1 CHANGES.txt for wxPython
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7 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
8 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
9 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
10 and a demo to show them in action.
12 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust.
14 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
16 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
18 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
21 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
22 default C++ contructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
23 coresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
24 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
25 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
26 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
27 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
28 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
31 Updated to version 1.39 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
34 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
35 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
36 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
42 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
43 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
44 on a custom event handler for example.)
46 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
47 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
49 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
50 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
52 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
54 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
56 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
58 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
64 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
65 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
67 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
68 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
71 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
73 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
74 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
77 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
78 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
79 access from non-GUI threads.
81 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
82 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
84 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
86 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
87 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
89 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
90 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
92 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
93 it gobs faster in certain situations.
95 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
96 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
97 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
98 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
99 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
100 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
101 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
102 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
103 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
106 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
107 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
110 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
111 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
113 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
115 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
117 Added wxToggleButton.
119 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
121 Added some methods to wxGrid:
122 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
123 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
124 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
125 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
127 GetGridRowLabelWindow
128 GetGridColLabelWindow
129 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
131 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
132 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
133 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
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137 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
138 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
139 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
140 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
141 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
142 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
143 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
144 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
145 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
146 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
147 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
148 use weak references.)
150 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
151 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
152 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
153 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
154 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
155 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
156 object-type related oddities to me.
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159 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
160 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
161 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
164 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
165 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
167 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
171 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
172 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
173 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
174 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
175 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
176 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
178 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
179 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
188 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
189 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
196 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
197 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
198 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
199 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
201 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
203 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
205 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
206 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
208 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
209 column in report mode.
211 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
216 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
217 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
218 object, (usually a window.)
220 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
222 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
224 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
225 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
226 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
227 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
228 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
229 wxPython/src/export.h
231 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
232 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
233 utils. Will probably add more later.
235 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
236 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
239 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
240 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
242 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
244 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
245 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
247 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
248 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
256 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
257 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
258 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
259 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
260 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
261 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
262 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
263 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
266 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
267 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
268 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
269 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
270 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
271 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
272 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
273 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
274 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
276 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
277 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
279 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
280 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
281 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
284 Removed the old python sizers.
286 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
289 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
290 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
291 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
293 Lots of little fixes here and there.
295 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
296 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
297 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
305 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
307 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
314 Added wxLog and friends.
316 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
318 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
325 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
326 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
329 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
331 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
335 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
337 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
339 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
341 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
342 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
343 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
344 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
345 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
346 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
347 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
348 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
370 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
371 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
373 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
376 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
377 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
379 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
381 Plugged a memory leak.
383 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
384 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
385 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
386 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
389 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
390 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
391 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
393 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
394 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
395 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
396 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
397 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
398 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
399 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
400 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
403 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
404 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
405 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
406 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
408 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
409 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
410 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
411 but I've included a very readable source file in the
412 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
413 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
414 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
415 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
416 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
423 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
425 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
426 and some flicker problems.
428 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
429 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
431 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
434 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
436 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
438 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
439 with wxWindow.GetParent.
441 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
442 It is used like this:
444 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
446 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
447 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
449 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
451 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
453 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
454 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
455 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
456 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
457 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
458 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
460 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
461 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
462 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
463 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
464 methods look like this:
468 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
471 shortHelpString = "",
474 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
476 shortHelpString = "",
481 There are also coresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
482 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
484 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
486 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
488 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
489 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
490 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
492 Added some missing EVT_ functions.
494 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
497 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
499 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
500 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
501 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
508 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
511 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
512 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
515 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
516 being added. This should remove the need for our
517 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
519 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
520 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
521 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
522 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
523 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
525 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
527 Added new HTML printing classes.
529 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
531 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
532 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
533 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
536 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
537 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
538 thread from other threads.
540 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
542 Added wxFontEnumerator.
544 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
546 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
547 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
549 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
551 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
554 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
561 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
562 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
570 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
571 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
572 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
573 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
574 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
577 Now back to what's new...
579 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
581 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
583 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
584 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
585 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
586 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
587 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
590 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
591 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
594 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
595 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
596 example, the following are equivallent:
598 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
599 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
601 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
602 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
603 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
604 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
605 pages. See the demo for an example.
607 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
608 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
610 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
612 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
613 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
614 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
615 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
616 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
617 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
618 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
619 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
620 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
621 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
622 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
625 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
626 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
627 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
628 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
629 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
630 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
631 for more info and examples in future releases.
633 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
634 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
635 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
636 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
637 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
638 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
641 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
642 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
643 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
644 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
645 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
646 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
647 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
648 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
649 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
650 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
651 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
653 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
654 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
655 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
656 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
657 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
658 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
659 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
660 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
661 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
662 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
663 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
664 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
665 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
666 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
667 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
668 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
671 outputWindowClass = MyClass
675 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
678 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
679 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
680 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
681 to really screw things up.
683 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
684 in the wxWindows docs...
686 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
687 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
688 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
689 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
690 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
691 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
692 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
701 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
703 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
704 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
705 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
706 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
709 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
710 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
711 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
713 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
715 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
716 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
717 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
718 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
721 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
722 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
723 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
724 see distrib/build.py for more details.
726 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
727 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
728 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
729 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
738 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
740 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
741 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
742 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
743 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
744 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
746 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
747 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
748 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
749 is being unloaded by Python.
751 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
752 make wxPython look bad.
754 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
755 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
757 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
759 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
760 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
762 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
763 code to show how to use it.
765 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
768 Added wxGrid.GetCells
770 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
771 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
773 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
774 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
776 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
777 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
779 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
780 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
781 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
783 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
786 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
788 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
791 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
793 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
802 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
803 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
804 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
806 Added the Printing Framework.
808 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
809 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
810 data after loading each extension module.
812 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
815 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
816 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
817 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
819 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
820 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
821 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
822 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
828 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
830 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
831 wxPython application.
833 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
835 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
836 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
839 Added wxSafeYield function.
841 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
843 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
846 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
847 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
849 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
851 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
852 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
854 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
856 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
863 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
865 Several missing methods from various classes.
873 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
875 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
881 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
882 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
887 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
888 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
889 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
890 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
891 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
893 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
894 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
895 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
896 diverges from wxWindows.
898 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
899 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
900 it should just work... More news on this later.
902 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
904 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
907 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
913 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
915 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
916 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
922 Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to "from
923 wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about
924 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
925 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
927 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
929 Made the events work for wxGrid.
933 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
935 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
936 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
938 Other assorted fixes and additions.
946 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
947 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
948 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
949 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
950 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
951 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
953 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
954 must have been a different issue all along...
961 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
962 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
963 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
964 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
965 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
966 version segfault shortly after starting up.
968 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
970 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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