1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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7 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
8 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
9 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
10 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
11 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
12 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
13 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
14 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used.
16 Related to the above, when controls and some other window types are
17 created either the size passed to the constructor, or their "best
18 size" if an explicit size was not passed in, is set as the window's
19 minimal size. For non top-level windows that hasn't meant much in the
20 past, but now the sizers are sensitive to the window's minimal size.
21 The key point to understand here is that it is no longer the window's
22 size it has when added to the sizer that matters, but its minimal
23 size. So you might have some issues to iron out if you create a
24 control without a size and then set its size to something before
25 adding it to the sizer. Since it's minimal size is probably not the
26 size you set then the sizer will appear to be misbehaving. The fix is
27 to either set the size when calling the window's constructor, or to
28 reset the min size by calling SetSizeHints. You can call SetSizeHints
29 at anytime to change the minsize of a window, just call the sizer's
30 Layout method to redistribute the controls as needed.
32 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
33 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
35 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
36 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
37 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
38 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
41 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
42 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
44 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
46 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
47 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
49 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
50 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
51 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
52 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
53 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
54 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
57 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
58 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
59 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
60 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
61 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
64 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
65 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
66 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
68 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
69 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
71 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
72 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
74 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
75 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
76 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
77 remaining compatible with "C".
79 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
82 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
83 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
84 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
85 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
86 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
87 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
88 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
89 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
90 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
92 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
94 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
95 Scintilla for several releases now.
97 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
98 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
99 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
100 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
102 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
103 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
104 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
107 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
108 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
109 with a more modern reimplementation.
111 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
112 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
120 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
121 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
124 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
127 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
128 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
129 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
130 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
131 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
132 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
133 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
136 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
137 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
143 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
144 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
146 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
149 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
152 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
153 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
154 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
156 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
157 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
158 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
159 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
160 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
161 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
162 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
163 distros please send me a patch.
165 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
166 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
168 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
169 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
170 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
171 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
172 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
173 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
176 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
179 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
181 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
183 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
185 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
186 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
187 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
188 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
189 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
190 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
191 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
194 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
197 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
199 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
200 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
202 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
203 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
204 MigrationGuide for more details.
206 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
207 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
208 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
209 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
210 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
211 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
212 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
213 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
214 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
215 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
216 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
217 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
218 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
219 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
220 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
221 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
222 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
224 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
226 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
234 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
236 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
238 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
239 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
241 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
243 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
245 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
252 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
254 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
256 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
257 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
258 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
261 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
262 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
265 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
266 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
267 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
268 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
269 to the new namespace.
271 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
272 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
273 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
274 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
276 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
277 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
278 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
279 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
280 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
281 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
282 package. These will be removed in a future release.
284 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
285 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
286 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
288 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
290 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
291 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
293 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
294 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
296 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
297 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
299 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
300 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
303 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
304 a call to any Python callable object.
306 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
307 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
308 to override the C++ virtual methods.
310 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
311 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
312 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
313 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
314 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
316 Added wxCursorFromBits.
325 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
328 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
329 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
330 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
332 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
335 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
338 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
341 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
343 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
344 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
345 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
351 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
352 ------------------------------------------
354 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
355 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
356 think I am testing in the future...
360 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
361 ----------------------------------------------
363 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
365 Updated pycolourchooser.
367 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
373 Added missing wxRect methods
375 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
377 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
379 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
380 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
381 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
384 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
387 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
389 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
390 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
393 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
395 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
398 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
400 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
401 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
402 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
403 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
404 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
405 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
406 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
407 static stable in the C++ class.
409 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
410 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
411 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
412 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
415 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
416 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
417 always call them. The functions are:
419 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
420 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
421 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
422 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
423 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
424 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
425 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
426 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
427 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
428 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
429 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
430 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
432 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
433 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
435 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
436 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
437 doesn't have a standard place for them.
439 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
441 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
443 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
451 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
453 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
460 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
463 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
464 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
476 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
478 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
480 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
484 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
485 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
486 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
487 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
488 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
489 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
490 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
491 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
492 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
493 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
494 you can use to play with this new feature.
496 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
497 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
498 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
499 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
500 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
501 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
502 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
503 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
505 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
508 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
509 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
512 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
514 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
515 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
516 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
517 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
518 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
520 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
522 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
524 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
526 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
527 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
528 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
530 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
531 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
532 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
534 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
535 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
537 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
538 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
539 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
540 windows when desired.
542 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
543 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
544 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
551 Added wxSplashScreen.
553 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
555 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
557 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
558 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
559 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
561 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
562 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
563 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
565 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
566 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
567 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
569 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
570 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
571 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
572 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
573 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
576 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
580 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
581 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
584 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
585 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
586 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
587 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
588 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
589 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
590 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
592 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
593 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
594 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
595 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
596 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
597 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
598 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
599 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
600 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
601 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
602 unicode build on win95.
604 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
605 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
606 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
607 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
608 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
609 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
610 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
611 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
612 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
613 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
616 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
618 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
620 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
622 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
623 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
624 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
625 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
626 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
627 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
628 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
629 for any class that is OOR aware.
631 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
632 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
635 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
636 the image data. (Patch #546009)
638 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
641 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
642 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
643 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
656 TransferDataFromWindow
660 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
665 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
668 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
669 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
673 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
674 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
675 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
676 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
677 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
679 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
681 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
682 creating a ScrolledPanel.
684 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
687 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
688 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
689 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
690 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
692 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
693 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
694 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
695 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
696 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
698 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
699 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
700 respond to mouse events and etc.
702 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
703 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
705 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
706 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
707 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
708 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
709 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
710 started with just the "pycrust" command.
712 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
713 displays the details of the event.
715 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
717 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
718 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
721 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
723 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
730 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
731 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
732 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
734 Added some patches from library contributors.
740 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
741 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
742 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
743 and a demo to show them in action.
745 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
746 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
748 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
750 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
752 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
755 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
756 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
757 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
758 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
759 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
760 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
761 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
762 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
765 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
766 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
767 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
768 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
769 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
770 wxSTC flag accordingly.
772 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
773 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
774 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
776 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
778 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
780 Added pySketch to the samples.
782 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
783 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
784 multi-processor machine.
786 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
787 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
789 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
791 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
792 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
793 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
794 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
795 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
796 original C++ pointer.
798 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
801 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
803 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
804 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
806 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
807 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
808 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
809 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
810 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
815 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
817 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
818 will now Disconnect the event.
820 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
824 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
825 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
826 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
829 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
831 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
834 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
835 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
836 additional columns for each item. The classes are
837 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
838 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
839 also be useful by themselves.
841 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
842 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
843 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
844 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
845 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
846 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
854 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
855 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
856 on a custom event handler for example.)
858 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
859 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
861 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
862 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
864 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
866 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
868 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
870 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
876 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
877 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
879 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
880 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
883 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
885 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
886 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
889 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
890 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
891 access from non-GUI threads.
893 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
894 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
896 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
898 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
899 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
901 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
902 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
904 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
905 it gobs faster in certain situations.
907 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
908 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
909 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
910 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
911 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
912 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
913 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
914 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
915 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
918 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
919 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
922 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
923 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
925 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
927 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
929 Added wxToggleButton.
931 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
933 Added some methods to wxGrid:
934 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
935 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
936 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
937 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
939 GetGridRowLabelWindow
940 GetGridColLabelWindow
941 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
943 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
944 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
945 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
948 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
949 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
950 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
951 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
952 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
953 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
954 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
955 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
956 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
957 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
958 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
959 use weak references.)
961 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
962 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
963 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
964 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
965 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
966 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
967 object-type related oddities to me.
970 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
971 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
972 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
975 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
976 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
978 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
982 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
983 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
984 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
985 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
986 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
987 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
989 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
990 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
999 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
1000 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
1007 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1008 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
1009 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1010 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
1012 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
1014 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
1016 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1017 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
1019 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1020 column in report mode.
1022 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1023 bar after 2 seconds.
1027 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1028 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1029 object, (usually a window.)
1031 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
1033 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
1035 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1036 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
1037 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1038 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1039 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1040 wxPython/src/export.h
1042 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1043 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1044 utils. Will probably add more later.
1046 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1047 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
1050 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
1051 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
1053 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
1055 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1056 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
1058 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1059 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1067 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1068 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
1069 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
1070 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1071 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1072 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1073 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
1074 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1077 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1078 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
1079 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1080 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1081 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1082 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
1083 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1084 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
1085 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
1087 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1088 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
1090 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
1091 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1092 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
1095 Removed the old python sizers.
1097 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
1100 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
1101 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
1102 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
1104 Lots of little fixes here and there.
1106 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
1107 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
1108 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
1116 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
1118 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
1125 Added wxLog and friends.
1127 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
1129 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
1136 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1137 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1140 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
1142 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
1146 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
1148 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
1150 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
1152 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
1153 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
1154 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
1155 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
1156 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
1157 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
1158 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
1159 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
1181 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
1182 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
1184 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
1187 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
1188 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
1190 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
1192 Plugged a memory leak.
1194 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
1195 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
1196 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
1197 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
1200 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
1201 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
1202 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
1204 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
1205 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
1206 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
1207 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
1208 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
1209 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
1210 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
1211 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
1214 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
1215 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
1216 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
1217 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
1219 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
1220 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
1221 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
1222 but I've included a very readable source file in the
1223 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
1224 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
1225 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
1226 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
1227 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
1232 What's new in 2.1.13
1233 --------------------
1234 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
1236 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
1237 and some flicker problems.
1239 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
1240 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
1242 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
1245 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
1247 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
1249 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
1250 with wxWindow.GetParent.
1252 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
1253 It is used like this:
1255 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
1257 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
1258 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
1260 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
1262 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
1264 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
1265 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
1266 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
1267 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
1268 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
1269 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
1271 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
1272 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
1273 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
1274 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
1275 methods look like this:
1279 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
1282 shortHelpString = "",
1283 longHelpString = "")
1285 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
1287 shortHelpString = "",
1288 longHelpString = "",
1292 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1293 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
1295 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
1297 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
1299 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1300 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
1301 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
1303 Added some missing EVT functions.
1305 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1308 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
1310 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1311 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1312 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
1317 What's new in 2.1.11
1318 --------------------
1319 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1322 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1323 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1326 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1327 being added. This should remove the need for our
1328 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
1330 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1331 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
1332 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1333 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1334 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
1336 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
1338 Added new HTML printing classes.
1340 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
1342 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
1343 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1344 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1347 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1348 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1349 thread from other threads.
1351 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
1353 Added wxFontEnumerator.
1355 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
1357 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1358 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
1360 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
1362 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1365 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
1372 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1373 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
1379 --------------------
1381 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1382 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1383 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1384 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
1385 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1388 Now back to what's new...
1390 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
1392 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
1394 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
1395 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1396 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1397 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1398 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1401 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1402 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1405 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1406 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1407 example, the following are equivallent:
1409 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
1410 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
1412 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1413 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1414 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1415 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1416 pages. See the demo for an example.
1418 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1419 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
1421 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
1423 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1424 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
1425 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1426 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1427 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1428 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1429 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1430 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1431 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1432 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1433 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1436 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1437 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1438 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1439 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1440 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1441 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1442 for more info and examples in future releases.
1444 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1445 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1446 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1447 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1448 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1449 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1452 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1453 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1454 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1455 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1456 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1457 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1458 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1459 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1460 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1461 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1462 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
1464 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1465 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1466 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1467 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1468 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1469 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1470 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1471 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1472 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1473 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1474 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1475 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1476 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1477 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1478 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1479 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
1482 outputWindowClass = MyClass
1486 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1489 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1490 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1491 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1492 to really screw things up.
1494 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1495 in the wxWindows docs...
1497 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1498 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1499 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1500 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1501 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1502 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1503 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1510 --------------------
1512 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
1514 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
1515 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1516 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1517 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1520 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1521 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1522 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
1524 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
1526 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1527 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1528 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1529 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
1532 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1533 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1534 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1535 see distrib/build.py for more details.
1537 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1538 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1539 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1540 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
1547 --------------------
1549 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
1551 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1552 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1553 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1554 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1555 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
1557 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1558 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1559 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1560 is being unloaded by Python.
1562 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1563 make wxPython look bad.
1565 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1566 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
1568 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
1570 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1571 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
1573 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1574 code to show how to use it.
1576 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1579 Added wxGrid.GetCells
1581 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1582 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
1584 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1585 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
1587 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
1588 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
1590 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1591 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1592 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
1594 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1597 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
1599 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1602 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
1604 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
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1613 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1614 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1615 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
1617 Added the Printing Framework.
1619 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1620 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1621 data after loading each extension module.
1623 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1626 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1627 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1628 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
1630 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1631 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1632 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1633 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
1639 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
1641 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1642 wxPython application.
1644 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
1646 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1647 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1650 Added wxSafeYield function.
1652 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
1654 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1657 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1658 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
1660 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
1662 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1663 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
1665 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
1667 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1674 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
1676 Several missing methods from various classes.
1684 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
1686 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
1692 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1693 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
1698 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1699 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1700 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1701 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1702 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
1704 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1705 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1706 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1707 diverges from wxWindows.
1709 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1710 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1711 it should just work... More news on this later.
1713 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
1715 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1718 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
1724 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
1726 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1727 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
1733 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
1734 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
1735 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
1736 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
1738 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
1740 Made the events work for wxGrid.
1744 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
1746 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1747 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
1749 Other assorted fixes and additions.
1757 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1758 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1759 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
1760 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1761 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1762 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
1764 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1765 must have been a different issue all along...
1772 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1773 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1774 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1775 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1776 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1777 version segfault shortly after starting up.
1779 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
1781 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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