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3
4 2.5.1.1
5 -------
6
7 (See also the MigrationGuide.txt file for details about some of the
8 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
9 adapt your code.)
10
11 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
12 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
13 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
14 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
15 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
16 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
17 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
18
19
20 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
21 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
22
23 Added wxMirrorDC.
24
25 Added wxIconLocation
26
27 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
28 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
29
30 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
31 from wxBookCtrl.
32
33 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
34 wx.lib.plot module.
35
36 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
37 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
38 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
39
40 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
41 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
42 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
43 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
44 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
45 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
46 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
47 distros please send me a patch.
48
49 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
50 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
51
52 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
53 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
54 extension modules and Python pacakges, and also the command-line tool
55 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
56 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
57 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
58 want to put them.
59
60 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
61 different API.
62
63 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
64
65 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
66
67 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
68
69 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
70 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
71 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
72 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
73 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
74 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
75 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
76 it.
77
78 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
79 "Adi" Sieker.
80
81 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
82
83 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
84 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
85
86 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
87 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
88 MigrationGuide for more details.
89
90 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
91 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
92 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
93 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
94 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
95 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
96 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
97 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
98 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
99 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the wx.activex version
100 of IEHtmlWindow, or the implementation in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one
101 can be eventually removed. Additionally, I've always considered that
102 the wx.lib.activexwrapper module is an ugly hack that I only included
103 in the lib because I couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we
104 have something that, if it isn't already, has the potential to be
105 better. So consider migrating away from using activexwrapper as well.
106 Please see the MigrationGuide for more details on using the new
107 module.
108
109 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
110
111
112
113 2.4.2.4
114 -------
115
116 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
117
118 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
119
120 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
121 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
122
123 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
124
125 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
126
127 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
128
129
130
131 2.4.1.2
132 -------
133
134 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
135
136 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
137
138 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
139 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
140 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
141 informative.
142
143 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
144 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
145 and wxWindows match.
146
147 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
148 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
149 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
150 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
151 to the new namespace.
152
153 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
154 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
155 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
156 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
157
158 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
159 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
160 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
161 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
162 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
163 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
164 package. These will be removed in a future release.
165
166 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
167 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
168 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
169
170 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
171
172 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
173 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
174
175 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
176 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
177
178 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
179 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
180
181 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
182 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
183 wxTreeCtrl.)
184
185 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
186 a call to any Python callable object.
187
188 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
189 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
190 to override the C++ virtual methods.
191
192 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
193 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
194 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
195 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
196 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
197
198 Added wxCursorFromBits.
199
200
201
202
203
204 2.4.0.7
205 -------
206
207 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
208 TRUE/FALSE values.
209
210 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
211 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
212 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
213
214 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
215 unicode.
216
217 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
218 OOR.
219
220 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
221 wxSize and etc.
222
223 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
224
225 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
226 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
227 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
228 details.
229
230
231
232
233 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
234 ------------------------------------------
235
236 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
237 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
238 think I am testing in the future...
239
240
241
242 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
243 ----------------------------------------------
244
245 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
246
247 Updated pycolourchooser.
248
249 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
250
251
252
253 2.4.0.4
254 -------
255 Added missing wxRect methods
256
257 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
258
259 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
260
261 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
262 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
263 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
264 problems.
265
266 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
267 return type.
268
269 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
270
271 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
272 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
273 the parent window.
274
275 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
276
277 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
278 wrapper.
279
280 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
281
282 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
283 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
284 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
285 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
286 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
287 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
288 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
289 static stable in the C++ class.
290
291 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
292 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
293 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
294 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
295 present.
296
297 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
298 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
299 always call them. The functions are:
300
301 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
302 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
303 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
304 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
305 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
306 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
307 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
308 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
309 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
310 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
311 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
312 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
313
314 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
315 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
316
317 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
318 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
319 doesn't have a standard place for them.
320
321 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
322
323 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
324
325 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
326
327
328
329 2.4.0.2
330 -------
331 Several bug fixes.
332
333 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
334
335 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
336
337
338
339
340 2.4.0.1
341 -------
342 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
343 enhancements.
344
345 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
346 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
347
348
349
350 2.3.4.2
351 -------
352 Various bug fixes.
353
354
355
356 2.3.4.1
357 -------
358 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
359
360 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
361
362 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
363
364 Added wxHtmlFilter.
365
366 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
367 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
368 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
369 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
370 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
371 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
372 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
373 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
374 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
375 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
376 you can use to play with this new feature.
377
378 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
379 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
380 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
381 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
382 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
383 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
384 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
385 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
386
387 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
388 derived from wxApp.
389
390 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
391 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
392 to wxGrid.
393
394 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
395
396 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
397 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
398 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
399 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
400 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
401
402 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
403
404 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
405
406 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
407
408 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
409 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
410 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
411
412 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
413 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
414 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
415
416 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
417 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
418
419 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
420 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
421 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
422 windows when desired.
423
424 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
425 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
426 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
427
428
429
430
431 2.3.3.1
432 -------
433 Added wxSplashScreen.
434
435 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
436
437 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
438
439 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
440 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
441 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
442
443 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
444 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
445 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
446
447 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
448 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
449 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
450
451 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
452 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
453 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
454 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
455 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
456 wxFlexGridSizer.
457
458 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
459
460 Added wxBufferedDC.
461
462 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
463 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
464
465 UNICODE!
466 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
467 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
468 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
469 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
470 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
471 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
472 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
473
474 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
475 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
476 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
477 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
478 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
479 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
480 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
481 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
482 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
483 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
484 unicode build on win95.
485
486 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
487 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
488 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
489 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
490 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
491 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
492 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
493 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
494 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
495 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
496 method.
497
498 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
499
500 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
501
502 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
503
504 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
505 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
506 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
507 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
508 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
509 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
510 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
511 for any class that is OOR aware.
512
513 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
514 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
515 derived classes.
516
517 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
518 the image data. (Patch #546009)
519
520 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
521 application.
522
523 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
524 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
525 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
526 supported are:
527
528 DoMoveWindow
529 DoSetSize
530 DoSetClientSize
531 DoSetVirtualSize
532 DoGetSize
533 DoGetClientSize
534 DoGetPosition
535 DoGetVirtualSize
536 DoGetBestSize
537 InitDialog
538 TransferDataFromWindow
539 TransferDataToWindow
540 Validate
541 AcceptsFocus
542 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
543 GetMaxSize
544 AddChild
545 RemoveChild
546
547 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
548 please let me know.
549
550 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
551 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
552
553 Added wxArtProvider.
554
555 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
556 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
557 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
558 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
559 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
560
561 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
562
563 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
564 creating a ScrolledPanel.
565
566 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
567 other menu stuff.
568
569 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
570 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
571 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
572 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
573
574 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
575 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
576 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
577 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
578 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
579
580 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
581 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
582 respond to mouse events and etc.
583
584 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
585 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
586
587 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
588 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
589 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
590 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
591 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
592 started with just the "pycrust" command.
593
594 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
595 displays the details of the event.
596
597 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
598
599 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
600 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
601 example.
602
603 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
604
605 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
606
607
608
609
610 2.3.2.1
611 -------
612 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
613 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
614 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
615
616 Added some patches from library contributors.
617
618
619
620 2.3.2
621 -----
622 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
623 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
624 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
625 and a demo to show them in action.
626
627 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
628 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
629
630 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
631
632 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
633
634 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
635 Rolinsky.
636
637 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
638 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
639 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
640 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
641 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
642 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
643 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
644 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
645 etc.
646
647 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
648 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
649 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
650 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
651 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
652 wxSTC flag accordingly.
653
654 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
655 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
656 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
657
658 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
659
660 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
661
662 Added pySketch to the samples.
663
664 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
665 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
666 multi-processor machine.
667
668 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
669 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
670
671 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
672
673 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
674 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
675 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
676 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
677 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
678 original C++ pointer.
679
680 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
681 DrawPointList.
682
683 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
684
685 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
686 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
687
688 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
689 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
690 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
691 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
692 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
693 wx-dev list.
694
695 Added wxStopWatch.
696
697 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
698
699 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
700 will now Disconnect the event.
701
702 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
703
704 Added wxFileHistory.
705
706 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
707 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
708 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
709 same document.
710
711 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
712
713 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
714 Feuer.
715
716 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
717 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
718 additional columns for each item. The classes are
719 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
720 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
721 also be useful by themselves.
722
723 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
724 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
725 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
726 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
727 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
728 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
729 details.
730
731
732
733
734 2.3.1
735 -----
736 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
737 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
738 on a custom event handler for example.)
739
740 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
741 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
742
743 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
744 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
745
746 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
747
748 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
749
750 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
751
752 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
753
754
755
756 2.3.0
757 -----
758 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
759 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
760
761 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
762 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
763 ctor and dtors.
764
765 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
766
767 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
768 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
769 colour database.
770
771 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
772 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
773 access from non-GUI threads.
774
775 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
776 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
777
778 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
779
780 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
781 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
782
783 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
784 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
785
786 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
787 it gobs faster in certain situations.
788
789 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
790 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
791 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
792 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
793 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
794 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
795 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
796 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
797 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
798 the implementation.
799
800 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
801 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
802 many refreshes.
803
804 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
805 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
806
807 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
808
809 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
810
811 Added wxToggleButton.
812
813 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
814
815 Added some methods to wxGrid:
816 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
817 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
818 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
819 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
820 GetGridWindow
821 GetGridRowLabelWindow
822 GetGridColLabelWindow
823 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
824
825 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
826 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
827 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
828
829 OOR:
830 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
831 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
832 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
833 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
834 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
835 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
836 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
837 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
838 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
839 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
840 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
841 use weak references.)
842
843 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
844 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
845 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
846 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
847 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
848 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
849 object-type related oddities to me.
850
851
852 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
853 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
854 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
855 finally got done.
856
857 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
858 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
859
860 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
861
862 Added wxWave.
863
864 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
865 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
866 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
867 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
868 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
869 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
870
871 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
872 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
873 wxPython/samples.
874
875
876
877
878 2.2.6
879 -----
880
881 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
882 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
883
884
885
886 2.2.5
887 -----
888
889 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
890 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
891 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
892 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
893
894 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
895
896 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
897
898 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
899 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
900
901 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
902 column in report mode.
903
904 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
905 bar after 2 seconds.
906
907 Added wxJoystick.
908
909 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
910 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
911 object, (usually a window.)
912
913 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
914
915 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
916
917 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
918 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
919 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
920 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
921 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
922 wxPython/src/export.h
923
924 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
925 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
926 utils. Will probably add more later.
927
928 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
929 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
930 wxPrinterDC2 name.
931
932 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
933 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
934
935 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
936
937 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
938 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
939
940 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
941 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
942 XML-RPC server.
943
944
945
946 New in 2.2.2
947 ------------
948
949 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
950 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
951 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
952 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
953 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
954 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
955 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
956 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
957 how things work.
958
959 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
960 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
961 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
962 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
963 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
964 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
965 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
966 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
967 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
968
969 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
970 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
971
972 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
973 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
974 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
975 stdin.
976
977 Removed the old python sizers.
978
979 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
980 and wxRealPoint.
981
982 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
983 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
984 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
985
986 Lots of little fixes here and there.
987
988 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
989 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
990 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
991
992
993
994
995 New in 2.2.1
996 ------------
997
998 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
999
1000 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
1001
1002
1003
1004 New in 2.2.0
1005 ------------
1006
1007 Added wxLog and friends.
1008
1009 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
1010
1011 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
1012
1013
1014
1015 New in 2.1.16
1016 -------------
1017
1018 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1019 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1020 depressed state.
1021
1022 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
1023
1024 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
1025
1026 Added wxDragImage.
1027
1028 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
1029
1030 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
1031
1032 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
1033
1034 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
1035 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
1036 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
1037 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
1038 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
1039 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
1040 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
1041 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
1042
1043 OnChar
1044 OnSize
1045 OnEraseBackground
1046 OnSysColourChanged
1047 OnInitDialog
1048 OnPaint
1049 OnIdle
1050 OnActivate
1051 OnMenuHighlight
1052 OnCloseWindow
1053 OnScroll
1054
1055 Added wxSpinCtrl.
1056
1057
1058
1059
1060 New in 2.1.15
1061 -------------
1062
1063 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
1064 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
1065
1066 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
1067 GetSelections.
1068
1069 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
1070 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
1071
1072 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
1073
1074 Plugged a memory leak.
1075
1076 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
1077 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
1078 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
1079 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
1080 good...)
1081
1082 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
1083 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
1084 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
1085
1086 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
1087 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
1088 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
1089 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
1090 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
1091 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
1092 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
1093 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
1094 them.
1095
1096 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
1097 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
1098 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
1099 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
1100
1101 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
1102 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
1103 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
1104 but I've included a very readable source file in the
1105 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
1106 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
1107 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
1108 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
1109 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
1110
1111
1112
1113
1114 What's new in 2.1.13
1115 --------------------
1116 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
1117
1118 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
1119 and some flicker problems.
1120
1121 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
1122 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
1123
1124 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
1125 "which" parameter.
1126
1127 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
1128
1129 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
1130
1131 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
1132 with wxWindow.GetParent.
1133
1134 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
1135 It is used like this:
1136
1137 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
1138
1139 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
1140 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
1141
1142 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
1143
1144 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
1145
1146 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
1147 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
1148 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
1149 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
1150 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
1151 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
1152
1153 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
1154 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
1155 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
1156 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
1157 methods look like this:
1158
1159 def AddTool(ID,
1160 bitmap,
1161 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
1162 toggle = FALSE,
1163 clientData = NULL,
1164 shortHelpString = "",
1165 longHelpString = "")
1166
1167 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
1168 bitmap,
1169 shortHelpString = "",
1170 longHelpString = "",
1171 toggle=FALSE)
1172
1173
1174 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1175 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
1176
1177 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
1178
1179 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
1180
1181 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1182 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
1183 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
1184
1185 Added some missing EVT functions.
1186
1187 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1188 package.
1189
1190 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
1191
1192 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1193 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1194 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
1195
1196
1197
1198
1199 What's new in 2.1.11
1200 --------------------
1201 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1202 syncronized.
1203
1204 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1205 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1206 itself.
1207
1208 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1209 being added. This should remove the need for our
1210 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
1211
1212 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1213 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
1214 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1215 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1216 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
1217
1218 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
1219
1220 Added new HTML printing classes.
1221
1222 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
1223
1224 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
1225 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1226 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1227 wxPoint.)
1228
1229 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1230 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1231 thread from other threads.
1232
1233 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
1234
1235 Added wxFontEnumerator.
1236
1237 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
1238
1239 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1240 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
1241
1242 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
1243
1244 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1245 wxGTK...
1246
1247 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
1248
1249
1250
1251
1252 What's new in 2.1.5
1253 -------------------
1254 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1255 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
1256 major features.
1257
1258
1259
1260 What's new in 2.1.4
1261 --------------------
1262
1263 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1264 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1265 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1266 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
1267 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1268 the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.
1269
1270 Now back to what's new...
1271
1272 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
1273
1274 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
1275
1276 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
1277 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1278 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1279 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1280 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1281 great!
1282
1283 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1284 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1285 default sort order.
1286
1287 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1288 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1289 example, the following are equivallent:
1290
1291 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
1292 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
1293
1294 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1295 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1296 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1297 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1298 pages. See the demo for an example.
1299
1300 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1301 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
1302
1303 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
1304
1305 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1306 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
1307 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1308 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1309 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1310 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1311 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1312 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1313 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1314 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1315 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1316 further details.
1317
1318 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1319 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1320 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1321 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1322 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1323 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1324 for more info and examples in future releases.
1325
1326 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1327 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1328 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1329 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1330 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1331 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1332 to use them.
1333
1334 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1335 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1336 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1337 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1338 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1339 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1340 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1341 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1342 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1343 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1344 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
1345
1346 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1347 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1348 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1349 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1350 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1351 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1352 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1353 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1354 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1355 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1356 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1357 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1358 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1359 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1360 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1361 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
1362
1363 class MyApp(wxApp):
1364 outputWindowClass = MyClass
1365
1366 def OnInit(self):
1367 frame = MyFrame()
1368 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1369 return true
1370
1371 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1372 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1373 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1374 to really screw things up.
1375
1376 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1377 in the wxWindows docs...
1378
1379 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1380 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1381 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1382 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1383 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1384 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1385 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1386 problems...)
1387
1388
1389
1390
1391 What's new in 2.1b3
1392 --------------------
1393
1394 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
1395
1396 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
1397 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1398 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1399 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1400 features:
1401
1402 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1403 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1404 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
1405
1406 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
1407
1408 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1409 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1410 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1411 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
1412
1413
1414 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1415 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1416 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1417 see distrib/build.py for more details.
1418
1419 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1420 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1421 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1422 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
1423
1424
1425
1426
1427
1428 What's new in 2.1b2
1429 --------------------
1430
1431 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
1432
1433 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1434 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1435 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1436 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1437 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
1438
1439 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1440 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1441 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1442 is being unloaded by Python.
1443
1444 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1445 make wxPython look bad.
1446
1447 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1448 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
1449
1450 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
1451
1452 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1453 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
1454
1455 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1456 code to show how to use it.
1457
1458 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1459 matches MSW's.
1460
1461 Added wxGrid.GetCells
1462
1463 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1464 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
1465
1466 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1467 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
1468
1469 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
1470 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
1471
1472 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1473 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1474 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
1475
1476 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1477 data transfer.
1478
1479 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
1480
1481 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1482 for unix systems.
1483
1484 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
1485
1486 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
1487 in wx.cpp.
1488
1489
1490
1491
1492
1493 What's new in 2.1b1
1494 --------------------
1495 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1496 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1497 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
1498
1499 Added the Printing Framework.
1500
1501 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1502 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1503 data after loading each extension module.
1504
1505 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1506 wxWindows classes.
1507
1508 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1509 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1510 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
1511
1512 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1513 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1514 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1515 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
1516
1517
1518
1519 What's new in 2.0b9
1520 -------------------
1521 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
1522
1523 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1524 wxPython application.
1525
1526 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
1527
1528 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1529 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1530 this feature off.
1531
1532 Added wxSafeYield function.
1533
1534 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
1535
1536 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1537 how it all works.
1538
1539 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1540 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
1541
1542 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
1543
1544 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1545 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
1546
1547 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
1548
1549 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1550 methods.
1551
1552
1553
1554 What's new in 2.0b8
1555 -------------------
1556 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
1557
1558 Several missing methods from various classes.
1559
1560 Various bug fixes.
1561
1562
1563
1564 What's new in 2.0b7
1565 -------------------
1566 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
1567
1568 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
1569
1570
1571
1572 What's new in 2.0b6
1573 -------------------
1574 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1575 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
1576
1577
1578 What's new in 2.0b5
1579 -------------------
1580 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1581 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1582 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1583 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1584 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
1585
1586 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1587 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1588 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1589 diverges from wxWindows.
1590
1591 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1592 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1593 it should just work... More news on this later.
1594
1595 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
1596
1597 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1598 wxRegConfig class.
1599
1600 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
1601
1602
1603
1604 What's new in 0.5.3
1605 -------------------
1606 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
1607
1608 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1609 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
1610
1611
1612
1613 What's new in 0.5.0
1614 -------------------
1615 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
1616 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
1617 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
1618 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
1619
1620 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
1621
1622 Made the events work for wxGrid.
1623
1624 Added wxConfig.
1625
1626 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
1627
1628 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1629 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
1630
1631 Other assorted fixes and additions.
1632
1633
1634
1635
1636 What's new in 0.4.2
1637 -------------------
1638
1639 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1640 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1641 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
1642 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1643 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1644 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
1645
1646 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1647 must have been a different issue all along...
1648
1649
1650
1651 What's New in 0.4
1652 -----------------
1653
1654 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1655 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1656 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1657 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1658 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1659 version segfault shortly after starting up.
1660
1661 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
1662
1663 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
1664
1665
1666