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