1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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8 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
11 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
13 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
14 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
15 any unknown file type.
17 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
18 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
20 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
21 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
22 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
25 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
27 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
28 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
30 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
31 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
33 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
35 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
38 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
39 change will get written at the next flush.
48 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
49 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
50 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
52 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
55 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
56 both has an icon and is a submenu.
58 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
61 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
62 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
63 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
64 instead of current values.
66 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
67 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
69 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
71 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
72 extra null character at the end.
74 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
75 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
77 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
80 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
82 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
85 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
87 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
88 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
89 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
92 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
93 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
96 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
97 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
98 default browser in response to the clicks.
100 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
101 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
102 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
103 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
104 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
105 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
106 parameter, like this::
109 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
112 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
113 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
114 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
116 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
119 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
122 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
124 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
125 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
127 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
128 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
131 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
132 self.history is None.
134 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
135 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
136 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
138 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
141 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
142 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
145 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
146 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
147 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
148 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
150 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
152 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
153 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
156 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
157 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
159 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
160 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
163 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
164 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
166 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
168 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
170 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
172 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
173 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
175 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
176 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
177 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
178 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
181 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
182 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
184 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
187 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
189 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
190 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
193 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
194 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
205 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
206 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
209 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
211 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
213 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
214 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
215 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
217 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
218 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
219 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
220 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
221 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
222 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
223 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
224 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
225 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
226 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
227 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
229 =================== ====================
230 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
231 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
232 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
233 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
234 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
235 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
236 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
237 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
238 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
239 =================== ====================
242 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
243 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
246 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
247 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
249 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
251 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
252 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
253 * Hide command for test window.
254 * Replacing classes works better.
264 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
266 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
267 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
268 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
269 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
270 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
272 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
274 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
277 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
280 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
281 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
282 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
283 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
284 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
287 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
288 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
291 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
292 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
294 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
295 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
296 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
297 the width of any column.
299 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
302 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
304 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
306 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
307 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
309 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
310 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
311 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
312 older generic file dialog is used.
314 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
317 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
318 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
319 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
320 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
322 Added MDI support to XRC
324 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
325 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
327 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
328 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
330 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
331 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
333 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
336 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
337 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
339 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
340 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
342 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
345 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
354 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
355 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
356 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
358 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
359 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
361 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
362 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
363 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
364 then calling GetValue().
367 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
368 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
369 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
370 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
372 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
375 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
376 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
377 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
379 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
381 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
382 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
384 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
385 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
387 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
388 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
389 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
390 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
391 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
392 the origin of the canvas.
394 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
395 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
396 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
398 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
399 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
401 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
402 internal scrollbar visible.
404 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
405 system paths for each platform.
407 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
408 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
409 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
410 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
411 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
413 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
414 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
415 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
417 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
418 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
419 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
421 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
422 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
423 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
425 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
427 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
428 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
429 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
430 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
432 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
433 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
434 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
435 of how to use the control.
437 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
438 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
440 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
441 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
444 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
445 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
447 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
448 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
449 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
450 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
451 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
452 finished with the timer.
454 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
455 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
456 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
457 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
458 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
459 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
460 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
461 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
462 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
463 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
465 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
466 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
467 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
468 via the wxPython C API.
470 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
471 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
472 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
473 when docstrings are added for those items.
475 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
476 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
477 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
478 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
479 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
482 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
483 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
484 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
485 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
486 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
487 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
488 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
489 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
490 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
491 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
492 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
495 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
496 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
497 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
498 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
499 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
501 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
502 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
504 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
505 lots of surplus events)
507 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
510 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
511 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
513 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
514 and GTK+'s context menu code.
516 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
517 (not all actions are allowed).
519 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
521 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
522 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
523 when GetString is called from an event handler.
525 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
526 and max ends of the slider.
528 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
529 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
530 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
533 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
534 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
535 not with labels/sizers.
536 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
537 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
540 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
541 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
543 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
544 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
547 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
548 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
549 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
550 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
553 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
554 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
556 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
558 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
559 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
560 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
561 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
563 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
566 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
567 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
569 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
571 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
573 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
574 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
576 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
579 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
582 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
583 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
584 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
585 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
588 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
590 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
592 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
593 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
594 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
595 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
598 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
599 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
601 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
602 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
604 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
605 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
606 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
607 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
608 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
609 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
611 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
614 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
617 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
620 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
621 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
622 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
623 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
632 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
634 Updated internal PNG library.
636 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
638 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
639 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
641 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
642 enabled (does an enable itself)
644 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
647 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
648 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
651 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
652 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
653 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
654 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
655 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
656 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
657 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
658 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
659 also be an image of a red X::
661 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
664 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
666 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
668 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
670 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
671 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
672 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
673 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
674 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
675 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
676 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
678 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
679 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
680 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
681 the wxPython modules.
683 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
684 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
685 user that they should look at that window.
687 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
688 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
690 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
692 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
693 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
694 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
695 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
696 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
697 and PyGetDate methods.
699 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
700 also set the colour of the dropdown.
702 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
704 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
706 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
708 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
709 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
710 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
712 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
714 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
716 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
718 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
721 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
724 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
726 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
727 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
730 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
732 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
733 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
736 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
737 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
738 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
740 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
741 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
742 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
743 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
744 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
745 should notice no difference.
747 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
748 when a new one is selected.
750 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
752 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
753 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
754 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
755 more details and a warning.
757 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
758 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
760 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
761 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
763 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
765 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
767 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
769 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
770 holding down the mouse button.
772 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
773 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
775 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
777 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
778 - Added bar graph demo
779 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
780 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
782 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
783 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
784 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
785 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
786 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
787 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
788 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
789 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
792 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
793 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
794 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
795 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
797 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
799 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
800 reflect package's public contents.
802 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
803 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
804 Migrarion Guide for more information.
806 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
807 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
808 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
809 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
811 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
813 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
814 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
817 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
818 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
828 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
830 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
832 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
834 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
835 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
837 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
838 flicker problems, and namespace use.
840 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
842 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
844 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
847 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
849 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
850 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
852 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
855 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
858 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
860 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
862 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
873 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
874 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
875 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
876 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
877 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
878 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
879 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
880 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
881 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
883 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
884 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
886 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
887 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
888 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
889 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
892 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
893 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
895 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
897 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
898 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
900 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
901 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
902 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
903 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
904 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
905 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
908 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
909 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
910 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
911 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
912 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
915 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
916 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
917 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
919 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
920 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
922 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
923 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
925 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
926 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
927 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
928 remaining compatible with "C".
930 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
933 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
934 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
935 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
936 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
937 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
938 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
939 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
940 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
941 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
943 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
945 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
946 Scintilla for several releases now.
948 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
949 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
950 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
951 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
953 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
954 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
955 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
958 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
959 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
960 with a more modern reimplementation.
962 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
963 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
965 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
966 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
967 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
969 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
970 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
971 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
972 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
973 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
975 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
976 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
977 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
978 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
981 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
982 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
985 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
988 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
993 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
994 -----------------------------------------------
997 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
998 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1001 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1004 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1005 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1006 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1007 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1008 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1009 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1010 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1013 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1014 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1018 Added wxIconLocation
1020 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1021 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1023 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1026 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1029 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1030 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1031 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1033 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1034 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1035 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1036 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1037 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1038 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1039 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1040 distros please send me a patch.
1042 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1043 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1045 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1046 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1047 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1048 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1049 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1050 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1053 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1056 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1058 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1060 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1062 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1063 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1064 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1065 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1066 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1067 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1068 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1071 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1074 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1076 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1077 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1079 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1080 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1081 MigrationGuide for more details.
1083 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1084 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1085 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1086 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1087 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1088 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1089 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1090 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1091 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1092 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1093 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1094 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1095 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1096 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1097 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1098 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1099 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
1101 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
1103 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
1112 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
1114 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
1116 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1117 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
1119 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
1121 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
1123 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
1131 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
1133 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
1135 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1136 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
1137 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1140 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1141 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1142 and wxWindows match.
1144 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
1145 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
1146 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
1147 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
1148 to the new namespace.
1150 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1151 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1152 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1153 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
1155 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1156 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1157 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
1158 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
1159 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1160 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1161 package. These will be removed in a future release.
1163 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1164 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1165 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
1167 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
1169 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1170 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
1172 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1173 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
1175 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1176 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
1178 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1179 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1182 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1183 a call to any Python callable object.
1185 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1186 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1187 to override the C++ virtual methods.
1189 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1190 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
1191 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1192 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
1193 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
1195 Added wxCursorFromBits.
1205 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1208 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1209 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1210 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
1212 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1215 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1218 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1221 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
1223 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1224 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1225 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
1231 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
1232 ------------------------------------------
1235 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1236 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1237 think I am testing in the future...
1241 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
1242 ----------------------------------------------
1245 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
1247 Updated pycolourchooser.
1249 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
1257 Added missing wxRect methods
1259 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
1261 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
1263 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1264 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1265 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1268 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1271 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
1273 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1274 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1277 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
1279 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1282 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
1284 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1285 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1286 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1287 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1288 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1289 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1290 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1291 static stable in the C++ class.
1293 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1294 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1295 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1296 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1299 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1300 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1301 always call them. The functions are::
1303 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1304 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1305 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1306 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1307 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1308 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1309 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1310 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1311 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1312 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1313 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1314 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1316 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1317 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
1319 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1320 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1321 doesn't have a standard place for them.
1323 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
1325 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
1327 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
1337 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1339 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
1348 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1351 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1352 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
1368 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
1370 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
1372 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
1376 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1377 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1378 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1379 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1380 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
1381 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1382 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
1383 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1384 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1385 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1386 you can use to play with this new feature.
1388 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1389 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
1390 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1391 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1392 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1393 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1394 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1395 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
1397 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1400 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1401 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1404 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
1406 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1407 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
1408 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1409 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1410 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
1412 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
1414 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
1416 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
1418 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1419 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1420 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
1422 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1423 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
1424 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
1426 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1427 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
1429 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
1430 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
1431 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
1432 windows when desired.
1434 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
1435 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
1436 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
1445 Added wxSplashScreen.
1447 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
1449 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
1451 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
1452 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
1453 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
1455 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
1456 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
1457 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
1459 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
1460 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
1461 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
1463 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1464 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1465 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1466 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1467 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1470 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
1474 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
1475 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
1478 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
1479 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
1480 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
1481 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
1482 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
1483 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
1484 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
1486 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
1487 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
1488 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
1489 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
1490 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
1491 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
1492 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
1493 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
1494 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
1495 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
1496 unicode build on win95.
1498 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
1499 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
1500 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
1501 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
1502 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
1503 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
1504 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
1505 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
1506 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
1507 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
1510 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
1512 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
1514 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
1516 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
1517 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1518 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
1519 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1520 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1521 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1522 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
1523 for any class that is OOR aware.
1525 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1526 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1529 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1530 the image data. (Patch #546009)
1532 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1535 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1536 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1537 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
1550 TransferDataFromWindow
1551 TransferDataToWindow
1554 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1559 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1562 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1563 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
1565 Added wxArtProvider.
1567 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1568 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1569 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
1570 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
1571 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
1573 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
1575 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1576 creating a ScrolledPanel.
1578 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1581 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1582 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1583 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1584 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
1586 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
1587 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1588 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
1589 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1590 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
1592 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
1593 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1594 respond to mouse events and etc.
1596 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1597 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
1599 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1600 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
1601 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
1602 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1603 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
1604 started with just the "pycrust" command.
1606 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1607 displays the details of the event.
1609 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
1611 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1612 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
1615 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
1617 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1626 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1627 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
1628 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
1630 Added some patches from library contributors.
1638 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1639 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1640 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1641 and a demo to show them in action.
1643 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1644 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
1646 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
1648 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
1650 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1653 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
1654 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1655 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
1656 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
1657 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
1658 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
1659 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
1660 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
1663 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
1664 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
1665 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
1666 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
1667 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
1668 wxSTC flag accordingly.
1670 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
1671 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
1672 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
1674 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
1676 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
1678 Added pySketch to the samples.
1680 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
1681 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
1682 multi-processor machine.
1684 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
1685 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
1687 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
1689 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
1690 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
1691 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
1692 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
1693 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
1694 original C++ pointer.
1696 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
1699 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
1701 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
1702 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
1704 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
1705 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
1706 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
1707 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
1708 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
1713 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
1715 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
1716 will now Disconnect the event.
1718 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
1720 Added wxFileHistory.
1722 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
1723 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
1724 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
1727 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
1729 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
1732 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
1733 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
1734 additional columns for each item. The classes are
1735 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
1736 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
1737 also be useful by themselves.
1739 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
1740 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
1741 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
1742 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
1743 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
1744 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
1754 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
1755 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
1756 on a custom event handler for example.)
1758 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1759 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
1761 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
1762 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
1764 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
1766 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
1768 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
1770 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
1778 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
1779 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
1781 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
1782 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
1785 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
1787 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
1788 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
1791 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
1792 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
1793 access from non-GUI threads.
1795 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
1796 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
1798 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
1800 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
1801 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
1803 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
1804 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
1806 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
1807 it gobs faster in certain situations.
1809 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
1810 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
1811 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
1812 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
1813 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
1814 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
1815 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
1816 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
1817 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
1820 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
1821 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
1824 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
1825 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
1827 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
1829 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
1831 Added wxToggleButton.
1833 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
1835 Added some methods to wxGrid:
1836 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
1837 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1838 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
1839 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1841 GetGridRowLabelWindow
1842 GetGridColLabelWindow
1843 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
1845 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
1846 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
1847 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
1850 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
1851 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
1852 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
1853 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
1854 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
1855 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
1856 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
1857 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
1858 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
1859 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
1860 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
1861 use weak references.)
1863 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
1864 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
1865 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
1866 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
1867 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
1868 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
1869 object-type related oddities to me.
1872 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
1873 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
1874 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
1877 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
1878 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
1880 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
1884 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
1885 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
1886 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
1887 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
1888 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
1889 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
1891 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
1892 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
1902 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
1903 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
1911 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1912 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
1913 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1914 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
1916 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
1918 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
1920 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1921 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
1923 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1924 column in report mode.
1926 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1927 bar after 2 seconds.
1931 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1932 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1933 object, (usually a window.)
1935 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
1937 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
1939 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1940 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
1941 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1942 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1943 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1944 wxPython/src/export.h
1946 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1947 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1948 utils. Will probably add more later.
1950 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1951 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
1954 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
1955 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
1957 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
1959 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1960 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
1962 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1963 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1972 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1973 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
1974 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
1975 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1976 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1977 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1978 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
1979 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1982 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1983 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
1984 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1985 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1986 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1987 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
1988 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1989 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
1990 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
1992 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1993 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
1995 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
1996 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1997 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2000 Removed the old python sizers.
2002 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2005 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2006 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2007 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2009 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2011 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2012 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2013 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2022 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2024 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2032 Added wxLog and friends.
2034 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2036 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2044 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2045 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2048 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2050 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2054 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2056 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2058 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2060 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2061 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2062 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2063 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2064 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2065 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2066 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2067 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2090 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2091 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2093 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2096 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2097 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2099 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
2101 Plugged a memory leak.
2103 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2104 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2105 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2106 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2109 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2110 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2111 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
2113 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2114 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2115 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2116 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2117 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2118 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2119 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2120 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2123 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2124 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2125 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2126 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
2128 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2129 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2130 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2131 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2132 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2133 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2134 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
2135 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2136 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
2141 What's new in 2.1.13
2142 --------------------
2145 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
2147 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2148 and some flicker problems.
2150 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2151 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
2153 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2156 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
2158 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
2160 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2161 with wxWindow.GetParent.
2163 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2164 It is used like this:
2166 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
2168 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2169 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
2171 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
2173 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
2175 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2176 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2177 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2178 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2179 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2180 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
2182 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2183 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2184 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2185 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2186 methods look like this:
2190 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2193 shortHelpString = "",
2194 longHelpString = "")
2196 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
2198 shortHelpString = "",
2199 longHelpString = "",
2203 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2204 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
2206 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
2208 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
2210 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2211 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2212 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
2214 Added some missing EVT functions.
2216 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2219 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
2221 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2222 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2223 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
2228 What's new in 2.1.11
2229 --------------------
2232 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2235 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2236 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2239 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2240 being added. This should remove the need for our
2241 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
2243 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2244 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2245 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2246 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2247 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
2249 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
2251 Added new HTML printing classes.
2253 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
2255 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2256 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2257 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2260 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2261 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2262 thread from other threads.
2264 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
2266 Added wxFontEnumerator.
2268 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
2270 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2271 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
2273 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
2275 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2278 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
2287 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2288 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
2297 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2298 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2299 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2300 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
2301 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2304 Now back to what's new...
2306 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
2308 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
2310 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
2311 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2312 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2313 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2314 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2317 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2318 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2321 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2322 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2323 example, the following are equivallent::
2325 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
2326 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
2328 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2329 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2330 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2331 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2332 pages. See the demo for an example.
2334 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2335 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
2337 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
2339 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2340 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2341 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2342 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2343 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2344 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2345 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2346 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2347 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2348 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2349 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2352 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2353 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2354 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2355 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2356 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2357 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2358 for more info and examples in future releases.
2360 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2361 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2362 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2363 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2364 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2365 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2368 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2369 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2370 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2371 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2372 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2373 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2374 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2375 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2376 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2377 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2378 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
2380 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2381 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2382 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2383 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2384 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2385 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2386 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2387 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2388 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2389 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2390 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2391 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2392 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2393 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2394 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2395 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
2398 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2402 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2405 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2406 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2407 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2408 to really screw things up.
2410 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2411 in the wxWindows docs...
2413 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2414 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2415 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2416 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2417 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2418 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2419 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2426 --------------------
2429 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
2431 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
2432 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2433 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2434 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2437 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2438 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2439 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
2441 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
2443 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2444 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2445 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2446 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
2449 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2450 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2451 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2452 see distrib/build.py for more details.
2454 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2455 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2456 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2457 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
2467 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
2469 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
2470 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
2471 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
2472 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
2473 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
2475 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
2476 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
2477 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
2478 is being unloaded by Python.
2480 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
2481 make wxPython look bad.
2483 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
2484 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
2486 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
2488 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2489 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
2491 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2492 code to show how to use it.
2494 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2497 Added wxGrid.GetCells
2499 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2500 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
2502 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2503 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
2505 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
2506 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
2508 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2509 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2510 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
2512 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2515 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
2517 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2520 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
2522 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2533 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2534 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2535 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
2537 Added the Printing Framework.
2539 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2540 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2541 data after loading each extension module.
2543 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2546 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2547 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2548 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
2550 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2551 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2552 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2553 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
2561 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
2563 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2564 wxPython application.
2566 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
2568 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2569 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2572 Added wxSafeYield function.
2574 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
2576 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2579 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2580 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
2582 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
2584 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2585 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
2587 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
2589 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2598 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
2600 Several missing methods from various classes.
2610 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
2612 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
2620 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2621 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
2628 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2629 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2630 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2631 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2632 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
2634 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2635 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2636 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2637 diverges from wxWindows.
2639 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2640 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2641 it should just work... More news on this later.
2643 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
2645 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2648 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
2656 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
2658 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2659 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
2665 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
2666 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
2667 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
2668 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
2670 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
2672 Made the events work for wxGrid.
2676 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
2678 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2679 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
2681 Other assorted fixes and additions.
2690 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2691 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
2692 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
2693 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
2694 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
2695 behavior was so different on different platforms.
2697 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2698 must have been a different issue all along...
2706 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
2707 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
2708 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
2709 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
2710 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
2711 version segfault shortly after starting up.
2713 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
2715 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
2724 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
2725 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory