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14 <h1><a name=
"id1">2.5.1.3</a></h1>
15 <p>(See also the MigrationGuide.txt file for details about some of the
16 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
18 <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
19 see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm
</a> for more details. This won't
20 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
21 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
22 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
23 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
24 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
</p>
25 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
26 to wxWidgets
2.5 that I have forgotten about.
</p>
27 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.
</p>
28 <p>Added wxIconLocation
</p>
29 <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
30 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
</p>
31 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
33 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
34 wx.lib.plot module.
</p>
35 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
36 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
37 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
</p>
38 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
39 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
40 also installing icons and
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">*.desktop
</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
41 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
42 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
43 RH-
9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
44 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
45 distros please send me a patch.
</p>
46 <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-
9 box, and I have tested
47 installing them also on my main Mandrake
9.2 box.
</p>
48 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
49 Installer package now
<em>only
</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
50 extension modules and Python pacakges, and also the command-line tool
51 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
52 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
53 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
55 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
57 <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
</p>
58 <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
</p>
59 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version
1.58 of Scintilla.
</p>
60 <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
61 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
62 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
63 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
64 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
65 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
66 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
68 <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
69 "Adi
" Sieker.
</p>
70 <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
</p>
71 <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
72 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
</p>
73 <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
74 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
75 MigrationGuide for more details.
</p>
76 <p>Created a new extension module
"activex
" from Lindsay Mathieson's
77 newest
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX
</a> class. (The existing iewin module used an older
78 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
79 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
80 controls in a wx.Window,
<strong>without
</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
81 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
82 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
83 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
84 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
85 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
86 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
87 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
88 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
89 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
90 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
91 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
92 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
</p>
94 <div class=
"section" id=
"id2">
95 <h1><a name=
"id2">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
96 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
</p>
97 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
</p>
98 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
99 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
</p>
100 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
</p>
101 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
</p>
102 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
</p>
104 <div class=
"section" id=
"id3">
105 <h1><a name=
"id3">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
106 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
</p>
107 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
</p>
108 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
109 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">spam(*args,
</span> <span class=
"pre">**kw)
</span></tt> syntax
110 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
112 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
113 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
114 and wxWindows match.
</p>
115 <p>Added the new wx
"renamer
" package that will dynamically import from
116 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --
> FooBar. That means that
117 people can do imports without
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> and can use names like
118 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase
1 of a full transition
119 to the new namespace.
</p>
120 <p>Updated Scintilla to
1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
121 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
122 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
123 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
</p>
124 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
125 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
126 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as
"from wxPython
127 import py
" (or
"from wx import py
" using the new namespace.) There
128 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
129 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
130 package. These will be removed in a future release.
</p>
131 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
132 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
133 code like
"if obj: ...
" to be the same as
"if obj.IsOk(): ...
"</p>
134 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
</p>
135 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
136 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
</p>
137 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
138 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
</p>
139 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
140 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
</p>
141 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
142 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
144 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
145 a call to any Python callable object.
</p>
146 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
147 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
148 to override the C++ virtual methods.
</p>
149 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
150 the
"option
" parameter to
"proportion
" to match the docs (
"option
" is
151 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
152 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter,
153 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter
</p>
154 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.
</p>
156 <div class=
"section" id=
"id4">
157 <h1><a name=
"id4">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
158 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
159 TRUE/FALSE values.
</p>
160 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
161 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
162 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a
16-bit value.
</p>
163 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
165 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
167 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
169 <p>Updated PyCrust to version
0.9</p>
170 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
171 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
172 default behavior) is enough. See below in the
2.3.4.1 notes for more
175 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">
176 <h1><a name=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
</a></h1>
177 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
178 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
179 think I am testing in the future...
</p>
181 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">
182 <h1><a name=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
</a></h1>
183 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.
</p>
184 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.
</p>
185 <p>Updated to
0.9b of PyCrust.
</p>
187 <div class=
"section" id=
"id5">
188 <h1><a name=
"id5">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
189 <p>Added missing wxRect methods
</p>
190 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
</p>
191 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
</p>
192 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
193 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
194 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
196 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
198 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
</p>
199 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
200 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
201 the parent window.
</p>
202 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
</p>
203 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
205 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
</p>
206 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
207 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
208 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
209 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
210 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
211 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
212 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
213 static stable in the C++ class.
</p>
214 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
215 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
216 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
217 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
219 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
220 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
221 always call them. The functions are:
</p>
223 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
224 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
225 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
226 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
227 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
228 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
229 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
230 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
231 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
232 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
233 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
234 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
</blockquote>
235 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
236 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
</p>
237 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
238 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
239 doesn't have a standard place for them.
</p>
240 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
</p>
241 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
</p>
242 <p>Updated to the
0.9a version of PyCrust
</p>
244 <div class=
"section" id=
"id6">
245 <h1><a name=
"id6">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
246 <p>Several bug fixes.
</p>
247 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
248 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
</p>
250 <div class=
"section" id=
"id7">
251 <h1><a name=
"id7">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
252 <p>No major new features since
2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
254 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
255 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
</p>
257 <div class=
"section" id=
"id8">
258 <h1><a name=
"id8">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
259 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
261 <div class=
"section" id=
"id9">
262 <h1><a name=
"id9">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
263 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
</p>
264 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
</p>
265 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
</p>
266 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.
</p>
267 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
268 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
269 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
270 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
271 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
272 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
273 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
274 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
275 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
276 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
277 you can use to play with this new feature.
</p>
278 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
279 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
280 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
281 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
282 the old
"final
" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
283 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
284 2.3.3.1 and prior
"hybrid
" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
285 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
</p>
286 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
287 derived from wxApp.
</p>
288 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
289 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
291 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
</p>
292 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
293 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
294 they did before
2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
295 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
296 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
</p>
297 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
</p>
298 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
</p>
299 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
</p>
300 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
301 "Pythonic
" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
302 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
</p>
303 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
304 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
305 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
</p>
306 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
307 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
</p>
308 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
309 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
310 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
311 windows when desired.
</p>
312 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
313 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
314 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
</p>
316 <div class=
"section" id=
"id10">
317 <h1><a name=
"id10">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
318 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.
</p>
319 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
</p>
320 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
</p>
321 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
322 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
323 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
</p>
324 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
325 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
326 be loaded from any Python
"file-like
" object.
</p>
327 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
328 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
329 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
</p>
330 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
331 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
332 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
333 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
334 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
336 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
</p>
337 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.
</p>
338 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla
1.40 to Scintilla
1.45, and then again
339 to version
1.47, and one more time to
1.48!
<wink
></p>
342 <dd><p class=
"first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
343 disabled. Previous to wxPython
2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
344 used. Starting with
2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
345 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
346 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
347 the recent release of GTK+
2.0 it is only a matter of time until
348 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
</p>
349 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
350 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
351 same unicode binaries on win95/
98/ME platforms as well! This is
352 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
353 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
354 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
355 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
356 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
357 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
358 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
359 unicode build on win95.
</p>
360 <p class=
"last">So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
361 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
362 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
363 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
364 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
365 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
366 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
367 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
368 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
369 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
373 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
</p>
374 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
</p>
375 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
</p>
376 <p>A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
377 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
378 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
379 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
380 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
381 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
382 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
383 for any class that is OOR aware.
</p>
384 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
385 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
387 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
388 the image data. (Patch #
546009)
</p>
389 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
391 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
392 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
393 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
406 TransferDataFromWindow
410 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
414 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
415 please let me know.
</p>
417 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
418 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
</p>
419 <p>Added wxArtProvider.
</p>
420 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
421 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
422 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
423 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
424 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
</p>
425 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
</p>
426 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
427 creating a ScrolledPanel.
</p>
428 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
429 other menu stuff.
</p>
430 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
431 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
432 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
433 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
</p>
434 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
435 modules make a
"callback
" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
436 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
437 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
438 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
</p>
439 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
440 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
441 respond to mouse events and etc.
</p>
442 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -
1
443 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
</p>
444 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
445 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
446 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
447 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
448 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
449 started with just the
"pycrust
" command.
</p>
450 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
451 displays the details of the event.
</p>
452 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
</p>
453 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
454 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
456 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
</p>
457 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
459 <div class=
"section" id=
"id11">
460 <h1><a name=
"id11">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
461 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
462 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
463 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
</p>
464 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.
</p>
466 <div class=
"section" id=
"id12">
467 <h1><a name=
"id12">2.3.2</a></h1>
468 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
469 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
470 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
471 and a demo to show them in action.
</p>
472 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
473 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/
</a>. )
</p>
474 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
</p>
475 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
</p>
476 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
478 <p>Added a new
"constructor
" to most of the window classes that calls the
479 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
480 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a
2-step
481 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
482 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
483 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
484 resource. The name of the new
"constructor
" is the original name of
485 the class with a
"Pre
" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
487 <p>Updated to version
1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
488 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
489 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
490 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
491 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
492 wxSTC flag accordingly.
</p>
493 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
494 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
495 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
</p>
496 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
</p>
497 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
</p>
498 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.
</p>
499 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
500 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
501 multi-processor machine.
</p>
502 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
503 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
</p>
504 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
</p>
505 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
506 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
507 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
508 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
509 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
510 original C++ pointer.
</p>
511 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
513 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
</p>
514 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
515 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
</p>
516 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
517 and from web browsers. It's still not
100% bullet-proof for all types
518 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
519 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape
4.x works,
520 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
522 <p>Added wxStopWatch.
</p>
523 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
</p>
524 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
525 will now Disconnect the event.
</p>
526 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
</p>
527 <p>Added wxFileHistory.
</p>
528 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
529 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
530 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
532 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
</p>
533 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
535 <p>Added the
"SplitTree gizmos
" which are a collection of classes that
536 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
537 additional columns for each item. The classes are
538 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
539 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
540 also be useful by themselves.
</p>
541 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
542 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
543 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
544 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
545 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
546 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
549 <div class=
"section" id=
"id13">
550 <h1><a name=
"id13">2.3.1</a></h1>
551 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
552 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
553 on a custom event handler for example.)
</p>
554 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
555 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
556 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
557 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
</p>
558 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
</p>
559 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
</p>
560 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python
2.1.
</p>
561 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
</p>
563 <div class=
"section" id=
"id14">
564 <h1><a name=
"id14">2.3.0</a></h1>
565 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
566 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
</p>
567 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
568 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
570 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
</p>
571 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
572 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
574 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
575 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
576 access from non-GUI threads.
</p>
577 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
578 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
</p>
579 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
</p>
580 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
581 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
</p>
582 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
583 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
</p>
584 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
585 it gobs faster in certain situations.
</p>
586 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
587 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
588 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
589 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
590 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
591 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
592 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
593 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
594 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
595 the implementation.
</p>
596 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
597 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
599 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
600 the distutils that comes with Python
2.1.
</p>
601 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
</p>
602 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
</p>
603 <p>Added wxToggleButton.
</p>
604 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
</p>
606 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:
</dt>
607 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
608 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
609 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
610 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
612 GetGridRowLabelWindow
613 GetGridColLabelWindow
614 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
</dd>
616 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
617 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
618 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
</p>
621 <dd><p class=
"first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
622 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
623 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
624 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
625 "proper type
" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
626 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
627 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
628 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
629 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
630 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
631 will probably only work on Python
2.1 and beyond because it will
632 use weak references.)
</p>
633 <p class=
"last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
634 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
635 be transparent to you, however I'm not
100% sure that it didn't
636 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
637 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
638 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
639 object-type related oddities to me.
</p>
642 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
643 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
644 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
645 finally got done.
</p>
646 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
647 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
</p>
648 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
</p>
650 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
651 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
652 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
653 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
654 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
655 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
</p>
656 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
657 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
658 wxPython/samples.
</p>
660 <div class=
"section" id=
"id15">
661 <h1><a name=
"id15">2.2.6</a></h1>
662 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
663 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
</p>
665 <div class=
"section" id=
"id16">
666 <h1><a name=
"id16">2.2.5</a></h1>
667 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python
2.0 and beyond
668 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
669 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
670 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
</p>
671 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
</p>
672 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
</p>
673 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
674 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
</p>
675 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
676 column in report mode.
</p>
677 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
678 bar after
2 seconds.
</p>
679 <p>Added wxJoystick.
</p>
680 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
681 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
682 object, (usually a window.)
</p>
683 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
</p>
684 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
</p>
685 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
686 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
687 the
"export
" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
688 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
689 libraries. Should also be usable from
3rd party code, just include
690 wxPython/src/export.h
</p>
691 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
692 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
693 utils. Will probably add more later.
</p>
694 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
695 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
696 wxPrinterDC2 name.
</p>
697 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
698 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
</p>
699 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
</p>
700 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
701 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
</p>
702 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
703 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
706 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-2">
707 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-2">New in
2.2.2</a></h1>
708 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
709 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
710 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
711 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
712 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
713 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
714 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
715 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
717 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
718 of the distribution files. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
</a>)
719 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
720 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
721 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
722 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
723 wxPython for Python
1.5.2 or for
1.6, then you will need to get and
724 install version
1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
725 using Python
2.0 then you already have it.
</p>
726 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
727 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
</p>
728 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
729 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
730 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
732 <p>Removed the old python sizers.
</p>
733 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
735 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
736 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
737 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
</p>
738 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.
</p>
739 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
740 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
741 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
</p>
743 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-1">
744 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-1">New in
2.2.1</a></h1>
745 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
</p>
746 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
</p>
748 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-0">
749 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-0">New in
2.2.0</a></h1>
750 <p>Added wxLog and friends.
</p>
751 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
</p>
752 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
</p>
754 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-16">
755 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-16">New in
2.1.16</a></h1>
756 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
757 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
759 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
</p>
760 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
</p>
761 <p>Added wxDragImage.
</p>
762 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.
</p>
763 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
</p>
764 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.
</p>
765 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
766 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
767 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
768 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
769 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
770 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
771 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
772 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
</p>
784 OnScroll
</blockquote>
785 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.
</p>
787 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-15">
788 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-15">New in
2.1.15</a></h1>
789 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
790 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
</p>
791 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
793 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
794 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
</p>
795 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
</p>
796 <p>Plugged a memory leak.
</p>
797 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
798 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
799 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
800 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
802 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
803 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
804 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
</p>
805 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
806 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
807 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
808 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
809 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
810 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
811 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
812 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
814 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
815 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
816 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
817 "#RRGGBB
". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
</p>
818 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
819 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
820 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
821 but I've included a very readable source file in the
822 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
823 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
824 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
</a> to help fill in the gaps
825 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
826 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
</p>
828 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">
829 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in
2.1.13</a></h1>
830 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
</p>
831 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
832 and some flicker problems.
</p>
833 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
834 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/
</a>)
</p>
835 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
836 "which
" parameter.
</p>
837 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
838 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
839 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
840 with wxWindow.GetParent.
</p>
841 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
842 It is used like this:
</p>
844 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
</blockquote>
845 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
846 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
</p>
847 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
</p>
848 <p>Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
</p>
849 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
850 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
851 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
852 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
853 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
854 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
</p>
855 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
856 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
857 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
858 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
859 methods look like this:
</p>
862 <dt>def AddTool(ID,
</dt>
864 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
867 shortHelpString =
"",
868 longHelpString =
"")
</dd>
869 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,
</dt>
871 shortHelpString =
"",
872 longHelpString =
"",
876 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
877 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
</p>
878 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
</p>
879 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
</p>
880 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
881 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
882 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:
9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL
</a>.
</p>
883 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.
</p>
884 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
886 <p>Changed all the
"LIST
" parameter names to
"choices
" to match the docs.
</p>
887 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
888 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
889 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
</p>
891 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">
892 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in
2.1.11</a></h1>
893 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
895 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
896 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
898 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
899 being added. This should remove the need for our
900 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
</p>
901 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
902 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
903 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
904 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
905 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
</p>
906 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
</p>
907 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.
</p>
908 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle
</p>
909 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
910 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
911 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
913 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
914 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
915 thread from other threads.
</p>
916 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
</p>
917 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.
</p>
918 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
</p>
919 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
920 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
</p>
921 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
</p>
922 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
924 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
</p>
926 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">
927 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in
2.1.5</a></h1>
928 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
929 crept in at the last minute before
2.1.4 was called done. No new
932 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">
933 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in
2.1.4</a></h1>
934 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
935 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
936 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
937 wxGTK from CVS. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm
</a>)
938 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
939 the wxPy-
2-
1-
4 tag.
</p>
940 <p>Now back to what's new...
</p>
941 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
</p>
942 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
</p>
943 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a
<em>copy
</em>
944 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
945 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
946 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
947 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
949 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
950 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
951 default sort order.
</p>
952 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
953 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
954 example, the following are equivallent:
</p>
956 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(
100,
100))
957 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (
100,
100))
</blockquote>
958 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
959 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
960 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
961 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
962 pages. See the demo for an example.
</p>
963 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
964 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
</p>
965 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
</p>
966 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
967 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
968 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
969 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
970 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
971 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
972 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
973 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
974 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
975 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
976 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
978 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
979 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
980 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
981 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
982 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
983 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
984 for more info and examples in future releases.
</p>
985 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
986 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
987 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
988 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
989 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
990 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
992 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
993 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
994 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
995 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
996 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
997 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
998 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
999 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1000 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1001 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1002 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
</p>
1003 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1004 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1005 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1006 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1007 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1008 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1009 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1010 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1011 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1012 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1013 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1014 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1015 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1016 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1017 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1018 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
</p>
1021 <dt>class MyApp(wxApp):
</dt>
1022 <dd><p class=
"first">outputWindowClass = MyClass
</p>
1024 <dt>def OnInit(self):
</dt>
1025 <dd>frame = MyFrame()
1026 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1032 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1033 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1034 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1035 to really screw things up.
</p>
1036 <p>Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1037 in the wxWindows docs...
</p>
1038 <p>Some new
3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1039 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1040 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1041 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1042 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1043 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1044 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1047 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">
1048 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in
2.1b3
</a></h1>
1049 <p>This release is syncronized with release
2.1 snapshot
9 of wxWindows.
</p>
1050 <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html
</a>)
1051 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1052 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1053 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1057 <li><p class=
"first">Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1058 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1059 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
</p>
1061 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -
1, style = mystyle)
</p>
1064 <li><p class=
"first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1065 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1066 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1067 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
</p>
1071 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1072 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1073 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1074 see distrib/build.py for more details.
</p>
1075 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1076 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1077 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1078 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
</p>
1080 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">
1081 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in
2.1b2
</a></h1>
1082 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
</p>
1083 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1084 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1085 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1086 It was only a
1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1087 line
496 if you want to do it by hand.
</p>
1088 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1089 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1090 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1091 is being unloaded by Python.
</p>
1092 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1093 make wxPython look bad.
</p>
1094 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1095 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
</p>
1096 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
</p>
1097 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1098 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
</p>
1099 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1100 code to show how to use it.
</p>
1101 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1103 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells
</p>
1104 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1105 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
</p>
1106 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1107 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
</p>
1109 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
</dt>
1110 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth =
1)
</dd>
1112 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1113 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1114 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
</p>
1115 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1117 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
</p>
1118 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1119 for unix systems.
</p>
1120 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
</p>
1121 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
1124 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">
1125 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in
2.1b1
</a></h1>
1126 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1127 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1128 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
</p>
1129 <p>Added the Printing Framework.
</p>
1130 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1131 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1132 data after loading each extension module.
</p>
1133 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1134 wxWindows classes.
</p>
1135 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1136 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1137 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
</p>
1138 <p>wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1139 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1140 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1141 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
</p>
1143 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">
1144 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in
2.0b9
</a></h1>
1145 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
</p>
1146 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1147 wxPython application.
</p>
1148 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
</p>
1149 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1150 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1151 this feature off.
</p>
1152 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.
</p>
1153 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
</p>
1154 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1155 how it all works.
</p>
1156 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1157 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
</p>
1158 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.
</p>
1159 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1160 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
</p>
1161 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
1162 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1165 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">
1166 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in
2.0b8
</a></h1>
1167 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
</p>
1168 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.
</p>
1169 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
1171 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">
1172 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in
2.0b7
</a></h1>
1173 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
</p>
1174 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
</p>
1176 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">
1177 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in
2.0b6
</a></h1>
1178 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1179 Python
1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
</p>
1181 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">
1182 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in
2.0b5
</a></h1>
1183 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1184 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1185 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1186 wxWindows
1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1187 with the
2.0 version of wxWindows.
</p>
1188 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1189 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1190 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1191 diverges from wxWindows.
</p>
1192 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1193 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1194 it should just work... More news on this later.
</p>
1195 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
</p>
1196 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1197 wxRegConfig class.
</p>
1198 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
</p>
1200 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">
1201 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in
0.5.3</a></h1>
1202 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
</p>
1203 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1204 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
</p>
1206 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">
1207 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in
0.5.0</a></h1>
1208 <p>Changed the import semantics from
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> to
1209 <tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython.wx
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> This is for people who are worried about
1210 namespace pollution, they can use
"from wxPython import wx
" and then
1211 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with
"wx.
"</p>
1212 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
</p>
1213 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.
</p>
1214 <p>Added wxConfig.
</p>
1215 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
</p>
1216 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1217 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
</p>
1218 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.
</p>
1220 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">
1221 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in
0.4.2</a></h1>
1222 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1223 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1224 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl">H.v.d.Heijden
@phys.tue.nl
</a>> for his astute detective work on tracking
1225 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1226 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1227 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
</p>
1228 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1229 must have been a different issue all along...
</p>
1231 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">
1232 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in
0.4</a></h1>
1233 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1234 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1235 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1236 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1237 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1238 version segfault shortly after starting up.
</p>
1239 <ol class=
"arabic simple" start=
"2">
1240 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
</li>
1241 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
</li>
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