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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
6 ================================
7
8
9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
12
13
14 Unicode-related changes
15 -----------------------
16
17 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
18 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
19 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
20 changes:
21
22 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
23 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
24 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
25 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
26 backwards compatible except:
27
28 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
29 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
30 base class version.
31
32 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
33 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
34 should be replaced with an empty string.
35
36 - Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
37 return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
38 *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
39 the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
40 you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
41 explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
42 A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
43 with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
44 indicate the parsing success.
45
46 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
47 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
48 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
49 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
50
51 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
52 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
53 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
54 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
55 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
56 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
57 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
58
59
60 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
61 ------------------------------------
62
63 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
64 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
65 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
66
67 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
68 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
69 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
70 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
71 open for futher development by volunteers.
72
73 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
74 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
75
76
77 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
78 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
79
80 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
81 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
82
83 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
84 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
85 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
86
87 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
88 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
89 instead.
90
91 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
92 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
93 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
94 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
95 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
96 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
97
98 - Interpretation of font height in pixels parameter has changed in wxFont
99 ctor and SetPixelSize() in wxMSW: it is now used as character height and not
100 the total cell height. If you previously used negative height to explicitly
101 request character height matching, you may now change your code to use
102 positive value (passing negative height still works but is undocumented and
103 deprecated). If you used positive height before you should retest your code
104 to check if the changes correspond to your expectations. And if you do need
105 the old behaviour please contact us at wx-dev to let us know about it!
106
107 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
108 your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
109
110 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
111 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
112 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
113 you need the extra features.
114
115 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
116 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
117 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
118 derived classes to use const reference as well.
119
120 - Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
121 Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
122
123 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
124
125 - If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
126 GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
127 more details.
128
129 - Processing of pending events now requires a running event loop.
130 Thus initialization code (e.g. showing a dialog) previously done in wxApp::OnRun()
131 or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
132 See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
133
134 - wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only.
135
136 - Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is
137 changed. See the updated wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle() description in the
138 manual for more details.
139
140 - wxTreeCtrl::GetSelection now asserts if the tree has the wxTR_MULTIPLE style.
141 Instead use GetSelections() for multiple items; or if you want only the
142 single item last touched, the new wxTreeCtrl::GetFocusedItem.
143
144 - Custom log targets should be updated to override wxLog::DoLogRecord() method
145 instead of DoLog() or DoLogString() and must be updated if they call the base
146 class versions of these functions as this won't work any more; please see the
147 documentation of wxLog for more information.
148
149 - Confusing wxGridSizer(int cols, int vgap = 0, int hgap = 0) ctor which was
150 easy to mistake for wxGridSizer(int rows, int cols) overload was removed, you
151 will need to specify both vertical and horizontal gap if you want to use this
152 overload or specify both rows and columns and the gap otherwise. Use of the
153 new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
154 applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
155
156 - wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
157 and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
158 most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
159 space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
160
161 - wxTextCtrl::LoadFile no longer sends a text update event.
162
163 - wxXmlDocument::Save()'s indentstep argument's interpretation was fixed
164 to match the documentation: it now really is the number of spaces in
165 indentation instead of being its double. Its default value was changed
166 accordingly, to 2.
167
168 - wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING flag has no effect now, catalogs are converted
169 regardless of whether the flag was specified or not. This only affects
170 legacy ANSI builds.
171
172 - wxNotebook::GetSelection() returns the new page index when called from
173 wxEVT_COMMAND_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED event handler in wxMSW, not the old one.
174 The new behaviour is consistent with wxGTK and more logical but different
175 from the previous versions. Using wxNotebookEvent::GetSelection() instead of
176 querying the notebook selection avoids the problem and is recommended.
177
178
179 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
180 -----------------------------------------------------------
181
182 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
183 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
184
185 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
186 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
187 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
188
189 - wxWindow::ProcessEvent() (and other wxEvtHandler methods inherited by wxWindow)
190 has been made protected to prevent wrongly using it instead of correct
191 GetEventHandler()->ProcessEvent().
192 New ProcessWindowEvent() was added for convenience.
193
194 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
195 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
196 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
197 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
198
199 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
200 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
201 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
202 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
203 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
204
205 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
206 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
207 this won't compile:
208 switch (str[i]) { ... }
209 and has to be replaced with this:
210 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
211
212 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
213 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
214 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
215 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
216
217 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
218 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
219 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
220 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
221 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
222
223 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
224 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
225 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
226 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
227
228 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
229 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
230 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
231 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
232
233 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
234 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
235
236 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
237 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
238 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
239 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
240 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
241 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
242
243 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
244
245 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
246 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
247 must be used instead.
248
249 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
250 with void pointers.
251
252 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
253
254 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
255 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
256
257 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
258 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
259 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
260
261 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
262 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
263 necessarily allocated consecutively now. Use GetChildren() to find the
264 next/previous control sibling instead.
265
266 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
267 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
268 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
269
270 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
271 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
272 wxBitmapType in your code.
273
274 - wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
275 functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
276 of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
277 written now.
278
279 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
280 be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
281
282 - wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
283 its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
284 to it under 64 bit platforms too).
285
286 - Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
287 You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
288 locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
289
290 - wxBitmapButton::GetBitmapXXX() overloads returning non-const wxBitmap
291 references have been removed, modifying the returned bitmaps never worked and
292 now results in compile-time error.
293
294 - wxLogXXX() are now macros, not functions. Because of this calling them with
295 an explicit scope resolution operator ("::wxLogError()") doesn't work any
296 longer, just remove it. Also notice that using them inside an "if" statement
297 without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
298 add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
299
300 - wxList::Member() now returns book and not a pointer/iterator. This shouldn't
301 require any changes as it was always meant to be used for checking for the
302 presence of an element in the list only. If you used it as Find(), simple do
303 use Find() instead.
304
305 - wxLongLongFmtSpec is now a normal and not wide string so you will need to
306 change expressions of the form wxT("%") wxLongLongFmtSpec wxT("x") to
307 just "%" wxLongLongFmtSpec "x", i.e. simply remove wxT() from the strings you
308 concatenate with it.
309
310
311 Deprecated methods and their replacements
312 -----------------------------------------
313
314 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
315 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
316 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
317 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
318 specified so this style should simply be removed
319 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
320 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
321 to use
322 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
323 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
324 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
325 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
326 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
327 - Various wxMenuItem methods were deprecated in favour of more consisently
328 named new versions:
329 . GetLabel() is now GetItemLabelText()
330 . GetText() is not GetItemLabel()
331 . GetLabelFromText() is now GetLabelText()
332 . SetText() is now SetItemLabel()
333 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen
334 ctor now take respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a
335 plain "int style"; use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX
336 and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead of the old deprecated wxXXX styles.
337 - EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE was deprecated, use EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED instead if you
338 don't veto the event in its handler and EVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING if you do.
339 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
340 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
341 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
342 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
343 There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
344 not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
345 - wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
346 different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
347 passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
348 it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
349 code.
350 - wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
351 - wxThreadHelper::Create() has been renamed to CreateThread which has a better
352 name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
353 - wxDos2UnixFilename, wxUnix2DosFilename, wxStripExtension, wxGetTempFileName,
354 wxExpandPath, wxContractPath, wxRealPath, wxCopyAbsolutePath, wxSplitPath
355 were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
356 - wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
357 documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
358 - wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
359 the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
360 - building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
361 wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
362 on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
363 You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
364 the static box itself.
365 - wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
366 consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
367 - wxFont::SetNoAntiAliasing() was deprecated, it never really worked in most
368 ports and was always marked as "experimental" API. It will be replaced with
369 wxDC-level anti-aliasing control in the future.
370 - wxValidator::SetBellOnError() incorrectly interpreted its argument (it
371 disabled the bell when it was true) and was replaced by SuppressBellOnError()
372 with more expected semantics.
373 - wxPORTRAIT and wxLANDSCAPE are now elements of wxPrintOrientation enum and
374 wxPrintData::SetOrientation(int) takes wxPrintOrientation and not int.
375
376
377 Major new features in this release
378 ----------------------------------
379
380 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
381 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
382 past.
383
384 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
385 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
386
387 - New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes.
388
389 - new ribbon library for advanced toolbars.
390
391 - Many enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
392
393 - Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
394
395 - Events can now be connected to any functor, not necessarily a method of
396 wxEvtHandler-derived class. The compile-time safety was also improved.
397
398 - Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
399 with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
400 of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
401 definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
402 welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
403 ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
404
405 - Support for persistent objects automatically saving and restoring their state
406 was added.
407
408
409 2.9.2:
410 ------
411
412 All:
413
414 - Added cwd and env arguments to wxExecute() (Emilien Kia).
415 - Added "rest" argument to wxString::Before{First,Last}().
416 - Added wxThread::OnKill() and OnDelete() callbacks.
417 - Added wxFile::GetLastError() and ClearLastError() (ryazanov).
418 - Added negatable command line switches (Armel Asselin).
419
420 Unix:
421
422 - Fix spurious errors when writing to child process pipe (ryazanov).
423
424 All (GUI):
425
426 - Added wxRichMessageDialog (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
427 - Added wxCommandLinkButton (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
428 - Added wxUIActionSimulator (Steven Lamerton, GSoC 2010 project).
429 - wxAUI: support auto-orientable toolbars (wsu).
430 - Added wxDataViewCtrl::Set/GetCurrentItem().
431 - wxHTML: render in RTL order inside RTL window (Richard Bullington-McGuire).
432 - wxRibbon: added EVT_RIBBONGALLERY_CLICKED event (John Roberts).
433 - Add support for CP-866 encoding to wxEncodingConverter (madnut).
434 - Consistency fixes for keyboard events across all major ports.
435 - Added EVT_RIBBONBAR_TAB_LEFT_DCLICK event (snowleopard).
436 - Fix display of right aligned columns in wxGenericListCtrl (jl).
437 - Restore text drag-and-drop in wxSTC broken by Scintilla 2 update (Jens Lody).
438 - Improve wxGTK print/page setup dialog (rafravago).
439 - Add support for id ranges to XRC (David Hart).
440 - Added wxToolbook XRC handler (Andrea Zanellato).
441 - Added wxDocManager::FindTemplate() (troelsk).
442 - Return bool, not void, from wxImage::ConvertAlphaToMask() (troelsk).
443 - Fixed resizing columns in wxGrid when they were reordered.
444 - Added wxImage::Rotate180() (Jeff Tupper).
445
446 MSW:
447
448 - Native implementation of wxHyperlinkCtrl and wxProgressDialog under modern
449 Windows versions (Rickard Westerlund, GSoC 2010 project).
450 - Fix Cygwin 1.7 build (David Gangola).
451 - Allow using wxDC::DrawText() with multiline texts.
452 - Fix wxBitmapButton best size determination broken in 2.9.1.
453 - Center task dialog-based wxProgressDialog on the parent (John Roberts).
454
455
456
457 2.9.1:
458 ------
459
460 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE SINCE 2.9.0
461
462 - wxStandardPaths doesn't use vendor name by default under MSW and OSX to
463 remain compatible with 2.8 behaviour but this makes it incompatible with
464 2.9.0. Please use UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName | AppInfo_VendorName) explicitly
465 to use the vendor name in the paths returned by wxStandardPaths.
466
467 - wxDataViewModel::GetAttr() is now const, as it should have been from the very
468 beginning. You will need to change it to be const in your derived model
469 class too if you override it.
470
471
472 All:
473
474 - Added wxFileSystemWatcher (Bartosz Bekier, Google Summer of Code project).
475 - Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
476 - Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
477 - Added wxTempFile::Flush().
478 - Added support for wxLongLong and wxULongLong in wxVariant.
479 - Added wxVector::swap().
480 - Many wxLog improvements:
481 * wxLogXXX() functions are now thread-safe.
482 * Log levels can now be set independently for different log components.
483 * wxLog::DoLogRecord() has access to the location of the log message
484 (file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
485 * SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
486 - Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
487 - Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
488 - Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
489 - Added wxImage::ClearAlpha() (Javier Torres).
490 - Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
491 - Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
492 - Added wxAny class; a modern, backwards-incompatible replacement for
493 wxVariant.
494 - wxDateTime timezone functions now dynamic (no caching).
495 - Added wxHttp::GetCookie and wxHttp::HasCookies (dodge).
496 - Added support for unique volume names to wxFileName (Neno Ganchev).
497 - Correct bugs when using wxTextInputStream with wxConvAuto (Leon Buikstra).
498 - Don't crash when input is empty in wxFileConfig ctor (Lukasz Michalski).
499 - Correct wxSocket::Peek() to not block (Anders Larsen).
500 - Added IEC and SI units support to GetHumanReadableSize() (Julien Weinzorn).
501 - Add convenient wxString::ToStd{String,Wstring}() helpers.
502 - Added wxTranslations class to allow localization without changing locale.
503 It provides more flexible languages enumeration API as well.
504 - Added wxResourceTranslationsLoader for loading translations from Windows
505 resources.
506 - Added wxMessageQueue::Clear().
507 - Added wxConfig::Read(float *) overload (Terry Farnham).
508 - Always use decimal point (and not the current locale separator) in wxConfig.
509 - Fix posting of binary data using wxHTTP (Catalin Raceanu).
510
511 Unix:
512
513 - Return signed return code from wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC).
514 - Allow to use WX_APPNAME_DATA_DIR environment var to override the return value
515 of wxStandardPaths::GetDataDir().
516
517 All (GUI):
518
519 - Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
520 - Added wxInfoBar.
521 - Added stretchable spaces support to wxToolBar.
522 - Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
523 - wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
524 - Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
525 - Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
526 - Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
527 - Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
528 - Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
529 - wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
530 - wxGrid: allow changing the horizontal alignment of numeric cells.
531 - wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
532 - wxHTML: add limited support for span elements styles (Nigel Paton).
533 - Added wxMouseEventsManager.
534 - Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
535 - Fixed wxDataViewCtrl::Set{Foreground,Background}Colour().
536 - Added wxDataViewRenderer::EnableEllipsize().
537 - Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
538 - Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
539 - Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
540 - Added wxTextWrapper helper class useful for wrapping lines of text.
541 - Added EVT_DATAVIEW_CACHE_HINT() event (Trigve).
542 - Added wxLB_NO_SB style (implemented for MSW only; Dario Senic).
543 - Added long version field to wxAboutDialogInfo (Jeff Tupper).
544 - Added wxWindow::CanScroll() behaving like the old HasScrollbar() and made
545 HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
546 - Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
547 - Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
548 - Fixed wxComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
549 - Fixed wxComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
550 dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
551 - wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_EX_MULTIPLE_SELECTION.
552 - wxPropertyGrid: added functions for editing property labels.
553 - wxPropertyGrid: many fixes to property validation failure behavior. Added
554 new flags: wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGEBOX and wxPG_VFB_SHOW_MESSAGE_ON_STATUSBAR.
555 - wxPropertyGrid: Added wxPropertyGrid::DedicateKey().
556 - wxPropertyGrid: wxArrayStringProperty now uses wxEditableListBox.
557 - wxPropertyGrid: Added "Delimiter" attribute for wxArrayStringProperty.
558 - wxPropertyGridManager: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER,
559 wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer
560 control over borders. Borders around property grid are now native for
561 consistency.
562 - Added wxPropertyGridManager::ShowHeader().
563 - Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
564 - Added wxColour::Set/GetRGB() and Set/GetRGBA() methods (Marcel Haß).
565 - wxRTC: added wxRICHTEXT_HANDLER_USE_CSS flag for HTML handler to use CSS
566 where possible.
567 - wxRTC: corrected centring and right-justification spacing.
568 - wxRTC: fixed style selection reset after editing a style.
569 - wxRTC: can now edit line spacing in .1 increments from 1 to 2.
570 - wxRTC: added PaintAboveContent function for drawing on top of text.
571 - Added wxBORDER_THEME to XRC.
572 - wxGraphicsContext is now enabled by default if supported by the platform.
573 - Fix building with using system libpng 1.4 (Volker Grabsch).
574 - Add wxComboBox::Popup() and Dismiss() methods (Igor Korot).
575 - Added wxTreeCtrl::SelectChildren() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
576 - Show pages icons in window list menu in wxAuiNotebook (Ronny Krüger).
577 - Add "initial selection" parameter to wxGetSingleChoice() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
578 - Implement wxDocument::Revert() (troelsk).
579 - Allow overriding print preview frame creation in docview (troelsk).
580 - Added support for gradient stops in wxGraphicsContext (Kit Bishop).
581 - Added wxTransparentColour.
582 - Added wxToolBar::GetToolByPos().
583 - Added wxProgressDialog::Was{Cancelled,Skipped}() (Julien Weinzorn).
584 - Added wxTreeCtrl::{Clear,Set}FocusedItem() (Nikolay Tiushkov).
585 - Added "filter changed" event to wxFileCtrl (Bill Jones).
586 - wxAUI: update floating window position and not only size on resize (MacGyver).
587 - Added wxComboCtrl::SetTextCtrlStyle().
588 - Also update client data in wxRearrangeList control (John Roberts).
589 - Generate more click events in wxGrid when using native header (John Roberts).
590
591 GTK:
592
593 - wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
594 - Implement wxMask copy ctor.
595 - Partially implemented wxTextCtrl::GetStyle() (Igor Romanov).
596 - Corrected themed border display.
597 - Fix wxClipboard::GetData() for asymmetric wxDataObjects (Timothy Lee).
598
599 Mac:
600
601 - Implement wxWindow::ShowWithEffect() in wxOSX/Cocoa.
602 - Correct min/max pages display in the print dialog (Auria).
603 - Fix wxDataViewColumn::GetWidth() in Cocoa (Neno Ganchev).
604
605 MSW:
606
607 - Translate wxMessageDialog labels to the language of the current locale.
608 - Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
609 - Update CRT environment block in wxSetEnv() too.
610 - Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
611 - Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
612 - Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
613 - Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
614 - Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
615 - Worked around child window and caret positioning bug (in Windows) when using
616 wxBORDER_THEME in a container window.
617 - Suppressed spurious character event for decimal key in numeric keypad.
618 - Allow to not create wxPaintDC in EVT_PAINT handler.
619 - Fix sending of wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_COL_DRAGGING events in wxListCtrl.
620 - Allow putting the UAC symbol on buttons (Chris Spencer).
621 - Fix wxTaskBarIcon for older Windows systems (Daniel Wyatt).
622 - Fixed wxOwnerDrawnComboBox keyboard handling: drop-down is no longer
623 displayed when arrow key is pressed (without Alt).
624 - In some rare cases wxOwnerDrawnComboBox drop-down animation could display
625 as garbage. This has now been greatly reduced (mcben).
626 - Fixed wxComboCtrl::SetButtonPosition() on Vista/Win7.
627
628 i18n:
629
630 - Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
631 - Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
632
633
634 2.9.0
635 -----
636
637 All:
638
639 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
640 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
641 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
642 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
643 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
644 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
645 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
646 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
647 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
648 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
649 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
650 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
651 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
652 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
653 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
654 - Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
655 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
656 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
657 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
658 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
659 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
660 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
661 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
662 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
663 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
664 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
665 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
666 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
667 Linnakangas).
668 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
669 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
670 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxScopedArray<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> templates
671 and renamed old wx/ptr_{scpd,shrd}.h headers to wx/scoped{ptr,array}.h and
672 wx/sharedptr.h (but old headers are still provided for compatibility).
673 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
674 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
675 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
676 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
677 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
678 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
679 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
680 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
681 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
682 - Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
683 - Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
684 - Added wxArray::swap().
685 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
686 - Added wxSocket::ShutdownOutput().
687 - Handle exceptions thrown from overridden wxView::OnCreate() gracefully.
688 - Added wxPATH_RMDIR_FULL/RECURSIVE wxFileName::Rmdir() flags (Marcin Malich).
689 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetAppDocumentsDir().
690 - Added wx-prefixed versions of DECLARE_NO_{COPY,ASSIGN}_CLASS macros.
691 - Added wxFileName::ReplaceEnvVariable and wxFileName::ReplaceHomeDir.
692 - Added wxProtocol::SetDefaultTimeout(); the default timeout for both wxHTTP and wxFTP
693 protocols is 60 seconds.
694 - Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
695 - Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
696 - Added wxLog::Log().
697 - Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
698 - Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
699 - Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
700 - Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
701 - wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
702 - Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
703 - Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
704 - Store page setup data directly in wxDocManager (troelsk).
705
706 All (Unix):
707
708 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
709 - Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
710 - Configure options --with-opengl and --enable-mediactrl now default to "auto":
711 if OpenGL and GStreamer libraries are available the "gl" and "media" wx libraries
712 are automatically built.
713
714 All (GUI):
715
716 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
717 - Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
718 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
719 - Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
720 - Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
721 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames().
722 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
723 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
724 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
725 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
726 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
727 - Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
728 - Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
729 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
730 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
731 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
732 - Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
733 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
734 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
735 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
736 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
737 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
738 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
739 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
740 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
741 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
742 - Added wxTextEntry::SetHint().
743 - Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
744 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
745 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
746 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
747 - Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
748 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II).
749 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
750 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
751 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
752 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
753 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
754 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
755 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
756 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
757 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
758 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
759 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
760 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
761 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
762 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
763 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
764 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
765 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
766 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
767 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
768 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
769 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
770 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
771 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
772 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
773 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
774 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
775 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
776 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
777 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
778 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
779 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
780 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
781 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
782 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
783 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
784 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
785 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
786 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
787 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window.
788 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
789 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
790 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
791 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
792 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
793 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
794 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
795 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
796 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
797 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
798 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
799 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
800 - Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
801 - Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
802 - Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
803 - Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
804 - Add column parameter to wxListCtrl::GetItemText() (Allann Jones).
805 - Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
806 - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
807 - Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
808 - Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
809 - wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
810 marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
811 - Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid (Santo Pfingsten).
812 - Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
813 - Add wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event matching wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED.
814 - Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
815 - Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
816 - Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
817 GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
818 no longer return bogus values.
819 - Added wxControl::SetLabelText() and EscapeMnemonics().
820 - Added support for wxFILTER_EMPTY and wxFILTER_DIGITS styles to wxTextValidator;
821 added also the SetCharIncludes() and SetCharExcludes() utilities.
822 - Added wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_FILTER and many wxIMAGE_OPTION_PNG_COMPRESSION_* options
823 to wxImage and wxPNGHandler to allow for custom compression levels when saving PNGs
824 (Perdana Panduwana)
825 - Added GetValue(), GetRange(), GetMessage() functions to wxProgressDialog
826 - Moved yield functions to wxEventLoopBase and implemented for wxMSW and wxGTK
827 a selective wxEventLoopBase::YieldFor() function.
828 Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
829 - Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
830 - Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
831 - Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
832 - Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
833 - Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
834 - Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
835 new CheckFit() method for more information.
836 - Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
837 - Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
838 - Improved anchors handling in wxHTML.
839
840 wxGTK:
841
842 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
843 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
844 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
845 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
846 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
847 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
848 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
849 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
850 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
851 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
852 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
853 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
854 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
855 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
856 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
857 - Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
858
859 wxMac:
860
861 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
862 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
863 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
864 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
865 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
866 - Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
867
868 wxMSW:
869
870 - Fix many problems with selection in multi-selection wxTreeCtrl (Jonathan Liu).
871 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
872 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
873 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
874 - wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (Marcin Malich).
875 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
876 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
877 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
878 - Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
879 - Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
880 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
881 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
882 - Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
883 - Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
884 accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
885 preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
886 should be used.
887 - Implement wxFileName::SetTimes() for directories (Steve Lamerton).
888 - Added wxToolTip::SetMaxWidth() and improved default wrapping (Joachim Hönig).
889 - Changed default toolbar bitmaps size from obsolete 16x15 to 24x24 used
890 by modern apps.
891 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
892 - Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
893 - Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
894
895 wxX11:
896
897 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
898 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
899
900 wxDFB:
901
902 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
903
904 i18n:
905 -----
906
907 - Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
908
909
910 2.8.10:
911 -------
912
913 All:
914
915 - wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
916 any more (Marcin Malich).
917 - Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
918 - Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
919 - Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
920 - Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
921 - Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
922 - Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
923 (Robert Wruck).
924 - Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
925 - Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
926
927 All (GUI):
928
929 - wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
930 Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
931 to key down handler.
932 - wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
933 - wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
934 pressing Delete.
935 - wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
936 formatting dialog.
937 - wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
938 indentation.
939 - wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
940 - wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
941 - wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
942 - wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
943 - wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
944 - Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
945 - Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
946 single-cell paragraphs.
947 - Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
948 - wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
949 - Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
950 - Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
951 wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
952 - Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
953 - Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
954 - Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
955 - Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
956
957 All (Unix):
958
959 - Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
960 occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
961
962 wxMSW:
963
964 - Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
965 - Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
966 - Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
967 - Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
968 if the event handler causes window update.
969 - Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
970 - Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
971 - Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
972 - Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
973 - Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
974 - Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
975 - Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
976 don't fit into the default size.
977 - Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
978 - Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
979 the item in wxTreeCtrl.
980
981
982 wxMSW/CE:
983
984 - Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
985
986 wxGTK:
987
988 - Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
989 - Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
990 the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
991 - Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
992 as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
993
994 wxOS2:
995
996 - Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
997
998
999 2.8.9
1000 -----
1001
1002 All:
1003
1004 - Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
1005 - Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
1006 - Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
1007 in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
1008 results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
1009
1010 All (GUI):
1011
1012 - Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
1013 - Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
1014 go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
1015 help window.
1016 - Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
1017 platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
1018 - Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
1019 - Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
1020 wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
1021 - Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
1022 - Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
1023 now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
1024 - Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
1025 - Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
1026 - Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
1027 - Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
1028 - Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
1029 - Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
1030 - Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
1031 - Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
1032 and mouse-down events
1033 - wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
1034 - Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
1035 - Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
1036 - Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
1037 - Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
1038 - Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
1039 - wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
1040
1041 All (Unix):
1042
1043 - MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
1044 files and also the default application list.
1045 - Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
1046 must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
1047 mime types manager initialization penalty.
1048
1049 wxMSW:
1050
1051 - Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
1052 contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
1053 preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
1054 Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
1055 will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
1056 wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
1057 - Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
1058 - Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
1059 - Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
1060 - Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
1061 - Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
1062 - Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
1063 creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
1064 - Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
1065 was invalid.
1066 - Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
1067 - Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
1068 - Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
1069
1070 wxGTK:
1071
1072 - Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
1073 - Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
1074 - Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
1075 as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
1076 - Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
1077
1078 wxMac:
1079
1080 - Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
1081 would cause the window to scroll.
1082
1083
1084 2.8.8
1085 -----
1086
1087 All:
1088
1089 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
1090 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
1091 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
1092 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
1093 - Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
1094
1095 All (GUI):
1096
1097 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
1098 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
1099 - Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
1100 smaller than the minimal size.
1101 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
1102 - wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
1103 - Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
1104 - Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
1105 - wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
1106 works.
1107 - When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
1108 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
1109 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1110 - SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
1111 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
1112 charset in ANSI build.
1113 - wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
1114 and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
1115 - Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1116 - Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
1117 - Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
1118 - Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
1119 wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
1120 - Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
1121 - Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
1122 - Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
1123 - Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
1124 - Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
1125 best size if needed.
1126 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
1127 - Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
1128 - Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
1129 - wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
1130 - Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
1131 - Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
1132 - Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
1133
1134 All (Unix):
1135
1136 - Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
1137 --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
1138 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
1139 - Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
1140 - Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
1141
1142 wxMSW:
1143
1144 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse).
1145 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes.
1146 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
1147 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
1148 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
1149 - Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
1150 a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
1151 - Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
1152 to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
1153 - Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
1154 highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
1155 - Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
1156 corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
1157 - Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
1158 - Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
1159 - wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
1160 for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
1161 - Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
1162 SmartPhone.
1163 - Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
1164 using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
1165 - Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
1166 - Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
1167 - Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
1168 spin button's client size.
1169 - Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
1170 compiler (Matthias Bohm).
1171 - Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
1172 systems (Gerald Giese)
1173
1174 wxGTK:
1175
1176 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
1177 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
1178 - Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
1179 - Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
1180 with other applications.
1181 - Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
1182 change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
1183 - Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
1184 - Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
1185 processing all pending events.
1186 - wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
1187
1188 wxMac:
1189
1190 - Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
1191 - Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
1192 - wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
1193 - Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
1194
1195
1196 2.8.7
1197 -----
1198
1199 All:
1200
1201 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
1202
1203 wxMSW:
1204
1205 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
1206 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
1207
1208 wxGTK:
1209
1210 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
1211 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
1212 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
1213
1214
1215 2.8.6
1216 -----
1217
1218 All:
1219
1220 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
1221 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
1222
1223
1224 2.8.5
1225 -----
1226
1227 All (GUI):
1228
1229 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
1230 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
1231 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
1232 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
1233 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
1234 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
1235 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
1236 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
1237 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
1238 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
1239
1240 wxMSW:
1241
1242 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
1243 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
1244 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
1245 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
1246 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
1247 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
1248 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
1249
1250 wxGTK:
1251
1252 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
1253 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
1254 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
1255 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
1256 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
1257 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
1258 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
1259 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
1260 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
1261 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
1262 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
1263
1264
1265 2.8.4
1266 -----
1267
1268 All:
1269
1270 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1271 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
1272 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
1273 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
1274
1275 All (Unix):
1276
1277 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
1278
1279 All (GUI):
1280
1281 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
1282 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
1283 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
1284 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
1285
1286 wxMSW:
1287
1288 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
1289 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
1290 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
1291 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
1292 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
1293 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
1294 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
1295 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
1296 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
1297
1298 wxGTK:
1299
1300 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
1301 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
1302 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
1303
1304 wxMac:
1305
1306 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
1307
1308 wxUniv:
1309
1310 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
1311 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
1312 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
1313
1314
1315 2.8.3
1316 -----
1317
1318 All:
1319
1320 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
1321 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
1322
1323 wxMac:
1324
1325 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
1326
1327 wxMSW:
1328
1329 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
1330
1331 wxGTK:
1332
1333 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
1334
1335
1336 2.8.2
1337 -----
1338
1339 All:
1340
1341 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
1342 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
1343 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
1344 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
1345 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
1346 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
1347 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
1348 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
1349 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
1350
1351 Unix Ports:
1352
1353 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
1354
1355 wxMSW
1356
1357 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
1358 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
1359
1360 wxGTK
1361
1362 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
1363
1364 wxMac
1365
1366 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
1367 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
1368
1369 wxX11:
1370
1371 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
1372
1373 wxUniv:
1374
1375 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
1376
1377
1378 2.8.1
1379 -----
1380
1381 All:
1382
1383 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
1384 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
1385 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
1386 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
1387 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
1388 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
1389
1390 wxMSW:
1391
1392 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
1393 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
1394
1395 wxGTK:
1396
1397 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
1398
1399 wxUniv:
1400
1401 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
1402
1403
1404 2.8.0
1405 -----
1406
1407 All:
1408
1409 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
1410 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
1411 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
1412 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
1413 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
1414 a stream that is seekable.
1415 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
1416 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
1417 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
1418
1419 wxMSW:
1420
1421 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
1422 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
1423 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
1424 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
1425
1426 wxGTK:
1427
1428 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
1429 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
1430
1431
1432 2.7.2
1433 -----
1434
1435 All:
1436
1437 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
1438 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
1439 - Added wxTar streams.
1440 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
1441 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
1442
1443 All (GUI):
1444
1445 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
1446 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
1447 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
1448 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
1449 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
1450 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
1451 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
1452 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
1453 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
1454 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
1455 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
1456 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
1457 formatting.
1458 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
1459 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
1460 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
1461 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
1462
1463 Unix Ports:
1464
1465 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
1466 program (Francesco Montorsi).
1467
1468 wxGTK:
1469
1470 - More RTL work.
1471 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
1472 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
1473 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
1474 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
1475
1476
1477 2.7.1
1478 -----
1479
1480 All:
1481
1482 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
1483 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
1484 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
1485 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
1486 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
1487 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
1488 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
1489 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
1490 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
1491 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
1492 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
1493 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
1494 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
1495 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
1496 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
1497
1498 All (GUI):
1499
1500 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
1501 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
1502 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
1503 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
1504 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
1505 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
1506 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
1507 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
1508 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
1509 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
1510 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
1511 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
1512 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1513 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
1514
1515 wxMSW:
1516
1517 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
1518 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
1519 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
1520 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
1521 high-contrast theme).
1522 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
1523
1524 wxMac:
1525
1526 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
1527 to the SDK.
1528
1529 wxGTK:
1530
1531 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
1532 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
1533 - Implemented right-to-left support.
1534 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
1535 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
1536
1537 wxUniv:
1538
1539 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
1540
1541
1542 2.7.0
1543 -----
1544
1545 All:
1546
1547 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
1548 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
1549 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
1550 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
1551 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
1552 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
1553 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
1554 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
1555 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
1556 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
1557 during a search and replace.
1558 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
1559 are both used in the same program.
1560 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
1561 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
1562 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
1563 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
1564 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
1565 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
1566 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
1567 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
1568 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
1569 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
1570 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
1571 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
1572 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
1573 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
1574 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
1575 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
1576 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
1577 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
1578 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
1579 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
1580 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
1581 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
1582 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
1583 the first time it was called.
1584 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
1585 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
1586 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
1587 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
1588 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
1589 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
1590 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
1591 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
1592 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
1593 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
1594
1595 All (GUI):
1596
1597 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
1598 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
1599 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
1600 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
1601 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
1602 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
1603 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
1604 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
1605 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
1606 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
1607 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
1608 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
1609 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
1610 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
1611 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
1612 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
1613 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
1614 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
1615 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
1616 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
1617 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
1618 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
1619 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
1620 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
1621 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
1622 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
1623 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
1624 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
1625 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
1626 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
1627 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
1628 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
1629 by Sandro Sigala).
1630 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
1631 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
1632 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
1633 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
1634 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
1635 best size.
1636 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
1637 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
1638 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
1639 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
1640 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
1641 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
1642 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
1643 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
1644 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
1645 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
1646 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
1647 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
1648 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
1649 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
1650 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
1651 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
1652 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
1653 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
1654 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
1655 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
1656 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
1657 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
1658 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
1659 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
1660 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
1661 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
1662 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
1663 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
1664 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
1665 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
1666 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
1667 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
1668 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
1669 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
1670 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
1671 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
1672 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
1673 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
1674 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
1675 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
1676
1677 wxMSW:
1678
1679 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
1680 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
1681 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
1682 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
1683 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
1684 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
1685 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
1686 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
1687 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
1688 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
1689 wxMSW faq for details).
1690 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
1691 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
1692 to the link command.
1693 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
1694 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
1695 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
1696 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
1697 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
1698 show.
1699 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
1700 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
1701 initial construction.
1702 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
1703 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
1704 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
1705 events).
1706 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
1707 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
1708 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
1709 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
1710 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
1711 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
1712 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
1713 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
1714 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
1715 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
1716 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
1717 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
1718 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
1719 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
1720 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
1721 changes the system font.
1722 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
1723 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
1724 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
1725 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
1726 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
1727 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
1728
1729 wxGTK:
1730
1731 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
1732 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
1733 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
1734 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
1735 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
1736 implementation.
1737 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
1738 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
1739 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
1740 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
1741 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
1742 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
1743 previously unable to be focused before.
1744 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
1745 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
1746 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
1747 class was used.
1748 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
1749 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
1750 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
1751 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
1752 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
1753 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
1754 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
1755 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
1756 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
1757
1758 wxMac:
1759
1760 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
1761 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
1762 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
1763 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
1764 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
1765 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
1766 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
1767 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
1768 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
1769 - Corrected idle wake-up.
1770 - Corrected wxExecute.
1771 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
1772 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
1773 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
1774 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1775 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
1776 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
1777 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
1778 were found.
1779 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
1780 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
1781 under Mach-O.
1782 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
1783 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
1784 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
1785 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
1786 end of file with an error.
1787 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
1788 binaries.
1789 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
1790 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
1791 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
1792 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
1793 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
1794 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
1795 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
1796
1797 wxCocoa:
1798
1799 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
1800
1801 wxWinCE:
1802
1803 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
1804 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
1805 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
1806 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
1807 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
1808 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
1809 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
1810 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
1811 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
1812 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
1813 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
1814 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
1815 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
1816 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
1817 directly, however.
1818 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
1819 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
1820 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
1821 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
1822 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
1823
1824 wxUniv:
1825
1826 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
1827 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
1828 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
1829
1830 wxX11:
1831
1832 - Invisible text problem fixed.
1833 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
1834 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
1835 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
1836
1837 Unix:
1838
1839 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
1840
1841 wxMGL:
1842
1843 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
1844 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
1845
1846
1847 2.6.2
1848 -----
1849
1850 All:
1851
1852 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
1853 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
1854 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
1855 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
1856 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
1857 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
1858 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
1859 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
1860 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
1861 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
1862 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
1863 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
1864
1865 All (GUI):
1866
1867 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
1868 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
1869 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
1870 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
1871 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
1872 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
1873 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1874 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
1875 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
1876 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
1877 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
1878 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
1879
1880 wxMSW:
1881
1882 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
1883 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
1884 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
1885 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
1886 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
1887 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
1888 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1889 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
1890 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
1891 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
1892 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1893 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1894 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1895 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1896 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1897
1898 wxGTK:
1899
1900 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1901 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1902 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1903 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1904 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1905 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1906 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1907 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1908 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1909 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1910 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1911
1912 wxMac:
1913
1914 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1915 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1916 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1917 - Various text control bug fixes.
1918 - Automatic menu management improved.
1919 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1920 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1921 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1922 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1923 showing modally).
1924
1925 wxOS2
1926
1927 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1928
1929 wxUniv:
1930
1931 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1932 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1933
1934 wxMotif:
1935
1936 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1937 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1938 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1939 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1940 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1941 flag has been specified.
1942 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1943 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1944 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1945 showing modally).
1946
1947 wxMGL:
1948
1949 - Fixed crash on exit.
1950 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1951
1952 wxX11:
1953
1954 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1955
1956
1957 2.6.1
1958 -----
1959
1960 All:
1961
1962 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1963 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1964
1965 All (GUI):
1966
1967 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1968 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1969 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1970 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1971 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1972 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1973 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1974 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1975 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1976 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1977
1978 wxMSW:
1979
1980 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1981 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1982 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1983 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1984 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1985 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1986 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1987 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1988 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1989 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1990 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1991 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1992 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1993 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1994 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1995 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1996 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1997 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1998 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1999 - Winelib compilation now works.
2000 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
2001 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
2002 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
2003 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
2004 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
2005 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
2006 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
2007 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
2008 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
2009 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
2010 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
2011 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
2012 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
2013
2014 wxWinCE:
2015
2016 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
2017
2018 wxGTK:
2019
2020 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
2021 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
2022 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
2023 - Added bitmap support in menus.
2024
2025 wxMac:
2026
2027 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
2028 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
2029 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
2030 incorrect state.
2031 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
2032 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
2033 - Window menu now added automatically.
2034 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
2035 - Modified function key support fixed.
2036 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
2037
2038 wxX11:
2039
2040 - Menu problems fixed.
2041 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
2042 - Fixed a font memory leak.
2043 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
2044
2045
2046 2.6.0
2047 -----
2048
2049 All:
2050
2051 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
2052 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
2053
2054 All (GUI):
2055
2056 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
2057 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
2058
2059 wxMSW:
2060
2061 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
2062 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
2063 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
2064
2065 wxWinCE:
2066
2067 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
2068
2069 wxGTK:
2070 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
2071 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2072 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
2073 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
2074 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
2075 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
2076 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
2077
2078 wxMac:
2079 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
2080
2081 2.5.5
2082 -----
2083
2084 All:
2085
2086 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
2087 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
2088 - Added wxDebugReport class.
2089 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
2090 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
2091 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
2092 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
2093 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
2094 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
2095
2096 All (GUI):
2097
2098 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
2099 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
2100 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
2101 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
2102 the whole virtual area.
2103 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
2104 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
2105 isn't used to set the window size.
2106 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
2107 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
2108 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
2109 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
2110
2111 Unix:
2112
2113 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
2114
2115 wxMSW:
2116
2117 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
2118 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
2119 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
2120 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
2121 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
2122 handling (Jamie Gadd).
2123
2124 wxGTK:
2125
2126 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
2127 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
2128 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
2129 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
2130 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
2131 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
2132 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
2133 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
2134
2135 wxMac:
2136
2137 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
2138
2139 wxPalmOS:
2140
2141 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
2142
2143 wxWinCE:
2144
2145 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
2146 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
2147 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
2148 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
2149 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
2150 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
2151 with correct titlebar style.
2152 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
2153 PocketPC guidelines
2154 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
2155 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
2156 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
2157 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
2158 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
2159 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
2160 to the dialog's toolbar.
2161
2162 2.5.4
2163 -----
2164
2165 All:
2166
2167 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
2168 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
2169 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
2170 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
2171 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2172 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
2173 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
2174 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
2175 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
2176 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
2177 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
2178 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
2179 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
2180 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
2181 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
2182 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
2183 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
2184 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
2185 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
2186 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
2187 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
2188 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
2189 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
2190 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
2191 printing stuff in the GTK port.
2192 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
2193 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
2194 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
2195 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
2196 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
2197 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
2198 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
2199 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
2200 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
2201 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
2202 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
2203 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
2204 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
2205 due to a rounding error.
2206 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
2207 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
2208 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
2209 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
2210 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
2211 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
2212 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
2213 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
2214
2215
2216 All (GUI):
2217
2218 - added wxMediaCtrl
2219 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
2220 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
2221 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
2222 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
2223 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
2224 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
2225 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
2226 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
2227 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
2228 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
2229 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
2230 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
2231 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
2232 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
2233 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
2234 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
2235 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
2236
2237 Unix:
2238
2239 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
2240
2241 wxGTK:
2242
2243 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
2244 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
2245 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
2246 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
2247 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
2248 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
2249 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
2250 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
2251 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
2252 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
2253 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
2254 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
2255 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
2256 errors otherwise.
2257 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
2258 - Added wxRawBitmap support
2259 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
2260 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
2261 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
2262
2263 wxMac:
2264
2265 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
2266 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
2267 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
2268 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
2269
2270 wxMSW:
2271
2272 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
2273 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
2274 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
2275 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
2276 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
2277
2278 wxWinCE:
2279 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
2280 but not mentioned anywhere.
2281 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
2282
2283 wxUniv:
2284
2285 - wxBU_... button align flags support
2286 - vertical notebook orientation support
2287 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
2288 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
2289
2290 wxPalmOS:
2291
2292 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
2293 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
2294 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
2295 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
2296 - enumeration of available volumes
2297 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
2298 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
2299 - native wxColourDialog implementation
2300 - native wxSystemSettings colours
2301 - native wxButton implementation
2302 - native wxCheckBox implementation
2303 - native wxSlider implementation
2304 - native wxToggleButton implementation
2305 - native wxRadioButton implementation
2306 - native wxStaticText implementation
2307 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
2308
2309
2310 2.5.3
2311 -----
2312
2313 All:
2314
2315 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
2316 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
2317 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2318 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
2319 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
2320 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
2321 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
2322 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
2323 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
2324 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
2325 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
2326 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
2327 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
2328 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
2329 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
2330 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
2331
2332 All (GUI):
2333
2334 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
2335 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
2336 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
2337 is discouraged
2338 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
2339 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
2340 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
2341 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
2342 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
2343 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
2344 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
2345 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
2346 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
2347 - added samples/splash
2348 - added support for stock buttons
2349 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
2350 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
2351 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
2352 - added wxChoicebook control
2353 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
2354 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
2355 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
2356 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
2357 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
2358 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
2359 supported, instead of zero.
2360 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
2361
2362 Unix:
2363
2364 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
2365 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
2366 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
2367 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
2368 - wx-config has new --version-full option
2369
2370 wxCocoa:
2371
2372 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2373 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
2374 - Tooltips now supported
2375 - wxSound now supported
2376 - wxDisplay now supported
2377 - Some stock cursors now supported
2378
2379 wxMac:
2380
2381 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
2382 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
2383 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
2384 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
2385
2386 wxGTK:
2387
2388 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
2389 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
2390 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
2391 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
2392 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
2393 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
2394 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
2395 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
2396 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
2397 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
2398 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
2399 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
2400 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
2401 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
2402 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
2403 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
2404 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
2405 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
2406 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
2407
2408 wxMotif:
2409
2410 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
2411
2412 wxMSW:
2413
2414 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
2415 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
2416 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
2417 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
2418 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
2419 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
2420 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
2421 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
2422 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
2423 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
2424 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
2425 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
2426 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
2427 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
2428
2429 wxUniv/X11:
2430
2431 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
2432
2433 wxWinCE:
2434
2435 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
2436 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
2437 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
2438 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
2439
2440 wxHTML:
2441
2442 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
2443 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
2444
2445
2446 2.5.2
2447 -----
2448
2449 All:
2450
2451 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
2452 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
2453 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
2454 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
2455 of run-time) now
2456 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
2457 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
2458 to forward declare these classes.
2459
2460 All (GUI):
2461
2462 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
2463 resulting in much better display of scaled images
2464 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
2465 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
2466 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
2467 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
2468 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
2469 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
2470 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
2471 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
2472 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
2473 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
2474 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
2475 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
2476 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
2477
2478 wxMSW:
2479
2480 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
2481 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
2482 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
2483 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
2484 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
2485 even try to do it by default -- now it does
2486 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
2487 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
2488 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
2489 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
2490 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
2491 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
2492
2493 wxGTK:
2494
2495 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
2496
2497 wxMotif:
2498
2499 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
2500 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
2501 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
2502 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
2503
2504 wxUniv/X11:
2505
2506 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
2507
2508 wxHTML:
2509
2510 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
2511 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
2512
2513 Unix:
2514
2515 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
2516 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
2517
2518 wxODBC:
2519
2520 - Full Unicode support is now available
2521 - BLOB support is working
2522
2523
2524 2.5.1
2525 -----
2526
2527 All:
2528
2529 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
2530 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
2531 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
2532 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
2533 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
2534 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
2535 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
2536 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
2537 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
2538 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
2539 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
2540 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
2541 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
2542 (as in 2.5.0).
2543 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
2544 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2545 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
2546 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
2547 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
2548 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2549 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
2550 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
2551 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
2552 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
2553 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
2554 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
2555
2556 All (GUI):
2557
2558 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2559 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
2560 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
2561 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
2562 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
2563 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
2564 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
2565 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
2566 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
2567 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
2568 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
2569 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
2570 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
2571 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
2572 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
2573 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
2574 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
2575 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
2576 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
2577 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
2578 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
2579 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
2580 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
2581 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
2582 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
2583 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
2584
2585 wxMSW:
2586
2587 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
2588 - fixed DDE memory leaks
2589 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
2590 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
2591 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
2592 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
2593 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
2594 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
2595 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2596 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
2597 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
2598 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
2599 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
2600 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
2601 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
2602 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
2603 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
2604 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
2605 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
2606 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
2607 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
2608 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
2609 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
2610 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
2611 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
2612 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
2613 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
2614 than the specified default size
2615 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
2616
2617 wxGTK:
2618
2619 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
2620 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
2621 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
2622 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
2623 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2624 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
2625 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
2626 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
2627 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
2628
2629 wxMac:
2630
2631 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
2632 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
2633 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
2634 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
2635
2636 wxMotif:
2637
2638 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
2639
2640 wxHTML:
2641
2642 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
2643 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
2644
2645 Unix:
2646
2647 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
2648 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
2649 addition to existing OSS one
2650 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
2651
2652
2653 2.5.0
2654 -----
2655
2656 All:
2657
2658 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
2659 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
2660 separately compiled library
2661 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
2662 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2663 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
2664 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
2665 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
2666 - added wxArray::SetCount()
2667 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
2668 by default in Unicode mode
2669 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
2670 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
2671 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
2672 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
2673 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
2674 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
2675 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
2676 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
2677 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
2678 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
2679 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
2680 - added wxRecursionGuard class
2681 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
2682 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
2683 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
2684 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
2685 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
2686 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
2687 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
2688 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
2689
2690 wxBase:
2691
2692 - added Watcom makefiles
2693 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
2694
2695 All GUI ports:
2696
2697 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
2698 - added wxListbook control
2699 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
2700 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
2701 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
2702 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
2703 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
2704 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
2705 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
2706 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
2707 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
2708 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
2709 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
2710 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
2711 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
2712 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
2713 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
2714 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
2715 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
2716 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2717 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
2718 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
2719 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
2720 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
2721 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
2722 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
2723 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
2724 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
2725 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
2726 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
2727 default extension for the template
2728 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
2729 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
2730 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
2731 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
2732 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
2733 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
2734 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
2735 to allow better rich text support.
2736 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
2737 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
2738 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
2739 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
2740 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
2741 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
2742 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
2743 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
2744 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
2745 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
2746 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
2747 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
2748 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
2749 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
2750 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
2751 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
2752 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
2753 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
2754 - added wxMirrorDC class
2755 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
2756 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
2757 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
2758 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
2759 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
2760 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
2761 improved
2762
2763 Unix:
2764
2765 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
2766 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
2767 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
2768 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
2769 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
2770
2771 Generic controls:
2772
2773 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
2774 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
2775 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
2776 to contrib/src/deprecated
2777
2778 wxGTK:
2779
2780 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
2781 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
2782 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
2783 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
2784 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
2785 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
2786 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
2787 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
2788 be appended to filenames with no extension
2789 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
2790 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
2791 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
2792 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
2793
2794 wxMac:
2795
2796 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
2797 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2798
2799 wxMSW:
2800
2801 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
2802 - added wxCrashReport
2803 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
2804 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
2805 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
2806 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
2807 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
2808 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
2809 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
2810 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
2811 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
2812 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
2813 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
2814 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
2815 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
2816 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
2817 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
2818 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
2819 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
2820 - improved border handling under Windows XP
2821 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
2822 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
2823 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
2824 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
2825 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
2826 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
2827 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
2828
2829 wxMotif:
2830
2831 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
2832 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
2833 documentation for a detailed explanation
2834 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
2835 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
2836 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
2837 with Motif 1.x compatibility
2838 - implemented wxToggleButton
2839 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
2840 instead of a sunken border
2841 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
2842 - finished wxClipboard implementation
2843
2844 wxUniv:
2845
2846 - controls in toolbars now supported
2847
2848 wxHTML:
2849
2850 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
2851 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
2852 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
2853 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
2854 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
2855
2856
2857 OLD CHANGES
2858 ===========
2859
2860 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
2861 ================================
2862
2863 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
2864 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
2865 with '!' in the first column.
2866
2867 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
2868 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
2869 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
2870 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
2871 2.6 release.
2872
2873 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
2874 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
2875 (see the documentation) useful.
2876
2877
2878 wxBase:
2879
2880 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
2881 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
2882 code.
2883
2884 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
2885 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
2886 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
2887 arrays containing non-pointers.
2888
2889 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
2890 simply don't make sense for all objects
2891
2892 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2893 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2894 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2895
2896 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2897
2898 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2899 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2900 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2901 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2902 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2903
2904 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2905 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2906 the default assert handling.
2907
2908 All (GUI):
2909
2910 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2911 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2912 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2913
2914 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2915 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2916 instead!
2917
2918 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2919 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2920 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2921
2922 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2923 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2924 you want to get OnChar() as well
2925
2926 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2927 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2928 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2929
2930 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2931 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2932 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2933 will *NOT* work any longer:
2934
2935 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2936 ... do something ...
2937 if ( flags & wxYES )
2938 ... do something else ...
2939
2940 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2941 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2942 the ctor
2943
2944 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2945
2946 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2947 if you derived any classes from it
2948
2949 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2950 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2951
2952 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2953 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2954
2955 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2956 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2957
2958 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2959 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2960 from happening
2961
2962 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2963 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2964 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2965
2966 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2967 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2968 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2969 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2970
2971 wxMSW:
2972
2973 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2974 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2975 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2976 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2977 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2978 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2979 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2980 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2981 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2982 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2983
2984 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2985 style to avoid it
2986
2987 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2988 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2989
2990 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2991 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2992 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2993
2994 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2995 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2996
2997
2998 Unix ports:
2999
3000 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
3001 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
3002 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
3003 to compile pure C files.
3004
3005
3006 wxThread and related classes:
3007
3008 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
3009 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
3010 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
3011 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
3012
3013 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
3014 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
3015 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
3016 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
3017
3018 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
3019 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
3020 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
3021
3022 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
3023 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
3024
3025
3026 OTHER CHANGES
3027 =============
3028
3029 2.4.0
3030 -----
3031
3032 wxMSW:
3033
3034 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
3035
3036 2.3.4
3037 -----
3038
3039 All:
3040
3041 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
3042 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
3043 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
3044
3045 Unix (Base/GUI):
3046
3047 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
3048 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
3049 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
3050
3051 wxGTK:
3052 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
3053 - Addition of native frame site grip.
3054
3055 wxX11:
3056 - Unicode support through Pango library.
3057
3058 wxMSW:
3059
3060 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
3061 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
3062
3063 wxHTML:
3064
3065 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
3066
3067 2.3.3
3068 -----
3069
3070 wxBase:
3071
3072 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
3073 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
3074 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
3075 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
3076 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
3077 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
3078 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
3079 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
3080 after (non standard) STL hash_map
3081 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
3082 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
3083 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
3084 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
3085 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
3086 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
3087 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
3088
3089 Unix (Base/GUI):
3090
3091 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
3092 programs and not only GNU make
3093 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
3094 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
3095 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
3096 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
3097 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
3098
3099 All (GUI):
3100
3101 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
3102 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
3103 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
3104 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
3105 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
3106 wxWidgets dialogs
3107 - significantly improved native font support
3108 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
3109 wxHashTable
3110 - added IFF image handler
3111 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
3112 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
3113 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
3114 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3115 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
3116 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
3117 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
3118 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
3119 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
3120 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
3121 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
3122 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
3123 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
3124 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
3125 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
3126 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
3127 - wxMessageOutput class added
3128 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
3129 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
3130 table fills up
3131 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
3132 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
3133 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
3134 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
3135 (Rene Rivera).
3136 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
3137 whether a label edit was cancelled.
3138 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
3139
3140 wxMSW:
3141
3142 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
3143 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
3144 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
3145 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
3146 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
3147 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
3148 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
3149 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
3150 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
3151 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
3152 are changed
3153 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
3154 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
3155 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
3156 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
3157 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
3158 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
3159 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
3160 recursion any more
3161 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
3162 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
3163 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
3164 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
3165 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
3166 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
3167 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
3168 has the capture before release it.
3169 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
3170 - default button handling is now closer to expected
3171 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
3172 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
3173 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
3174 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
3175 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
3176 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
3177 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
3178 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
3179 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
3180 provided in wxFontData
3181 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
3182 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
3183
3184 wxGTK:
3185
3186 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
3187 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
3188 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
3189 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
3190 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
3191 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
3192 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
3193 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
3194 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
3195 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
3196 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
3197 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
3198 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
3199
3200 wxMotif:
3201
3202 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
3203 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
3204 - improved toolbar control alignment
3205 - implemented wxSpinButton
3206 - implemented wxCheckListBox
3207 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
3208 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
3209
3210 wxX11:
3211
3212 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
3213 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
3214
3215 wxMac:
3216
3217 - Many improvements
3218
3219 wxOS2:
3220
3221 - First alpha-quality release
3222
3223 wxHTML:
3224
3225 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
3226 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
3227 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
3228 - fixed alignment handling in tables
3229 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
3230
3231 2.3.2
3232 -----
3233
3234 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
3235
3236 wxBase:
3237
3238 - wxRegEx class added
3239 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
3240 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
3241 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
3242 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
3243 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
3244
3245 All (GUI):
3246
3247 - support for virtual list control added
3248 - column images in report mode of the list control
3249 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
3250 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
3251 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
3252 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
3253 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
3254 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3255 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
3256 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
3257 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
3258 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
3259 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
3260 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
3261
3262 wxMSW:
3263
3264 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
3265 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
3266 project files
3267
3268 wxGTK:
3269
3270 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
3271 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
3272 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
3273 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
3274
3275 wxMac:
3276
3277 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
3278 Tools
3279
3280 wxHTML:
3281
3282 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
3283 to tags parsing
3284 - added support for animated GIFs
3285
3286 2.3.1
3287 -----
3288
3289 wxBase:
3290
3291 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
3292 - Fixed new charset detection code
3293 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
3294 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
3295 - Added wxDir::Traverse
3296 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
3297 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
3298 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
3299
3300 All (GUI):
3301
3302 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
3303 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
3304 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
3305 push on a custom event handler for example)
3306 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
3307 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
3308 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
3309 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
3310 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
3311 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
3312 first-time saved
3313 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
3314 - Various wxXML enhancements
3315 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
3316 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
3317 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
3318 instead of GetId()
3319 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
3320 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
3321
3322 wxMSW:
3323
3324 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
3325 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
3326 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
3327 alt or shift) now work
3328 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
3329 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
3330 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
3331 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
3332 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
3333 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
3334 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
3335 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
3336 - We now send iconize events
3337 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
3338 - Added mousewheel processing
3339 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
3340 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
3341 in wxDC
3342 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
3343 child frame styles are honoured
3344
3345 wxGTK:
3346
3347 - Fixed slider rounding bug
3348 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
3349 - We now send iconize events
3350 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
3351 GetSelection() results
3352
3353 2.3.0
3354 -----
3355
3356 wxBase:
3357
3358 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
3359 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
3360 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
3361 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
3362 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
3363 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
3364 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
3365 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
3366 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
3367 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
3368
3369 All (GUI):
3370
3371 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
3372 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
3373 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
3374 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
3375 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
3376 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
3377 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
3378 wxImage methods and ctor)
3379 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
3380 - ODBC documentation complete!!
3381 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
3382 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
3383 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
3384 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
3385
3386 wxMSW:
3387
3388 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
3389 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
3390 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
3391 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
3392
3393 wxGTK:
3394
3395 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
3396
3397 wxHTML:
3398
3399 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
3400 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
3401
3402 2.2.0
3403 -----
3404
3405 wxBase:
3406
3407 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
3408 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
3409 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
3410 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
3411 - Completed Czech translations
3412 - Some stream corrections
3413 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
3414 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
3415 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
3416 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
3417
3418 All (GUI):
3419
3420 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
3421 flicker-free dragging is now possible
3422 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
3423 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
3424 - Paper names now translated
3425 - wxGrid fixes
3426 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
3427 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
3428 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
3429 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
3430 File dialog.
3431 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
3432 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
3433 writing code
3434 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
3435 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
3436 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
3437 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
3438
3439 wxMSW:
3440
3441 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
3442 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
3443 backward compatibility, please set
3444 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
3445 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
3446 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
3447 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
3448 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
3449 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
3450 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
3451 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
3452 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
3453 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
3454 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
3455 - wxFrame restores focus better
3456 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
3457 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
3458 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
3459 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
3460 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
3461 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
3462 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
3463 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
3464 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
3465 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
3466
3467 wxGTK:
3468
3469 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
3470
3471 wxMotif:
3472
3473 - Small compilation fixes
3474
3475 Documentation:
3476
3477 - wxCaret documented
3478
3479 2.1.16
3480 ------
3481
3482 wxBase:
3483
3484 All (GUI):
3485
3486 wxMSW:
3487
3488 - Various bug fixes
3489 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
3490 files. This works under VC++ only
3491 - Modal dialog handling improved
3492 - Printer dialog now modal
3493
3494 wxGTK:
3495
3496 - Various bug fixes
3497
3498 wxMotif:
3499
3500 - Various bug fixes
3501
3502 2.1.15
3503 ------
3504
3505 Documentation:
3506
3507 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
3508
3509 File hierarchy:
3510
3511 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
3512 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
3513
3514 wxBase:
3515
3516 - wxSocket support
3517 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
3518 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
3519 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
3520 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
3521 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
3522 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
3523 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
3524 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
3525 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
3526 only so far)
3527 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
3528 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
3529 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
3530 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
3531 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
3532 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
3533 is available)
3534 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
3535
3536 all (GUI):
3537
3538 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
3539 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
3540 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
3541 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
3542 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
3543 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
3544 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
3545 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
3546 John Norris)
3547 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
3548 MIME types if available (Unix only)
3549 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
3550 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
3551 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
3552 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
3553 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
3554 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
3555 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
3556 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
3557 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
3558 - wxDragImage class added
3559 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
3560 controllers, as well as native help
3561 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
3562
3563 wxMSW:
3564
3565 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
3566 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
3567 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
3568 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
3569 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
3570 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
3571 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
3572 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
3573 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
3574 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
3575 Unix ports
3576 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
3577 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
3578 - wxSetCursorEvent added
3579
3580 wxGTK:
3581
3582 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
3583 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
3584 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
3585
3586 wxMotif:
3587
3588 - wxMenu::Enable works
3589 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
3590 - OGL samples made to work again
3591
3592 wxHTML:
3593
3594 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
3595 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
3596 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
3597 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
3598 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
3599 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
3600 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
3601 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
3602 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
3603 - improved HTML printing
3604 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
3605 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
3606 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
3607 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
3608
3609
3610 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
3611 change log.
3612
3613 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
3614 -----------------------
3615
3616 wxGTK:
3617
3618 - JPEG support added.
3619 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
3620
3621 wxMSW:
3622
3623 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
3624 SetTabSize added.
3625 - JPEG support added.
3626 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
3627 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
3628 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
3629
3630 wxMotif:
3631
3632
3633 General:
3634
3635 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
3636
3637
3638 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
3639 -------------------------------
3640
3641 wxGTK:
3642
3643 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
3644 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
3645
3646 wxMSW:
3647
3648 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
3649 - Fixed window cursor setting.
3650 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
3651 - Some makefile fixes.
3652
3653 wxMotif:
3654
3655 - None.
3656
3657 General:
3658
3659 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
3660 - More topic overviews.
3661 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
3662 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
3663 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
3664
3665
3666 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
3667 --------------------------
3668
3669 wxGTK:
3670
3671 - wxExecute improved.
3672
3673 wxMSW:
3674
3675 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
3676 expected).
3677 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
3678 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
3679 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
3680 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
3681 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
3682 - Fixed focus-related crash.
3683
3684 wxMotif:
3685
3686 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
3687 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
3688
3689 General:
3690
3691 - wxLocale documented.
3692 - Added include filenames to class reference.
3693 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
3694 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
3695 (though doesn't display help yet).
3696
3697 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
3698 --------------------------
3699
3700 wxGTK:
3701
3702 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3703
3704 wxMSW:
3705
3706 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
3707 rationalised.
3708 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
3709
3710 wxMotif:
3711
3712 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
3713 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
3714 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
3715 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
3716 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
3717 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
3718 crashes for some reason).
3719 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
3720 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
3721
3722 General:
3723
3724 - Further doc improvements.
3725 - wxGenericValidator added.
3726 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
3727 automatically.
3728
3729 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
3730 -------------------------
3731
3732 wxGTK:
3733
3734 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
3735 - wxToolTip class added.
3736 - Miscellaneous fixes.
3737
3738 wxMSW:
3739
3740 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
3741 - Makefiles for more compilers.
3742 - TWIN32 support added.
3743 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
3744 factored out program/library settings.
3745 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
3746
3747 wxMotif:
3748
3749 - A few more colour fixes.
3750 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
3751 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
3752 - wxChoice crash fix.
3753 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
3754
3755 General:
3756
3757 - wxBusyCursor class added.
3758 - Added samples/dde.
3759 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
3760
3761 Beta 2, January 1999
3762 --------------------
3763
3764 wxGTK:
3765
3766 wxMSW:
3767
3768 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
3769
3770 wxMotif:
3771
3772 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
3773 the right place.
3774 - Cured some widget table clashes.
3775 - Added thread support (Robert).
3776 - wxPoem sample now works.
3777
3778 General:
3779
3780 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
3781 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
3782 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
3783 or below).
3784 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
3785 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
3786 sample.
3787 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
3788
3789 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
3790 --------------------------
3791
3792 wxGTK:
3793
3794 - Various
3795
3796 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
3797
3798
3799 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
3800 ----------------------------
3801
3802 wxMSW:
3803
3804 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
3805 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
3806 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
3807 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
3808 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
3809 on a tab.
3810 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
3811 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
3812 of Stefan Csomor.
3813
3814 wxMotif:
3815
3816 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
3817 without (permanently) resizing the window.
3818 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
3819 that disabled scrollbar paging.
3820 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
3821 colours correctly.
3822 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
3823 when any button was pressed.
3824 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
3825 have a white background.
3826 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
3827 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
3828 they have sensible colours by default.
3829 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
3830 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
3831 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
3832 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
3833 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
3834
3835 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
3836 ----------------------------
3837
3838 wxMSW:
3839
3840 - More documentation updates, especially for
3841 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
3842 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
3843 of wxTrace.
3844 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
3845 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
3846 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
3847 position.
3848 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
3849
3850 wxMotif:
3851
3852 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
3853 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
3854 child frames).
3855 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
3856 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
3857 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
3858 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
3859 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
3860 the debugging implementation.
3861 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
3862 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
3863 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
3864 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
3865 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
3866 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
3867 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
3868
3869 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
3870
3871 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
3872 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
3873 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
3874 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
3875 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
3876 - wxNotebook almost done.
3877 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
3878 to vertical toolbars).
3879
3880 More recently:
3881
3882 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
3883 to scrollbars).
3884 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
3885 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
3886 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
3887
3888 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
3889 ----------------------------
3890
3891 wxMSW:
3892
3893 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3894 sample.
3895 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3896 - A few more makefiles added.
3897 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3898 - Further doc updates.
3899 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3900
3901 wxMotif:
3902
3903 - First start at Motif port.
3904 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3905 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3906 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3907 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3908
3909 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3910 --------------------------
3911
3912 wxMSW:
3913
3914 - wxBitmap debugged.
3915 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3916 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3917 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3918 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3919 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3920 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3921 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3922
3923 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3924 ------------------------
3925
3926 wxMSW:
3927
3928 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3929 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3930 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3931 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3932 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3933 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3934 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3935 changes, wxNotebook.
3936 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3937
3938 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3939 -----------------------
3940
3941 wxMSW:
3942
3943 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3944 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3945 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3946 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3947 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3948 don't support it.
3949 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3950 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3951
3952 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3953 -----------------------
3954
3955 wxMSW:
3956
3957 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3958 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3959
3960 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3961 -----------------------
3962
3963 wxMSW:
3964
3965 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3966 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3967 wxMenuBar.
3968 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3969 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3970 wxMenuItem accessors.
3971 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3972 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3973 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3974 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3975 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3976 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3977 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3978 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3979 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3980 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3981 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3982 first, then doing the assignment.
3983 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3984 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3985
3986 Generic:
3987
3988 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3989 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3990
3991 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3992 ----------------------
3993
3994 wxMSW:
3995
3996 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3997 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3998 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3999 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
4000 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
4001 require application-supplied positioning code though.
4002 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
4003 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
4004 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
4005
4006 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
4007 ------------------------
4008
4009 wxMSW:
4010
4011 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
4012 fields were used.
4013 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4014 compilation and pragmas.
4015 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
4016 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
4017
4018 Generic:
4019
4020 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
4021 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
4022 compilation and pragmas.
4023 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
4024
4025 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
4026 ------------------------
4027
4028 wxMSW:
4029
4030 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
4031 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
4032 some reason :-(
4033 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
4034 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
4035 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
4036 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
4037 startup/exit.
4038 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
4039 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
4040 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
4041 VADIM'S CHANGES:
4042 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
4043 compatibility functions.
4044 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
4045 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
4046 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
4047 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
4048 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
4049 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
4050 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
4051
4052 Generic:
4053
4054 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
4055 - Added samples/png.
4056 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
4057 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
4058 header files.
4059 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
4060
4061 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
4062 ------------------------
4063
4064 wxMSW:
4065
4066 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4067 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
4068 cleaned up properly before exit.
4069 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
4070 automatically.
4071 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
4072 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
4073 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
4074 unresolved issues.
4075 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
4076 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
4077 tray area.
4078 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
4079 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
4080 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
4081 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
4082
4083 Generic:
4084
4085 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
4086 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
4087 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
4088 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
4089 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
4090 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
4091 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
4092 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
4093 allow better control of memory.
4094 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
4095 checking.
4096 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
4097 float to long in wxToolBar files.
4098
4099 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
4100 ------------------------
4101
4102 wxMSW:
4103
4104 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
4105 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
4106 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
4107 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
4108 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
4109 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
4110 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
4111 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
4112 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
4113 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
4114 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
4115 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
4116 IUnknown.
4117 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
4118 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
4119 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
4120 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
4121 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
4122 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
4123 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
4124 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
4125 internal implementation.
4126 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
4127 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
4128 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
4129
4130 Generic:
4131
4132 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
4133 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
4134 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
4135 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
4136 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
4137
4138 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
4139 --------------------------
4140
4141 wxMSW:
4142
4143 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4144 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4145 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
4146 changes.
4147 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
4148 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
4149 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
4150 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
4151 again.
4152 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
4153 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
4154 e.g. wxDC.
4155
4156 Generic:
4157
4158 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
4159 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
4160 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
4161 changes.
4162 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
4163 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
4164 docs/gtk.
4165 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
4166 created dynamically, not as a global object.
4167 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
4168 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
4169 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
4170 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
4171 - Added gcc pragmas.
4172 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
4173 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
4174 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
4175 added a few references to wxTransString.
4176 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
4177 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
4178 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
4179 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
4180 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
4181 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
4182 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
4183 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
4184 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
4185 MoreRequested.
4186
4187 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
4188 --------------------------
4189
4190 All:
4191
4192 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
4193 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
4194 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
4195 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
4196 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
4197 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
4198 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
4199 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
4200 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
4201 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
4202 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
4203 scrolling toolbars.
4204 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
4205 to help printing with multiple pages.
4206 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
4207 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
4208 implementation updated to use these base classes.
4209 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
4210 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
4211 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
4212 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
4213 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
4214 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
4215 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
4216 New files from Vadim:
4217 include\wx\string.h
4218 include\wx\debug.h
4219 include\wx\file.h
4220 include\wx\log.h
4221 include\wx\intl.h
4222 src\common\string.cpp
4223 src\common\log.cpp
4224 src\common\intl.cpp
4225 src\common\file.cpp
4226 No longer use GNU wxString files.
4227 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
4228 src\common\filefn.cpp.
4229 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
4230 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
4231 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
4232 including changes to defs.h.
4233 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
4234 introduced.
4235 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
4236 hidden).
4237 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
4238 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
4239 trick).
4240 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
4241
4242 Alpha 3, September 1997
4243 -----------------------
4244
4245 All:
4246
4247 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
4248 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
4249 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
4250 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
4251 - Started documentation.
4252
4253 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
4254 ------------------------
4255
4256 All:
4257
4258 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
4259 with MetroWerks compiler.
4260 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
4261 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
4262 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
4263 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
4264 for testing purposes.
4265 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
4266 handlers.
4267 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
4268 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
4269 fully).
4270 - Added back wxRadioBox.
4271 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
4272 a separate file.
4273
4274 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
4275 -----------------------
4276
4277 Generic:
4278
4279 At this point, the following has been achieved:
4280
4281 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
4282 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
4283 wxString instead of char *.
4284 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
4285 old system event system) and code size reduced.
4286 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
4287 as wxbWindow now removed.
4288 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
4289 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
4290 - PrologIO revised.
4291 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
4292 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
4293 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
4294 Windows settings.
4295 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
4296 settings mucho rationalised.
4297 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
4298 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
4299 classes removed.
4300 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
4301 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
4302 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
4303 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
4304 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
4305 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
4306 of event handlers.
4307 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
4308 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
4309 wxToolBarBase
4310 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
4311 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
4312 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
4313 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
4314 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
4315 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
4316 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
4317 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
4318 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
4319 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
4320 in the future.
4321 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
4322 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
4323 variables instead.
4324 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
4325 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
4326 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
4327 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
4328 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
4329 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
4330 Win95.
4331 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
4332 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
4333 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
4334 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
4335 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
4336 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).