1 CHANGES.txt for wxPython
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7 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
8 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
9 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
10 and a demo to show them in action.
12 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
13 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
15 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
17 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
19 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
22 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
23 default C++ contructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
24 coresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
25 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
26 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
27 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
28 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
29 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
32 Updated to version 1.39 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
35 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
36 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
37 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
39 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
41 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
43 Added pySketch to the samples.
45 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
46 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
47 multi-processor machine.
49 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
50 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
52 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
54 The second phase of OOR is implemented (for wxEvtHandler and derived
62 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
63 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
64 on a custom event handler for example.)
66 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
67 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
69 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
70 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
72 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
74 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
76 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
78 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
84 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
85 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
87 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
88 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
91 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
93 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
94 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
97 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
98 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
99 access from non-GUI threads.
101 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
102 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
104 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
106 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
107 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
109 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
110 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
112 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
113 it gobs faster in certain situations.
115 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
116 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
117 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
118 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
119 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
120 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
121 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
122 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
123 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
126 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
127 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
130 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
131 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
133 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
135 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
137 Added wxToggleButton.
139 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
141 Added some methods to wxGrid:
142 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
143 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
144 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
145 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
147 GetGridRowLabelWindow
148 GetGridColLabelWindow
149 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
151 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
152 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
153 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
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157 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
158 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
159 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
160 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
161 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
162 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
163 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
164 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
165 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
166 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
167 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
168 use weak references.)
170 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
171 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
172 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
173 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
174 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
175 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
176 object-type related oddities to me.
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179 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
180 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
181 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
184 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
185 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
187 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
191 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
192 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
193 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
194 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
195 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
196 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
198 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
199 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
208 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
209 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
216 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
217 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
218 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
219 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
221 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
223 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
225 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
226 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
228 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
229 column in report mode.
231 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
236 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
237 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
238 object, (usually a window.)
240 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
242 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
244 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
245 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
246 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
247 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
248 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
249 wxPython/src/export.h
251 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
252 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
253 utils. Will probably add more later.
255 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
256 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
259 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
260 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
262 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
264 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
265 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
267 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
268 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
276 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
277 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
278 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
279 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
280 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
281 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
282 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
283 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
286 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
287 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
288 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
289 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
290 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
291 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
292 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
293 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
294 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
296 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
297 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
299 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
300 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
301 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
304 Removed the old python sizers.
306 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
309 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
310 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
311 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
313 Lots of little fixes here and there.
315 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
316 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
317 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
325 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
327 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
334 Added wxLog and friends.
336 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
338 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
345 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
346 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
349 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
351 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
355 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
357 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
359 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
361 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
362 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
363 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
364 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
365 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
366 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
367 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
368 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
390 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
391 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
393 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
396 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
397 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
399 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
401 Plugged a memory leak.
403 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
404 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
405 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
406 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
409 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
410 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
411 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
413 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
414 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
415 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
416 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
417 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
418 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
419 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
420 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
423 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
424 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
425 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
426 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
428 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
429 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
430 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
431 but I've included a very readable source file in the
432 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
433 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
434 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
435 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
436 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
443 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
445 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
446 and some flicker problems.
448 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
449 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
451 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
454 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
456 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
458 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
459 with wxWindow.GetParent.
461 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
462 It is used like this:
464 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
466 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
467 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
469 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
471 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
473 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
474 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
475 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
476 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
477 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
478 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
480 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
481 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
482 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
483 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
484 methods look like this:
488 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
491 shortHelpString = "",
494 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
496 shortHelpString = "",
501 There are also coresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
502 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
504 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
506 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
508 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
509 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
510 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
512 Added some missing EVT_ functions.
514 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
517 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
519 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
520 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
521 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
528 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
531 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
532 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
535 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
536 being added. This should remove the need for our
537 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
539 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
540 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
541 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
542 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
543 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
545 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
547 Added new HTML printing classes.
549 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
551 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
552 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
553 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
556 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
557 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
558 thread from other threads.
560 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
562 Added wxFontEnumerator.
564 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
566 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
567 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
569 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
571 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
574 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
581 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
582 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
590 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
591 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
592 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
593 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
594 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
597 Now back to what's new...
599 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
601 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
603 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
604 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
605 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
606 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
607 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
610 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
611 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
614 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
615 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
616 example, the following are equivallent:
618 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
619 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
621 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
622 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
623 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
624 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
625 pages. See the demo for an example.
627 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
628 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
630 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
632 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
633 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
634 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
635 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
636 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
637 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
638 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
639 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
640 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
641 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
642 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
645 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
646 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
647 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
648 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
649 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
650 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
651 for more info and examples in future releases.
653 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
654 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
655 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
656 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
657 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
658 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
661 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
662 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
663 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
664 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
665 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
666 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
667 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
668 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
669 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
670 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
671 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
673 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
674 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
675 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
676 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
677 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
678 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
679 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
680 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
681 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
682 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
683 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
684 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
685 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
686 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
687 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
688 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
691 outputWindowClass = MyClass
695 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
698 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
699 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
700 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
701 to really screw things up.
703 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
704 in the wxWindows docs...
706 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
707 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
708 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
709 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
710 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
711 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
712 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
721 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
723 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
724 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
725 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
726 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
729 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
730 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
731 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
733 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
735 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
736 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
737 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
738 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
741 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
742 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
743 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
744 see distrib/build.py for more details.
746 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
747 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
748 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
749 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
758 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
760 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
761 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
762 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
763 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
764 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
766 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
767 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
768 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
769 is being unloaded by Python.
771 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
772 make wxPython look bad.
774 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
775 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
777 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
779 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
780 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
782 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
783 code to show how to use it.
785 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
788 Added wxGrid.GetCells
790 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
791 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
793 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
794 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
796 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
797 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
799 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
800 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
801 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
803 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
806 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
808 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
811 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
813 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
822 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
823 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
824 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
826 Added the Printing Framework.
828 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
829 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
830 data after loading each extension module.
832 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
835 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
836 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
837 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
839 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
840 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
841 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
842 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
848 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
850 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
851 wxPython application.
853 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
855 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
856 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
859 Added wxSafeYield function.
861 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
863 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
866 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
867 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
869 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
871 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
872 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
874 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
876 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
883 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
885 Several missing methods from various classes.
893 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
895 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
901 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
902 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
907 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
908 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
909 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
910 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
911 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
913 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
914 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
915 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
916 diverges from wxWindows.
918 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
919 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
920 it should just work... More news on this later.
922 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
924 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
927 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
933 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
935 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
936 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
942 Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to "from
943 wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about
944 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
945 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
947 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
949 Made the events work for wxGrid.
953 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
955 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
956 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
958 Other assorted fixes and additions.
966 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
967 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
968 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
969 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
970 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
971 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
973 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
974 must have been a different issue all along...
981 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
982 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
983 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
984 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
985 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
986 version segfault shortly after starting up.
988 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
990 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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