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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
6 ================================
7
8 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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10
11 - For all wxInputStreams, Eof() becomes true after an attempt has been made
12 to read _past_ the end of file.
13 - wxFileName::DirExists() checks if the path of the file is a directory, not
14 if the whole name is a directory.
15 - wxDialog::CreateButtonSizer() may return NULL now, please see the manual.
16 - wxStaticBoxSizer now deletes the associated wxStaticBox when it is deleted.
17 - wxArray::Alloc() now works as reserve() and does not clear the array any more
18 - Windows calling CaptureMouse() are now required to handle the
19 wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event and not call ReleaseMouse() in this case.
20 - wxInputStream::GetC() now returns an int in the range 0 - 255 on success
21 instead of a char the range -128 - 127.
22
23
24 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
25 -----------------------------------------------------------
26
27 - Some classes (notably wxBitmap and wxImage) don't define operator==() as it
28 used to work in somewhat unexpected way as it compared only internal pointers
29 and not the object data. The code using it will have to be updated:
30 * If the object was compared with wxNullXXX, use IsOk() method instead
31 * If valid object need to be compared, use IsSameAs() to reproduce the old
32 behaviour or change the code to avoid comparing bitmaps &c.
33 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour.
34 - wxDC objects can't be created directly now (this never worked, now it doesn't
35 even compile).
36 - wxCHECK family of macros now must be followed by a semicolon.
37 - wxMBConv::cMB2WC() and cWC2MB() take size of the input buffer and return
38 length of the converted string in all cases now.
39 - wxHtmlWindow::OnCellClicked() now returns bool.
40 - wxHtmlCell::OnMouseClick() was deprecated and replaced with
41 wxHtmlCell::ProcessMouseClick(); old code overriding OnMouseClick() will
42 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
43 use ProcessMouseClick().
44 - wxHtmlCell::GetCursor() was deprecated and replaced with
45 wxHtmlCell::GetMouseCursor(); old code overriding GetCursor() will
46 continue to work with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6, but should be rewritten to
47 use GetMouseCursor().
48 - wxHtmlCell::AdjustPagebreak() signature has changed, update your code if you
49 override it.
50 - wxFontEnumerator::GetFacenames() and GetEncodings() now return arrays and
51 not pointers to arrays.
52 - SetDefaultItem() method was moved from wxPanel to wxTopLevelWindow
53 - wxDialog::OnOK/OnCancel() don't exist any more, use SetAffirmative/EscapeId()
54 - wxPathList doesn't derive from (deprecated) wxStringList any more
55 - wxGLContext class has no 1:1 coupling to a wxGLCanvas class any more.
56 As a consequence, the class interface changed largely. Code updates, if
57 any are required at all, are easy to accomplish though.
58
59
60 Deprecated methods since 2.6.x and their replacements
61 -----------------------------------------------------
62
63 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated in favour of wxGetCwd().
64 - wxDC::BeginDrawing() and wxDC::EndDrawing() deprecated, don't use them.
65 - wxWindowBase::GetBestFittingSize --> wxWindowBase::GetEffectiveMinSize.
66 - wxWindowBase::SetBestFittingSize --> wxWindowBase::SetInitialSize.
67 - Seeking on a zip stream returned from wxFileSystem without using the new
68 wxFS_SEEKABLE flags is deprecated. You can still seek, but use the flag.
69 - Constructor wxZipInputStream(const wxString& archive, const wxString& file)
70 deprecated in favour of wxFileSystem (other zip ctors are not deprecated).
71
72
73
74 Major new features in 2.8 release
75 ---------------------------------
76
77 - New AUI library supporting docking windows and much more.
78 - New rich text control library implementing a generic wxRichTextCtrl,
79 using only the wxWidgets API. Also includes formatting dialogs, conversion
80 to HTML, and printing classes.
81 - New wxComboCtrl class giving the ability to create custom, graphical
82 comboboxes. Associated classes include wxOwnerDrawnComboBox, wxComboPopup
83 and wxBitmapComboBox.
84 - Further functionality including wxAnimationCtrl (moved from contrib/src/anim
85 and enhanced), wxSimpleHtmlListBox, wxHyperlinkCtrl, wxColourPickerCtrl,
86 wxDirPickerCtrl, wxFilePickerCtrl, wxFontPickerCtrl, wxCollapsiblePane,
87 wxAboutBox, wxTreebook, tar streams.
88
89
90 2.8.0
91 -----
92
93 All:
94
95 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents
96 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
97 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
98 a stream that is seekable.
99 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows
100 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize()
101 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse)
102
103 wxMSW:
104
105 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
106 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
107 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista
108 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
109
110 wxGTK:
111
112 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles
113 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure
114
115
116 2.7.2
117 -----
118
119 All:
120
121 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
122 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
123 - Added wxTar streams.
124 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
125 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
126
127 All (GUI):
128
129 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
130 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
131 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
132 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
133 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
134 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
135 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
136 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
137 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
138 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
139 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
140 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
141 formatting.
142 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
143 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
144 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
145 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
146
147 Unix Ports:
148
149 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
150 program (Francesco Montorsi).
151
152 wxGTK:
153
154 - More RTL work.
155 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
156 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
157 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
158 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
159
160
161 2.7.1
162 -----
163
164 All:
165
166 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
167 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
168 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
169 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
170 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
171 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
172 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
173 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
174 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
175 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
176 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
177 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
178 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
179 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
180 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
181
182 All (GUI):
183
184 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
185 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
186 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
187 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
188 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
189 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
190 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
191 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
192 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
193 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
194 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
195 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
196 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
197 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
198
199 wxMSW:
200
201 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
202 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
203 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
204 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
205 high-contrast theme).
206 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
207
208 wxMac:
209
210 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
211 to the SDK.
212
213 wxGTK:
214
215 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
216 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
217 - Implemented right-to-left support.
218 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
219 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
220
221 wxUniv:
222
223 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
224
225
226 2.7.0
227 -----
228
229 All:
230
231 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
232 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
233 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
234 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
235 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
236 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
237 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
238 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
239 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
240 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
241 during a search and replace.
242 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
243 are both used in the same program.
244 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
245 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
246 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
247 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
248 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
249 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
250 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
251 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
252 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
253 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
254 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
255 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
256 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
257 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
258 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
259 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
260 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
261 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
262 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
263 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
264 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
265 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
266 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
267 the first time it was called.
268 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
269 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
270 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
271 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
272 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
273 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
274 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
275 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
276 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
277 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
278
279 All (GUI):
280
281 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
282 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
283 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
284 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
285 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
286 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
287 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
288 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
289 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
290 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
291 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
292 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
293 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
294 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
295 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
296 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
297 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
298 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
299 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
300 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
301 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
302 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
303 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
304 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
305 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
306 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
307 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
308 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
309 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
310 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
311 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
312 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
313 by Sandro Sigala).
314 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
315 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
316 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
317 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
318 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
319 best size.
320 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
321 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
322 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
323 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
324 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
325 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
326 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
327 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
328 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
329 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
330 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
331 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
332 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
333 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
334 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
335 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
336 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
337 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
338 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
339 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
340 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
341 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
342 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
343 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
344 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
345 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
346 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
347 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
348 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
349 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
350 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
351 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
352 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
353 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
354 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
355 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
356 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
357 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
358 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
359 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
360
361 wxMSW:
362
363 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
364 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
365 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
366 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
367 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
368 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
369 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
370 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
371 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
372 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
373 wxMSW faq for details).
374 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
375 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
376 to the link command.
377 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
378 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
379 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
380 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
381 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
382 show.
383 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
384 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
385 initial construction.
386 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
387 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
388 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
389 events).
390 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
391 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
392 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
393 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
394 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
395 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
396 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
397 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
398 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
399 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
400 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
401 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
402 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
403 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
404 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
405 changes the system font.
406 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
407 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
408 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
409 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
410 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
411 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
412
413 wxGTK:
414
415 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
416 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
417 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
418 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
419 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
420 implementation.
421 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
422 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
423 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
424 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
425 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
426 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
427 previously unable to be focused before.
428 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
429 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
430 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
431 class was used.
432 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
433 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
434 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
435 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
436 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
437 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
438 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
439 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
440 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
441
442 wxMac:
443
444 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
445 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
446 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
447 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
448 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
449 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
450 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
451 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
452 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
453 - Corrected idle wake-up.
454 - Corrected wxExecute.
455 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
456 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
457 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
458 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
459 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
460 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
461 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
462 were found.
463 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
464 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
465 under Mach-O.
466 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
467 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
468 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
469 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
470 end of file with an error.
471 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
472 binaries.
473 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
474 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
475 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
476 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
477 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
478 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
479 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
480
481 wxCocoa:
482
483 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
484
485 wxWinCE:
486
487 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
488 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
489 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
490 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
491 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
492 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
493 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
494 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
495 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
496 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
497 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
498 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
499 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
500 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
501 directly, however.
502 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
503 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
504 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
505 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
506 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
507
508 wxUniv:
509
510 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
511 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
512 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
513
514 wxX11:
515
516 - Invisible text problem fixed.
517 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
518 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
519 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
520
521 Unix:
522
523 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
524
525 wxMGL:
526
527 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
528 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
529
530
531 2.6.2
532 -----
533
534 All:
535
536 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
537 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
538 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
539 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
540 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
541 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
542 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
543 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
544 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
545 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
546 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
547 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
548
549 All (GUI):
550
551 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
552 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
553 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
554 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
555 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
556 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
557 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
558 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
559 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
560 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
561 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
562 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
563
564 wxMSW:
565
566 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
567 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
568 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
569 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
570 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
571 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
572 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
573 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
574 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
575 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
576 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
577 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
578 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
579 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
580 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
581
582 wxGTK:
583
584 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
585 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
586 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
587 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
588 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
589 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
590 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
591 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
592 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
593 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
594 - Fixed domain socket handling.
595
596 wxMac:
597
598 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
599 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
600 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
601 - Various text control bug fixes.
602 - Automatic menu management improved.
603 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
604 due to dangling cycle pointers.
605 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
606 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
607 showing modally).
608
609 wxOS2
610
611 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
612
613 wxUniv:
614
615 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
616 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
617
618 wxMotif:
619
620 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
621 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
622 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
623 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
624 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
625 flag has been specified.
626 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
627 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
628 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
629 showing modally).
630
631 wxMGL:
632
633 - Fixed crash on exit.
634 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
635
636 wxX11:
637
638 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
639
640
641 2.6.1
642 -----
643
644 All:
645
646 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
647 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
648
649 All (GUI):
650
651 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
652 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
653 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
654 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
655 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
656 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
657 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
658 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
659 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
660 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
661
662 wxMSW:
663
664 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
665 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
666 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
667 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
668 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
669 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
670 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
671 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
672 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
673 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
674 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
675 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
676 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
677 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
678 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
679 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
680 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
681 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
682 - Compiles again with WIN64.
683 - Winelib compilation now works.
684 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
685 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
686 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
687 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
688 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
689 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
690 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
691 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
692 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
693 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
694 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
695 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
696 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
697
698 wxWinCE:
699
700 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
701
702 wxGTK:
703
704 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
705 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
706 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
707 - Added bitmap support in menus.
708
709 wxMac:
710
711 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
712 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
713 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
714 incorrect state.
715 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
716 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
717 - Window menu now added automatically.
718 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
719 - Modified function key support fixed.
720 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
721
722 wxX11:
723
724 - Menu problems fixed.
725 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
726 - Fixed a font memory leak.
727 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
728
729
730 2.6.0
731 -----
732
733 All:
734
735 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
736 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
737
738 All (GUI):
739
740 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
741 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
742
743 wxMSW:
744
745 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
746 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
747 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
748
749 wxWinCE:
750
751 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
752
753 wxGTK:
754 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
755 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
756 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
757 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
758 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
759 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
760 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
761
762 wxMac:
763 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
764
765 2.5.5
766 -----
767
768 All:
769
770 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
771 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
772 - Added wxDebugReport class.
773 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
774 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
775 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
776 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
777 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
778 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
779
780 All (GUI):
781
782 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
783 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
784 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
785 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
786 the whole virtual area.
787 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
788 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
789 isn't used to set the window size.
790 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
791 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
792 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
793 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
794
795 Unix:
796
797 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
798
799 wxMSW:
800
801 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
802 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
803 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
804 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
805 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
806 handling (Jamie Gadd).
807
808 wxGTK:
809
810 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
811 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
812 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
813 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
814 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
815 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
816 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
817 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
818
819 wxMac:
820
821 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
822
823 wxPalmOS:
824
825 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
826
827 wxWinCE:
828
829 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
830 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
831 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
832 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
833 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
834 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
835 with correct titlebar style.
836 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
837 PocketPC guidelines
838 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
839 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
840 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
841 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
842 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
843 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
844 to the dialog's toolbar.
845
846 2.5.4
847 -----
848
849 All:
850
851 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
852 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
853 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
854 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
855 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
856 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
857 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
858 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
859 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
860 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
861 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
862 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
863 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
864 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
865 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
866 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
867 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
868 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
869 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
870 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
871 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
872 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
873 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
874 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
875 printing stuff in the GTK port.
876 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
877 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
878 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
879 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
880 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
881 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
882 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
883 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
884 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
885 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
886 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
887 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
888 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
889 due to a rounding error.
890 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
891 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
892 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
893 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
894 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
895 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
896 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
897 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
898
899
900 All (GUI):
901
902 - added wxMediaCtrl
903 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
904 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
905 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
906 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
907 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
908 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
909 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
910 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
911 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
912 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
913 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
914 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
915 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
916 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
917 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
918 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
919 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
920
921 Unix:
922
923 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
924
925 wxGTK:
926
927 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
928 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
929 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
930 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
931 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
932 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
933 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
934 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
935 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
936 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
937 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
938 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
939 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
940 errors otherwise.
941 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
942 - Added wxRawBitmap support
943 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
944 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
945 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
946
947 wxMac:
948
949 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
950 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
951 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
952 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
953
954 wxMSW:
955
956 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
957 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
958 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
959 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
960 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
961
962 wxWinCE:
963 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
964 but not mentioned anywhere.
965 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
966
967 wxUniv:
968
969 - wxBU_... button align flags support
970 - vertical notebook orientation support
971 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
972 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
973
974 wxPalmOS:
975
976 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
977 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
978 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
979 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
980 - enumeration of available volumes
981 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
982 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
983 - native wxColourDialog implementation
984 - native wxSystemSettings colours
985 - native wxButton implementation
986 - native wxCheckBox implementation
987 - native wxSlider implementation
988 - native wxToggleButton implementation
989 - native wxRadioButton implementation
990 - native wxStaticText implementation
991 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
992
993
994 2.5.3
995 -----
996
997 All:
998
999 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1000 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1001 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1002 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1003 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1004 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1005 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1006 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1007 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1008 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1009 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1010 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1011 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1012 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1013 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1014 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1015
1016 All (GUI):
1017
1018 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1019 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1020 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1021 is discouraged
1022 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1023 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1024 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1025 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1026 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1027 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1028 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1029 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1030 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1031 - added samples/splash
1032 - added support for stock buttons
1033 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1034 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1035 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1036 - added wxChoicebook control
1037 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1038 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1039 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1040 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1041 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1042 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1043 supported, instead of zero.
1044 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1045
1046 Unix:
1047
1048 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1049 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1050 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1051 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1052 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1053
1054 wxCocoa:
1055
1056 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1057 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1058 - Tooltips now supported
1059 - wxSound now supported
1060 - wxDisplay now supported
1061 - Some stock cursors now supported
1062
1063 wxMac:
1064
1065 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1066 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1067 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1068 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1069
1070 wxGTK:
1071
1072 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1073 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1074 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1075 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1076 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1077 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1078 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1079 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1080 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1081 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1082 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1083 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1084 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1085 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1086 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1087 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1088 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1089 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1090 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1091
1092 wxMotif:
1093
1094 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1095
1096 wxMSW:
1097
1098 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1099 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1100 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1101 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1102 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1103 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1104 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1105 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1106 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1107 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1108 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1109 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1110 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1111 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1112
1113 wxUniv/X11:
1114
1115 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1116
1117 wxWinCE:
1118
1119 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1120 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1121 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1122 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1123
1124 wxHTML:
1125
1126 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1127 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1128
1129
1130 2.5.2
1131 -----
1132
1133 All:
1134
1135 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1136 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1137 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1138 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1139 of run-time) now
1140 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1141 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1142 to forward declare these classes.
1143
1144 All (GUI):
1145
1146 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1147 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1148 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1149 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1150 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1151 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1152 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1153 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1154 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1155 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1156 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1157 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1158 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1159 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1160 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1161
1162 wxMSW:
1163
1164 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1165 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1166 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1167 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1168 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1169 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1170 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1171 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1172 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1173 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1174 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1175 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1176
1177 wxGTK:
1178
1179 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1180
1181 wxMotif:
1182
1183 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1184 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1185 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1186 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1187
1188 wxUniv/X11:
1189
1190 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1191
1192 wxHTML:
1193
1194 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1195 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1196
1197 Unix:
1198
1199 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1200 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1201
1202 wxODBC:
1203
1204 - Full Unicode support is now available
1205 - BLOB support is working
1206
1207
1208 2.5.1
1209 -----
1210
1211 All:
1212
1213 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1214 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1215 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1216 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1217 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1218 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1219 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1220 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1221 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1222 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1223 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1224 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1225 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1226 (as in 2.5.0).
1227 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1228 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1229 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1230 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1231 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1232 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1233 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1234 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1235 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1236 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1237 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1238 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1239
1240 All (GUI):
1241
1242 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1243 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1244 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1245 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1246 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1247 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1248 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1249 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1250 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1251 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1252 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1253 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1254 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1255 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1256 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1257 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1258 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1259 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1260 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1261 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1262 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1263 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1264 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1265 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1266 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1267 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1268
1269 wxMSW:
1270
1271 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1272 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1273 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1274 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1275 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1276 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1277 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1278 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1279 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1280 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1281 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1282 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1283 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1284 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1285 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1286 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1287 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1288 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1289 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1290 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1291 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1292 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1293 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1294 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1295 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1296 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1297 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1298 than the specified default size
1299 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1300
1301 wxGTK:
1302
1303 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1304 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1305 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1306 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1307 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1308 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1309 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1310 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1311 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1312
1313 wxMac:
1314
1315 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1316 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1317 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1318 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1319
1320 wxMotif:
1321
1322 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1323
1324 wxHTML:
1325
1326 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1327 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1328
1329 Unix:
1330
1331 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1332 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1333 addition to existing OSS one
1334 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1335
1336
1337 2.5.0
1338 -----
1339
1340 All:
1341
1342 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1343 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1344 separately compiled library
1345 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1346 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1347 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1348 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1349 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1350 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1351 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1352 by default in Unicode mode
1353 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1354 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1355 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1356 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1357 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1358 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1359 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1360 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1361 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1362 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1363 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1364 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1365 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1366 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1367 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1368 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1369 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1370 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1371 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1372 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1373
1374 wxBase:
1375
1376 - added Watcom makefiles
1377 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1378
1379 All GUI ports:
1380
1381 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1382 - added wxListbook control
1383 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1384 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1385 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1386 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1387 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1388 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1389 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1390 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1391 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1392 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1393 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1394 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1395 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1396 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1397 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1398 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1399 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1400 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1401 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1402 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1403 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1404 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1405 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1406 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1407 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1408 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1409 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1410 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1411 default extension for the template
1412 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1413 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1414 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1415 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1416 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1417 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1418 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1419 to allow better rich text support.
1420 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1421 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1422 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1423 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1424 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1425 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1426 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1427 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1428 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1429 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1430 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1431 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1432 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1433 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1434 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1435 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1436 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1437 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1438 - added wxMirrorDC class
1439 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1440 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1441 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1442 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1443 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1444 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1445 improved
1446
1447 Unix:
1448
1449 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1450 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1451 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1452 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1453 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1454
1455 Generic controls:
1456
1457 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1458 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1459 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1460 to contrib/src/deprecated
1461
1462 wxGTK:
1463
1464 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1465 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1466 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1467 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1468 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1469 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1470 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1471 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1472 be appended to filenames with no extension
1473 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1474 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1475 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1476 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1477
1478 wxMac:
1479
1480 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1481 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1482
1483 wxMSW:
1484
1485 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1486 - added wxCrashReport
1487 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1488 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1489 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1490 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1491 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1492 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1493 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1494 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1495 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1496 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1497 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1498 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1499 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1500 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1501 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1502 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1503 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1504 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1505 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1506 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1507 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1508 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1509 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1510 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1511 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1512
1513 wxMotif:
1514
1515 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1516 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1517 documentation for a detailed explanation
1518 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1519 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1520 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1521 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1522 - implemented wxToggleButton
1523 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1524 instead of a sunken border
1525 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1526 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1527
1528 wxUniv:
1529
1530 - controls in toolbars now supported
1531
1532 wxHTML:
1533
1534 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1535 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1536 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1537 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1538 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1539
1540
1541 OLD CHANGES
1542 ===========
1543
1544 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1545 ================================
1546
1547 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1548 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1549 with '!' in the first column.
1550
1551 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1552 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1553 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1554 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1555 2.6 release.
1556
1557 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1558 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1559 (see the documentation) useful.
1560
1561
1562 wxBase:
1563
1564 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1565 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1566 code.
1567
1568 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1569 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1570 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1571 arrays containing non-pointers.
1572
1573 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1574 simply don't make sense for all objects
1575
1576 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1577 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1578 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1579
1580 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1581
1582 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1583 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1584 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1585 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1586 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1587
1588 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1589 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1590 the default assert handling.
1591
1592 All (GUI):
1593
1594 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1595 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1596 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1597
1598 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1599 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1600 instead!
1601
1602 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1603 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1604 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1605
1606 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1607 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1608 you want to get OnChar() as well
1609
1610 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1611 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1612 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1613
1614 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1615 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1616 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1617 will *NOT* work any longer:
1618
1619 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1620 ... do something ...
1621 if ( flags & wxYES )
1622 ... do something else ...
1623
1624 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1625 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1626 the ctor
1627
1628 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1629
1630 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1631 if you derived any classes from it
1632
1633 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1634 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1635
1636 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1637 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1638
1639 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1640 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1641
1642 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1643 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1644 from happening
1645
1646 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1647 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1648 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1649
1650 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1651 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1652 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1653 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1654
1655 wxMSW:
1656
1657 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1658 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1659 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1660 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1661 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1662 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1663 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1664 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1665 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1666 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1667
1668 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1669 style to avoid it
1670
1671 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1672 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1673
1674 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1675 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1676 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1677
1678 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1679 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1680
1681
1682 Unix ports:
1683
1684 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1685 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1686 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1687 to compile pure C files.
1688
1689
1690 wxThread and related classes:
1691
1692 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1693 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1694 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1695 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1696
1697 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1698 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1699 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1700 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1701
1702 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1703 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1704 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1705
1706 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1707 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1708
1709
1710 OTHER CHANGES
1711 =============
1712
1713 2.4.0
1714 -----
1715
1716 wxMSW:
1717
1718 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1719
1720 2.3.4
1721 -----
1722
1723 All:
1724
1725 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1726 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1727 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1728
1729 Unix (Base/GUI):
1730
1731 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1732 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1733 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1734
1735 wxGTK:
1736 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1737 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1738
1739 wxX11:
1740 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1741
1742 wxMSW:
1743
1744 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1745 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1746
1747 wxHTML:
1748
1749 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1750
1751 2.3.3
1752 -----
1753
1754 wxBase:
1755
1756 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1757 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1758 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1759 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1760 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1761 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1762 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1763 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1764 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1765 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1766 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1767 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1768 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1769 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1770 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1771 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1772
1773 Unix (Base/GUI):
1774
1775 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1776 programs and not only GNU make
1777 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1778 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1779 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1780 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1781 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1782
1783 All (GUI):
1784
1785 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1786 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1787 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1788 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1789 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1790 wxWidgets dialogs
1791 - significantly improved native font support
1792 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1793 wxHashTable
1794 - added IFF image handler
1795 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1796 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1797 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1798 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1799 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1800 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1801 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1802 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1803 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1804 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1805 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1806 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1807 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1808 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1809 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1810 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1811 - wxMessageOutput class added
1812 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1813 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1814 table fills up
1815 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1816 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1817 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1818 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1819 (Rene Rivera).
1820 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1821 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1822 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1823
1824 wxMSW:
1825
1826 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1827 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1828 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1829 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1830 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1831 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1832 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1833 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1834 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1835 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1836 are changed
1837 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1838 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1839 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1840 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1841 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1842 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1843 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1844 recursion any more
1845 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1846 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1847 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1848 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1849 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1850 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1851 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1852 has the capture before release it.
1853 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1854 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1855 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1856 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1857 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1858 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1859 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1860 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1861 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1862 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1863 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1864 provided in wxFontData
1865 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1866 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1867
1868 wxGTK:
1869
1870 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1871 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1872 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1873 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1874 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1875 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1876 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1877 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1878 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1879 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1880 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1881 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1882 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1883
1884 wxMotif:
1885
1886 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1887 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1888 - improved toolbar control alignment
1889 - implemented wxSpinButton
1890 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1891 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1892 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1893
1894 wxX11:
1895
1896 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1897 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1898
1899 wxMac:
1900
1901 - Many improvements
1902
1903 wxOS2:
1904
1905 - First alpha-quality release
1906
1907 wxHTML:
1908
1909 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1910 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1911 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1912 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1913 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1914
1915 2.3.2
1916 -----
1917
1918 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1919
1920 wxBase:
1921
1922 - wxRegEx class added
1923 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1924 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1925 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1926 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1927 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1928
1929 All (GUI):
1930
1931 - support for virtual list control added
1932 - column images in report mode of the list control
1933 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1934 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1935 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1936 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1937 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1938 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1939 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1940 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1941 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1942 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1943 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1944 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1945
1946 wxMSW:
1947
1948 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1949 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1950 project files
1951
1952 wxGTK:
1953
1954 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1955 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1956 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1957 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1958
1959 wxMac:
1960
1961 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1962 Tools
1963
1964 wxHTML:
1965
1966 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1967 to tags parsing
1968 - added support for animated GIFs
1969
1970 2.3.1
1971 -----
1972
1973 wxBase:
1974
1975 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
1976 - Fixed new charset detection code
1977 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1978 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1979 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1980 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1981 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1982 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1983
1984 All (GUI):
1985
1986 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1987 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1988 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1989 push on a custom event handler for example)
1990 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1991 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1992 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1993 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1994 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1995 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1996 first-time saved
1997 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1998 - Various wxXML enhancements
1999 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2000 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2001 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2002 instead of GetId()
2003 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2004 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2005
2006 wxMSW:
2007
2008 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2009 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2010 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2011 alt or shift) now work
2012 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2013 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2014 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2015 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2016 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2017 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2018 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2019 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2020 - We now send iconize events
2021 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2022 - Added mousewheel processing
2023 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2024 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2025 in wxDC
2026 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2027 child frame styles are honoured
2028
2029 wxGTK:
2030
2031 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2032 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2033 - We now send iconize events
2034 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2035 GetSelection() results
2036
2037 2.3.0
2038 -----
2039
2040 wxBase:
2041
2042 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2043 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2044 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2045 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2046 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2047 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2048 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2049 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2050 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2051 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2052
2053 All (GUI):
2054
2055 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2056 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2057 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2058 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2059 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2060 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2061 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2062 wxImage methods and ctor)
2063 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2064 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2065 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2066 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2067 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2068 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2069
2070 wxMSW:
2071
2072 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2073 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2074 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2075 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2076
2077 wxGTK:
2078
2079 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2080
2081 wxHTML:
2082
2083 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2084 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2085
2086 2.2.0
2087 -----
2088
2089 wxBase:
2090
2091 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2092 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2093 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2094 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2095 - Completed Czech translations
2096 - Some stream corrections
2097 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2098 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2099 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2100 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2101
2102 All (GUI):
2103
2104 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2105 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2106 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2107 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2108 - Paper names now translated
2109 - wxGrid fixes
2110 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2111 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2112 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2113 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2114 File dialog.
2115 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2116 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2117 writing code
2118 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2119 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2120 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2121 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2122
2123 wxMSW:
2124
2125 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2126 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2127 backward compatibility, please set
2128 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2129 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2130 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2131 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2132 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2133 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2134 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2135 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2136 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2137 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2138 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2139 - wxFrame restores focus better
2140 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2141 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2142 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2143 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2144 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2145 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2146 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2147 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2148 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2149 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2150
2151 wxGTK:
2152
2153 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2154
2155 wxMotif:
2156
2157 - Small compilation fixes
2158
2159 Documentation:
2160
2161 - wxCaret documented
2162
2163 2.1.16
2164 ------
2165
2166 wxBase:
2167
2168 All (GUI):
2169
2170 wxMSW:
2171
2172 - Various bug fixes
2173 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2174 files. This works under VC++ only
2175 - Modal dialog handling improved
2176 - Printer dialog now modal
2177
2178 wxGTK:
2179
2180 - Various bug fixes
2181
2182 wxMotif:
2183
2184 - Various bug fixes
2185
2186 2.1.15
2187 ------
2188
2189 Documentation:
2190
2191 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2192
2193 File hierarchy:
2194
2195 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2196 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2197
2198 wxBase:
2199
2200 - wxSocket support
2201 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2202 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2203 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2204 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2205 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2206 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2207 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2208 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2209 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2210 only so far)
2211 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2212 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2213 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2214 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2215 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2216 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2217 is available)
2218 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2219
2220 all (GUI):
2221
2222 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2223 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2224 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2225 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2226 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2227 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2228 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2229 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2230 John Norris)
2231 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2232 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2233 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2234 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2235 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2236 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2237 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2238 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2239 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2240 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2241 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2242 - wxDragImage class added
2243 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2244 controllers, as well as native help
2245 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2246
2247 wxMSW:
2248
2249 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2250 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2251 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2252 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2253 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2254 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2255 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2256 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2257 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2258 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2259 Unix ports
2260 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2261 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2262 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2263
2264 wxGTK:
2265
2266 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2267 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2268 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2269
2270 wxMotif:
2271
2272 - wxMenu::Enable works
2273 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2274 - OGL samples made to work again
2275
2276 wxHTML:
2277
2278 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2279 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2280 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2281 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2282 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2283 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2284 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2285 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2286 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2287 - improved HTML printing
2288 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2289 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2290 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2291 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2292
2293
2294 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2295 change log.
2296
2297 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2298 -----------------------
2299
2300 wxGTK:
2301
2302 - JPEG support added.
2303 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2304
2305 wxMSW:
2306
2307 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2308 SetTabSize added.
2309 - JPEG support added.
2310 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2311 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2312 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2313
2314 wxMotif:
2315
2316
2317 General:
2318
2319 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2320
2321
2322 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2323 -------------------------------
2324
2325 wxGTK:
2326
2327 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2328 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2329
2330 wxMSW:
2331
2332 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2333 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2334 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2335 - Some makefile fixes.
2336
2337 wxMotif:
2338
2339 - None.
2340
2341 General:
2342
2343 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2344 - More topic overviews.
2345 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2346 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2347 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2348
2349
2350 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2351 --------------------------
2352
2353 wxGTK:
2354
2355 - wxExecute improved.
2356
2357 wxMSW:
2358
2359 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2360 expected).
2361 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2362 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2363 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2364 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2365 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2366 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2367
2368 wxMotif:
2369
2370 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2371 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2372
2373 General:
2374
2375 - wxLocale documented.
2376 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2377 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2378 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2379 (though doesn't display help yet).
2380
2381 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2382 --------------------------
2383
2384 wxGTK:
2385
2386 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2387
2388 wxMSW:
2389
2390 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2391 rationalised.
2392 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2393
2394 wxMotif:
2395
2396 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2397 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2398 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2399 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2400 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2401 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2402 crashes for some reason).
2403 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2404 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2405
2406 General:
2407
2408 - Further doc improvements.
2409 - wxGenericValidator added.
2410 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2411 automatically.
2412
2413 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2414 -------------------------
2415
2416 wxGTK:
2417
2418 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2419 - wxToolTip class added.
2420 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2421
2422 wxMSW:
2423
2424 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2425 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2426 - TWIN32 support added.
2427 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2428 factored out program/library settings.
2429 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2430
2431 wxMotif:
2432
2433 - A few more colour fixes.
2434 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2435 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2436 - wxChoice crash fix.
2437 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2438
2439 General:
2440
2441 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2442 - Added samples/dde.
2443 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2444
2445 Beta 2, January 1999
2446 --------------------
2447
2448 wxGTK:
2449
2450 wxMSW:
2451
2452 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2453
2454 wxMotif:
2455
2456 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2457 the right place.
2458 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2459 - Added thread support (Robert).
2460 - wxPoem sample now works.
2461
2462 General:
2463
2464 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2465 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2466 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2467 or below).
2468 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2469 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2470 sample.
2471 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2472
2473 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2474 --------------------------
2475
2476 wxGTK:
2477
2478 - Various
2479
2480 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2481
2482
2483 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2484 ----------------------------
2485
2486 wxMSW:
2487
2488 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2489 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2490 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2491 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2492 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2493 on a tab.
2494 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2495 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2496 of Stefan Csomor.
2497
2498 wxMotif:
2499
2500 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2501 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2502 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2503 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2504 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2505 colours correctly.
2506 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2507 when any button was pressed.
2508 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2509 have a white background.
2510 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2511 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2512 they have sensible colours by default.
2513 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2514 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2515 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2516 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2517 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2518
2519 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2520 ----------------------------
2521
2522 wxMSW:
2523
2524 - More documentation updates, especially for
2525 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2526 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2527 of wxTrace.
2528 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2529 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2530 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2531 position.
2532 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2533
2534 wxMotif:
2535
2536 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2537 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2538 child frames).
2539 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2540 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2541 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2542 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2543 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2544 the debugging implementation.
2545 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2546 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2547 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2548 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2549 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2550 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2551 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2552
2553 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2554
2555 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2556 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2557 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2558 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2559 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2560 - wxNotebook almost done.
2561 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2562 to vertical toolbars).
2563
2564 More recently:
2565
2566 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2567 to scrollbars).
2568 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2569 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2570 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2571
2572 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2573 ----------------------------
2574
2575 wxMSW:
2576
2577 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2578 sample.
2579 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2580 - A few more makefiles added.
2581 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2582 - Further doc updates.
2583 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2584
2585 wxMotif:
2586
2587 - First start at Motif port.
2588 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2589 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2590 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2591 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2592
2593 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2594 --------------------------
2595
2596 wxMSW:
2597
2598 - wxBitmap debugged.
2599 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2600 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2601 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2602 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2603 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2604 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2605 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2606
2607 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2608 ------------------------
2609
2610 wxMSW:
2611
2612 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2613 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2614 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2615 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2616 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2617 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2618 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2619 changes, wxNotebook.
2620 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2621
2622 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2623 -----------------------
2624
2625 wxMSW:
2626
2627 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2628 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2629 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2630 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2631 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2632 don't support it.
2633 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2634 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2635
2636 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2637 -----------------------
2638
2639 wxMSW:
2640
2641 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2642 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2643
2644 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2645 -----------------------
2646
2647 wxMSW:
2648
2649 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2650 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2651 wxMenuBar.
2652 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2653 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2654 wxMenuItem accessors.
2655 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2656 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2657 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2658 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2659 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2660 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2661 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2662 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2663 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2664 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2665 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2666 first, then doing the assignment.
2667 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2668 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2669
2670 Generic:
2671
2672 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2673 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2674
2675 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2676 ----------------------
2677
2678 wxMSW:
2679
2680 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2681 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2682 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2683 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2684 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2685 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2686 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2687 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2688 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2689
2690 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2691 ------------------------
2692
2693 wxMSW:
2694
2695 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2696 fields were used.
2697 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2698 compilation and pragmas.
2699 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2700 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2701
2702 Generic:
2703
2704 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2705 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2706 compilation and pragmas.
2707 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2708
2709 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2710 ------------------------
2711
2712 wxMSW:
2713
2714 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2715 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2716 some reason :-(
2717 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2718 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2719 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2720 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2721 startup/exit.
2722 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2723 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2724 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2725 VADIM'S CHANGES:
2726 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2727 compatibility functions.
2728 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2729 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2730 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2731 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2732 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2733 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2734 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2735
2736 Generic:
2737
2738 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2739 - Added samples/png.
2740 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2741 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2742 header files.
2743 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2744
2745 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2746 ------------------------
2747
2748 wxMSW:
2749
2750 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2751 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2752 cleaned up properly before exit.
2753 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2754 automatically.
2755 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2756 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2757 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2758 unresolved issues.
2759 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2760 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2761 tray area.
2762 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2763 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2764 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2765 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2766
2767 Generic:
2768
2769 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2770 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2771 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2772 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2773 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2774 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2775 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2776 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2777 allow better control of memory.
2778 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2779 checking.
2780 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2781 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2782
2783 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2784 ------------------------
2785
2786 wxMSW:
2787
2788 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2789 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2790 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2791 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2792 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2793 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2794 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2795 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2796 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2797 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2798 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2799 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2800 IUnknown.
2801 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2802 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2803 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2804 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2805 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2806 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2807 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2808 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2809 internal implementation.
2810 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2811 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2812 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2813
2814 Generic:
2815
2816 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2817 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2818 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2819 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2820 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2821
2822 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2823 --------------------------
2824
2825 wxMSW:
2826
2827 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2828 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2829 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2830 changes.
2831 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2832 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2833 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2834 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2835 again.
2836 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2837 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2838 e.g. wxDC.
2839
2840 Generic:
2841
2842 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2843 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2844 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2845 changes.
2846 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2847 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2848 docs/gtk.
2849 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2850 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2851 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2852 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2853 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2854 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2855 - Added gcc pragmas.
2856 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2857 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2858 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2859 added a few references to wxTransString.
2860 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2861 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2862 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2863 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2864 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2865 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2866 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2867 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2868 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2869 MoreRequested.
2870
2871 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2872 --------------------------
2873
2874 All:
2875
2876 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2877 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2878 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2879 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2880 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2881 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2882 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2883 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2884 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2885 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2886 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2887 scrolling toolbars.
2888 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2889 to help printing with multiple pages.
2890 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2891 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2892 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2893 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2894 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2895 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2896 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2897 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2898 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2899 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2900 New files from Vadim:
2901 include\wx\string.h
2902 include\wx\debug.h
2903 include\wx\file.h
2904 include\wx\log.h
2905 include\wx\intl.h
2906 src\common\string.cpp
2907 src\common\log.cpp
2908 src\common\intl.cpp
2909 src\common\file.cpp
2910 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2911 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2912 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2913 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2914 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2915 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2916 including changes to defs.h.
2917 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2918 introduced.
2919 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2920 hidden).
2921 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2922 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2923 trick).
2924 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2925
2926 Alpha 3, September 1997
2927 -----------------------
2928
2929 All:
2930
2931 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2932 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2933 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2934 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2935 - Started documentation.
2936
2937 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2938 ------------------------
2939
2940 All:
2941
2942 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2943 with MetroWerks compiler.
2944 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2945 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2946 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2947 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2948 for testing purposes.
2949 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2950 handlers.
2951 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2952 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2953 fully).
2954 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2955 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2956 a separate file.
2957
2958 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2959 -----------------------
2960
2961 Generic:
2962
2963 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2964
2965 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2966 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2967 wxString instead of char *.
2968 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2969 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2970 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2971 as wxbWindow now removed.
2972 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2973 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2974 - PrologIO revised.
2975 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2976 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2977 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2978 Windows settings.
2979 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2980 settings mucho rationalised.
2981 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2982 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2983 classes removed.
2984 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2985 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2986 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2987 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2988 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2989 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2990 of event handlers.
2991 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2992 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2993 wxToolBarBase
2994 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2995 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2996 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2997 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2998 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2999 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3000 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3001 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3002 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3003 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3004 in the future.
3005 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3006 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3007 variables instead.
3008 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3009 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3010 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3011 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3012 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3013 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3014 Win95.
3015 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3016 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3017 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3018 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3019 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3020 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).