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