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1 Recent Changes for wxPython
2 =====================================================================
3
4 2.7.0.0
5 -------
6
7 The following deprecated items have been removed:
8
9 * wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
10
11 * The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
12
13 * wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
14
15 * wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
16
17 * The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
18
19 * wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
20
21 * wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
22
23
24
25
26
27 2.6.2.1
28 -------
29
30 wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
31 bitmaps.
32
33 wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
34 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
35 platforms.
36
37 wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
38 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
39
40 Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
41
42 Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
43
44 Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
45
46 Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
47 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
48 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
49 can manage more than two child windows.
50
51 Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890
52 "Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features::
53
54 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
55 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
56 For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that
57 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad"
58 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
59
60 Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
61
62 XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
63
64 * Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
65 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
66 for an available parent control if no specific view
67 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
68 'stick' anymore).
69
70 * Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
71
72 * Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
73 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100
74 is not always good).
75
76 Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
77 Gavana.
78
79 Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
80 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
81 wx.TheClipboard.
82
83 Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
84
85 wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
86
87 wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.
88
89 wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
90 None.
91
92 Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
93 it doesn't fill up too soon.
94
95 Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
96
97 Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
98
99 Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
100 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
101
102 Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
103
104 Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
105 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
106 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
107 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() &
108 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
109 to synchronize with a single timer.
110
111 Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
112 result.
113
114 Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
115 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
116
117 Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"
118
119 Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager
120 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
121
122 Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
123 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
124 instead of a separate menu item.
125
126 Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
127 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
128 workaround a bug in MSLU!
129
130 wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
131 and other special keys properly.
132
133 Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
134 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
135 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
136
137 * The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
138 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
139
140 * In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
141 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
142 next run.
143
144 * Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
145 bindings.
146
147 * Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
148 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
149
150 * F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
151
152 * switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
153
154 * Display of line numbers can be toggled.
155
156 * F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
157 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
158 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
159 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
160 non-flashing caret.
161
162 * Ctrl-H will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
163
164 * General code cleanup and fixes.
165
166 * Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
167 files.
168
169 * Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
170
171 * Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
172 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
173 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
174 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
175
176 * All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
177 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
178 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
179 place to do anything.
180
181 * Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
182 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
183 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
184
185 * Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
186 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
187
188 * PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
189 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
190 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
191
192 * Added an option for whether to insert text for function
193 parameters when popping up the call tip.
194
195 * Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
196 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
197
198
199 Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
200
201 * Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
202
203 * Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
204
205 * Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
206 one.
207
208 * Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
209 changes.
210
211 * Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
212 integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
213
214 * Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove
215 default sign key handlers if false, so that
216 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
217
218 * Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
219 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
220 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
221 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
222 rather than toggling the previous sign.
223
224 wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
225 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
226 will use by default.
227
228 Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
229 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
230 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
231 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
232 and the modifier keys.
233
234 Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
235
236 A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
237 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
238 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
239
240 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
241 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
242 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
243 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
244 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)
245
246
247
248
249 2.6.1.0
250 -------
251 * 4-June-2005
252
253 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
254 wx.LC_EDIT_LABELS.
255
256 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
257
258 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
259 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
260 any unknown file type.
261
262 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
263 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
264
265 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
266 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
267 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
268 other.
269
270 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
271
272 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
273 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
274
275 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
276 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
277
278 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
279
280 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
281 calls.
282
283 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
284 change will get written at the next flush.
285
286
287
288
289
290 2.6.0.1
291 -------
292 * 30-May-2005
293
294 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
295 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
296 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
297
298 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
299 is not black.
300
301 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
302 both has an icon and is a submenu.
303
304 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
305 resized.
306
307 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
308 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
309 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
310 instead of current values.
311
312 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
313 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
314
315 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
316
317 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
318 extra null character at the end.
319
320 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
321 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
322
323 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
324 item.
325
326 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
327
328 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
329 a wx.StaticBox.
330
331 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
332
333 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
334 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
335 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
336 situations.
337
338 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
339 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
340 for details.
341
342 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
343 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
344 default browser in response to the clicks.
345
346 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
347 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
348 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
349 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
350 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
351 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
352 parameter, like this::
353
354 import wxversion
355 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
356 import wx
357
358 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
359 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
360 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
361
362 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
363 theme on XP.
364
365 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
366 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
367
368 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
369
370 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
371 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
372
373 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
374 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
375 while pasting).
376
377 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
378 self.history is None.
379
380 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
381 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
382 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
383
384 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
385 XP themes.
386
387 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
388 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
389 Subversion.
390
391 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
392 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
393 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
394 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
395
396 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
397
398 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
399 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
400 event as well.
401
402 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
403 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
404
405 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
406 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
407 printer.
408
409 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
410 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
411
412 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
413
414 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
415
416 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
417
418 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
419 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
420
421 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
422 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
423 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
424 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
425 shrink.
426
427 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
428 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
429
430 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
431 _setCallbackInfo.
432
433 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
434
435 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
436 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
437 usual.
438
439 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
440 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
441 of a wx.TextCtrl.)
442
443
444
445
446
447 2.6.0.0
448 -------
449 * 26-Apr-2005
450
451 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
452 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
453 supposed to.
454
455 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
456
457 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
458
459 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
460 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
461 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
462
463 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
464 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
465 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
466 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
467 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
468 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
469 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
470 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
471 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
472 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
473 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
474
475 =================== ====================
476 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
477 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
478 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
479 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
480 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
481 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
482 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
483 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
484 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
485 =================== ====================
486
487
488 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
489 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
490 a particular style.
491
492 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
493 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
494
495 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
496
497 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
498 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
499 * Hide command for test window.
500 * Replacing classes works better.
501 * Added Locate tool.
502
503
504
505
506 2.5.5.1
507 -------
508 * 8-Apr-2005
509
510 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
511
512 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
513 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
514 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
515 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
516 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
517
518 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
519
520 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
521 available.
522
523 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
524 wx.ImageHistogram.
525
526 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
527 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
528 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
529 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
530 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
531 2.5.4.1.
532
533 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
534 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
535 #1076226)
536
537 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
538 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
539
540 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
541 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
542 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
543 the width of any column.
544
545 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
546 now possible.
547
548 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
549
550 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
551
552 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
553 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
554
555 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
556 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
557 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
558 older generic file dialog is used.
559
560 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
561 #1166587)
562
563 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
564 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
565 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
566 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
567
568 Added MDI support to XRC
569
570 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
571 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
572
573 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
574 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
575
576 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
577 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
578
579 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
580 affecting the label.
581
582 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
583 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
584
585 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
586 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
587
588 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
589 folks.
590
591 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
592
593
594
595
596 2.5.4.1
597 -------
598 * 16-Mar-2005
599
600 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
601 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
602 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
603
604 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
605 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
606
607 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
608 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
609 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
610 then calling GetValue().
611
612 Some XRC changes:
613 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
614 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
615 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
616 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
617
618 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
619 bug.
620
621 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
622 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
623 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
624
625 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
626
627 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
628 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
629
630 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
631 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
632
633 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
634 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
635 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
636 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
637 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
638 the origin of the canvas.
639
640 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
641 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
642 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
643
644 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
645 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
646
647 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
648 internal scrollbar visible.
649
650 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
651 system paths for each platform.
652
653 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
654 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
655 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
656 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
657 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
658
659 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
660 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
661 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
662
663 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
664 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
665 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
666
667 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
668 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
669 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
670
671 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
672
673 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
674 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
675 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
676 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
677
678 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
679 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
680 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
681 of how to use the control.
682
683 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
684 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
685
686 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
687 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
688 running.
689
690 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
691 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
692
693 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
694 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
695 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
696 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
697 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
698 finished with the timer.
699
700 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
701 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
702 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
703 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
704 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
705 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
706 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
707 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
708 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
709 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
710
711 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
712 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
713 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
714 via the wxPython C API.
715
716 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
717 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
718 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
719 when docstrings are added for those items.
720
721 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
722 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
723 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
724 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
725 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
726 using long().
727
728 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
729 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
730 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
731 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
732 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
733 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
734 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
735 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
736 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
737 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
738 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
739 encodings.
740
741 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
742 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
743 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
744 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
745 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
746
747 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
748 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
749
750 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
751 lots of surplus events)
752
753 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
754 wx.SystemSettings.
755
756 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
757 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
758
759 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
760 and GTK+'s context menu code.
761
762 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
763 (not all actions are allowed).
764
765 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
766
767 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
768 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
769 when GetString is called from an event handler.
770
771 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
772 and max ends of the slider.
773
774 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
775 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
776 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
777
778 XRCed:
779 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
780 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
781 not with labels/sizers.
782 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
783 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
784 better.
785
786 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
787 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
788
789 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
790 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
791 class.
792
793 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
794 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
795 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
796 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
797 changed.
798
799 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
800 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
801
802 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
803
804 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
805 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
806 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
807 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
808
809 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
810 buttons.
811
812 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
813 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
814
815 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
816
817 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
818
819 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
820 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
821
822 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
823 controls.
824
825 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
826 WXK_MENU
827
828 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
829 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
830 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
831 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
832 samples/docview.
833
834 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
835
836 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
837
838 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
839 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
840 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
841 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
842 for Add, and etc.
843
844 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
845 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
846
847 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
848 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
849
850 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
851 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
852 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
853 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
854 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
855 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
856
857 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
858 event.
859
860 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
861 wx.Image.
862
863 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
864
865 wxGTK:
866 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
867 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
868 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
869 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
870
871
872
873
874 2.5.3.1
875 -------
876 * 9-Nov-2004
877
878 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
879
880 Updated internal PNG library.
881
882 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
883
884 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
885 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
886
887 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
888 enabled (does an enable itself)
889
890 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
891 OGL.
892
893 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
894 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
895 XRCed.
896
897 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
898 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
899 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
900 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
901 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
902 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
903 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
904 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
905 also be an image of a red X::
906
907 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
908
909
910 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
911
912 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
913
914 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
915
916 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
917 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
918 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
919 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
920 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
921 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
922 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
923
924 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
925 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
926 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
927 the wxPython modules.
928
929 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
930 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
931 user that they should look at that window.
932
933 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
934 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
935
936 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
937
938 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
939 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
940 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
941 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
942 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
943 and PyGetDate methods.
944
945 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
946 also set the colour of the dropdown.
947
948 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
949
950 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
951
952 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
953
954 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
955 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
956 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
957
958 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
959
960 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
961
962 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
963
964 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
965 1001271)
966
967 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
968 (patch 1030021)
969
970 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
971
972 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
973 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
974 1019440)
975
976 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
977
978 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
979 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
980 button.
981
982 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
983 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
984 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
985
986 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
987 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
988 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
989 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
990 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
991 should notice no difference.
992
993 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
994 when a new one is selected.
995
996 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
997
998 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
999 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1000 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1001 more details and a warning.
1002
1003 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1004 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
1005
1006 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1007 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
1008
1009 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
1010
1011 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
1012
1013 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
1014
1015 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1016 holding down the mouse button.
1017
1018 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1019 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
1020
1021 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
1022
1023 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
1024 - Added bar graph demo
1025 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
1026 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1027 arguments
1028 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
1029 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
1030 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
1031 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
1032 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1033 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
1034 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1035 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1036 coords.
1037
1038 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
1039 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
1040 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
1041 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1042 creation
1043 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1044 epydoc support
1045 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1046 reflect package's public contents.
1047
1048 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1049 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1050 Migrarion Guide for more information.
1051
1052 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
1053 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
1054 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
1055 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1056 TextEditMixin)
1057 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
1058
1059 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1060 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1061 it.
1062
1063 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1064 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
1065
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070 2.5.2.8
1071 -------
1072 * 27-Aug-2004
1073
1074 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
1075
1076 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
1077
1078 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
1079
1080 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1081 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
1082
1083 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1084 flicker problems, and namespace use.
1085
1086 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
1087
1088 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
1089
1090 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
1091 parameter.
1092
1093 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
1094
1095 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1096 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
1097
1098 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1099 wxScrolledWindow.
1100
1101 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1102 wxCheckListBox.
1103
1104 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
1105
1106 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
1107
1108 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
1109
1110 * etc.
1111
1112
1113
1114
1115 2.5.2.7
1116 -------
1117 * 14-Aug-2004
1118
1119 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1120 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1121 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1122 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1123 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1124 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
1125 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1126 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1127 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
1128
1129 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1130 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
1131
1132 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
1133 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
1134 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1135 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1136 parameters.
1137
1138 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1139 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
1140
1141 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
1142
1143 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1144 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
1145
1146 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1147 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1148 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1149 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
1150 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1151 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1152 done.
1153
1154 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1155 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1156 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1157 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1158 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1159 problems.
1160
1161 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1162 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1163 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
1164
1165 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1166 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
1167
1168 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1169 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
1170
1171 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
1172 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1173 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1174 remaining compatible with "C".
1175
1176 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1177 wxCode project.
1178
1179 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1180 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1181 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1182 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1183 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1184 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1185 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1186 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1187 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
1188
1189 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1190
1191 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1192 Scintilla for several releases now.
1193
1194 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1195 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1196 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1197 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
1198
1199 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1200 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1201 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1202 after construction.
1203
1204 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1205 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1206 with a more modern reimplementation.
1207
1208 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1209 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
1210
1211 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1212 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1213 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
1214
1215 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1216 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1217 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1218 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1219 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
1220
1221 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1222 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1223 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1224 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1225 in the PyShell::
1226
1227 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
1228 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
1229 ... b.Move((x, 50))
1230 ... app.Yield(True)
1231 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
1232
1233
1234 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
1235 box.
1236
1237
1238
1239 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
1240 -----------------------------------------------
1241 * 2-Apr-2004
1242
1243 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
1244 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1245 adapt your code.)
1246
1247 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1248
1249
1250 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1251 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1252 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1253 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1254 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1255 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1256 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1257
1258
1259 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1260 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1261
1262 Added wxMirrorDC.
1263
1264 Added wxIconLocation
1265
1266 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1267 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1268
1269 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1270 from wxBookCtrl.
1271
1272 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1273 wx.lib.plot module.
1274
1275 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1276 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1277 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1278
1279 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1280 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1281 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1282 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1283 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1284 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1285 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1286 distros please send me a patch.
1287
1288 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1289 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1290
1291 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1292 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1293 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1294 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1295 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1296 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1297 want to put them.
1298
1299 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1300 different API.
1301
1302 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1303
1304 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1305
1306 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1307
1308 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1309 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1310 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1311 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1312 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1313 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1314 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1315 it.
1316
1317 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1318 "Adi" Sieker.
1319
1320 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1321
1322 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1323 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1324
1325 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1326 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1327 MigrationGuide for more details.
1328
1329 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1330 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1331 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1332 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1333 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1334 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1335 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1336 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1337 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1338 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1339 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1340 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1341 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1342 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1343 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1344 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1345 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
1346
1347 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
1348
1349 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
1350
1351
1352
1353
1354 2.4.2.4
1355 -------
1356 * 1-Oct-2003
1357
1358 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
1359
1360 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
1361
1362 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1363 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
1364
1365 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
1366
1367 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
1368
1369 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
1370
1371
1372
1373 2.4.1.2
1374 -------
1375 * 19-Jun-2003
1376
1377 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
1378
1379 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
1380
1381 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1382 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
1383 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1384 informative.
1385
1386 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1387 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1388 and wxWindows match.
1389
1390 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
1391 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
1392 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
1393 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
1394 to the new namespace.
1395
1396 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1397 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1398 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1399 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
1400
1401 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1402 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1403 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
1404 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
1405 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1406 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1407 package. These will be removed in a future release.
1408
1409 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1410 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1411 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
1412
1413 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
1414
1415 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1416 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
1417
1418 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1419 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
1420
1421 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1422 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
1423
1424 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1425 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1426 wxTreeCtrl.)
1427
1428 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1429 a call to any Python callable object.
1430
1431 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1432 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1433 to override the C++ virtual methods.
1434
1435 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1436 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
1437 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1438 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
1439 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
1440
1441 Added wxCursorFromBits.
1442
1443
1444
1445
1446
1447 2.4.0.7
1448 -------
1449 * 24-Mar-2003
1450
1451 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1452 TRUE/FALSE values.
1453
1454 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1455 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1456 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
1457
1458 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1459 unicode.
1460
1461 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1462 OOR.
1463
1464 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1465 wxSize and etc.
1466
1467 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
1468
1469 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1470 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1471 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
1472 details.
1473
1474
1475
1476
1477 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
1478 ------------------------------------------
1479 * 11-Mar-2003
1480
1481 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1482 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1483 think I am testing in the future...
1484
1485
1486
1487 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
1488 ----------------------------------------------
1489 * 7-Mar-2003
1490
1491 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
1492
1493 Updated pycolourchooser.
1494
1495 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
1496
1497
1498
1499 2.4.0.4
1500 -------
1501 * 7-Mar-2003
1502
1503 Added missing wxRect methods
1504
1505 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
1506
1507 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
1508
1509 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1510 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1511 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1512 problems.
1513
1514 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1515 return type.
1516
1517 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
1518
1519 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1520 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1521 the parent window.
1522
1523 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
1524
1525 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1526 wrapper.
1527
1528 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
1529
1530 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1531 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1532 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1533 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1534 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1535 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
1536 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
1537 static stable in the C++ class.
1538
1539 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
1540 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
1541 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
1542 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
1543 present.
1544
1545 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
1546 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
1547 always call them. The functions are::
1548
1549 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1550 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1551 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
1552 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1553 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
1554 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1555 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
1556 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
1557 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
1558 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
1559 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
1560 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
1561
1562 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
1563 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
1564
1565 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
1566 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
1567 doesn't have a standard place for them.
1568
1569 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
1570
1571 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
1572
1573 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
1574
1575
1576
1577 2.4.0.2
1578 -------
1579 * 23-Jan-2003
1580
1581 Several bug fixes.
1582
1583 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1584
1585 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
1586
1587
1588
1589
1590 2.4.0.1
1591 -------
1592 * 10-Jan-2003
1593
1594 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
1595 enhancements.
1596
1597 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
1598 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
1599
1600
1601
1602 2.3.4.2
1603 -------
1604 * 21-Dec-2002
1605
1606 Various bug fixes.
1607
1608
1609
1610 2.3.4.1
1611 -------
1612 * 18-Dec-2002
1613
1614 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
1615
1616 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
1617
1618 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
1619
1620 Added wxHtmlFilter.
1621
1622 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
1623 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
1624 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
1625 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
1626 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
1627 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
1628 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
1629 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
1630 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
1631 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
1632 you can use to play with this new feature.
1633
1634 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
1635 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
1636 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
1637 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
1638 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
1639 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
1640 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
1641 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
1642
1643 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
1644 derived from wxApp.
1645
1646 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
1647 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
1648 to wxGrid.
1649
1650 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
1651
1652 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
1653 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
1654 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
1655 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
1656 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
1657
1658 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
1659
1660 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
1661
1662 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
1663
1664 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
1665 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
1666 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
1667
1668 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
1669 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
1670 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
1671
1672 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
1673 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
1674
1675 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
1676 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
1677 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
1678 windows when desired.
1679
1680 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
1681 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
1682 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
1683
1684
1685
1686
1687 2.3.3.1
1688 -------
1689 * 19-Sep-2002
1690
1691 Added wxSplashScreen.
1692
1693 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
1694
1695 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
1696
1697 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
1698 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
1699 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
1700
1701 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
1702 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
1703 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
1704
1705 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
1706 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
1707 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
1708
1709 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1710 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1711 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1712 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1713 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1714 wxFlexGridSizer.
1715
1716 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
1717
1718 Added wxBufferedDC.
1719
1720 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
1721 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
1722
1723 UNICODE!
1724 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
1725 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
1726 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
1727 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
1728 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
1729 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
1730 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
1731
1732 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
1733 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
1734 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
1735 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
1736 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
1737 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
1738 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
1739 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
1740 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
1741 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
1742 unicode build on win95.
1743
1744 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
1745 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
1746 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
1747 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
1748 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
1749 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
1750 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
1751 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
1752 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
1753 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
1754 method.
1755
1756 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
1757
1758 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
1759
1760 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
1761
1762 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
1763 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1764 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
1765 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1766 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1767 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1768 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
1769 for any class that is OOR aware.
1770
1771 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1772 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1773 derived classes.
1774
1775 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1776 the image data. (Patch #546009)
1777
1778 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1779 application.
1780
1781 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1782 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1783 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
1784 supported are:
1785
1786 DoMoveWindow
1787 DoSetSize
1788 DoSetClientSize
1789 DoSetVirtualSize
1790 DoGetSize
1791 DoGetClientSize
1792 DoGetPosition
1793 DoGetVirtualSize
1794 DoGetBestSize
1795 InitDialog
1796 TransferDataFromWindow
1797 TransferDataToWindow
1798 Validate
1799 AcceptsFocus
1800 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1801 GetMaxSize
1802 AddChild
1803 RemoveChild
1804
1805 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1806 please let me know.
1807
1808 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1809 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
1810
1811 Added wxArtProvider.
1812
1813 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1814 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1815 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
1816 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
1817 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
1818
1819 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
1820
1821 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1822 creating a ScrolledPanel.
1823
1824 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1825 other menu stuff.
1826
1827 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1828 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1829 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1830 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
1831
1832 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
1833 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1834 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
1835 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1836 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
1837
1838 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
1839 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1840 respond to mouse events and etc.
1841
1842 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1843 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
1844
1845 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1846 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
1847 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
1848 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1849 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
1850 started with just the "pycrust" command.
1851
1852 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1853 displays the details of the event.
1854
1855 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
1856
1857 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1858 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
1859 example.
1860
1861 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
1862
1863 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868 2.3.2.1
1869 -------
1870 * 20-Dec-2001
1871
1872 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1873 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
1874 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
1875
1876 Added some patches from library contributors.
1877
1878
1879
1880 2.3.2
1881 -----
1882 * 11-Dec-2001
1883
1884 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1885 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1886 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1887 and a demo to show them in action.
1888
1889 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1890 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
1891
1892 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
1893
1894 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
1895
1896 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1897 Rolinsky.
1898
1899 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
1900 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1901 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
1902 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
1903 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
1904 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
1905 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
1906 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
1907 etc.
1908
1909 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
1910 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
1911 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
1912 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
1913 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
1914 wxSTC flag accordingly.
1915
1916 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
1917 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
1918 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
1919
1920 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
1921
1922 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
1923
1924 Added pySketch to the samples.
1925
1926 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
1927 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
1928 multi-processor machine.
1929
1930 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
1931 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
1932
1933 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
1934
1935 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
1936 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
1937 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
1938 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
1939 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
1940 original C++ pointer.
1941
1942 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
1943 DrawPointList.
1944
1945 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
1946
1947 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
1948 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
1949
1950 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
1951 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
1952 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
1953 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
1954 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
1955 wx-dev list.
1956
1957 Added wxStopWatch.
1958
1959 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
1960
1961 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
1962 will now Disconnect the event.
1963
1964 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
1965
1966 Added wxFileHistory.
1967
1968 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
1969 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
1970 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
1971 same document.
1972
1973 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
1974
1975 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
1976 Feuer.
1977
1978 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
1979 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
1980 additional columns for each item. The classes are
1981 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
1982 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
1983 also be useful by themselves.
1984
1985 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
1986 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
1987 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
1988 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
1989 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
1990 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
1991 details.
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996 2.3.1
1997 -----
1998 * 10-Jul-2001
1999
2000 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2001 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2002 on a custom event handler for example.)
2003
2004 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2005 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
2006
2007 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2008 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
2009
2010 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
2011
2012 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
2013
2014 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
2015
2016 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
2017
2018
2019
2020 2.3.0
2021 -----
2022 * 22-May-2001
2023
2024 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2025 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
2026
2027 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2028 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2029 ctor and dtors.
2030
2031 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
2032
2033 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2034 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2035 colour database.
2036
2037 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2038 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2039 access from non-GUI threads.
2040
2041 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2042 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
2043
2044 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
2045
2046 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2047 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
2048
2049 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2050 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
2051
2052 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2053 it gobs faster in certain situations.
2054
2055 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2056 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2057 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2058 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2059 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2060 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2061 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2062 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2063 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2064 the implementation.
2065
2066 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2067 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2068 many refreshes.
2069
2070 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2071 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
2072
2073 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
2074
2075 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
2076
2077 Added wxToggleButton.
2078
2079 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
2080
2081 Added some methods to wxGrid:
2082 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2083 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2084 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2085 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2086 GetGridWindow
2087 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2088 GetGridColLabelWindow
2089 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
2090
2091 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2092 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2093 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
2094
2095 OOR:
2096 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2097 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2098 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2099 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2100 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2101 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2102 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2103 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2104 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2105 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2106 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
2107 use weak references.)
2108
2109 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2110 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2111 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
2112 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2113 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2114 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2115 object-type related oddities to me.
2116
2117
2118 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2119 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2120 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2121 finally got done.
2122
2123 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2124 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
2125
2126 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
2127
2128 Added wxWave.
2129
2130 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2131 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2132 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2133 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2134 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2135 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
2136
2137 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2138 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2139 wxPython/samples.
2140
2141
2142
2143
2144 2.2.7
2145 -----
2146 * 19-Jun-2001
2147
2148 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2149 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2150
2151
2152
2153 2.2.5
2154 -----
2155 * 30-Jan-2001
2156
2157 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
2158 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2159 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2160 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
2161
2162 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
2163
2164 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
2165
2166 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2167 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
2168
2169 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2170 column in report mode.
2171
2172 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2173 bar after 2 seconds.
2174
2175 Added wxJoystick.
2176
2177 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2178 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2179 object, (usually a window.)
2180
2181 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
2182
2183 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
2184
2185 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2186 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2187 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2188 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2189 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
2190 wxPython/src/export.h
2191
2192 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2193 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2194 utils. Will probably add more later.
2195
2196 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2197 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2198 wxPrinterDC2 name.
2199
2200 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2201 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
2202
2203 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
2204
2205 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2206 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
2207
2208 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2209 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2210 XML-RPC server.
2211
2212
2213
2214 New in 2.2.2
2215 ------------
2216 * 26-Oct-2000
2217
2218 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2219 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2220 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2221 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2222 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2223 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2224 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2225 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2226 how things work.
2227
2228 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2229 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
2230 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2231 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2232 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2233 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2234 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
2235 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2236 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
2237
2238 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2239 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
2240
2241 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2242 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2243 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2244 stdin.
2245
2246 Removed the old python sizers.
2247
2248 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2249 and wxRealPoint.
2250
2251 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2252 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2253 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2254
2255 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2256
2257 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2258 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2259 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2260
2261
2262
2263
2264 New in 2.2.1
2265 ------------
2266 * 22-Aug-2000
2267
2268 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2269
2270 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2271
2272
2273
2274 New in 2.2.0
2275 ------------
2276 * 17-Jul-2000
2277
2278 Added wxLog and friends.
2279
2280 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2281
2282 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2283
2284
2285
2286 New in 2.1.16
2287 -------------
2288 * 12-Jun-2000
2289
2290 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2291 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2292 depressed state.
2293
2294 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2295
2296 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2297
2298 Added wxDragImage.
2299
2300 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2301
2302 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2303
2304 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2305
2306 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2307 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2308 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2309 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2310 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2311 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2312 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2313 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2314
2315 OnChar
2316 OnSize
2317 OnEraseBackground
2318 OnSysColourChanged
2319 OnInitDialog
2320 OnPaint
2321 OnIdle
2322 OnActivate
2323 OnMenuHighlight
2324 OnCloseWindow
2325 OnScroll
2326
2327 Added wxSpinCtrl.
2328
2329
2330
2331
2332 New in 2.1.15
2333 -------------
2334 * 25-Apr-2000
2335
2336 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2337 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2338
2339 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2340 GetSelections.
2341
2342 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2343 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2344
2345 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
2346
2347 Plugged a memory leak.
2348
2349 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2350 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2351 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2352 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2353 good...)
2354
2355 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2356 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2357 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
2358
2359 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2360 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2361 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2362 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2363 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2364 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2365 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2366 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2367 them.
2368
2369 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2370 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2371 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2372 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
2373
2374 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2375 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2376 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2377 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2378 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2379 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2380 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
2381 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2382 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
2383
2384
2385
2386
2387 What's new in 2.1.13
2388 --------------------
2389 * 3-Feb-2000
2390
2391 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
2392
2393 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2394 and some flicker problems.
2395
2396 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2397 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
2398
2399 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2400 "which" parameter.
2401
2402 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
2403
2404 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
2405
2406 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2407 with wxWindow.GetParent.
2408
2409 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2410 It is used like this:
2411
2412 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
2413
2414 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2415 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
2416
2417 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
2418
2419 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
2420
2421 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2422 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2423 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2424 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2425 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2426 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
2427
2428 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2429 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2430 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2431 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2432 methods look like this:
2433
2434 def AddTool(ID,
2435 bitmap,
2436 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2437 toggle = FALSE,
2438 clientData = NULL,
2439 shortHelpString = "",
2440 longHelpString = "")
2441
2442 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
2443 bitmap,
2444 shortHelpString = "",
2445 longHelpString = "",
2446 toggle=FALSE)
2447
2448
2449 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2450 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
2451
2452 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
2453
2454 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
2455
2456 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2457 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2458 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
2459
2460 Added some missing EVT functions.
2461
2462 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2463 package.
2464
2465 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
2466
2467 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2468 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2469 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
2470
2471
2472
2473
2474 What's new in 2.1.11
2475 --------------------
2476 * 13-Nov-1999
2477
2478 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2479 syncronized.
2480
2481 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2482 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2483 itself.
2484
2485 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2486 being added. This should remove the need for our
2487 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
2488
2489 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2490 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2491 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2492 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2493 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
2494
2495 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
2496
2497 Added new HTML printing classes.
2498
2499 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
2500
2501 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2502 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2503 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2504 wxPoint.)
2505
2506 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2507 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2508 thread from other threads.
2509
2510 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
2511
2512 Added wxFontEnumerator.
2513
2514 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
2515
2516 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2517 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
2518
2519 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
2520
2521 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2522 wxGTK...
2523
2524 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
2525
2526
2527
2528
2529 What's new in 2.1.5
2530 -------------------
2531 * 12-Oct-1999
2532
2533 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2534 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
2535 major features.
2536
2537
2538
2539 What's new in 2.1.4
2540 -------------------
2541 * 7-Oct-1999
2542
2543 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
2544 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
2545 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
2546 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
2547 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
2548 the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.
2549
2550 Now back to what's new...
2551
2552 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
2553
2554 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
2555
2556 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
2557 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
2558 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
2559 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
2560 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
2561 great!
2562
2563 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
2564 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
2565 default sort order.
2566
2567 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
2568 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
2569 example, the following are equivallent::
2570
2571 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
2572 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
2573
2574 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
2575 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
2576 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
2577 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
2578 pages. See the demo for an example.
2579
2580 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
2581 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
2582
2583 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
2584
2585 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
2586 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
2587 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
2588 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
2589 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
2590 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
2591 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
2592 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
2593 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
2594 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
2595 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
2596 further details.
2597
2598 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
2599 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
2600 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
2601 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
2602 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
2603 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
2604 for more info and examples in future releases.
2605
2606 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
2607 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
2608 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
2609 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
2610 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
2611 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
2612 to use them.
2613
2614 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
2615 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
2616 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
2617 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
2618 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
2619 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
2620 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
2621 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
2622 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
2623 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
2624 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
2625
2626 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
2627 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
2628 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
2629 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
2630 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
2631 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
2632 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
2633 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
2634 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
2635 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
2636 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
2637 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
2638 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
2639 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
2640 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
2641 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
2642
2643 class MyApp(wxApp):
2644 outputWindowClass = MyClass
2645
2646 def OnInit(self):
2647 frame = MyFrame()
2648 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
2649 return true
2650
2651 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
2652 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
2653 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
2654 to really screw things up.
2655
2656 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
2657 in the wxWindows docs...
2658
2659 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
2660 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
2661 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
2662 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
2663 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
2664 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
2665 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
2666 problems...)
2667
2668
2669
2670
2671 What's new in 2.1b3
2672 --------------------
2673 * 1-Sep-1999
2674
2675 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
2676
2677 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
2678 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
2679 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
2680 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
2681 features:
2682
2683 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
2684 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
2685 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
2686
2687 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
2688
2689 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
2690 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
2691 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
2692 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
2693
2694
2695 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
2696 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
2697 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
2698 see distrib/build.py for more details.
2699
2700 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
2701 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
2702 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
2703 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
2704
2705
2706
2707
2708
2709 What's new in 2.1b2
2710 -------------------
2711 * 6-Aug-1999
2712
2713 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
2714
2715 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
2716 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
2717 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
2718 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
2719 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
2720
2721 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
2722 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
2723 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
2724 is being unloaded by Python.
2725
2726 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
2727 make wxPython look bad.
2728
2729 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
2730 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
2731
2732 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
2733
2734 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2735 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
2736
2737 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2738 code to show how to use it.
2739
2740 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2741 matches MSW's.
2742
2743 Added wxGrid.GetCells
2744
2745 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2746 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
2747
2748 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2749 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
2750
2751 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
2752 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
2753
2754 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2755 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2756 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
2757
2758 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2759 data transfer.
2760
2761 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
2762
2763 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2764 for unix systems.
2765
2766 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
2767
2768 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2769 in wx.cpp.
2770
2771
2772
2773
2774
2775 What's new in 2.1b1
2776 -------------------
2777 * 28-Jun-1999
2778
2779 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2780 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2781 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
2782
2783 Added the Printing Framework.
2784
2785 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2786 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2787 data after loading each extension module.
2788
2789 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2790 wxWindows classes.
2791
2792 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2793 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2794 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
2795
2796 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2797 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2798 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2799 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
2800
2801
2802
2803 What's new in 2.0b9
2804 -------------------
2805 * 1-May-1999
2806
2807 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
2808
2809 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2810 wxPython application.
2811
2812 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
2813
2814 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2815 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2816 this feature off.
2817
2818 Added wxSafeYield function.
2819
2820 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
2821
2822 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2823 how it all works.
2824
2825 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2826 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
2827
2828 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
2829
2830 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2831 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
2832
2833 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
2834
2835 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2836 methods.
2837
2838
2839
2840 What's new in 2.0b8
2841 -------------------
2842 * 28-Mar-1999
2843
2844 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
2845
2846 Several missing methods from various classes.
2847
2848 Various bug fixes.
2849
2850
2851
2852 What's new in 2.0b7
2853 -------------------
2854 * 15-Mar-1999
2855
2856 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
2857
2858 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
2859
2860
2861
2862 What's new in 2.0b6
2863 -------------------
2864 * 4-Mar-1999
2865
2866 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2867 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
2868
2869
2870 What's new in 2.0b5
2871 -------------------
2872 * 25-Feb-1999
2873
2874 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2875 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2876 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2877 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2878 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
2879
2880 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2881 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2882 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2883 diverges from wxWindows.
2884
2885 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2886 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2887 it should just work... More news on this later.
2888
2889 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
2890
2891 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2892 wxRegConfig class.
2893
2894 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
2895
2896
2897
2898 What's new in 0.5.3
2899 -------------------
2900 * 30-Jan-1999
2901
2902 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
2903
2904 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2905 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
2906
2907
2908
2909 What's new in 0.5.0
2910 -------------------
2911 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
2912 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
2913 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
2914 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
2915
2916 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
2917
2918 Made the events work for wxGrid.
2919
2920 Added wxConfig.
2921
2922 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
2923
2924 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2925 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
2926
2927 Other assorted fixes and additions.
2928
2929
2930
2931
2932 What's new in 0.4.2
2933 -------------------
2934 * 21-Oct-1998
2935
2936 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2937 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
2938 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
2939 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
2940 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
2941 behavior was so different on different platforms.
2942
2943 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2944 must have been a different issue all along...
2945
2946
2947
2948 What's New in 0.4
2949 -----------------
2950 * 2-Oct-1998
2951
2952 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
2953 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
2954 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
2955 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
2956 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
2957 version segfault shortly after starting up.
2958
2959 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
2960
2961 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
2962
2963
2964
2965
2966 wxPython 0.3
2967 ------------
2968 * 9-Aug-1998
2969
2970 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
2971 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory
2972
2973