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
264 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
265 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
266 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
267 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
268 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
269 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
270 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
271 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
272 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
273 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
274 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
275 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
276 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
277 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
278 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
279 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
280 - added wxMirrorDC class
281 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
282 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
283 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
284 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
285 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
286 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
291 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
292 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
293 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
294 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
295 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
299 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
300 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
301 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
302 to contrib/src/deprecated
306 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
307 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
308 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
309 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
310 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
311 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
312 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
313 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
314 be appended to filenames with no extension
315 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
316 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
317 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
318 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
322 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
323 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
327 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
328 - added wxCrashReport
329 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
330 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
331 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
332 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
333 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
334 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
335 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
336 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
337 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
338 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
339 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
340 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
341 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
342 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
343 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
344 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
345 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
346 - improved border handling under Windows XP
347 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
348 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
349 wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
350 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
351 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
352 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
353 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
357 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
358 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
359 documentation for a detailed explanation
360 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
361 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
362 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
363 with Motif 1.x compatibility
364 - implemented wxToggleButton
365 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
366 instead of a sunken border
367 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
368 - finished wxClipboard implementation
372 - controls in toolbars now supported
376 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
377 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
378 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
379 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
380 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
386 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
387 ================================
389 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
390 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
391 with '!' in the first column.
393 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
394 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
395 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
396 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
399 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
400 of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
401 (see the documentation) useful.
406 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
407 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
410 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
411 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
412 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
413 arrays containing non-pointers.
415 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
416 simply don't make sense for all objects
418 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
419 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
420 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
422 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
424 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
425 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
426 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
427 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
428 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
430 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
431 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
432 the default assert handling.
436 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
437 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
438 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
440 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
441 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
444 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
445 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
446 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
448 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
449 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
450 you want to get OnChar() as well
452 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
453 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
454 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
456 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
457 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
458 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
459 will *NOT* work any longer:
461 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
464 ... do something else ...
466 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
467 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
470 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
472 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
473 if you derived any classes from it
475 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
476 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
478 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
479 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
481 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
482 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
484 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
485 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
488 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
489 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
490 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
492 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
493 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
494 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
495 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
499 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
500 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
501 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
502 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
503 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
504 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
505 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
506 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
507 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
508 is only present for the DLLs builds.
510 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
513 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
514 previously selected one instead of replacing it
516 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
517 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
518 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
520 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
521 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
526 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
527 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
528 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
529 to compile pure C files.
532 wxThread and related classes:
534 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
535 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
536 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
537 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
539 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
540 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
541 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
542 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
544 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
545 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
546 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
548 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
549 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
560 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
567 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
568 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
569 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
573 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
574 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
575 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
578 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
579 - Addition of native frame site grip.
582 - Unicode support through Pango library.
586 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
587 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
591 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
598 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
599 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
600 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
601 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
602 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
603 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
604 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
605 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
606 after (non standard) STL hash_map
607 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
608 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
609 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
610 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
611 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
612 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
613 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
617 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
618 programs and not only GNU make
619 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
620 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
621 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
622 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
623 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
627 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
628 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
629 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
630 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
631 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
633 - significantly improved native font support
634 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
636 - added IFF image handler
637 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
638 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
639 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
640 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
641 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
642 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
643 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
644 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
645 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
646 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
647 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
648 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
649 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
650 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
651 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
652 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
653 - wxMessageOutput class added
654 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
655 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
657 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
658 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
659 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
660 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
662 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
663 whether a label edit was cancelled.
664 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
668 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
669 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
670 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
671 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
672 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
673 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
674 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
675 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
676 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
677 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
679 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
680 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
681 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
682 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
683 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
684 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
685 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
687 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
688 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
689 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
690 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
691 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
692 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
693 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
694 has the capture before release it.
695 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
696 - default button handling is now closer to expected
697 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
698 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
699 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
700 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
701 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
702 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
703 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
704 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
705 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
706 provided in wxFontData
707 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
708 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
712 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
713 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
714 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
715 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
716 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
717 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
718 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
719 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
720 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
721 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
722 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
723 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
724 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
728 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
729 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
730 - improved toolbar control alignment
731 - implemented wxSpinButton
732 - implemented wxCheckListBox
733 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
734 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
738 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
739 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
747 - First alpha-quality release
751 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
752 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
753 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
754 - fixed alignment handling in tables
755 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
760 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
764 - wxRegEx class added
765 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
766 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
767 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
768 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
769 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
773 - support for virtual list control added
774 - column images in report mode of the list control
775 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
776 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
777 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
778 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
779 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
780 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
781 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
782 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
783 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
784 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
785 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
786 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
790 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
791 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
796 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
797 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
798 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
799 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
803 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
808 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
810 - added support for animated GIFs
818 - Fixed new charset detection code
819 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
820 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
821 - Added wxDir::Traverse
822 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
823 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
824 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
828 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
829 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
830 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
831 push on a custom event handler for example)
832 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
833 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
834 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
835 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
836 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
837 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
839 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
840 - Various wxXML enhancements
841 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
842 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
843 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
845 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
846 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
850 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
851 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
852 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
853 alt or shift) now work
854 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
855 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
856 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
857 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
858 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
859 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
860 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
861 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
862 - We now send iconize events
863 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
864 - Added mousewheel processing
865 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
866 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
868 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
869 child frame styles are honoured
873 - Fixed slider rounding bug
874 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
875 - We now send iconize events
876 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
877 GetSelection() results
884 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
885 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
886 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
887 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
888 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
889 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
890 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
891 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
892 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
893 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
897 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
898 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
899 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
900 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
901 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
902 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
903 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
904 wxImage methods and ctor)
905 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
906 - ODBC documentation complete!!
907 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
908 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
909 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
910 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
914 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
915 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
916 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
917 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
921 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
925 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
926 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
933 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
934 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
935 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
936 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
937 - Completed Czech translations
938 - Some stream corrections
939 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
940 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
941 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
942 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
946 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
947 flicker-free dragging is now possible
948 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
949 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
950 - Paper names now translated
952 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
953 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
954 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
955 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
957 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
958 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
960 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
961 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
962 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
963 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
967 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
968 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
969 backward compatibility, please set
970 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
971 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
972 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
973 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
974 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
975 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
976 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
977 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
978 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
979 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
980 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
981 - wxFrame restores focus better
982 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
983 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
984 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
985 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
986 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
987 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
988 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
989 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
990 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
991 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
995 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
999 - Small compilation fixes
1003 - wxCaret documented
1015 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1016 files. This works under VC++ only
1017 - Modal dialog handling improved
1018 - Printer dialog now modal
1033 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1037 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1038 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1043 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1044 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1045 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1046 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1047 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1048 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1049 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1050 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1051 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1053 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1054 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1055 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1056 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1057 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1058 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1060 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1064 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1065 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1066 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1067 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1068 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1069 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1070 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1071 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1073 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1074 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1075 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1076 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1077 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1078 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1079 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1080 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1081 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1082 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1083 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1084 - wxDragImage class added
1085 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1086 controllers, as well as native help
1087 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1091 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1092 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1093 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1094 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1095 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1096 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1097 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1098 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1099 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1100 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1102 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1103 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1104 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1108 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1109 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1110 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1114 - wxMenu::Enable works
1115 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1116 - OGL samples made to work again
1120 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1121 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1122 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1123 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1124 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1125 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1126 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1127 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1128 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1129 - improved HTML printing
1130 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1131 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1132 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1133 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1136 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1139 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1140 -----------------------
1144 - JPEG support added.
1145 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1149 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1151 - JPEG support added.
1152 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1153 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1154 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1161 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1164 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1165 -------------------------------
1170 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1174 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1175 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1176 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1177 - Some makefile fixes.
1185 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1186 - More topic overviews.
1187 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1188 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1189 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1192 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1193 --------------------------
1197 - wxExecute improved.
1201 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1203 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1204 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1205 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1206 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1207 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1208 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1212 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1213 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1217 - wxLocale documented.
1218 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1219 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1220 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1221 (though doesn't display help yet).
1223 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1224 --------------------------
1228 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1232 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1234 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
1238 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1239 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1240 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1241 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1242 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1243 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1244 crashes for some reason).
1245 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1246 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1250 - Further doc improvements.
1251 - wxGenericValidator added.
1252 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1255 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1256 -------------------------
1260 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1261 - wxToolTip class added.
1262 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1266 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1267 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1268 - TWIN32 support added.
1269 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1270 factored out program/library settings.
1271 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1275 - A few more colour fixes.
1276 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1277 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1278 - wxChoice crash fix.
1279 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1283 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1284 - Added samples/dde.
1285 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1287 Beta 2, January 1999
1288 --------------------
1294 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1298 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1300 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1301 - Added thread support (Robert).
1302 - wxPoem sample now works.
1306 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1307 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1308 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1310 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1311 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1313 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1315 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1316 --------------------------
1322 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1325 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1326 ----------------------------
1330 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1331 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1332 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1333 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1334 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1336 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1337 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1342 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1343 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1344 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1345 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1346 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1348 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1349 when any button was pressed.
1350 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1351 have a white background.
1352 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1353 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1354 they have sensible colours by default.
1355 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1356 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1357 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1358 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1359 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1361 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1362 ----------------------------
1366 - More documentation updates, especially for
1367 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1368 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1370 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1371 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1372 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1374 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1378 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1379 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1381 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1382 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1383 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1384 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1385 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1386 the debugging implementation.
1387 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1388 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1389 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1390 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1391 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1392 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1393 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1395 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1397 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1398 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1399 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1400 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1401 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1402 - wxNotebook almost done.
1403 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1404 to vertical toolbars).
1408 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1410 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1411 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1412 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1414 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1415 ----------------------------
1419 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1421 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1422 - A few more makefiles added.
1423 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1424 - Further doc updates.
1425 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1429 - First start at Motif port.
1430 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1431 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1432 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1433 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1435 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1436 --------------------------
1440 - wxBitmap debugged.
1441 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1442 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1443 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1444 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1445 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1446 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1447 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1449 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1450 ------------------------
1454 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1455 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1456 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1457 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1458 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1459 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1460 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1461 changes, wxNotebook.
1462 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1464 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1465 -----------------------
1469 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1470 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1471 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1472 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1473 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1475 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1476 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1478 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1479 -----------------------
1483 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1484 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1486 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1487 -----------------------
1491 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1492 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1494 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1495 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1496 wxMenuItem accessors.
1497 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1498 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1499 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1500 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1501 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1502 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1503 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1504 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1505 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1506 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1507 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1508 first, then doing the assignment.
1509 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1510 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1514 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1515 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1517 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1518 ----------------------
1522 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1523 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1524 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1525 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1526 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1527 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1528 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1529 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1530 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1532 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1533 ------------------------
1537 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1539 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1540 compilation and pragmas.
1541 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1542 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1546 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1547 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1548 compilation and pragmas.
1549 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1551 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1552 ------------------------
1556 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1557 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1559 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1560 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1561 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1562 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1564 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1565 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1566 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1568 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1569 compatibility functions.
1570 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1571 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1572 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1573 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1574 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1575 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1576 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1580 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1581 - Added samples/png.
1582 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1583 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1585 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1587 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1588 ------------------------
1592 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1593 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1594 cleaned up properly before exit.
1595 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1597 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1598 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1599 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1601 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1602 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1604 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1605 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1606 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1607 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1611 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1612 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1613 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1614 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1615 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1616 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1617 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1618 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1619 allow better control of memory.
1620 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1622 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1623 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1625 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1626 ------------------------
1630 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1631 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1632 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1633 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1634 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1635 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1636 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1637 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1638 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1639 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1640 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1641 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1643 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1644 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1645 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1646 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1647 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1648 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1649 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1650 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1651 internal implementation.
1652 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1653 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1654 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1658 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1659 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1660 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1661 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1662 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1664 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1665 --------------------------
1669 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1670 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1671 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1673 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1674 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1675 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1676 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1678 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1679 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1684 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1685 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1686 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1688 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1689 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1691 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1692 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1693 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1694 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1695 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1696 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1697 - Added gcc pragmas.
1698 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1699 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1700 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1701 added a few references to wxTransString.
1702 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1703 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1704 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1705 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1706 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1707 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1708 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1709 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1710 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1713 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1714 --------------------------
1718 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1719 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1720 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1721 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1722 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1723 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1724 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1725 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1726 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1727 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1728 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1730 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1731 to help printing with multiple pages.
1732 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1733 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1734 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1735 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1736 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1737 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1738 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1739 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1740 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1741 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1742 New files from Vadim:
1748 src\common\string.cpp
1752 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1753 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1754 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1755 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1756 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1757 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1758 including changes to defs.h.
1759 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1761 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1763 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1764 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1766 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1768 Alpha 3, September 1997
1769 -----------------------
1773 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1774 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1775 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1776 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1777 - Started documentation.
1779 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1780 ------------------------
1784 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1785 with MetroWerks compiler.
1786 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1787 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1788 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1789 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1790 for testing purposes.
1791 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1793 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1794 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1796 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1797 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1800 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1801 -----------------------
1805 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1807 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1808 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1809 wxString instead of char *.
1810 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1811 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1812 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1813 as wxbWindow now removed.
1814 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1815 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1817 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1818 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1819 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1821 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1822 settings mucho rationalised.
1823 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1824 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1826 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1827 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1828 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1829 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1830 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1831 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1833 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1834 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1836 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1837 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1838 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1839 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1840 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1841 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1842 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1843 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1844 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1845 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1847 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1848 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1850 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1851 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1852 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1853 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1854 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1855 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1857 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1858 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1859 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1860 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1861 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1862 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).