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  12 <h1 class="title">Recent Changes for wxPython</h1>
  13 <div class="section" id="id1">
  14 <h1><a name="id1">2.6.1.0</a></h1>
  15 <ul class="simple">
  16 <li>4-June-2005</li>
  17 </ul>
  18 <p>wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
  19 wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.</p>
  20 <p>Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.</p>
  21 <p>DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
  22 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
  23 any unknown file type.</p>
  24 <p>wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
  25 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.</p>
  26 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
  27 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
  28 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
  29 other.</p>
  30 <p>wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject</p>
  31 <p>wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
  32 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.</p>
  33 <p>wxMSW:  Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
  34 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.</p>
  35 <p>Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.</p>
  36 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
  37 calls.</p>
  38 <p>wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
  39 change will get written at the next flush.</p>
  40 </div>
  41 <div class="section" id="id2">
  42 <h1><a name="id2">2.6.0.1</a></h1>
  43 <ul class="simple">
  44 <li>30-May-2005</li>
  45 </ul>
  46 <p>Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
  47 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
  48 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.</p>
  49 <p>wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
  50 is not black.</p>
  51 <p>wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
  52 both has an icon and is a submenu.</p>
  53 <p>wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
  54 resized.</p>
  55 <p>wxMSW: Patch #1197468.  Keeps track of pending size/position changes
  56 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
  57 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
  58 instead of current values.</p>
  59 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
  60 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.</p>
  61 <p>Several docstrings added and updated.  Lots more to go.</p>
  62 <p>wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
  63 extra null character at the end.</p>
  64 <p>Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
  65 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.</p>
  66 <p>wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
  67 item.</p>
  68 <p>Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.</p>
  69 <p>wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
  70 a wx.StaticBox.</p>
  71 <p>wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.</p>
  72 <p>Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
  73 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
  74 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
  75 situations.</p>
  76 <p>Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
  77 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize.  See the docstrings or new api docs
  78 for details.</p>
  79 <p>Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana.  It is a control like
  80 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
  81 default browser in response to the clicks.</p>
  82 <p>Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
  83 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
  84 required.  For example, if you ask for &quot;2.6-unicode&quot; but only the ansi
  85 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
  86 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match.  If you
  87 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
  88 parameter, like this:</p>
  89 <pre class="literal-block">
  90 import wxversion
  91 wxversion.select(&quot;2.6-unicode&quot;, True)
  92 import wx
  93 </pre>
  94 <p>Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
  95 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
  96 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.</p>
  97 <p>wxMSW:  Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
  98 theme on XP.</p>
  99 <p>Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class.  See
 100 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py</p>
 101 <p>wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.</p>
 102 <p>wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
 103 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.</p>
 104 <p>XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
 105 changing active encoding.  Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
 106 while pasting).</p>
 107 <p>wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
 108 self.history is None.</p>
 109 <p>wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
 110 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
 111 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.</p>
 112 <p>wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
 113 XP themes.</p>
 114 <p>More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
 115 ActiveGrid folks.  Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
 116 Subversion.</p>
 117 <p>wx.grid.Grid:  Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
 118 left-clicked.  Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
 119 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
 120 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.</p>
 121 <p>wxGTK:  Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]</p>
 122 <p>wx.TreeCtrl:  wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
 123 platforms.  The location of the click or the item is included in the
 124 event as well.</p>
 125 <p>wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
 126 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc.  (Bug #1204069)</p>
 127 <p>Print framework:  Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
 128 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
 129 printer.</p>
 130 <p>wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
 131 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.</p>
 132 <p>wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.</p>
 133 <p>wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.</p>
 134 <p>wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels</p>
 135 <p>Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
 136 that we're not sure of their origin or license.</p>
 137 <p>The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
 138 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set.  Instead
 139 the current size is set as the minsize.  This solves the occasional
 140 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
 141 shrink.</p>
 142 <p>wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
 143 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.</p>
 144 <p>Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
 145 _setCallbackInfo.</p>
 146 <p>wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.</p>
 147 <p>wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
 148 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
 149 usual.</p>
 150 <p>Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
 151 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
 152 of a wx.TextCtrl.)</p>
 153 </div>
 154 <div class="section" id="id3">
 155 <h1><a name="id3">2.6.0.0</a></h1>
 156 <ul class="simple">
 157 <li>26-Apr-2005</li>
 158 </ul>
 159 <p>wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
 160 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
 161 supposed to.</p>
 162 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.</p>
 163 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.</p>
 164 <p>wxGTK:  The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
 165 changed slightly.  It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
 166 either '1', '2' or 'any'.  The default is '2'.</p>
 167 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
 168 to set and fetch text from the document buffer.  They work similarly
 169 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
 170 through the same string/unicode &lt;--&gt; wxString conversions.  The &quot;Raw&quot;
 171 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
 172 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
 173 build no assumption is made about the encoding.  The &quot;UTF8&quot; functions
 174 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
 175 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
 176 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
 177 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)</p>
 178 <blockquote>
 179 <table border="1" class="docutils">
 180 <colgroup>
 181 <col width="49%" />
 182 <col width="51%" />
 183 </colgroup>
 184 <tbody valign="top">
 185 <tr><td>AddTextRaw</td>
 186 <td>AddTextUTF8</td>
 187 </tr>
 188 <tr><td>InsertTextRaw</td>
 189 <td>InsertTextUTF8</td>
 190 </tr>
 191 <tr><td>GetCurLineRaw</td>
 192 <td>GetCurLineUTF8</td>
 193 </tr>
 194 <tr><td>GetLineRaw</td>
 195 <td>GetLineUTF8</td>
 196 </tr>
 197 <tr><td>GetSelectedTextRaw</td>
 198 <td>GetSelectedTextUTF8</td>
 199 </tr>
 200 <tr><td>GetTextRangeRaw</td>
 201 <td>GetTextRangeUTF8</td>
 202 </tr>
 203 <tr><td>SetTextRaw</td>
 204 <td>SetTextUTF8</td>
 205 </tr>
 206 <tr><td>GetTextRaw</td>
 207 <td>GetTextUTF8</td>
 208 </tr>
 209 <tr><td>AppendTextRaw</td>
 210 <td>AppendTextUTF8</td>
 211 </tr>
 212 </tbody>
 213 </table>
 214 </blockquote>
 215 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl:  Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
 216 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
 217 a particular style.</p>
 218 <p>wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
 219 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.</p>
 220 <p>wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.</p>
 221 <dl class="docutils">
 222 <dt>XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.</dt>
 223 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 224 <li>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).</li>
 225 <li>Hide command for test window.</li>
 226 <li>Replacing classes works better.</li>
 227 <li>Added Locate tool.</li>
 228 </ul>
 229 </dd>
 230 </dl>
 231 </div>
 232 <div class="section" id="id4">
 233 <h1><a name="id4">2.5.5.1</a></h1>
 234 <ul class="simple">
 235 <li>8-Apr-2005</li>
 236 </ul>
 237 <p>wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'</p>
 238 <p>wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384.  Moved the code that handles
 239 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler.  This is done
 240 so the character inserted into the editor will be the &quot;cooked&quot; char
 241 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
 242 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.</p>
 243 <p>Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()</p>
 244 <p>wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
 245 available.</p>
 246 <p>Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
 247 wx.ImageHistogram.</p>
 248 <p>wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
 249 well as the parent.  Previously it was implicitly done because parents
 250 did not clip their children by default.  Now that they always clip
 251 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
 252 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
 253 2.5.4.1.</p>
 254 <p>wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
 255 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
 256 #1076226)</p>
 257 <p>wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
 258 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)</p>
 259 <dl class="docutils">
 260 <dt>wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:</dt>
 261 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 262 <li>Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled</li>
 263 <li>Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
 264 the width of any column.</li>
 265 </ul>
 266 </dd>
 267 </dl>
 268 <p>wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
 269 now possible.</p>
 270 <p>wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.</p>
 271 <p>wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox</p>
 272 <p>Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
 273 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.</p>
 274 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
 275 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp.  Note that this new file dialog is only
 276 used on GTK2 &gt;= 2.4.  For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
 277 older generic file dialog is used.</p>
 278 <p>wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
 279 #1166587)</p>
 280 <p>wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
 281 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors.  They all
 282 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
 283 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.</p>
 284 <p>Added MDI support to XRC</p>
 285 <p>Added wx.animate module and a demo.  The wx.animate module provides a
 286 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.</p>
 287 <p>wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
 288 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.</p>
 289 <p>wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
 290 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.</p>
 291 <p>wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
 292 affecting the label.</p>
 293 <p>wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
 294 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
 295 <p>Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
 296 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.</p>
 297 <p>Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
 298 folks.</p>
 299 <p>Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.</p>
 300 </div>
 301 <div class="section" id="id5">
 302 <h1><a name="id5">2.5.4.1</a></h1>
 303 <ul class="simple">
 304 <li>16-Mar-2005</li>
 305 </ul>
 306 <p>wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
 307 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
 308 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.</p>
 309 <p>Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
 310 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.</p>
 311 <p>wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
 312 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
 313 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
 314 then calling GetValue().</p>
 315 <dl class="docutils">
 316 <dt>Some XRC changes:</dt>
 317 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 318 <li>Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog</li>
 319 <li>No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms</li>
 320 <li>Notebook page bitmaps are now supported</li>
 321 <li>added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)</li>
 322 </ul>
 323 </dd>
 324 </dl>
 325 <p>wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
 326 bug.</p>
 327 <p>Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
 328 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
 329 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.</p>
 330 <p>OGL patch from Shane Holloway:</p>
 331 <blockquote>
 332 <p>Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code.  First is
 333 the patch for _canvas.py.  Essentially:</p>
 334 <pre class="literal-block">
 335 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
 336 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
 337 </pre>
 338 <p>was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
 339 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
 340 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
 341 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error.  This bug
 342 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
 343 the origin of the canvas.</p>
 344 <p>The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
 345 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
 346 Causes many problems when it's not.  ;)</p>
 347 </blockquote>
 348 <p>Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
 349 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.</p>
 350 <p>Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
 351 internal scrollbar visible.</p>
 352 <p>Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
 353 system paths for each platform.</p>
 354 <p>wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
 355 background colour or background mode has been changed.  This better
 356 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
 357 uncustomized windows.  Explicit support added for using the correct
 358 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.</p>
 359 <p>wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
 360 non-interpolated image rotation.  Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
 361 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.</p>
 362 <p>wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
 363 alpha blended text bitmap.  It would be better if Pango could draw
 364 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...</p>
 365 <p>Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
 366 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
 367 system.  So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.</p>
 368 <p>wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.</p>
 369 <p>Added &quot;gravity&quot; for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
 370 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
 371 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow.  The gravity specifies
 372 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.</p>
 373 <p>wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
 374 maintainable and hopefully less buggy.  The position of the labels has
 375 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
 376 of how to use the control.</p>
 377 <p>wxMSW:  Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
 378 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)</p>
 379 <p>Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
 380 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
 381 running.</p>
 382 <p>wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
 383 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.</p>
 384 <p>Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer.  It will now
 385 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
 386 is removed.  If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
 387 your timers it will no longer work.  Instead you should hold a
 388 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
 389 finished with the timer.</p>
 390 <p>Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG.  All of my big patches have been applied to
 391 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
 392 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
 393 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
 394 patches.  A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
 395 directory of the wxPython source tree.  SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
 396 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
 397 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
 398 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types.  For the
 399 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:</p>
 400 <blockquote>
 401 <ul class="simple">
 402 <li>Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
 403 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
 404 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
 405 via the wxPython C API.</li>
 406 <li>The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
 407 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
 408 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
 409 when docstrings are added for those items.</li>
 410 <li>The &quot;this&quot; attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
 411 string containing a &quot;swigified pointer&quot;, but rather a custom
 412 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
 413 the type info.  It can be converted to a string like the old
 414 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
 415 using long().</li>
 416 </ul>
 417 </blockquote>
 418 <p>Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
 419 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
 420 unicode objects to/from wxString objects.  Previously the default
 421 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
 422 sitecustomize.py file it is always &quot;ascii&quot;, which would result in
 423 errors if the strings contained character codes &gt;= 128.
 424 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
 425 be used to do those conversions.  The default encoding is set to the
 426 value of <cite>locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]</cite> when wxPython is first
 427 imported.  Please see <a class="reference" href="http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html">http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html</a>
 428 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
 429 encodings.</p>
 430 <p>Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
 431 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
 432 current platform's standards.  You simply need to add each <cite>wx.Button</cite>
 433 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
 434 ID's.  Then call <cite>Realize</cite> and the sizer will take care of the rest.</p>
 435 <p>wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
 436 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler</p>
 437 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
 438 lots of surplus events)</p>
 439 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
 440 wx.SystemSettings.</p>
 441 <p>wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
 442 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.</p>
 443 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
 444 and GTK+'s context menu code.</p>
 445 <p>wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
 446 (not all actions are allowed).</p>
 447 <p>Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)</p>
 448 <p>For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
 449 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
 450 when GetString is called from an event handler.</p>
 451 <p>Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
 452 and max ends of the slider.</p>
 453 <p>Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
 454 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
 455 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.</p>
 456 <dl class="docutils">
 457 <dt>XRCed:</dt>
 458 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 459 <li>Edit-&gt;Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
 460 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
 461 not with labels/sizers.</li>
 462 <li>Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
 463 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
 464 better.</li>
 465 </ul>
 466 </dd>
 467 </dl>
 468 <p>wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
 469 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.</p>
 470 <p>wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
 471 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
 472 class.</p>
 473 <p>The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
 474 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
 475 borders.)  Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
 476 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
 477 changed.</p>
 478 <p>Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
 479 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.</p>
 480 <p>wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.</p>
 481 <p>Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
 482 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
 483 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
 484 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.</p>
 485 <p>wxMac:  Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
 486 buttons.</p>
 487 <p>wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
 488 internally.  This results in faster display and better alpha support.</p>
 489 <p>Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.</p>
 490 <p>wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.</p>
 491 <p>Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
 492 using Mouse Gestures in an application.</p>
 493 <p>wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
 494 controls.</p>
 495 <p>wxMSW:  &quot;Alt&quot; key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
 496 WXK_MENU</p>
 497 <p>Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
 498 Doc/View framework in pure Python code.  See wx.lib.docview for the
 499 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
 500 extensions.  There are also a couple sample applications located in
 501 samples/docview.</p>
 502 <p>Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.</p>
 503 <p>wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.</p>
 504 <p>wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
 505 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
 506 lead.  Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
 507 managed by the sizer.  They are now just simple compatibility aliases
 508 for Add, and etc.</p>
 509 <p>The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default.  Use
 510 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.</p>
 511 <p>The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default.  You can use the
 512 wx.lib.iewin version instead.</p>
 513 <p>Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
 514 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
 515 the scrolled window.  By default it will assume that only the client
 516 area is covered.  This is different than the old behavior so to
 517 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
 518 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.</p>
 519 <p>wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl:  Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
 520 event.</p>
 521 <p>Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
 522 wx.Image.</p>
 523 <p>Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty</p>
 524 <dl class="docutils">
 525 <dt>wxGTK:</dt>
 526 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 527 <li>Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling</li>
 528 <li>Corrected default button size handling for different themes</li>
 529 <li>Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes</li>
 530 <li>Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys</li>
 531 </ul>
 532 </dd>
 533 </dl>
 534 </div>
 535 <div class="section" id="id6">
 536 <h1><a name="id6">2.5.3.1</a></h1>
 537 <ul class="simple">
 538 <li>9-Nov-2004</li>
 539 </ul>
 540 <p>wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.</p>
 541 <p>Updated internal PNG library.</p>
 542 <p>wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.</p>
 543 <p>wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
 544 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)</p>
 545 <p>wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
 546 enabled (does an enable itself)</p>
 547 <p>Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
 548 OGL.</p>
 549 <p>Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
 550 for wx.ToggleButton.  Updated the generic window styles supported by
 551 XRCed.</p>
 552 <p>It is now possible to create &quot;stock&quot; buttons.  Basically this means
 553 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
 554 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
 555 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
 556 automatically.  Additionally on the platforms that have a native
 557 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
 558 button will be used.  For example, the following will result in a
 559 button with &quot;Cancel&quot; as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
 560 also be an image of a red X:</p>
 561 <pre class="literal-block">
 562 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
 563 </pre>
 564 <p>Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.</p>
 565 <p>Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.</p>
 566 <p>Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.</p>
 567 <p>Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree.  Now that
 568 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
 569 longer needed.  (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
 570 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
 571 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
 572 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
 573 x86_64 or Chandler's build.</p>
 574 <p>Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.)  See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
 575 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
 576 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
 577 the wxPython modules.</p>
 578 <p>Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
 579 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
 580 user that they should look at that window.</p>
 581 <p>&quot;Fixed&quot; wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
 582 them register the editor or renderer for the &quot;string&quot; data type.</p>
 583 <p>Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.</p>
 584 <p>Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
 585 a Python datetime or date object.  (These will only work with Python
 586 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
 587 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
 588 PyGetUpperDateLimit.  Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
 589 and PyGetDate methods.</p>
 590 <p>wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
 591 also set the colour of the dropdown.</p>
 592 <p>wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style</p>
 593 <p>wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window</p>
 594 <p>wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips</p>
 595 <p>wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
 596 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
 597 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.</p>
 598 <p>wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame</p>
 599 <p>wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events</p>
 600 <p>Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)</p>
 601 <p>Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
 602 1001271)</p>
 603 <p>Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
 604 (patch 1030021)</p>
 605 <p>Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)</p>
 606 <p>wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
 607 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
 608 1019440)</p>
 609 <p>Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.</p>
 610 <p>wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
 611 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
 612 button.</p>
 613 <p>Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
 614 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...)  Updated and moved the sample showing
 615 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.</p>
 616 <p>The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
 617 is always built by default.  wxPython's build has also changed
 618 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
 619 modules built by default.  If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
 620 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
 621 should notice no difference.</p>
 622 <p>wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
 623 when a new one is selected.</p>
 624 <p>wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls</p>
 625 <p>wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
 626 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
 627 merged with the normal dock popup menu.  See the MigrationGuide for
 628 more details and a warning.</p>
 629 <p>Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
 630 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.</p>
 631 <p>Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
 632 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.</p>
 633 <p>Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61</p>
 634 <p>Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.</p>
 635 <p>Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.</p>
 636 <p>wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
 637 holding down the mouse button.</p>
 638 <p>wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
 639 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.</p>
 640 <p>FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker</p>
 641 <dl class="docutils">
 642 <dt>PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:</dt>
 643 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 644 <li>Added bar graph demo</li>
 645 <li>Modified line end shape from round to square.</li>
 646 <li>Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
 647 arguments</li>
 648 <li>Imported modules given leading underscore to name.</li>
 649 <li>Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.</li>
 650 <li>Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.</li>
 651 <li>Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.</li>
 652 <li>Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
 653 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.</li>
 654 <li>Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
 655 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
 656 coords.</li>
 657 </ul>
 658 </dd>
 659 <dt>MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:</dt>
 660 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 661 <li>Added '*' mask char that means &quot;all ansii chars&quot; (ords 32-255)</li>
 662 <li>Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg</li>
 663 <li>Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
 664 creation</li>
 665 <li>Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
 666 epydoc support</li>
 667 <li>lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
 668 reflect package's public contents.</li>
 669 </ul>
 670 </dd>
 671 </dl>
 672 <p>Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
 673 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time.  See the
 674 Migrarion Guide for more information.</p>
 675 <dl class="docutils">
 676 <dt>Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:</dt>
 677 <dd><ul class="first last simple">
 678 <li>wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)</li>
 679 <li>wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)</li>
 680 <li>wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
 681 TextEditMixin)</li>
 682 <li>wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)</li>
 683 </ul>
 684 </dd>
 685 </dl>
 686 <p>Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
 687 OSX build.  Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
 688 it.</p>
 689 <p>wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
 690 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.</p>
 691 </div>
 692 <div class="section" id="id7">
 693 <h1><a name="id7">2.5.2.8</a></h1>
 694 <ul class="simple">
 695 <li>27-Aug-2004</li>
 696 </ul>
 697 <p>Predominantly a bug-fix release.</p>
 698 <blockquote>
 699 <ul class="simple">
 700 <li>Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.</li>
 701 <li>Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl</li>
 702 <li>Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
 703 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.</li>
 704 <li>Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
 705 flicker problems, and namespace use.</li>
 706 <li>Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask</li>
 707 <li>Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs</li>
 708 <li>wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
 709 parameter.</li>
 710 <li>Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl</li>
 711 <li>Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
 712 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.</li>
 713 <li>Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
 714 wxScrolledWindow.</li>
 715 <li>Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
 716 wxCheckListBox.</li>
 717 <li>Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.</li>
 718 <li>wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing</li>
 719 <li>Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.</li>
 720 <li>etc.</li>
 721 </ul>
 722 </blockquote>
 723 </div>
 724 <div class="section" id="id8">
 725 <h1><a name="id8">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
 726 <ul class="simple">
 727 <li>14-Aug-2004</li>
 728 </ul>
 729 <p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
 730 sizers.  This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
 731 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
 732 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer.  The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
 733 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
 734 that it will <em>not</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
 735 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
 736 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used.  Please
 737 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.</p>
 738 <p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin.  The modules are
 739 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked.  Demos updated.</p>
 740 <p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
 741 have been reverted.  The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
 742 implemetation.  In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
 743 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
 744 parameters.</p>
 745 <p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
 746 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.</p>
 747 <p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.</p>
 748 <p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
 749 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.</p>
 750 <p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
 751 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
 752 all platforms like normal windows.  Also updated stattext.py and
 753 buttons.py to handle attribute (font &amp; colour) defaults and
 754 inheritance the new way.  If you have custom controls of your own you
 755 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
 756 done.</p>
 757 <p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
 758 exist for backwards compatibility.  The C++ version is now called
 759 automatically when wxPython is initialized.  Since all the handlers
 760 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
 761 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
 762 problems.</p>
 763 <p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
 764 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions.  Thanks go to
 765 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.</p>
 766 <p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
 767 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.</p>
 768 <p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
 769 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.</p>
 770 <p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to &quot;C&quot; (compatibility) when
 771 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
 772 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
 773 remaining compatible with &quot;C&quot;.</p>
 774 <p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
 775 wxCode project.</p>
 776 <p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL!  (Oops, sorry.  A bit of my dramatic side
 777 leaked out there...)  The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
 778 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
 779 contributed by Pierre Hjälm.  This will hopefully greatly extend the
 780 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
 781 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
 782 interest in maintaining the C++ version.  At this point there are just
 783 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
 784 <a class="reference" href="MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide</a> file for details.</p>
 785 <p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
 786 Scintilla for several releases now.</p>
 787 <p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
 788 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
 789 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
 790 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.</p>
 791 <p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
 792 constructed with only the parent window arg.  In some cases other args
 793 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
 794 after construction.</p>
 795 <p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules.  If you
 796 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
 797 with a more modern reimplementation.</p>
 798 <p>Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker.  It's now
 799 in a subpackage of wx.lib.</p>
 800 <p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
 801 panel or dialog.  For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
 802 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.</p>
 803 <p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
 804 &lt;<a class="reference" href="mailto:svip123&#64;fastmail.fm">svip123&#64;fastmail.fm</a>&gt; that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
 805 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo.  You can switch back
 806 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
 807 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.</p>
 808 <p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
 809 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace.  This is another
 810 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
 811 sample.  For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
 812 in the PyShell:</p>
 813 <pre class="literal-block">
 814 &gt;&gt;&gt; b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
 815 &gt;&gt;&gt; for x in range(0, 500, 10):
 816 ...     b.Move((x, 50))
 817 ...     app.Yield(True)
 818 ...     wx.MilliSleep(10)
 819 </pre>
 820 <p>wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
 821 box.</p>
 822 </div>
 823 <div class="section" id="the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">
 824 <h1><a name="the-this-is-not-a-joke-release">2.5.1.5    (the 'this is <em>not</em> a joke' release)</a></h1>
 825 <ul class="simple">
 826 <li>2-Apr-2004</li>
 827 </ul>
 828 <p>(See also the <a class="reference" href="MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide</a> file for details about some of the
 829 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
 830 adapt your code.)</p>
 831 <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets.  Please
 832 see <a class="reference" href="http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm</a> for more details.  This won't
 833 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
 834 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
 835 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing.  We're going to try
 836 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
 837 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.</p>
 838 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
 839 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.</p>
 840 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.</p>
 841 <p>Added wxIconLocation</p>
 842 <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
 843 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.</p>
 844 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook.  wxNotebook now derives
 845 from wxBookCtrl.</p>
 846 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
 847 wx.lib.plot module.</p>
 848 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
 849 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
 850 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.</p>
 851 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
 852 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc.  The RPMs are
 853 also installing icons and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">*.desktop</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
 854 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
 855 items on non-Mandrake systems.  (It didn't automatically do it on my
 856 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...)  If you have ideas
 857 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
 858 distros please send me a patch.</p>
 859 <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
 860 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.</p>
 861 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image.  The actual
 862 Installer package now <em>only</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
 863 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
 864 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
 865 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
 866 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
 867 want to put them.</p>
 868 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
 869 different API.</p>
 870 <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.</p>
 871 <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!</p>
 872 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.</p>
 873 <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
 874 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
 875 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
 876 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
 877 simple one instead.  By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
 878 only.)  When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
 879 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
 880 it.</p>
 881 <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
 882 &quot;Adi&quot; Sieker.</p>
 883 <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.</p>
 884 <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
 885 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.</p>
 886 <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
 887 describe the platform and build options of wxPython.  See the
 888 MigrationGuide for more details.</p>
 889 <p>Created a new extension module &quot;activex&quot; from Lindsay Mathieson's
 890 newest <a class="reference" href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX</a> class.  (The existing iewin module used an older
 891 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.)  This
 892 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
 893 controls in a wx.Window, <strong>without</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
 894 and other PyWin32 modules!  This should eliminate the cronic problems
 895 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
 896 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc.  The older iewin module
 897 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
 898 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
 899 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
 900 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
 901 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
 902 couldn't figure out anything better.  Well now we have something that,
 903 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better.  So consider
 904 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well.  Please see the
 905 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.</p>
 906 <p>Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.</p>
 907 </div>
 908 <div class="section" id="id10">
 909 <h1><a name="id10">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
 910 <ul class="simple">
 911 <li>1-Oct-2003</li>
 912 </ul>
 913 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.</p>
 914 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.</p>
 915 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka.  Its usage is
 916 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.</p>
 917 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.</p>
 918 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.</p>
 919 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.</p>
 920 </div>
 921 <div class="section" id="id11">
 922 <h1><a name="id11">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
 923 <ul class="simple">
 924 <li>19-Jun-2003</li>
 925 </ul>
 926 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin</p>
 927 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)</p>
 928 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
 929 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">spam(*args,</span> <span class="pre">**kw)</span></tt> syntax
 930 instead.  Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
 931 informative.</p>
 932 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
 933 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
 934 and wxWindows match.</p>
 935 <p>Added the new wx &quot;renamer&quot; package that will dynamically import from
 936 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --&gt; FooBar.  That means that
 937 people can do imports without <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;import</span> <span class="pre">*&quot;</span></tt> and can use names like
 938 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame.  This is phase 1 of a full transition
 939 to the new namespace.</p>
 940 <p>Updated Scintilla to 1.52.  I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
 941 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
 942 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
 943 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.</p>
 944 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
 945 includes several new tools.  As part of the change the location of the
 946 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as &quot;from wxPython
 947 import py&quot; (or &quot;from wx import py&quot; using the new namespace.)  There
 948 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
 949 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
 950 package.  These will be removed in a future release.</p>
 951 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
 952 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method.  This allows
 953 code like &quot;if obj: ...&quot; to be the same as &quot;if obj.IsOk(): ...&quot;</p>
 954 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.</p>
 955 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
 956 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.</p>
 957 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
 958 and Will Sadkin.  Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.</p>
 959 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
 960 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.</p>
 961 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl.  (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
 962 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
 963 wxTreeCtrl.)</p>
 964 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
 965 a call to any Python callable object.</p>
 966 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
 967 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
 968 to override the C++ virtual methods.</p>
 969 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
 970 the &quot;option&quot; parameter to &quot;proportion&quot; to match the docs (&quot;option&quot; is
 971 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
 972 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
 973 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter</p>
 974 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.</p>
 975 </div>
 976 <div class="section" id="id12">
 977 <h1><a name="id12">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
 978 <ul class="simple">
 979 <li>24-Mar-2003</li>
 980 </ul>
 981 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
 982 TRUE/FALSE values.</p>
 983 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
 984 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
 985 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.</p>
 986 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
 987 unicode.</p>
 988 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
 989 OOR.</p>
 990 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
 991 wxSize and etc.</p>
 992 <p>Updated PyCrust to version 0.9</p>
 993 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
 994 flag to turn it on.  In most cases turning it into an exception (the
 995 default behavior) is enough.  See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
 996 details.</p>
 997 </div>
 998 <div class="section" id="a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">
 999 <h1><a name="a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)</a></h1>
1000 <ul class="simple">
1001 <li>11-Mar-2003</li>
1002 </ul>
1003 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1004 returned from OnInit.  And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1005 think I am testing in the future...</p>
1006 </div>
1007 <div class="section" id="a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">
1008 <h1><a name="a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)</a></h1>
1009 <ul class="simple">
1010 <li>7-Mar-2003</li>
1011 </ul>
1012 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.</p>
1013 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.</p>
1014 <p>Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.</p>
1015 </div>
1016 <div class="section" id="id13">
1017 <h1><a name="id13">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
1018 <ul class="simple">
1019 <li>7-Mar-2003</li>
1020 </ul>
1021 <p>Added missing wxRect methods</p>
1022 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.</p>
1023 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.</p>
1024 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW.  Be warned that at the time
1025 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1026 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1027 problems.</p>
1028 <p>Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1029 return type.</p>
1030 <p>Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.</p>
1031 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1032 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1033 the parent window.</p>
1034 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.</p>
1035 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1036 wrapper.</p>
1037 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.</p>
1038 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1039 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1040 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1041 in C++.  Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1042 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1043 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1044 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1045 static stable in the C++ class.</p>
1046 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1047 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1048 constants being added to Python.  Added code to wx.py to test for the
1049 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1050 present.</p>
1051 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1052 Mac UI.  They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1053 always call them.  The functions are:</p>
1054 <pre class="literal-block">
1055 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1056 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1057 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1058 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1059 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1060 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1061 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1062 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1063 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1064 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1065 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1066 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1067 </pre>
1068 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1069 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.</p>
1070 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1071 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1072 doesn't have a standard place for them.</p>
1073 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.</p>
1074 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.</p>
1075 <p>Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust</p>
1076 </div>
1077 <div class="section" id="id14">
1078 <h1><a name="id14">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
1079 <ul class="simple">
1080 <li>23-Jan-2003</li>
1081 </ul>
1082 <p>Several bug fixes.</p>
1083 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.</p>
1084 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.</p>
1085 </div>
1086 <div class="section" id="id15">
1087 <h1><a name="id15">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
1088 <ul class="simple">
1089 <li>10-Jan-2003</li>
1090 </ul>
1091 <p>No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1092 enhancements.</p>
1093 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis.  See
1094 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.</p>
1095 </div>
1096 <div class="section" id="id16">
1097 <h1><a name="id16">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
1098 <ul class="simple">
1099 <li>21-Dec-2002</li>
1100 </ul>
1101 <p>Various bug fixes.</p>
1102 </div>
1103 <div class="section" id="id17">
1104 <h1><a name="id17">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
1105 <ul class="simple">
1106 <li>18-Dec-2002</li>
1107 </ul>
1108 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.</p>
1109 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.</p>
1110 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.</p>
1111 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.</p>
1112 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1113 Python exceptions.  When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1114 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1115 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1116 will be raised.  The same exception restrictions are in place as
1117 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1118 through C++ to another Python layer.  That simply means that if you
1119 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1120 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1121 handler or callback code.  There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1122 you can use to play with this new feature.</p>
1123 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1124 you control how C++ assertions are processed.  Valid modes are:
1125 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1126 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG.  Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1127 the old &quot;final&quot; builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1128 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1129 2.3.3.1 and prior &quot;hybrid&quot; builds.  You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1130 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.</p>
1131 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1132 derived from wxApp.</p>
1133 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1134 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1135 to wxGrid.</p>
1136 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes</p>
1137 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1138 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK.  They now work more or less as
1139 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1140 removed.  There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1141 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.</p>
1142 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.</p>
1143 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.</p>
1144 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.</p>
1145 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1146 &quot;Pythonic&quot; and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1147 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.</p>
1148 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1149 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls.  It is currently using
1150 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...</p>
1151 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1152 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.</p>
1153 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
1154 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
1155 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
1156 windows when desired.</p>
1157 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
1158 HTMLHelp viewer does.  Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
1159 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.</p>
1160 </div>
1161 <div class="section" id="id18">
1162 <h1><a name="id18">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
1163 <ul class="simple">
1164 <li>19-Sep-2002</li>
1165 </ul>
1166 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.</p>
1167 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.</p>
1168 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.</p>
1169 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
1170 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
1171 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.</p>
1172 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
1173 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
1174 be loaded from any Python &quot;file-like&quot; object.</p>
1175 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
1176 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
1177 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.</p>
1178 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1179 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1180 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1181 spanning.  Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1182 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1183 wxFlexGridSizer.</p>
1184 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky</p>
1185 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.</p>
1186 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
1187 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! &lt;wink&gt;</p>
1188 <dl class="docutils">
1189 <dt>UNICODE!</dt>
1190 <dd><p class="first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
1191 disabled.  Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
1192 used.  Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
1193 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform.  Currently
1194 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
1195 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
1196 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.</p>
1197 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
1198 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
1199 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well!  This is
1200 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
1201 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode).  It simply gets out of
1202 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
1203 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
1204 versions of the windows API.  So far I have not been able to get
1205 this to work perfectly on win9x.  Most things work fine but
1206 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
1207 unicode build on win95.</p>
1208 <p class="last">So how do you use it?  It's very simple.  When unicode is enabled,
1209 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
1210 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
1211 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
1212 accept either a Python string or unicode object.  If a string
1213 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
1214 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
1215 system encoding.  If you need to use a string in some other
1216 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
1217 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
1218 method.</p>
1219 </dd>
1220 </dl>
1221 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.</p>
1222 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.</p>
1223 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.</p>
1224 <p>A little black magic...  When the C++ object (for a window or
1225 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1226 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it.  This leads to
1227 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1228 pointer.  The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1229 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1230 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted.  This works
1231 for any class that is OOR aware.</p>
1232 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1233 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1234 derived classes.</p>
1235 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1236 the image data.  (Patch #546009)</p>
1237 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1238 application.</p>
1239 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1240 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1241 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes.  The methods
1242 supported are:</p>
1243 <blockquote>
1244 <p>DoMoveWindow
1245 DoSetSize
1246 DoSetClientSize
1247 DoSetVirtualSize
1248 DoGetSize
1249 DoGetClientSize
1250 DoGetPosition
1251 DoGetVirtualSize
1252 DoGetBestSize
1253 InitDialog
1254 TransferDataFromWindow
1255 TransferDataToWindow
1256 Validate
1257 AcceptsFocus
1258 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1259 GetMaxSize
1260 AddChild
1261 RemoveChild</p>
1262 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1263 please let me know.</p>
1264 </blockquote>
1265 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1266 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.</p>
1267 <p>Added wxArtProvider.</p>
1268 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1269 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1270 are no pending events.  This is useful for when you need to do
1271 something but it can't be done during the current event handler.  The
1272 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.</p>
1273 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.</p>
1274 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1275 creating a ScrolledPanel.</p>
1276 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1277 other menu stuff.</p>
1278 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin.  This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1279 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1280 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1281 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.</p>
1282 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem.  Looks like when the win32com
1283 modules make a &quot;callback&quot; that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1284 transient thread state structure.  Since wxPython is now saving
1285 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1286 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...</p>
1287 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext.  This is
1288 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1289 respond to mouse events and etc.</p>
1290 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1291 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.</p>
1292 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1293 import and launch each tool.  This will let you import and use the
1294 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed.  On Linux and OS X the
1295 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1296 easily launch them from the command line.  For example, PyCrust can be
1297 started with just the &quot;pycrust&quot; command.</p>
1298 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1299 displays the details of the event.</p>
1300 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.</p>
1301 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1302 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources.  See the demo for an
1303 example.</p>
1304 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.</p>
1305 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.</p>
1306 </div>
1307 <div class="section" id="id19">
1308 <h1><a name="id19">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
1309 <ul class="simple">
1310 <li>20-Dec-2001</li>
1311 </ul>
1312 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1313 well as the Python thread state.  This time it works on SMP machines
1314 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.</p>
1315 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.</p>
1316 </div>
1317 <div class="section" id="id20">
1318 <h1><a name="id20">2.3.2</a></h1>
1319 <ul class="simple">
1320 <li>11-Dec-2001</li>
1321 </ul>
1322 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1323 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1324 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1325 and a demo to show them in action.</p>
1326 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1327 <a class="reference" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/</a>. )</p>
1328 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.</p>
1329 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.</p>
1330 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1331 Rolinsky.</p>
1332 <p>Added a new &quot;constructor&quot; to most of the window classes that calls the
1333 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1334 corresponding  Create(...) method.  This allows you to do a 2-step
1335 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
1336 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
1337 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
1338 resource.  The name of the new &quot;constructor&quot; is the original name of
1339 the class with a &quot;Pre&quot; in it.  For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
1340 etc.</p>
1341 <p>Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
1342 accordingly.  While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
1343 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality.  This
1344 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
1345 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
1346 wxSTC flag accordingly.</p>
1347 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
1348 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
1349 using wxColumnSorterMixin.</p>
1350 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.</p>
1351 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.</p>
1352 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.</p>
1353 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
1354 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
1355 multi-processor machine.</p>
1356 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
1357 messages however is wished.  See demo/Main.py for an example.</p>
1358 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.</p>
1359 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
1360 wxShape and derived classes.  This means that functions and methods
1361 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
1362 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
1363 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
1364 original C++ pointer.</p>
1365 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
1366 DrawPointList.</p>
1367 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.</p>
1368 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
1369 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.</p>
1370 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
1371 and from web browsers.  It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
1372 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
1373 browsers on Windows.  On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
1374 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
1375 wx-dev list.</p>
1376 <p>Added wxStopWatch.</p>
1377 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.</p>
1378 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
1379 will now Disconnect the event.</p>
1380 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.</p>
1381 <p>Added wxFileHistory.</p>
1382 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
1383 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars.  Added a demo to show
1384 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
1385 same document.</p>
1386 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.</p>
1387 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
1388 Feuer.</p>
1389 <p>Added the &quot;SplitTree gizmos&quot; which are a collection of classes that
1390 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
1391 additional columns for each item.  The classes are
1392 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
1393 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
1394 also be useful by themselves.</p>
1395 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
1396 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
1397 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first.  The
1398 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
1399 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful.  See
1400 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
1401 details.</p>
1402 </div>
1403 <div class="section" id="id21">
1404 <h1><a name="id21">2.3.1</a></h1>
1405 <ul class="simple">
1406 <li>10-Jul-2001</li>
1407 </ul>
1408 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
1409 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
1410 on a custom event handler for example.)</p>
1411 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1412 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.</p>
1413 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files.  Still need to add ability to
1414 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...</p>
1415 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.</p>
1416 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.</p>
1417 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.</p>
1418 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran</p>
1419 </div>
1420 <div class="section" id="id22">
1421 <h1><a name="id22">2.3.0</a></h1>
1422 <ul class="simple">
1423 <li>22-May-2001</li>
1424 </ul>
1425 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
1426 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)</p>
1427 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
1428 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
1429 ctor and dtors.</p>
1430 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.</p>
1431 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
1432 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
1433 colour database.</p>
1434 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
1435 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
1436 access from non-GUI threads.</p>
1437 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
1438 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.</p>
1439 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog</p>
1440 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama.  It contains a class
1441 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.</p>
1442 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
1443 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.</p>
1444 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
1445 it gobs faster in certain situations.</p>
1446 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
1447 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file.  The image is
1448 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
1449 containing info about each pixel.  The image's transparency mask is
1450 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
1451 specified on the command line.  It is then pickled and optionally
1452 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
1453 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage.  See
1454 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
1455 the implementation.</p>
1456 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK.  There was some
1457 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
1458 many refreshes.</p>
1459 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
1460 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.</p>
1461 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.</p>
1462 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.</p>
1463 <p>Added wxToggleButton.</p>
1464 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.</p>
1465 <dl class="docutils">
1466 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:</dt>
1467 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
1468 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1469 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
1470 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1471 GetGridWindow
1472 GetGridRowLabelWindow
1473 GetGridColLabelWindow
1474 GetGridCornerLabelWindow</dd>
1475 </dl>
1476 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
1477 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
1478 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.</p>
1479 <dl class="docutils">
1480 <dt>OOR:</dt>
1481 <dd><p class="first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return).  See
1482 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
1483 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
1484 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can.  By
1485 &quot;proper type&quot; I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
1486 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
1487 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
1488 as before.  This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
1489 wxPyTypeCast.  (Woo Hoo!)  The objects returned are still not the
1490 original Python object, but that is the next step.  (Although it
1491 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
1492 use weak references.)</p>
1493 <p class="last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
1494 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
1495 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
1496 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
1497 stomped on during my testing.  So please be sure to test everything
1498 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
1499 object-type related oddities to me.</p>
1500 </dd>
1501 </dl>
1502 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
1503 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
1504 specific.  It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
1505 finally got done.</p>
1506 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
1507 list for a while.  The above OOR modification made this easier.</p>
1508 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.</p>
1509 <p>Added wxWave.</p>
1510 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
1511 useful mix-in classes can be placed.  Currently there is one to help
1512 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
1513 Mike Fletcher.  If you have any custom code that can be factored out
1514 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
1515 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.</p>
1516 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
1517 by having smaller functional apps to play with.  They can be found in
1518 wxPython/samples.</p>
1519 </div>
1520 <div class="section" id="id23">
1521 <h1><a name="id23">2.2.7</a></h1>
1522 <ul class="simple">
1523 <li>19-Jun-2001</li>
1524 </ul>
1525 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
1526 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.</p>
1527 </div>
1528 <div class="section" id="id24">
1529 <h1><a name="id24">2.2.5</a></h1>
1530 <ul class="simple">
1531 <li>30-Jan-2001</li>
1532 </ul>
1533 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1534 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects.  If
1535 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1536 it to a wxString using the default encoding.</p>
1537 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.</p>
1538 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.</p>
1539 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1540 a matching prefix as keys are typed.</p>
1541 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1542 column in report mode.</p>
1543 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1544 bar after 2 seconds.</p>
1545 <p>Added wxJoystick.</p>
1546 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1547 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1548 object, (usually a window.)</p>
1549 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()</p>
1550 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.</p>
1551 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1552 multiple extension modules again.  A Python CObject is used to allow
1553 the &quot;export&quot; of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1554 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1555 libraries.  Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1556 wxPython/src/export.h</p>
1557 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1558 extension modules:  calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1559 utils.  Will probably add more later.</p>
1560 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1561 wxPrintData object.  The old ctor is still there using the
1562 wxPrinterDC2 name.</p>
1563 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen.  It contains a class
1564 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.</p>
1565 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.</p>
1566 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1567 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.</p>
1568 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1569 integrated with the demo yet.  It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1570 XML-RPC server.</p>
1571 </div>
1572 <div class="section" id="new-in-2-2-2">
1573 <h1><a name="new-in-2-2-2">New in 2.2.2</a></h1>
1574 <ul class="simple">
1575 <li>26-Oct-2000</li>
1576 </ul>
1577 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1578 Scintilla is implemented.  Most of it is now automatically generated
1579 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla.  This means
1580 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1581 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1582 have changed.  See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1583 interface from which the Python interface is generated.  There is now
1584 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1585 how things work.</p>
1586 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1587 of the distribution files.  (See <a class="reference" href="http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/</a>)
1588 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1589 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1590 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1591 platforms where there have been troubles before.  If you are building
1592 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1593 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above.  If you are
1594 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.</p>
1595 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1596 contributed by Joerg Baumann.</p>
1597 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute.  wxProcess lets you
1598 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1599 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
1600 stdin.</p>
1601 <p>Removed the old python sizers.</p>
1602 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
1603 and wxRealPoint.</p>
1604 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
1605 the core and each contrib.  This allowed me to do away with the
1606 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.</p>
1607 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.</p>
1608 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
1609 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better.  It's still not as nice as on
1610 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.</p>
1611 </div>
1612 <div class="section" id="new-in-2-2-1">
1613 <h1><a name="new-in-2-2-1">New in 2.2.1</a></h1>
1614 <ul class="simple">
1615 <li>22-Aug-2000</li>
1616 </ul>
1617 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.</p>
1618 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.</p>
1619 </div>
1620 <div class="section" id="new-in-2-2-0">
1621 <h1><a name="new-in-2-2-0">New in 2.2.0</a></h1>
1622 <ul class="simple">
1623 <li>17-Jul-2000</li>
1624 </ul>
1625 <p>Added wxLog and friends.</p>
1626 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.</p>
1627 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.</p>
1628 </div>
1629 <div class="section" id="new-in-2-1-16">
1630 <h1><a name="new-in-2-1-16">New in 2.1.16</a></h1>
1631 <ul class="simple">
1632 <li>12-Jun-2000</li>
1633 </ul>
1634 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1635 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1636 depressed state.</p>
1637 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends.  See the demo for an example.</p>
1638 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.</p>
1639 <p>Added wxDragImage.</p>
1640 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.</p>
1641 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.</p>
1642 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.</p>
1643 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
1644 Method Names.  (Methods that are automatically turned into event
1645 handlers by virtue of their name.)  The consensus was that it is more
1646 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
1647 coverage.  I am finally getting around to removing the code that
1648 generates the event binding.  This means that if you are using any of
1649 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
1650 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.</p>
1651 <blockquote>
1652 OnChar
1653 OnSize
1654 OnEraseBackground
1655 OnSysColourChanged
1656 OnInitDialog
1657 OnPaint
1658 OnIdle
1659 OnActivate
1660 OnMenuHighlight
1661 OnCloseWindow
1662 OnScroll</blockquote>
1663 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.</p>
1664 </div>
1665 <div class="section" id="new-in-2-1-15">
1666 <h1><a name="new-in-2-1-15">New in 2.1.15</a></h1>
1667 <ul class="simple">
1668 <li>25-Apr-2000</li>
1669 </ul>
1670 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
1671 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.</p>
1672 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
1673 GetSelections.</p>
1674 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL.  Also wxShape.SetClientData and
1675 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.</p>
1676 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.</p>
1677 <p>Plugged a memory leak.</p>
1678 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends.  The old wxGrid class is no longer
1679 available.  There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
1680 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
1681 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
1682 good...)</p>
1683 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
1684 authors.  There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
1685 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.</p>
1686 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
1687 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
1688 in a window and calling its methods.  It actually creates a new class
1689 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
1690 needed to make it all work.  The resulting class can be instantiated
1691 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc.  It also responds to all COM
1692 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
1693 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
1694 them.</p>
1695 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
1696 expecting a wxColour type.  The string is either a colour name as
1697 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
1698 &quot;#RRGGBB&quot;.  See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.</p>
1699 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl!  Yes, the
1700 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!!  (And the crowd goes
1701 wild...)   There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
1702 but I've included a very readable source file in the
1703 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
1704 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
1705 <a class="reference" href="http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html</a> to help fill in the gaps
1706 until the docs are done.  (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
1707 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)</p>
1708 </div>
1709 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-13">
1710 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in 2.1.13</a></h1>
1711 <ul class="simple">
1712 <li>3-Feb-2000</li>
1713 </ul>
1714 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.</p>
1715 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
1716 and some flicker problems.</p>
1717 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
1718 wxPython.lib.vtk module.  (<a class="reference" href="http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/</a>)</p>
1719 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
1720 &quot;which&quot; parameter.</p>
1721 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.</p>
1722 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.</p>
1723 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
1724 with wxWindow.GetParent.</p>
1725 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
1726 It is used like this:</p>
1727 <blockquote>
1728 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)</blockquote>
1729 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
1730 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.</p>
1731 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.</p>
1732 <p>Rotated text!!!  WooHoo!  (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())</p>
1733 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library.  These are simple
1734 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
1735 a bit more control over them.  The bezel width can be set in addition
1736 to colours, fonts, etc.  There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
1737 versions too.  They should also serve as a good example of how to
1738 create your own classes derived from wxControl.</p>
1739 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
1740 wrappers.  There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
1741 but shouldn't impact anybody too much.  I took the opportunity to add
1742 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool.  The new AddTool
1743 methods look like this:</p>
1744 <blockquote>
1745 <dl class="docutils">
1746 <dt>def AddTool(ID,</dt>
1747 <dd>bitmap,
1748 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
1749 toggle = FALSE,
1750 clientData = NULL,
1751 shortHelpString = &quot;&quot;,
1752 longHelpString = &quot;&quot;)</dd>
1753 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,</dt>
1754 <dd>bitmap,
1755 shortHelpString = &quot;&quot;,
1756 longHelpString = &quot;&quot;,
1757 toggle=FALSE)</dd>
1758 </dl>
1759 </blockquote>
1760 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1761 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.</p>
1762 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.</p>
1763 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.</p>
1764 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1765 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas.  You can get it at
1766 <a class="reference" href="http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL</a>.</p>
1767 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.</p>
1768 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1769 package.</p>
1770 <p>Changed all the &quot;LIST&quot; parameter names to &quot;choices&quot; to match the docs.</p>
1771 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1772 than wxMSW!  (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1773 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)</p>
1774 </div>
1775 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-11">
1776 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in 2.1.11</a></h1>
1777 <ul class="simple">
1778 <li>13-Nov-1999</li>
1779 </ul>
1780 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1781 syncronized.</p>
1782 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1783 wxImage.  I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1784 itself.</p>
1785 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1786 being added.  This should remove the need for our
1787 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.</p>
1788 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1789 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves.  This will
1790 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1791 a notebook or splitter.  If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1792 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().</p>
1793 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.</p>
1794 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.</p>
1795 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle</p>
1796 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
1797 it is no longer available by default.  You can use GetPositionTuple
1798 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1799 wxPoint.)</p>
1800 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1801 processed later.  This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1802 thread from other threads.</p>
1803 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.</p>
1804 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.</p>
1805 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.</p>
1806 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1807 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.</p>
1808 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.</p>
1809 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar.  It still has some troubles on
1810 wxGTK...</p>
1811 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.</p>
1812 </div>
1813 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-5">
1814 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in 2.1.5</a></h1>
1815 <ul class="simple">
1816 <li>12-Oct-1999</li>
1817 </ul>
1818 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1819 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done.  No new
1820 major features.</p>
1821 </div>
1822 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1-4">
1823 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in 2.1.4</a></h1>
1824 <ul class="simple">
1825 <li>7-Oct-1999</li>
1826 </ul>
1827 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1828 wxMSW.  For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1829 binaries from the web site.  For other platforms you'll have to build
1830 wxGTK from CVS.  (See <a class="reference" href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm</a>)
1831 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1832 the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.</p>
1833 <p>Now back to what's new...</p>
1834 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.</p>
1835 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.</p>
1836 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren().  Be careful of this.  It returns a <em>copy</em>
1837 of the list of the window's children.  While you are using the list if
1838 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1839 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1840 memory and your app will likely crash.  But if you are careful it works
1841 great!</p>
1842 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl.  The
1843 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1844 default sort order.</p>
1845 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1846 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used.  For
1847 example, the following are equivallent:</p>
1848 <pre class="literal-block">
1849 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
1850 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
1851 </pre>
1852 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module.  You can now create your own tag
1853 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes.  There
1854 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1855 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1856 pages.  See the demo for an example.</p>
1857 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1858 wxGTK.  Added them back in since the methods exist now.</p>
1859 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.</p>
1860 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends.  The Python-only
1861 versions are still in the library, but deprecated.  (You will get a
1862 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1863 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1864 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer.  I have
1865 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1866 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1867 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc.  One step I did
1868 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1869 wxGROW.  This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1870 portable to and from wxWin C++ code.  Please see the docs and demo for
1871 further details.</p>
1872 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1873 wxCommandEvent.  Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1874 accept or return a single Python object.  You can use these classes
1875 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1876 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1877 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.)  Stay tuned
1878 for more info and examples in future releases.</p>
1879 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1880 from the C++ sizers.  In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1881 wxFlexGridSizer.  wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1882 all the widths and heights are the same.  wxFlexgridSizer allows
1883 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1884 columns that are growable.  See the demo for a couple examples for how
1885 to use them.</p>
1886 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1887 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators.  See
1888 the demo for an example.  Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1889 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1890 in the underlying C++ library.  I did not add wxTextValidator because
1891 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1892 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1893 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1894 enough for the validator to do its job.  On the other hand, it should
1895 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1896 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.</p>
1897 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1898 years!  Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1899 object?  Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1900 value.  This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1901 sys.stderr.  A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1902 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.  (On windows the
1903 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.)  This class
1904 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1905 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr.  If you close the window it will come
1906 back again the next time something is written.  (You can call
1907 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.)  If you would rather that the stdio be
1908 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1909 object's constructor that is a filename.  If you want to use your own
1910 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1911 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1912 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:</p>
1913 <pre class="literal-block">
1914 class MyApp(wxApp):
1915     outputWindowClass = MyClass
1916
1917     def OnInit(self):
1918         frame = MyFrame()
1919         self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1920         return true
1921 </pre>
1922 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1923 wx.py for more details.  A few words of caution:  if you are running
1924 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1925 to really screw things up.</p>
1926 <p>Added wxCaret.  Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1927 in the wxWindows docs...</p>
1928 <p>Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib.  PyShell, in
1929 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1930 shell in wxWindows.  floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1931 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1932 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1933 bar back into the original parent.  (Unfortunately there is currently
1934 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1935 problems...)</p>
1936 </div>
1937 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1b3">
1938 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in 2.1b3</a></h1>
1939 <ul class="simple">
1940 <li>1-Sep-1999</li>
1941 </ul>
1942 <p>This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.</p>
1943 <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see <a class="reference" href="http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html</a>)
1944 for some of the new features and such.  Also they have encorporated my
1945 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1946 old) release...  This version of SWIG gives the following new
1947 features:</p>
1948 <blockquote>
1949 <ol class="arabic">
1950 <li><p class="first">Keyword arguments.  You no longer have to specify all the
1951 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1952 non-default value on the end.  You can now do this instead:</p>
1953 <blockquote>
1954 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)</p>
1955 </blockquote>
1956 </li>
1957 <li><p class="first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1958 NULL.  This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1959 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1960 expecting NULL.  This makes things much more snake-ish.</p>
1961 </li>
1962 </ol>
1963 </blockquote>
1964 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1965 raw makefiles.  Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1966 Unix systems.  See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1967 see distrib/build.py for more details.</p>
1968 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1969 two different versions.  wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1970 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1971 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.</p>
1972 </div>
1973 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1b2">
1974 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in 2.1b2</a></h1>
1975 <ul class="simple">
1976 <li>6-Aug-1999</li>
1977 </ul>
1978 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.</p>
1979 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1980 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1981 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1982 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1983 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.</p>
1984 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1985 process.  The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1986 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1987 is being unloaded by Python.</p>
1988 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1989 make wxPython look bad.</p>
1990 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of  x,y.  Added
1991 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.</p>
1992 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.</p>
1993 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method.  See
1994 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.</p>
1995 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1996 code to show how to use it.</p>
1997 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1998 matches MSW's.</p>
1999 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells</p>
2000 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2001 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.</p>
2002 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2003 wxWindows.  Use wxMenu and events instead.</p>
2004 <dl class="docutils">
2005 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as</dt>
2006 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)</dd>
2007 </dl>
2008 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2009 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type.  (Like doing
2010 a down-cast.)  See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.</p>
2011 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2012 data transfer.</p>
2013 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.</p>
2014 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2015 for unix systems.</p>
2016 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.</p>
2017 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2018 in wx.cpp.</p>
2019 </div>
2020 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-1b1">
2021 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in 2.1b1</a></h1>
2022 <ul class="simple">
2023 <li>28-Jun-1999</li>
2024 </ul>
2025 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2026 item.  (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2027 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)</p>
2028 <p>Added the Printing Framework.</p>
2029 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2030 version.  The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2031 data after loading each extension module.</p>
2032 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2033 wxWindows classes.</p>
2034 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items.  Actually was a
2035 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2036 when doing any Py_DECREFs.</p>
2037 <p>wxSizer and friends.  Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2038 of windows and sizers.  Different types of sizers apply different
2039 types of layout algorithms.  You saw it here first!  These classes are
2040 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!</p>
2041 </div>
2042 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b9">
2043 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in 2.0b9</a></h1>
2044 <ul class="simple">
2045 <li>1-May-1999</li>
2046 </ul>
2047 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file...  DSM!)</p>
2048 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2049 wxPython application.</p>
2050 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.</p>
2051 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2052 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl.  Added test pytree.py to show
2053 this feature off.</p>
2054 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.</p>
2055 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.</p>
2056 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2057 how it all works.</p>
2058 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2059 DLL.  It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.</p>
2060 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.</p>
2061 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2062 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.</p>
2063 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.</p>
2064 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2065 methods.</p>
2066 </div>
2067 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b8">
2068 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in 2.0b8</a></h1>
2069 <ul class="simple">
2070 <li>28-Mar-1999</li>
2071 </ul>
2072 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.</p>
2073 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.</p>
2074 <p>Various bug fixes.</p>
2075 </div>
2076 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b7">
2077 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in 2.0b7</a></h1>
2078 <ul class="simple">
2079 <li>15-Mar-1999</li>
2080 </ul>
2081 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.</p>
2082 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.</p>
2083 </div>
2084 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b6">
2085 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in 2.0b6</a></h1>
2086 <ul class="simple">
2087 <li>4-Mar-1999</li>
2088 </ul>
2089 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2090 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.</p>
2091 </div>
2092 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-2-0b5">
2093 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in 2.0b5</a></h1>
2094 <ul class="simple">
2095 <li>25-Feb-1999</li>
2096 </ul>
2097 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed.  I did this to
2098 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2099 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2100 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2101 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.</p>
2102 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython.  There are several pages
2103 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2104 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2105 diverges from wxWindows.</p>
2106 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2107 window handle.  If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2108 it should just work...  More news on this later.</p>
2109 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.</p>
2110 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2111 wxRegConfig class.</p>
2112 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.</p>
2113 </div>
2114 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-5-3">
2115 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in 0.5.3</a></h1>
2116 <ul class="simple">
2117 <li>30-Jan-1999</li>
2118 </ul>
2119 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.</p>
2120 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2121 compatibility with the current wxWindows.</p>
2122 </div>
2123 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-5-0">
2124 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in 0.5.0</a></h1>
2125 <p>Changed the import semantics from <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;from</span> <span class="pre">wxPython</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">*&quot;</span></tt> to
2126 <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;from</span> <span class="pre">wxPython.wx</span> <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">*&quot;</span></tt>  This is for people who are worried about
2127 namespace pollution, they can use &quot;from wxPython import wx&quot; and then
2128 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with &quot;wx.&quot;</p>
2129 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.</p>
2130 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.</p>
2131 <p>Added wxConfig.</p>
2132 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.</p>
2133 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2134 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.</p>
2135 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.</p>
2136 </div>
2137 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-4-2">
2138 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in 0.4.2</a></h1>
2139 <ul class="simple">
2140 <li>21-Oct-1998</li>
2141 </ul>
2142 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!!  Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2143 static on Solaris have been tested.  Many thanks go to Harm van der
2144 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
2145 bug.  Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
2146 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
2147 behavior was so different on different platforms.</p>
2148 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2149 must have been a different issue all along...</p>
2150 </div>
2151 <div class="section" id="what-s-new-in-0-4">
2152 <h1><a name="what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in 0.4</a></h1>
2153 <ul class="simple">
2154 <li>2-Oct-1998</li>
2155 </ul>
2156 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility.  It is partially working.  On a
2157 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
2158 linked with the Python interpreter.  When built as a dyamically loaded
2159 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
2160 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
2161 version segfault shortly after starting up.</p>
2162 <ol class="arabic simple" start="2">
2163 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.</li>
2164 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.</li>
2165 </ol>
2166 </div>
2167 <div class="section" id="wxpython-0-3">
2168 <h1><a name="wxpython-0-3">wxPython 0.3</a></h1>
2169 <ul class="simple">
2170 <li>9-Aug-1998</li>
2171 </ul>
2172 <p>The first &quot;modern&quot; version of wxPython.  See
2173 <a class="reference" href="http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory">http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory</a></p>
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