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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
6 ================================
7
8 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour
9 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
10 even compile)
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13
14
15 2.7.0
16 -----
17
18 All:
19
20 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
21 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation
22 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated. Use wxGetCwd() instead.
23 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
24 during a search and replace.
25 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
26 are both used in the same program.
27
28 All (GUI):
29
30 - Added wxTreeBook.
31 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers()
32 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
33 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
34 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
35 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
36 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
37 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
38 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
39 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
40 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
41 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
42 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
43 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
44 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
45 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap()
46 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
47 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
48 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler
49 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown()
50 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
51 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
52 by Sandro Sigala)
53 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
54 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
55 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning fixes for dimensions other than best size.
56 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
57
58 wxMSW:
59
60 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller)
61 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
62 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
63 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
64 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
65 - Removed __WIN95__ define
66 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
67 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
68 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
69 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
70 wxMSW faq for details).
71 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
72 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
73 to the link command.
74 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
75 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
76 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
77 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
78 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
79 show.
80
81 wxGTK:
82
83 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated
84 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support
85 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK
86 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
87 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
88 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
89 class was used.
90 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
91
92 wxMac:
93
94 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
95 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
96 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
97 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
98 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
99 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
100 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
101 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
102 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
103 - Corrected idle wake-up.
104 - Corrected wxExecute.
105 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
106 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
107 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
108 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
109 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
110 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
111 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
112 were found.
113 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
114 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
115 under Mach-O.
116 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
117 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
118 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
119 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
120 end of file with an error.
121
122 wxWinCE:
123
124 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
125 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
126 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
127 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
128 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
129 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
130 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
131 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
132 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
133
134 Unix:
135
136 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
137
138
139 2.6.2
140 -----
141
142 All:
143
144 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
145 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
146 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
147 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
148 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
149 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
150 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
151 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
152 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
153 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
154 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
155 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
156
157 All (GUI):
158
159 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
160 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
161 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
162 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
163 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
164 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
165 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
166 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
167 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
168 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
169 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
170 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
171
172 wxMSW:
173
174 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
175 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
176 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
177 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
178 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
179 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
180 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
181 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
182 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
183 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
184 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
185 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
186 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
187 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
188 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
189
190 wxGTK:
191
192 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
193 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
194 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
195 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
196 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
197 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
198 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
199 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
200 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
201 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
202 - Fixed domain socket handling.
203
204 wxMac:
205
206 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
207 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
208 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
209 - Various text control bug fixes.
210 - Automatic menu management improved.
211 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
212 due to dangling cycle pointers.
213 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
214 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
215 showing modally).
216
217 wxOS2
218
219 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
220
221 wxUniv:
222
223 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
224 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
225
226 wxMotif:
227
228 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
229 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
230 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
231 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
232 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
233 flag has been specified.
234 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
235 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
236 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
237 showing modally).
238
239 wxMGL:
240
241 - Fixed crash on exit.
242 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
243
244 wxX11:
245
246 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
247
248
249 2.6.1
250 -----
251
252 All:
253
254 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
255 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
256
257 All (GUI):
258
259 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
260 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
261 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
262 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
263 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
264 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
265 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
266 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
267 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
268 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
269
270 wxMSW:
271
272 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
273 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
274 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
275 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
276 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
277 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
278 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
279 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
280 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
281 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
282 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
283 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
284 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
285 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
286 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
287 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
288 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
289 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
290 - Compiles again with WIN64.
291 - Winelib compilation now works.
292 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
293 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
294 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
295 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
296 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
297 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
298 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
299 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
300 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
301 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
302 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
303 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
304 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
305
306 wxWinCE:
307
308 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
309
310 wxGTK:
311
312 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
313 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
314 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
315 - Added bitmap support in menus.
316
317 wxMac:
318
319 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
320 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
321 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
322 incorrect state.
323 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
324 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
325 - Window menu now added automatically.
326 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
327 - Modified function key support fixed.
328 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
329
330 wxX11:
331
332 - Menu problems fixed.
333 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
334 - Fixed a font memory leak.
335 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
336
337
338 2.6.0
339 -----
340
341 All:
342
343 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
344 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
345
346 All (GUI):
347
348 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
349 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
350
351 wxMSW:
352
353 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
354 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
355 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
356
357 wxWinCE:
358
359 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
360
361 wxGTK:
362 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
363 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
364 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
365 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
366 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
367 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
368 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
369
370 wxMac:
371 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
372
373 2.5.5
374 -----
375
376 All:
377
378 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
379 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
380 - Added wxDebugReport class.
381 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
382 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
383 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
384 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
385 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
386 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
387
388 All (GUI):
389
390 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
391 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
392 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
393 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
394 the whole virtual area.
395 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
396 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
397 isn't used to set the window size.
398 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
399 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
400 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
401 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
402
403 Unix:
404
405 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
406
407 wxMSW:
408
409 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
410 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
411 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
412 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
413 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
414 handling (Jamie Gadd).
415
416 wxGTK:
417
418 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
419 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
420 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
421 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
422 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
423 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
424 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
425 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
426
427 wxMac:
428
429 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
430
431 wxPalmOS:
432
433 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
434
435 wxWinCE:
436
437 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
438 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
439 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
440 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
441 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
442 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
443 with correct titlebar style.
444 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
445 PocketPC guidelines
446 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
447 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
448 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
449 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
450 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
451 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
452 to the dialog's toolbar.
453
454 2.5.4
455 -----
456
457 All:
458
459 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
460 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
461 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
462 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
463 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
464 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
465 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
466 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
467 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
468 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
469 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
470 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
471 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
472 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
473 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
474 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
475 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
476 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
477 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
478 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
479 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
480 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
481 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
482 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
483 printing stuff in the GTK port.
484 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
485 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
486 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
487 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
488 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
489 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
490 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
491 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
492 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
493 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
494 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
495 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
496 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
497 due to a rounding error.
498 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
499 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
500 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
501 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
502 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
503 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
504 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
505 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
506
507
508 All (GUI):
509
510 - added wxMediaCtrl
511 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
512 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
513 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
514 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
515 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
516 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
517 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
518 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
519 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
520 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
521 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
522 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
523 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
524 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
525 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
526 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
527 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
528
529 Unix:
530
531 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
532
533 wxGTK:
534
535 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
536 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
537 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
538 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
539 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
540 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
541 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
542 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
543 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
544 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
545 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
546 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
547 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
548 errors otherwise.
549 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
550 - Added wxRawBitmap support
551 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
552 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
553 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
554
555 wxMac:
556
557 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
558 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
559 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
560 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
561
562 wxMSW:
563
564 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
565 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
566 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
567 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
568 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
569
570 wxWinCE:
571 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
572 but not mentioned anywhere.
573 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
574
575 wxUniv:
576
577 - wxBU_... button align flags support
578 - vertical notebook orientation support
579 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
580 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
581
582 wxPalmOS:
583
584 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
585 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
586 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
587 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
588 - enumeration of available volumes
589 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
590 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
591 - native wxColourDialog implementation
592 - native wxSystemSettings colours
593 - native wxButton implementation
594 - native wxCheckBox implementation
595 - native wxSlider implementation
596 - native wxToggleButton implementation
597 - native wxRadioButton implementation
598 - native wxStaticText implementation
599 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
600
601
602 2.5.3
603 -----
604
605 All:
606
607 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
608 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
609 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
610 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
611 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
612 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
613 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
614 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
615 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
616 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
617 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
618 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
619 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
620 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
621 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
622 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
623
624 All (GUI):
625
626 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
627 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
628 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
629 is discouraged
630 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
631 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
632 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
633 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
634 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
635 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
636 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
637 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
638 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
639 - added samples/splash
640 - added support for stock buttons
641 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
642 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
643 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
644 - added wxChoicebook control
645 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
646 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
647 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
648 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
649 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
650 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
651 supported, instead of zero.
652 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
653
654 Unix:
655
656 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
657 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
658 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
659 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
660 - wx-config has new --version-full option
661
662 wxCocoa:
663
664 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
665 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
666 - Tooltips now supported
667 - wxSound now supported
668 - wxDisplay now supported
669 - Some stock cursors now supported
670
671 wxMac:
672
673 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
674 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
675 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
676 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
677
678 wxGTK:
679
680 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
681 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
682 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
683 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
684 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
685 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
686 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
687 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
688 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
689 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
690 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
691 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
692 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
693 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
694 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
695 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
696 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
697 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
698 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
699
700 wxMotif:
701
702 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
703
704 wxMSW:
705
706 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
707 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
708 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
709 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
710 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
711 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
712 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
713 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
714 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
715 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
716 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
717 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
718 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
719 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
720
721 wxUniv/X11:
722
723 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
724
725 wxWinCE:
726
727 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
728 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
729 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
730 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
731
732 wxHTML:
733
734 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
735 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
736
737
738 2.5.2
739 -----
740
741 All:
742
743 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
744 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
745 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
746 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
747 of run-time) now
748 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
749 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
750 to forward declare these classes.
751
752 All (GUI):
753
754 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
755 resulting in much better display of scaled images
756 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
757 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
758 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
759 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
760 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
761 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
762 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
763 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
764 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
765 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
766 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
767 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
768 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
769
770 wxMSW:
771
772 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
773 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
774 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
775 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
776 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
777 even try to do it by default -- now it does
778 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
779 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
780 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
781 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
782 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
783 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
784
785 wxGTK:
786
787 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
788
789 wxMotif:
790
791 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
792 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
793 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
794 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
795
796 wxUniv/X11:
797
798 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
799
800 wxHTML:
801
802 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
803 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
804
805 Unix:
806
807 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
808 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
809
810 wxODBC:
811
812 - Full Unicode support is now available
813 - BLOB support is working
814
815
816 2.5.1
817 -----
818
819 All:
820
821 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
822 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
823 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
824 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
825 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
826 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
827 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
828 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
829 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
830 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
831 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
832 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
833 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
834 (as in 2.5.0).
835 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
836 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
837 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
838 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
839 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
840 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
841 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
842 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
843 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
844 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
845 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
846 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
847
848 All (GUI):
849
850 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
851 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
852 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
853 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
854 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
855 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
856 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
857 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
858 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
859 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
860 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
861 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
862 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
863 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
864 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
865 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
866 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
867 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
868 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
869 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
870 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
871 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
872 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
873 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
874 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
875 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
876
877 wxMSW:
878
879 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
880 - fixed DDE memory leaks
881 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
882 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
883 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
884 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
885 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
886 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
887 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
888 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
889 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
890 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
891 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
892 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
893 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
894 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
895 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
896 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
897 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
898 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
899 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
900 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
901 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
902 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
903 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
904 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
905 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
906 than the specified default size
907 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
908
909 wxGTK:
910
911 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
912 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
913 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
914 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
915 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
916 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
917 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
918 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
919 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
920
921 wxMac:
922
923 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
924 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
925 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
926 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
927
928 wxMotif:
929
930 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
931
932 wxHTML:
933
934 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
935 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
936
937 Unix:
938
939 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
940 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
941 addition to existing OSS one
942 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
943
944
945 2.5.0
946 -----
947
948 All:
949
950 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
951 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
952 separately compiled library
953 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
954 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
955 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
956 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
957 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
958 - added wxArray::SetCount()
959 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
960 by default in Unicode mode
961 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
962 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
963 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
964 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
965 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
966 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
967 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
968 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
969 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
970 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
971 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
972 - added wxRecursionGuard class
973 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
974 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
975 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
976 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
977 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
978 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
979 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
980 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
981
982 wxBase:
983
984 - added Watcom makefiles
985 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
986
987 All GUI ports:
988
989 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
990 - added wxListbook control
991 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
992 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
993 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
994 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
995 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
996 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
997 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
998 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
999 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1000 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1001 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1002 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1003 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1004 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1005 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1006 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1007 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1008 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1009 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1010 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1011 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1012 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1013 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1014 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1015 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1016 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1017 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1018 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1019 default extension for the template
1020 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1021 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1022 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1023 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1024 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1025 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1026 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1027 to allow better rich text support.
1028 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1029 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1030 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1031 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1032 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1033 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1034 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1035 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1036 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1037 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1038 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1039 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1040 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1041 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1042 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1043 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1044 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1045 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1046 - added wxMirrorDC class
1047 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1048 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1049 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1050 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1051 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1052 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1053 improved
1054
1055 Unix:
1056
1057 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1058 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1059 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1060 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1061 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1062
1063 Generic controls:
1064
1065 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1066 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1067 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1068 to contrib/src/deprecated
1069
1070 wxGTK:
1071
1072 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1073 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1074 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1075 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1076 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1077 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1078 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1079 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1080 be appended to filenames with no extension
1081 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1082 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1083 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1084 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1085
1086 wxMac:
1087
1088 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1089 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1090
1091 wxMSW:
1092
1093 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1094 - added wxCrashReport
1095 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1096 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1097 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1098 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1099 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1100 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1101 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1102 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1103 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1104 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1105 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1106 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1107 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1108 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1109 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1110 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1111 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1112 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1113 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1114 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1115 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1116 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1117 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1118 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1119 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1120
1121 wxMotif:
1122
1123 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1124 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1125 documentation for a detailed explanation
1126 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1127 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1128 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1129 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1130 - implemented wxToggleButton
1131 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1132 instead of a sunken border
1133 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1134 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1135
1136 wxUniv:
1137
1138 - controls in toolbars now supported
1139
1140 wxHTML:
1141
1142 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1143 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1144 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1145 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1146 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1147
1148
1149 OLD CHANGES
1150 ===========
1151
1152 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1153 ================================
1154
1155 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1156 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1157 with '!' in the first column.
1158
1159 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1160 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1161 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1162 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1163 2.6 release.
1164
1165 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1166 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1167 (see the documentation) useful.
1168
1169
1170 wxBase:
1171
1172 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1173 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1174 code.
1175
1176 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1177 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1178 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1179 arrays containing non-pointers.
1180
1181 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1182 simply don't make sense for all objects
1183
1184 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1185 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1186 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1187
1188 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1189
1190 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1191 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1192 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1193 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1194 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1195
1196 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1197 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1198 the default assert handling.
1199
1200 All (GUI):
1201
1202 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1203 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1204 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1205
1206 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1207 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1208 instead!
1209
1210 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1211 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1212 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1213
1214 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1215 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1216 you want to get OnChar() as well
1217
1218 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1219 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1220 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1221
1222 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1223 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1224 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1225 will *NOT* work any longer:
1226
1227 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1228 ... do something ...
1229 if ( flags & wxYES )
1230 ... do something else ...
1231
1232 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1233 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1234 the ctor
1235
1236 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1237
1238 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1239 if you derived any classes from it
1240
1241 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1242 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1243
1244 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1245 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1246
1247 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1248 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1249
1250 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1251 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1252 from happening
1253
1254 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1255 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1256 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1257
1258 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1259 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1260 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1261 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1262
1263 wxMSW:
1264
1265 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1266 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1267 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1268 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1269 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1270 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1271 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1272 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1273 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1274 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1275
1276 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1277 style to avoid it
1278
1279 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1280 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1281
1282 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1283 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1284 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1285
1286 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1287 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1288
1289
1290 Unix ports:
1291
1292 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1293 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1294 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1295 to compile pure C files.
1296
1297
1298 wxThread and related classes:
1299
1300 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1301 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1302 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1303 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1304
1305 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1306 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1307 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1308 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1309
1310 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1311 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1312 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1313
1314 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1315 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1316
1317
1318 OTHER CHANGES
1319 =============
1320
1321 2.4.0
1322 -----
1323
1324 wxMSW:
1325
1326 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1327
1328 2.3.4
1329 -----
1330
1331 All:
1332
1333 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1334 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1335 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1336
1337 Unix (Base/GUI):
1338
1339 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1340 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1341 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1342
1343 wxGTK:
1344 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1345 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1346
1347 wxX11:
1348 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1349
1350 wxMSW:
1351
1352 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1353 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1354
1355 wxHTML:
1356
1357 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1358
1359 2.3.3
1360 -----
1361
1362 wxBase:
1363
1364 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1365 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1366 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1367 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1368 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1369 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1370 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1371 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1372 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1373 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1374 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1375 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1376 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1377 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1378 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1379 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1380
1381 Unix (Base/GUI):
1382
1383 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1384 programs and not only GNU make
1385 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1386 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1387 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1388 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1389 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1390
1391 All (GUI):
1392
1393 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1394 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1395 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1396 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1397 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1398 wxWidgets dialogs
1399 - significantly improved native font support
1400 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1401 wxHashTable
1402 - added IFF image handler
1403 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1404 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1405 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1406 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1407 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1408 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1409 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1410 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1411 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1412 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1413 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1414 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1415 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1416 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1417 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1418 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1419 - wxMessageOutput class added
1420 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1421 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1422 table fills up
1423 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1424 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1425 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1426 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1427 (Rene Rivera).
1428 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1429 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1430 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1431
1432 wxMSW:
1433
1434 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1435 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1436 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1437 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1438 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1439 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1440 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1441 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1442 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1443 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1444 are changed
1445 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1446 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1447 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1448 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1449 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1450 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1451 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1452 recursion any more
1453 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1454 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1455 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1456 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1457 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1458 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1459 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1460 has the capture before release it.
1461 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1462 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1463 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1464 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1465 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1466 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1467 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1468 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1469 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1470 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1471 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1472 provided in wxFontData
1473 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1474 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1475
1476 wxGTK:
1477
1478 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1479 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1480 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1481 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1482 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1483 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1484 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1485 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1486 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1487 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1488 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1489 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1490 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1491
1492 wxMotif:
1493
1494 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1495 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1496 - improved toolbar control alignment
1497 - implemented wxSpinButton
1498 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1499 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1500 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1501
1502 wxX11:
1503
1504 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1505 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1506
1507 wxMac:
1508
1509 - Many improvements
1510
1511 wxOS2:
1512
1513 - First alpha-quality release
1514
1515 wxHTML:
1516
1517 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1518 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1519 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1520 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1521 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1522
1523 2.3.2
1524 -----
1525
1526 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1527
1528 wxBase:
1529
1530 - wxRegEx class added
1531 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1532 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1533 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1534 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1535 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1536
1537 All (GUI):
1538
1539 - support for virtual list control added
1540 - column images in report mode of the list control
1541 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1542 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1543 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1544 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1545 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1546 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1547 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1548 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1549 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1550 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1551 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1552 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1553
1554 wxMSW:
1555
1556 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1557 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1558 project files
1559
1560 wxGTK:
1561
1562 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1563 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1564 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1565 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1566
1567 wxMac:
1568
1569 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1570 Tools
1571
1572 wxHTML:
1573
1574 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1575 to tags parsing
1576 - added support for animated GIFs
1577
1578 2.3.1
1579 -----
1580
1581 wxBase:
1582
1583 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
1584 - Fixed new charset detection code
1585 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1586 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1587 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1588 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1589 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1590 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1591
1592 All (GUI):
1593
1594 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1595 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1596 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1597 push on a custom event handler for example)
1598 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1599 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1600 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1601 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1602 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1603 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1604 first-time saved
1605 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1606 - Various wxXML enhancements
1607 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1608 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1609 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1610 instead of GetId()
1611 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1612 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1613
1614 wxMSW:
1615
1616 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1617 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1618 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1619 alt or shift) now work
1620 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1621 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1622 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1623 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1624 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1625 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1626 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1627 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1628 - We now send iconize events
1629 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1630 - Added mousewheel processing
1631 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1632 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1633 in wxDC
1634 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1635 child frame styles are honoured
1636
1637 wxGTK:
1638
1639 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1640 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1641 - We now send iconize events
1642 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1643 GetSelection() results
1644
1645 2.3.0
1646 -----
1647
1648 wxBase:
1649
1650 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1651 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1652 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1653 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1654 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1655 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1656 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1657 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1658 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1659 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1660
1661 All (GUI):
1662
1663 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1664 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1665 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1666 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1667 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1668 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1669 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1670 wxImage methods and ctor)
1671 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1672 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1673 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1674 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1675 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1676 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1677
1678 wxMSW:
1679
1680 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1681 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1682 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1683 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1684
1685 wxGTK:
1686
1687 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1688
1689 wxHTML:
1690
1691 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1692 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1693
1694 2.2.0
1695 -----
1696
1697 wxBase:
1698
1699 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1700 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1701 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1702 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1703 - Completed Czech translations
1704 - Some stream corrections
1705 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1706 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1707 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1708 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1709
1710 All (GUI):
1711
1712 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1713 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1714 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1715 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1716 - Paper names now translated
1717 - wxGrid fixes
1718 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1719 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1720 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1721 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1722 File dialog.
1723 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1724 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1725 writing code
1726 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1727 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1728 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1729 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1730
1731 wxMSW:
1732
1733 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1734 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1735 backward compatibility, please set
1736 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1737 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1738 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1739 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1740 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1741 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1742 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1743 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1744 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1745 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1746 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1747 - wxFrame restores focus better
1748 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1749 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1750 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1751 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1752 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1753 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1754 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1755 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1756 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1757 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1758
1759 wxGTK:
1760
1761 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1762
1763 wxMotif:
1764
1765 - Small compilation fixes
1766
1767 Documentation:
1768
1769 - wxCaret documented
1770
1771 2.1.16
1772 ------
1773
1774 wxBase:
1775
1776 All (GUI):
1777
1778 wxMSW:
1779
1780 - Various bug fixes
1781 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1782 files. This works under VC++ only
1783 - Modal dialog handling improved
1784 - Printer dialog now modal
1785
1786 wxGTK:
1787
1788 - Various bug fixes
1789
1790 wxMotif:
1791
1792 - Various bug fixes
1793
1794 2.1.15
1795 ------
1796
1797 Documentation:
1798
1799 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1800
1801 File hierarchy:
1802
1803 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1804 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1805
1806 wxBase:
1807
1808 - wxSocket support
1809 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1810 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1811 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1812 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1813 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1814 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1815 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1816 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1817 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1818 only so far)
1819 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1820 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1821 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1822 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1823 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1824 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1825 is available)
1826 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1827
1828 all (GUI):
1829
1830 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1831 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1832 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1833 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1834 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1835 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1836 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1837 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1838 John Norris)
1839 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1840 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1841 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1842 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1843 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1844 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1845 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1846 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1847 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1848 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1849 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1850 - wxDragImage class added
1851 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1852 controllers, as well as native help
1853 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1854
1855 wxMSW:
1856
1857 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1858 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1859 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1860 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1861 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1862 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1863 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1864 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1865 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1866 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1867 Unix ports
1868 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1869 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1870 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1871
1872 wxGTK:
1873
1874 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1875 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1876 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1877
1878 wxMotif:
1879
1880 - wxMenu::Enable works
1881 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1882 - OGL samples made to work again
1883
1884 wxHTML:
1885
1886 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1887 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1888 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1889 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1890 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1891 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1892 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1893 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1894 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1895 - improved HTML printing
1896 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
1897 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1898 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1899 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1900
1901
1902 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1903 change log.
1904
1905 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1906 -----------------------
1907
1908 wxGTK:
1909
1910 - JPEG support added.
1911 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1912
1913 wxMSW:
1914
1915 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1916 SetTabSize added.
1917 - JPEG support added.
1918 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1919 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1920 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1921
1922 wxMotif:
1923
1924
1925 General:
1926
1927 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1928
1929
1930 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1931 -------------------------------
1932
1933 wxGTK:
1934
1935 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
1936 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1937
1938 wxMSW:
1939
1940 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1941 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1942 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1943 - Some makefile fixes.
1944
1945 wxMotif:
1946
1947 - None.
1948
1949 General:
1950
1951 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1952 - More topic overviews.
1953 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1954 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1955 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1956
1957
1958 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1959 --------------------------
1960
1961 wxGTK:
1962
1963 - wxExecute improved.
1964
1965 wxMSW:
1966
1967 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1968 expected).
1969 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1970 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1971 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1972 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1973 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1974 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1975
1976 wxMotif:
1977
1978 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1979 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1980
1981 General:
1982
1983 - wxLocale documented.
1984 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1985 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1986 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1987 (though doesn't display help yet).
1988
1989 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1990 --------------------------
1991
1992 wxGTK:
1993
1994 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1995
1996 wxMSW:
1997
1998 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1999 rationalised.
2000 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2001
2002 wxMotif:
2003
2004 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2005 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2006 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2007 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2008 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2009 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2010 crashes for some reason).
2011 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2012 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2013
2014 General:
2015
2016 - Further doc improvements.
2017 - wxGenericValidator added.
2018 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2019 automatically.
2020
2021 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2022 -------------------------
2023
2024 wxGTK:
2025
2026 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2027 - wxToolTip class added.
2028 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2029
2030 wxMSW:
2031
2032 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2033 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2034 - TWIN32 support added.
2035 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2036 factored out program/library settings.
2037 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2038
2039 wxMotif:
2040
2041 - A few more colour fixes.
2042 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2043 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2044 - wxChoice crash fix.
2045 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2046
2047 General:
2048
2049 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2050 - Added samples/dde.
2051 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2052
2053 Beta 2, January 1999
2054 --------------------
2055
2056 wxGTK:
2057
2058 wxMSW:
2059
2060 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2061
2062 wxMotif:
2063
2064 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2065 the right place.
2066 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2067 - Added thread support (Robert).
2068 - wxPoem sample now works.
2069
2070 General:
2071
2072 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2073 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2074 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2075 or below).
2076 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2077 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2078 sample.
2079 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2080
2081 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2082 --------------------------
2083
2084 wxGTK:
2085
2086 - Various
2087
2088 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2089
2090
2091 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2092 ----------------------------
2093
2094 wxMSW:
2095
2096 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2097 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2098 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2099 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2100 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2101 on a tab.
2102 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2103 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2104 of Stefan Csomor.
2105
2106 wxMotif:
2107
2108 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2109 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2110 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2111 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2112 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2113 colours correctly.
2114 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2115 when any button was pressed.
2116 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2117 have a white background.
2118 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2119 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2120 they have sensible colours by default.
2121 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2122 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2123 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2124 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2125 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2126
2127 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2128 ----------------------------
2129
2130 wxMSW:
2131
2132 - More documentation updates, especially for
2133 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2134 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2135 of wxTrace.
2136 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2137 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2138 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2139 position.
2140 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2141
2142 wxMotif:
2143
2144 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2145 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2146 child frames).
2147 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2148 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2149 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2150 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2151 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2152 the debugging implementation.
2153 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2154 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2155 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2156 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2157 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2158 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2159 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2160
2161 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2162
2163 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2164 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2165 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2166 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2167 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2168 - wxNotebook almost done.
2169 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2170 to vertical toolbars).
2171
2172 More recently:
2173
2174 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2175 to scrollbars).
2176 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2177 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2178 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2179
2180 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2181 ----------------------------
2182
2183 wxMSW:
2184
2185 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2186 sample.
2187 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2188 - A few more makefiles added.
2189 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2190 - Further doc updates.
2191 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2192
2193 wxMotif:
2194
2195 - First start at Motif port.
2196 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2197 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2198 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2199 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2200
2201 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2202 --------------------------
2203
2204 wxMSW:
2205
2206 - wxBitmap debugged.
2207 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2208 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2209 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2210 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2211 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2212 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2213 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2214
2215 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2216 ------------------------
2217
2218 wxMSW:
2219
2220 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2221 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2222 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2223 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2224 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2225 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2226 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2227 changes, wxNotebook.
2228 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2229
2230 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2231 -----------------------
2232
2233 wxMSW:
2234
2235 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2236 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2237 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2238 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2239 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2240 don't support it.
2241 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2242 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2243
2244 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2245 -----------------------
2246
2247 wxMSW:
2248
2249 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2250 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2251
2252 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2253 -----------------------
2254
2255 wxMSW:
2256
2257 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2258 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2259 wxMenuBar.
2260 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2261 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2262 wxMenuItem accessors.
2263 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2264 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2265 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2266 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2267 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2268 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2269 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2270 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2271 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2272 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2273 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2274 first, then doing the assignment.
2275 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2276 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2277
2278 Generic:
2279
2280 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2281 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2282
2283 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2284 ----------------------
2285
2286 wxMSW:
2287
2288 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2289 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2290 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2291 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2292 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2293 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2294 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2295 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2296 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2297
2298 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2299 ------------------------
2300
2301 wxMSW:
2302
2303 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2304 fields were used.
2305 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2306 compilation and pragmas.
2307 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2308 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2309
2310 Generic:
2311
2312 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2313 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2314 compilation and pragmas.
2315 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2316
2317 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2318 ------------------------
2319
2320 wxMSW:
2321
2322 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2323 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2324 some reason :-(
2325 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2326 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2327 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2328 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2329 startup/exit.
2330 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2331 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2332 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2333 VADIM'S CHANGES:
2334 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2335 compatibility functions.
2336 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2337 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2338 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2339 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2340 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2341 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2342 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2343
2344 Generic:
2345
2346 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2347 - Added samples/png.
2348 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2349 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2350 header files.
2351 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2352
2353 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2354 ------------------------
2355
2356 wxMSW:
2357
2358 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2359 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2360 cleaned up properly before exit.
2361 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2362 automatically.
2363 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2364 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2365 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2366 unresolved issues.
2367 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2368 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2369 tray area.
2370 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2371 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2372 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2373 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2374
2375 Generic:
2376
2377 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2378 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2379 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2380 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2381 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2382 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2383 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2384 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2385 allow better control of memory.
2386 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2387 checking.
2388 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2389 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2390
2391 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2392 ------------------------
2393
2394 wxMSW:
2395
2396 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2397 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2398 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2399 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2400 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2401 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2402 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2403 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2404 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2405 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2406 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2407 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2408 IUnknown.
2409 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2410 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2411 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2412 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2413 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2414 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2415 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2416 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2417 internal implementation.
2418 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2419 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2420 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2421
2422 Generic:
2423
2424 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2425 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2426 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2427 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2428 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2429
2430 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2431 --------------------------
2432
2433 wxMSW:
2434
2435 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2436 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2437 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2438 changes.
2439 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2440 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2441 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2442 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2443 again.
2444 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2445 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2446 e.g. wxDC.
2447
2448 Generic:
2449
2450 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2451 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2452 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2453 changes.
2454 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2455 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2456 docs/gtk.
2457 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2458 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2459 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2460 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2461 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2462 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2463 - Added gcc pragmas.
2464 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2465 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2466 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2467 added a few references to wxTransString.
2468 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2469 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2470 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2471 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2472 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2473 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2474 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2475 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2476 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2477 MoreRequested.
2478
2479 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2480 --------------------------
2481
2482 All:
2483
2484 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2485 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2486 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2487 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2488 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2489 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2490 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2491 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2492 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2493 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2494 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2495 scrolling toolbars.
2496 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2497 to help printing with multiple pages.
2498 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2499 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2500 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2501 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2502 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2503 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2504 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2505 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2506 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2507 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2508 New files from Vadim:
2509 include\wx\string.h
2510 include\wx\debug.h
2511 include\wx\file.h
2512 include\wx\log.h
2513 include\wx\intl.h
2514 src\common\string.cpp
2515 src\common\log.cpp
2516 src\common\intl.cpp
2517 src\common\file.cpp
2518 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2519 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2520 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2521 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2522 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2523 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2524 including changes to defs.h.
2525 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2526 introduced.
2527 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2528 hidden).
2529 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2530 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2531 trick).
2532 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2533
2534 Alpha 3, September 1997
2535 -----------------------
2536
2537 All:
2538
2539 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2540 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2541 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2542 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2543 - Started documentation.
2544
2545 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2546 ------------------------
2547
2548 All:
2549
2550 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2551 with MetroWerks compiler.
2552 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2553 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2554 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2555 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2556 for testing purposes.
2557 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2558 handlers.
2559 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2560 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2561 fully).
2562 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2563 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2564 a separate file.
2565
2566 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2567 -----------------------
2568
2569 Generic:
2570
2571 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2572
2573 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2574 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2575 wxString instead of char *.
2576 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2577 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2578 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2579 as wxbWindow now removed.
2580 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2581 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2582 - PrologIO revised.
2583 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2584 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2585 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2586 Windows settings.
2587 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2588 settings mucho rationalised.
2589 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2590 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2591 classes removed.
2592 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2593 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2594 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2595 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2596 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2597 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2598 of event handlers.
2599 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2600 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2601 wxToolBarBase
2602 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2603 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2604 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2605 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2606 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2607 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2608 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2609 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2610 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2611 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2612 in the future.
2613 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2614 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2615 variables instead.
2616 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2617 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2618 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2619 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2620 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2621 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2622 Win95.
2623 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2624 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2625 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2626 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2627 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2628 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).