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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.6.x
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8 - wxFontData::GetColour() now returns a const colour
16 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag
17 - wxGetWorkingDirectory() deprecated. Use wxGetCwd() instead.
22 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers()
23 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
24 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
25 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
26 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
27 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
28 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
29 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
30 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
31 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
32 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
33 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
34 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
35 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
36 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap()
37 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
38 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
39 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler
40 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown()
41 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
45 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
46 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
47 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
48 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
49 - Removed __WIN95__ define
53 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
54 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
58 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
62 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
63 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
64 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
65 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
66 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
67 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
71 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
79 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
80 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
81 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
82 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
83 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
84 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
85 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
86 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
87 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
88 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
89 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
90 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
94 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
95 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
96 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
97 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
98 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
99 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
100 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
101 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
102 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
103 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
104 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
105 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
109 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
110 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
111 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
112 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
113 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
114 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
115 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
116 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
117 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
118 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
119 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
120 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
121 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
122 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
123 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
127 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
128 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
129 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
130 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
131 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
132 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
133 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
134 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
135 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
136 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
137 - Fixed domain socket handling.
141 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
142 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
143 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
144 - Various text control bug fixes.
145 - Automatic menu management improved.
146 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
147 due to dangling cycle pointers.
148 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
149 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
154 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
158 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
159 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
163 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
164 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
165 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
166 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
167 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
168 flag has been specified.
169 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
170 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
171 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
176 - Fixed crash on exit.
177 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
181 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
189 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
190 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
194 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
195 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
196 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
197 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
198 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
199 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
200 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
201 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
202 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
203 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
207 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
208 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
209 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
210 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
211 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
212 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
213 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
214 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
215 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
216 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
217 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
218 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
219 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
220 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
221 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
222 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
223 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
224 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
225 - Compiles again with WIN64.
226 - Winelib compilation now works.
227 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
228 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
229 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
230 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
231 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
232 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
233 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
234 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
235 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
236 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
237 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
238 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
239 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
243 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
247 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
248 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
249 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
250 - Added bitmap support in menus.
254 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
255 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
256 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
258 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
259 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
260 - Window menu now added automatically.
261 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
262 - Modified function key support fixed.
263 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
267 - Menu problems fixed.
268 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
269 - Fixed a font memory leak.
270 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
278 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
279 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
283 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
284 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
288 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
289 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
290 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
294 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
297 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
298 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
299 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
300 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
301 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
302 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
303 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
306 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
313 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
314 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
315 - Added wxDebugReport class.
316 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
317 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
318 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
319 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
320 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
321 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
325 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
326 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
327 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
328 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
329 the whole virtual area.
330 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
331 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
332 isn't used to set the window size.
333 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
334 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
335 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
336 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
340 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
344 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
345 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
346 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
347 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
348 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
349 handling (Jamie Gadd).
353 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
354 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
355 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
356 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
357 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
358 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
359 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
360 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
364 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
368 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
372 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
373 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
374 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
375 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
376 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
377 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
378 with correct titlebar style.
379 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
381 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
382 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
383 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
384 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
385 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
386 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
387 to the dialog's toolbar.
394 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
395 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
396 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
397 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
398 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
399 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
400 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
401 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
402 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
403 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
404 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
405 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
406 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
407 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
408 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
409 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
410 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
411 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
412 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
413 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
414 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
415 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
416 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
417 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
418 printing stuff in the GTK port.
419 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
420 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
421 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
422 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
423 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
424 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
425 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
426 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
427 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
428 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
429 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
430 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
431 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
432 due to a rounding error.
433 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
434 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
435 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
436 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
437 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
438 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
439 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
440 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
446 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
447 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
448 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
449 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
450 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
451 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
452 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
453 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
454 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
455 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
456 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
457 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
458 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
459 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
460 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
461 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
462 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
466 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
470 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
471 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
472 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
473 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
474 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
475 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
476 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
477 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
478 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
479 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
480 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
481 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
482 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
484 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
485 - Added wxRawBitmap support
486 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
487 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
488 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
492 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
493 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
494 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
495 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
499 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
500 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
501 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
502 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
503 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
506 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
507 but not mentioned anywhere.
508 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
512 - wxBU_... button align flags support
513 - vertical notebook orientation support
514 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
515 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
519 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
520 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
521 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
522 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
523 - enumeration of available volumes
524 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
525 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
526 - native wxColourDialog implementation
527 - native wxSystemSettings colours
528 - native wxButton implementation
529 - native wxCheckBox implementation
530 - native wxSlider implementation
531 - native wxToggleButton implementation
532 - native wxRadioButton implementation
533 - native wxStaticText implementation
534 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
542 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
543 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
544 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
545 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
546 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
547 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
548 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
549 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
550 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
551 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
552 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
553 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
554 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
555 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
556 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
557 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
561 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
562 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
563 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
565 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
566 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
567 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
568 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
569 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
570 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
571 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
572 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
573 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
574 - added samples/splash
575 - added support for stock buttons
576 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
577 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
578 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
579 - added wxChoicebook control
580 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
581 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
582 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
583 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
584 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
585 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
586 supported, instead of zero.
587 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
591 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
592 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
593 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
594 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
595 - wx-config has new --version-full option
599 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
600 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
601 - Tooltips now supported
602 - wxSound now supported
603 - wxDisplay now supported
604 - Some stock cursors now supported
608 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
609 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
610 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
611 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
615 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
616 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
617 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
618 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
619 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
620 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
621 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
622 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
623 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
624 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
625 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
626 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
627 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
628 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
629 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
630 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
631 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
632 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
633 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
637 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
641 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
642 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
643 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
644 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
645 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
646 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
647 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
648 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
649 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
650 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
651 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
652 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
653 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
654 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
658 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
662 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
663 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
664 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
665 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
669 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
670 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
678 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
679 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
680 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
681 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
683 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
684 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
685 to forward declare these classes.
689 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
690 resulting in much better display of scaled images
691 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
692 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
693 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
694 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
695 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
696 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
697 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
698 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
699 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
700 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
701 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
702 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
703 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
707 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
708 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
709 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
710 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
711 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
712 even try to do it by default -- now it does
713 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
714 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
715 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
716 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
717 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
718 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
722 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
726 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
727 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
728 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
729 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
733 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
737 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
738 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
742 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
743 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
747 - Full Unicode support is now available
748 - BLOB support is working
756 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
757 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
758 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
759 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
760 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
761 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
762 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
763 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
764 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
765 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
766 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
767 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
768 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
770 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
771 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
772 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
773 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
774 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
775 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
776 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
777 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
778 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
779 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
780 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
781 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
785 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
786 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
787 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
788 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
789 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
790 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
791 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
792 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
793 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
794 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
795 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
796 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
797 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
798 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
799 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
800 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
801 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
802 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
803 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
804 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
805 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
806 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
807 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
808 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
809 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
810 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
814 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
815 - fixed DDE memory leaks
816 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
817 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
818 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
819 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
820 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
821 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
822 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
823 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
824 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
825 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
826 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
827 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
828 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
829 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
830 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
831 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
832 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
833 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
834 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
835 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
836 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
837 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
838 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
839 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
840 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
841 than the specified default size
842 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
846 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
847 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
848 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
849 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
850 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
851 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
852 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
853 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
854 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
858 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
859 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
860 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
861 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
865 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
869 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
870 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
874 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
875 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
876 addition to existing OSS one
877 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
885 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
886 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
887 separately compiled library
888 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
889 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
890 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
891 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
892 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
893 - added wxArray::SetCount()
894 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
895 by default in Unicode mode
896 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
897 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
898 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
899 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
900 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
901 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
902 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
903 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
904 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
905 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
906 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
907 - added wxRecursionGuard class
908 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
909 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
910 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
911 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
912 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
913 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
914 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
915 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
919 - added Watcom makefiles
920 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
924 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
925 - added wxListbook control
926 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
927 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
928 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
929 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
930 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
931 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
932 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
933 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
934 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
935 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
936 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
937 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
938 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
939 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
940 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
941 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
942 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
943 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
944 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
945 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
946 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
947 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
948 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
949 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
950 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
951 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
952 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
953 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
954 default extension for the template
955 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
956 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
957 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
958 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
959 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
960 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
961 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
962 to allow better rich text support.
963 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
964 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
965 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
966 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
967 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
968 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
969 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
970 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
971 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
972 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
973 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
974 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
975 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
976 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
977 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
978 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
979 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
980 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
981 - added wxMirrorDC class
982 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
983 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
984 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
985 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
986 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
987 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
992 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
993 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
994 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
995 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
996 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1000 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1001 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1002 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1003 to contrib/src/deprecated
1007 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1008 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1009 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1010 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1011 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1012 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1013 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1014 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1015 be appended to filenames with no extension
1016 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1017 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1018 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1019 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1023 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1024 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1028 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1029 - added wxCrashReport
1030 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1031 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1032 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1033 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1034 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1035 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1036 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1037 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1038 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1039 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1040 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1041 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1042 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1043 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1044 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1045 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1046 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1047 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1048 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1049 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1050 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1051 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1052 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1053 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1054 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1058 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1059 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1060 documentation for a detailed explanation
1061 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1062 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1063 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1064 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1065 - implemented wxToggleButton
1066 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1067 instead of a sunken border
1068 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1069 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1073 - controls in toolbars now supported
1077 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1078 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1079 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1080 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1081 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1087 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1088 ================================
1090 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1091 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1092 with '!' in the first column.
1094 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1095 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1096 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1097 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1100 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1101 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1102 (see the documentation) useful.
1107 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1108 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1111 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1112 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1113 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1114 arrays containing non-pointers.
1116 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1117 simply don't make sense for all objects
1119 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1120 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1121 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1123 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1125 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1126 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1127 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1128 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1129 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1131 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1132 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1133 the default assert handling.
1137 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1138 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1139 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1141 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1142 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1145 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1146 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1147 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1149 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1150 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1151 you want to get OnChar() as well
1153 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1154 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1155 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1157 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1158 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1159 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1160 will *NOT* work any longer:
1162 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1163 ... do something ...
1164 if ( flags & wxYES )
1165 ... do something else ...
1167 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1168 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1171 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1173 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1174 if you derived any classes from it
1176 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1177 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1179 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1180 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1182 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1183 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1185 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1186 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1189 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1190 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1191 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1193 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1194 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1195 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1196 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1200 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1201 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1202 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1203 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1204 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1205 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1206 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1207 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1208 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1209 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1211 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1214 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1215 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1217 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1218 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1219 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1221 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1222 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1227 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1228 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1229 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1230 to compile pure C files.
1233 wxThread and related classes:
1235 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1236 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1237 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1238 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1240 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1241 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1242 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1243 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1245 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1246 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1247 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1249 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1250 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1261 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1268 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1269 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1270 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1274 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1275 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1276 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1279 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1280 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1283 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1287 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1288 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1292 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1299 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1300 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1301 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1302 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1303 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1304 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1305 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1306 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1307 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1308 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1309 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1310 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1311 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1312 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1313 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1314 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1318 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1319 programs and not only GNU make
1320 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1321 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1322 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1323 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1324 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1328 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1329 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1330 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1331 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1332 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1334 - significantly improved native font support
1335 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1337 - added IFF image handler
1338 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1339 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1340 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1341 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1342 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1343 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1344 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1345 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1346 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1347 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1348 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1349 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1350 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1351 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1352 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1353 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1354 - wxMessageOutput class added
1355 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1356 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1358 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1359 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1360 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1361 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1363 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1364 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1365 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1369 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1370 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1371 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1372 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1373 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1374 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1375 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1376 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1377 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1378 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1380 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1381 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1382 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1383 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1384 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1385 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1386 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1388 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1389 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1390 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1391 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1392 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1393 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1394 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1395 has the capture before release it.
1396 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1397 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1398 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1399 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1400 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1401 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1402 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1403 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1404 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1405 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1406 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1407 provided in wxFontData
1408 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1409 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1413 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1414 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1415 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1416 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1417 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1418 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1419 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1420 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1421 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1422 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1423 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1424 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1425 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1429 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1430 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1431 - improved toolbar control alignment
1432 - implemented wxSpinButton
1433 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1434 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1435 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1439 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1440 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1448 - First alpha-quality release
1452 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1453 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1454 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1455 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1456 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1461 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1465 - wxRegEx class added
1466 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1467 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1468 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1469 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1470 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1474 - support for virtual list control added
1475 - column images in report mode of the list control
1476 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1477 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1478 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1479 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1480 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1481 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1482 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1483 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1484 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1485 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1486 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1487 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1491 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1492 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1497 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1498 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1499 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1500 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1504 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1509 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1511 - added support for animated GIFs
1519 - Fixed new charset detection code
1520 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1521 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1522 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1523 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1524 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1525 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1529 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1530 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1531 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1532 push on a custom event handler for example)
1533 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1534 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1535 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1536 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1537 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1538 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1540 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1541 - Various wxXML enhancements
1542 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1543 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1544 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1546 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1547 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1551 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1552 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1553 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1554 alt or shift) now work
1555 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1556 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1557 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1558 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1559 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1560 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1561 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1562 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1563 - We now send iconize events
1564 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1565 - Added mousewheel processing
1566 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1567 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1569 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1570 child frame styles are honoured
1574 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1575 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1576 - We now send iconize events
1577 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1578 GetSelection() results
1585 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1586 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1587 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1588 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1589 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1590 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1591 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1592 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1593 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1594 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1598 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1599 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1600 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1601 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1602 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1603 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1604 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1605 wxImage methods and ctor)
1606 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1607 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1608 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1609 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1610 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1611 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1615 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1616 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1617 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1618 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1622 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1626 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1627 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1634 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1635 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1636 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1637 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1638 - Completed Czech translations
1639 - Some stream corrections
1640 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1641 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1642 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1643 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1647 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1648 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1649 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1650 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1651 - Paper names now translated
1653 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1654 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1655 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1656 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1658 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1659 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1661 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1662 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1663 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1664 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1668 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1669 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1670 backward compatibility, please set
1671 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1672 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1673 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1674 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1675 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1676 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1677 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1678 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1679 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1680 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1681 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1682 - wxFrame restores focus better
1683 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1684 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1685 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1686 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1687 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1688 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1689 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1690 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1691 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1692 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1696 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1700 - Small compilation fixes
1704 - wxCaret documented
1716 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1717 files. This works under VC++ only
1718 - Modal dialog handling improved
1719 - Printer dialog now modal
1734 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1738 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1739 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1744 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1745 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1746 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1747 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1748 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1749 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1750 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1751 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1752 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1754 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1755 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1756 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1757 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1758 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1759 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1761 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1765 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1766 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1767 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1768 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1769 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1770 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1771 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1772 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1774 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1775 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1776 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1777 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1778 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1779 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1780 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1781 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1782 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1783 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1784 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1785 - wxDragImage class added
1786 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1787 controllers, as well as native help
1788 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1792 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1793 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1794 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1795 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1796 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1797 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1798 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1799 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1800 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1801 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1803 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1804 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1805 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1809 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1810 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1811 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1815 - wxMenu::Enable works
1816 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1817 - OGL samples made to work again
1821 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1822 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1823 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1824 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1825 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1826 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1827 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1828 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1829 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1830 - improved HTML printing
1831 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1832 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1833 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1834 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1837 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1840 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1841 -----------------------
1845 - JPEG support added.
1846 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1850 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1852 - JPEG support added.
1853 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1854 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1855 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1862 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1865 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1866 -------------------------------
1871 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1875 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1876 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1877 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1878 - Some makefile fixes.
1886 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1887 - More topic overviews.
1888 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1889 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1890 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1893 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1894 --------------------------
1898 - wxExecute improved.
1902 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1904 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1905 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1906 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1907 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1908 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1909 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1913 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1914 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1918 - wxLocale documented.
1919 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1920 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1921 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1922 (though doesn't display help yet).
1924 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1925 --------------------------
1929 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1933 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1935 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1939 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1940 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1941 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1942 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1943 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1944 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1945 crashes for some reason).
1946 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1947 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1951 - Further doc improvements.
1952 - wxGenericValidator added.
1953 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1956 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1957 -------------------------
1961 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1962 - wxToolTip class added.
1963 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1967 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1968 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1969 - TWIN32 support added.
1970 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1971 factored out program/library settings.
1972 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1976 - A few more colour fixes.
1977 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1978 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1979 - wxChoice crash fix.
1980 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1984 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1985 - Added samples/dde.
1986 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1988 Beta 2, January 1999
1989 --------------------
1995 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1999 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2001 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2002 - Added thread support (Robert).
2003 - wxPoem sample now works.
2007 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2008 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2009 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2011 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2012 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2014 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2016 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2017 --------------------------
2023 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2026 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2027 ----------------------------
2031 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2032 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2033 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2034 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2035 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2037 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2038 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2043 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2044 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2045 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2046 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2047 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2049 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2050 when any button was pressed.
2051 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2052 have a white background.
2053 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2054 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2055 they have sensible colours by default.
2056 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2057 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2058 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2059 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2060 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2062 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2063 ----------------------------
2067 - More documentation updates, especially for
2068 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2069 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2071 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2072 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2073 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2075 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2079 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2080 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2082 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2083 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2084 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2085 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2086 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2087 the debugging implementation.
2088 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2089 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2090 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2091 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2092 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2093 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2094 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2096 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2098 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2099 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2100 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2101 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2102 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2103 - wxNotebook almost done.
2104 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2105 to vertical toolbars).
2109 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2111 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2112 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2113 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2115 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2116 ----------------------------
2120 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2122 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2123 - A few more makefiles added.
2124 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2125 - Further doc updates.
2126 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2130 - First start at Motif port.
2131 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2132 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2133 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2134 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2136 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2137 --------------------------
2141 - wxBitmap debugged.
2142 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2143 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2144 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2145 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2146 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2147 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2148 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2150 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2151 ------------------------
2155 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2156 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2157 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2158 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2159 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2160 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2161 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2162 changes, wxNotebook.
2163 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2165 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2166 -----------------------
2170 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2171 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2172 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2173 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2174 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2176 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2177 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2179 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2180 -----------------------
2184 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2185 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2187 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2188 -----------------------
2192 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2193 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2195 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2196 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2197 wxMenuItem accessors.
2198 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2199 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2200 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2201 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2202 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2203 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2204 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2205 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2206 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2207 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2208 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2209 first, then doing the assignment.
2210 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2211 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2215 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2216 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2218 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2219 ----------------------
2223 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2224 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2225 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2226 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2227 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2228 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2229 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2230 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2231 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2233 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2234 ------------------------
2238 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2240 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2241 compilation and pragmas.
2242 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2243 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2247 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2248 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2249 compilation and pragmas.
2250 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2252 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2253 ------------------------
2257 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2258 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2260 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2261 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2262 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2263 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2265 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2266 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2267 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2269 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2270 compatibility functions.
2271 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2272 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2273 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2274 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2275 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2276 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2277 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2281 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2282 - Added samples/png.
2283 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2284 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2286 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2288 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2289 ------------------------
2293 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2294 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2295 cleaned up properly before exit.
2296 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2298 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2299 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2300 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2302 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2303 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2305 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2306 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2307 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2308 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2312 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2313 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2314 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2315 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2316 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2317 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2318 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2319 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2320 allow better control of memory.
2321 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2323 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2324 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2326 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2327 ------------------------
2331 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2332 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2333 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2334 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2335 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2336 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2337 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2338 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2339 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2340 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2341 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2342 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2344 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2345 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2346 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2347 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2348 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2349 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2350 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2351 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2352 internal implementation.
2353 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2354 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2355 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2359 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2360 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2361 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2362 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2363 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2365 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2366 --------------------------
2370 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2371 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2372 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2374 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2375 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2376 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2377 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2379 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2380 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2385 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2386 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2387 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2389 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2390 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2392 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2393 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2394 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2395 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2396 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2397 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2398 - Added gcc pragmas.
2399 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2400 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2401 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2402 added a few references to wxTransString.
2403 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2404 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2405 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2406 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2407 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2408 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2409 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2410 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2411 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2414 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2415 --------------------------
2419 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2420 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2421 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2422 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2423 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2424 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2425 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2426 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2427 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2428 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2429 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2431 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2432 to help printing with multiple pages.
2433 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2434 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2435 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2436 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2437 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2438 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2439 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2440 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2441 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2442 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2443 New files from Vadim:
2449 src\common\string.cpp
2453 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2454 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2455 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2456 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2457 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2458 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2459 including changes to defs.h.
2460 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2462 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2464 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2465 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2467 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2469 Alpha 3, September 1997
2470 -----------------------
2474 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2475 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2476 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2477 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2478 - Started documentation.
2480 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2481 ------------------------
2485 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2486 with MetroWerks compiler.
2487 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2488 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2489 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2490 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2491 for testing purposes.
2492 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2494 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2495 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2497 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2498 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2501 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2502 -----------------------
2506 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2508 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2509 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2510 wxString instead of char *.
2511 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2512 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2513 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2514 as wxbWindow now removed.
2515 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2516 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2518 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2519 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2520 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2522 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2523 settings mucho rationalised.
2524 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2525 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2527 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2528 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2529 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2530 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2531 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2532 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2534 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2535 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2537 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2538 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2539 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2540 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2541 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2542 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2543 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2544 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2545 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2546 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2548 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2549 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2551 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2552 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2553 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2554 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2555 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2556 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2558 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2559 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2560 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2561 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2562 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2563 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).