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2 wxWindows 2.5/2.6 Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
6 ================================
7
8 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
9 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
10 with '!' in the first column.
11
12 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
13 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
14 series.
15
16 ! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
17 wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE stll
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
19
20
21 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
22 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
23 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
24 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
25 - finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
26 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
27 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
28 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
29 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
30 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
31 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
32 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
33 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
34 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
35 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
36 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
37 - wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
38 - wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
39 - wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
40 other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
41 stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
42 - wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
43 Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
44 now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
45 - wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
46 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode,
47 switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
48
49 wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
50 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
51
52
53 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
54 ==============================
55
56 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWindows
57 versions, please update your code to not use them.
58
59 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
60 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
61 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
62 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
63 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
64 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
65 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
66 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
67 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
68 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
69 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWindows
70 methods taking wxArrayString
71 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
72 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
73 - wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
74 and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
75 accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
76 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
77 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
78 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
79 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
80 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
81 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
82 value
83 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
84
85
86 OTHER CHANGES
87 =============
88
89 2.5.2
90 -----
91
92 All:
93
94 - Hindi translations added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
95
96 All (GUI):
97
98 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
99 resulting in much better display of scaled images
100 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
101 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
102 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
103 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviouris now the default behaviour for
104 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
105 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
106 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
107 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
108 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
109 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
110 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
111
112 wxMSW:
113
114 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
115 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
116 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
117 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
118 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
119 even try to do it by default -- now it does
120 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
121 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
122
123 wxMotif:
124
125 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
126
127 wxUniv/X11:
128
129 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
130
131 wxHTML:
132
133 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
134 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
135
136
137 2.5.1
138 -----
139
140 All:
141
142 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
143 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
144 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
145 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
146 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
147 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
148 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
149 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
150 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
151 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
152 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
153 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
154 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
155 (as in 2.5.0).
156 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
157 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
158 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
159 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
160 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
161 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
162 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
163 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
164 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
165 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
166 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
167 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
168
169 All (GUI):
170
171 - added wxListBook control
172 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
173 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
174 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
175 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
176 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
177 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
178 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
179 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
180 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
181 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
182 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
183 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
184 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
185 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
186 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
187 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
188 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
189 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
190 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
191 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
192 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
193 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
194 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
195 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
196 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
197 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
198
199 wxMSW:
200
201 - wxWindows now builds under Win64
202 - fixed DDE memory leaks
203 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
204 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
205 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
206 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
207 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
208 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
209 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
210 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
211 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
212 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
213 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
214 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
215 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
216 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
217 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
218 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
219 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
220 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
221 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
222 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
223 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
224 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
225 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
226 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
227 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
228 than the specified default size
229 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
230
231 wxGTK:
232
233 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
234 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
235 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
236 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
237 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
238 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
239 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
240 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
241 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
242
243 wxMac:
244
245 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
246 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
247 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
248 - use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
249
250 wxMotif:
251
252 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
253
254 wxHTML:
255
256 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
257 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
258
259 Unix:
260
261 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
262 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
263 addition to existing OSS one
264 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
265
266
267 2.5.0
268 -----
269
270 All:
271
272 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
273 huge wxWindows library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
274 separately compiled library
275 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
276 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
277 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
278 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
279 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
280 - added wxArray::SetCount()
281 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
282 by default in Unicode mode
283 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
284 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
285 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
286 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
287 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
288 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
289 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
290 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
291 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
292 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
293 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
294 - added wxRecursionGuard class
295 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
296 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
297 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
298 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
299 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
300 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
301 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
302 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
303
304 wxBase:
305
306 - added Watcom makefiles
307 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
308
309 All GUI ports:
310
311 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
312 - added wxListbook
313 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
314 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
315 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
316 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
317 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
318 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
319 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
320 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
321 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
322 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
323 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
324 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
325 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
326 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
327 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
328 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
329 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
330 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
331 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
332 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
333 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
334 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
335 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
336 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
337 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
338 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
339 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
340 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
341 default extension for the template
342 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
343 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
344 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
345 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
346 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
347 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
348 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
349 to allow better rich text support.
350 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
351 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
352 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
353 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
354 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
355 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
356 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
357 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
358 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
359 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
360 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
361 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
362 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
363 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
364 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
365 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
366 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
367 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
368 - added wxMirrorDC class
369 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
370 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
371 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
372 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
373 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
374 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
375 improved
376
377 Unix:
378
379 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
380 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
381 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
382 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
383 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
384
385 Generic controls:
386
387 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
388 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
389 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
390 to contrib/src/deprecated
391
392 wxGTK:
393
394 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
395 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
396 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
397 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
398 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
399 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
400 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
401 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
402 be appended to filenames with no extension
403 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
404 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
405 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
406 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
407
408 wxMac:
409
410 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
411 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
412
413 wxMSW:
414
415 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
416 - added wxCrashReport
417 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
418 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
419 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
420 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
421 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
422 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
423 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
424 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
425 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
426 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
427 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
428 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
429 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
430 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
431 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
432 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
433 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
434 - improved border handling under Windows XP
435 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
436 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
437 wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
438 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
439 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
440 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
441 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
442
443 wxMotif:
444
445 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
446 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
447 documentation for a detailed explanation
448 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
449 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
450 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
451 with Motif 1.x compatibility
452 - implemented wxToggleButton
453 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
454 instead of a sunken border
455 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
456 - finished wxClipboard implementation
457
458 wxUniv:
459
460 - controls in toolbars now supported
461
462 wxHTML:
463
464 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
465 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
466 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
467 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
468 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
469
470
471 OLD CHANGES
472 ===========
473
474 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
475 ================================
476
477 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
478 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
479 with '!' in the first column.
480
481 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
482 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
483 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
484 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
485 2.6 release.
486
487 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
488 of wxWindows you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
489 (see the documentation) useful.
490
491
492 wxBase:
493
494 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
495 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
496 code.
497
498 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
499 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
500 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
501 arrays containing non-pointers.
502
503 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
504 simply don't make sense for all objects
505
506 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
507 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
508 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
509
510 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
511
512 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
513 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
514 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
515 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
516 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
517
518 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
519 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
520 the default assert handling.
521
522 All (GUI):
523
524 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
525 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
526 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
527
528 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
529 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
530 instead!
531
532 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
533 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
534 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
535
536 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
537 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
538 you want to get OnChar() as well
539
540 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
541 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
542 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
543
544 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
545 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
546 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
547 will *NOT* work any longer:
548
549 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
550 ... do something ...
551 if ( flags & wxYES )
552 ... do something else ...
553
554 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
555 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
556 the ctor
557
558 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
559
560 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
561 if you derived any classes from it
562
563 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
564 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
565
566 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
567 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
568
569 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
570 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
571
572 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
573 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
574 from happening
575
576 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
577 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
578 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
579
580 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
581 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
582 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
583 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
584
585 wxMSW:
586
587 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
588 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
589 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
590 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
591 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
592 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
593 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
594 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
595 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
596 is only present for the DLLs builds.
597
598 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
599 style to avoid it
600
601 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
602 previously selected one instead of replacing it
603
604 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
605 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
606 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
607
608 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
609 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
610
611
612 Unix ports:
613
614 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
615 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
616 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
617 to compile pure C files.
618
619
620 wxThread and related classes:
621
622 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
623 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
624 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
625 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
626
627 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
628 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
629 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
630 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
631
632 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
633 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
634 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
635
636 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
637 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
638
639
640 OTHER CHANGES
641 =============
642
643 2.4.0
644 -----
645
646 wxMSW:
647
648 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
649
650 2.3.4
651 -----
652
653 All:
654
655 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
656 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
657 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
658
659 Unix (Base/GUI):
660
661 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
662 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
663 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
664
665 wxGTK:
666 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
667 - Addition of native frame site grip.
668
669 wxX11:
670 - Unicode support through Pango library.
671
672 wxMSW:
673
674 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
675 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
676
677 wxHTML:
678
679 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
680
681 2.3.3
682 -----
683
684 wxBase:
685
686 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
687 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
688 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
689 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
690 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
691 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
692 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
693 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
694 after (non standard) STL hash_map
695 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
696 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
697 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
698 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
699 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
700 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
701 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
702
703 Unix (Base/GUI):
704
705 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
706 programs and not only GNU make
707 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
708 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
709 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
710 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
711 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
712
713 All (GUI):
714
715 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
716 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
717 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
718 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
719 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
720 wxWindows dialogs
721 - significantly improved native font support
722 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
723 wxHashTable
724 - added IFF image handler
725 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
726 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
727 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
728 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
729 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
730 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
731 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
732 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
733 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
734 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
735 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
736 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
737 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
738 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
739 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
740 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
741 - wxMessageOutput class added
742 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
743 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
744 table fills up
745 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
746 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
747 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
748 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
749 (Rene Rivera).
750 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
751 whether a label edit was cancelled.
752 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
753
754 wxMSW:
755
756 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
757 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
758 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
759 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
760 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
761 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
762 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
763 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
764 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
765 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
766 are changed
767 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
768 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
769 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
770 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
771 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
772 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
773 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
774 recursion any more
775 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
776 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
777 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
778 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
779 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
780 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
781 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
782 has the capture before release it.
783 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
784 - default button handling is now closer to expected
785 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
786 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
787 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
788 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
789 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
790 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
791 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
792 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
793 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
794 provided in wxFontData
795 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
796 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
797
798 wxGTK:
799
800 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
801 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
802 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
803 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
804 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
805 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
806 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
807 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
808 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
809 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
810 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
811 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
812 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
813
814 wxMotif:
815
816 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
817 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
818 - improved toolbar control alignment
819 - implemented wxSpinButton
820 - implemented wxCheckListBox
821 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
822 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
823
824 wxX11:
825
826 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
827 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
828
829 wxMac:
830
831 - Many improvements
832
833 wxOS2:
834
835 - First alpha-quality release
836
837 wxHTML:
838
839 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
840 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
841 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
842 - fixed alignment handling in tables
843 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
844
845 2.3.2
846 -----
847
848 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
849
850 wxBase:
851
852 - wxRegEx class added
853 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
854 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
855 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
856 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
857 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
858
859 All (GUI):
860
861 - support for virtual list control added
862 - column images in report mode of the list control
863 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
864 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
865 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
866 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
867 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
868 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
869 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
870 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
871 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
872 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
873 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
874 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
875
876 wxMSW:
877
878 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
879 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
880 project files
881
882 wxGTK:
883
884 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
885 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
886 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
887 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
888
889 wxMac:
890
891 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
892 Tools
893
894 wxHTML:
895
896 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
897 to tags parsing
898 - added support for animated GIFs
899
900 2.3.1
901 -----
902
903 wxBase:
904
905 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
906 - Fixed new charset detection code
907 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
908 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
909 - Added wxDir::Traverse
910 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
911 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
912 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
913
914 All (GUI):
915
916 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
917 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
918 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
919 push on a custom event handler for example)
920 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
921 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
922 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
923 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
924 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
925 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
926 first-time saved
927 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
928 - Various wxXML enhancements
929 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
930 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
931 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
932 instead of GetId()
933 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
934 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
935
936 wxMSW:
937
938 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
939 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
940 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
941 alt or shift) now work
942 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
943 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
944 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
945 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
946 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
947 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
948 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
949 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
950 - We now send iconize events
951 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
952 - Added mousewheel processing
953 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
954 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
955 in wxDC
956 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
957 child frame styles are honoured
958
959 wxGTK:
960
961 - Fixed slider rounding bug
962 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
963 - We now send iconize events
964 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
965 GetSelection() results
966
967 2.3.0
968 -----
969
970 wxBase:
971
972 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
973 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
974 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
975 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
976 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
977 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
978 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
979 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
980 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
981 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
982
983 All (GUI):
984
985 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
986 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
987 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
988 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
989 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
990 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
991 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
992 wxImage methods and ctor)
993 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
994 - ODBC documentation complete!!
995 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
996 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
997 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
998 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
999
1000 wxMSW:
1001
1002 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1003 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1004 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1005 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1006
1007 wxGTK:
1008
1009 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1010
1011 wxHTML:
1012
1013 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1014 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1015
1016 2.2.0
1017 -----
1018
1019 wxBase:
1020
1021 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1022 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1023 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1024 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1025 - Completed Czech translations
1026 - Some stream corrections
1027 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1028 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1029 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1030 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1031
1032 All (GUI):
1033
1034 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1035 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1036 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1037 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1038 - Paper names now translated
1039 - wxGrid fixes
1040 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1041 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1042 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1043 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1044 File dialog.
1045 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1046 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1047 writing code
1048 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1049 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1050 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1051 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1052
1053 wxMSW:
1054
1055 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1056 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1057 backward compatibility, please set
1058 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1059 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1060 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1061 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1062 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1063 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1064 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1065 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1066 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1067 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1068 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1069 - wxFrame restores focus better
1070 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1071 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1072 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1073 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1074 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1075 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1076 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1077 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1078 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1079 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1080
1081 wxGTK:
1082
1083 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1084
1085 wxMotif:
1086
1087 - Small compilation fixes
1088
1089 Documentation:
1090
1091 - wxCaret documented
1092
1093 2.1.16
1094 ------
1095
1096 wxBase:
1097
1098 All (GUI):
1099
1100 wxMSW:
1101
1102 - Various bug fixes
1103 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1104 files. This works under VC++ only
1105 - Modal dialog handling improved
1106 - Printer dialog now modal
1107
1108 wxGTK:
1109
1110 - Various bug fixes
1111
1112 wxMotif:
1113
1114 - Various bug fixes
1115
1116 2.1.15
1117 ------
1118
1119 Documentation:
1120
1121 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1122
1123 File hierarchy:
1124
1125 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1126 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1127
1128 wxBase:
1129
1130 - wxSocket support
1131 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1132 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1133 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1134 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1135 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1136 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1137 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1138 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1139 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1140 only so far)
1141 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1142 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1143 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1144 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1145 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1146 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1147 is available)
1148 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1149
1150 all (GUI):
1151
1152 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1153 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1154 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1155 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1156 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1157 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1158 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1159 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1160 John Norris)
1161 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1162 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1163 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1164 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1165 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1166 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1167 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1168 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1169 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1170 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1171 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1172 - wxDragImage class added
1173 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1174 controllers, as well as native help
1175 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1176
1177 wxMSW:
1178
1179 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1180 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1181 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1182 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1183 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1184 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1185 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1186 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1187 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1188 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1189 Unix ports
1190 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1191 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1192 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1193
1194 wxGTK:
1195
1196 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1197 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1198 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1199
1200 wxMotif:
1201
1202 - wxMenu::Enable works
1203 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1204 - OGL samples made to work again
1205
1206 wxHTML:
1207
1208 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1209 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1210 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1211 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1212 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1213 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1214 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1215 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1216 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1217 - improved HTML printing
1218 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
1219 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1220 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1221 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1222
1223
1224 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1225 change log.
1226
1227 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1228 -----------------------
1229
1230 wxGTK:
1231
1232 - JPEG support added.
1233 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1234
1235 wxMSW:
1236
1237 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1238 SetTabSize added.
1239 - JPEG support added.
1240 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1241 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1242 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1243
1244 wxMotif:
1245
1246
1247 General:
1248
1249 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1250
1251
1252 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1253 -------------------------------
1254
1255 wxGTK:
1256
1257 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
1258 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1259
1260 wxMSW:
1261
1262 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1263 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1264 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1265 - Some makefile fixes.
1266
1267 wxMotif:
1268
1269 - None.
1270
1271 General:
1272
1273 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1274 - More topic overviews.
1275 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1276 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1277 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1278
1279
1280 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1281 --------------------------
1282
1283 wxGTK:
1284
1285 - wxExecute improved.
1286
1287 wxMSW:
1288
1289 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1290 expected).
1291 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1292 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1293 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1294 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1295 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1296 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1297
1298 wxMotif:
1299
1300 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1301 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1302
1303 General:
1304
1305 - wxLocale documented.
1306 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1307 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1308 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1309 (though doesn't display help yet).
1310
1311 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1312 --------------------------
1313
1314 wxGTK:
1315
1316 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1317
1318 wxMSW:
1319
1320 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1321 rationalised.
1322 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
1323
1324 wxMotif:
1325
1326 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1327 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1328 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1329 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1330 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1331 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1332 crashes for some reason).
1333 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1334 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1335
1336 General:
1337
1338 - Further doc improvements.
1339 - wxGenericValidator added.
1340 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1341 automatically.
1342
1343 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1344 -------------------------
1345
1346 wxGTK:
1347
1348 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1349 - wxToolTip class added.
1350 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1351
1352 wxMSW:
1353
1354 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1355 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1356 - TWIN32 support added.
1357 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1358 factored out program/library settings.
1359 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1360
1361 wxMotif:
1362
1363 - A few more colour fixes.
1364 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1365 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1366 - wxChoice crash fix.
1367 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1368
1369 General:
1370
1371 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1372 - Added samples/dde.
1373 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1374
1375 Beta 2, January 1999
1376 --------------------
1377
1378 wxGTK:
1379
1380 wxMSW:
1381
1382 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1383
1384 wxMotif:
1385
1386 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1387 the right place.
1388 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1389 - Added thread support (Robert).
1390 - wxPoem sample now works.
1391
1392 General:
1393
1394 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1395 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1396 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1397 or below).
1398 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1399 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1400 sample.
1401 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1402
1403 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1404 --------------------------
1405
1406 wxGTK:
1407
1408 - Various
1409
1410 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1411
1412
1413 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1414 ----------------------------
1415
1416 wxMSW:
1417
1418 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1419 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1420 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1421 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1422 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1423 on a tab.
1424 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1425 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1426 of Stefan Csomor.
1427
1428 wxMotif:
1429
1430 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1431 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1432 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1433 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1434 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1435 colours correctly.
1436 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1437 when any button was pressed.
1438 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1439 have a white background.
1440 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1441 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1442 they have sensible colours by default.
1443 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1444 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1445 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1446 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1447 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1448
1449 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1450 ----------------------------
1451
1452 wxMSW:
1453
1454 - More documentation updates, especially for
1455 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1456 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1457 of wxTrace.
1458 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1459 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1460 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1461 position.
1462 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1463
1464 wxMotif:
1465
1466 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1467 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1468 child frames).
1469 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1470 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1471 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1472 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1473 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1474 the debugging implementation.
1475 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1476 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1477 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1478 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1479 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1480 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1481 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1482
1483 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1484
1485 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1486 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1487 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1488 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1489 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1490 - wxNotebook almost done.
1491 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1492 to vertical toolbars).
1493
1494 More recently:
1495
1496 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1497 to scrollbars).
1498 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1499 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1500 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1501
1502 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1503 ----------------------------
1504
1505 wxMSW:
1506
1507 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1508 sample.
1509 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1510 - A few more makefiles added.
1511 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1512 - Further doc updates.
1513 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1514
1515 wxMotif:
1516
1517 - First start at Motif port.
1518 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1519 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1520 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1521 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1522
1523 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1524 --------------------------
1525
1526 wxMSW:
1527
1528 - wxBitmap debugged.
1529 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1530 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1531 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1532 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1533 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1534 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1535 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1536
1537 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1538 ------------------------
1539
1540 wxMSW:
1541
1542 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1543 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1544 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1545 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1546 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1547 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1548 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1549 changes, wxNotebook.
1550 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1551
1552 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1553 -----------------------
1554
1555 wxMSW:
1556
1557 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1558 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1559 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1560 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1561 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1562 don't support it.
1563 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1564 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1565
1566 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1567 -----------------------
1568
1569 wxMSW:
1570
1571 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1572 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1573
1574 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1575 -----------------------
1576
1577 wxMSW:
1578
1579 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1580 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1581 wxMenuBar.
1582 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1583 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1584 wxMenuItem accessors.
1585 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1586 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1587 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1588 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1589 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1590 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1591 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1592 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1593 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1594 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1595 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1596 first, then doing the assignment.
1597 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1598 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1599
1600 Generic:
1601
1602 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1603 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1604
1605 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1606 ----------------------
1607
1608 wxMSW:
1609
1610 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1611 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1612 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1613 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1614 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1615 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1616 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1617 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1618 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1619
1620 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1621 ------------------------
1622
1623 wxMSW:
1624
1625 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1626 fields were used.
1627 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1628 compilation and pragmas.
1629 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1630 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1631
1632 Generic:
1633
1634 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1635 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1636 compilation and pragmas.
1637 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1638
1639 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1640 ------------------------
1641
1642 wxMSW:
1643
1644 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1645 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1646 some reason :-(
1647 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1648 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1649 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1650 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1651 startup/exit.
1652 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1653 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1654 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1655 VADIM'S CHANGES:
1656 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1657 compatibility functions.
1658 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1659 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1660 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1661 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1662 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1663 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1664 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1665
1666 Generic:
1667
1668 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1669 - Added samples/png.
1670 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1671 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1672 header files.
1673 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1674
1675 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1676 ------------------------
1677
1678 wxMSW:
1679
1680 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1681 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1682 cleaned up properly before exit.
1683 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1684 automatically.
1685 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1686 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1687 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1688 unresolved issues.
1689 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1690 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1691 tray area.
1692 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1693 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1694 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1695 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1696
1697 Generic:
1698
1699 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1700 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1701 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1702 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1703 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1704 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1705 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1706 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1707 allow better control of memory.
1708 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1709 checking.
1710 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1711 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1712
1713 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1714 ------------------------
1715
1716 wxMSW:
1717
1718 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1719 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1720 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1721 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1722 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1723 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1724 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1725 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1726 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1727 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1728 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1729 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1730 IUnknown.
1731 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1732 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1733 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1734 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1735 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1736 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1737 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1738 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1739 internal implementation.
1740 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1741 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1742 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1743
1744 Generic:
1745
1746 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1747 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1748 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1749 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1750 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1751
1752 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1753 --------------------------
1754
1755 wxMSW:
1756
1757 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1758 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1759 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1760 changes.
1761 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1762 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1763 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1764 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1765 again.
1766 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1767 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1768 e.g. wxDC.
1769
1770 Generic:
1771
1772 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1773 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1774 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1775 changes.
1776 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1777 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1778 docs/gtk.
1779 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1780 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1781 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1782 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1783 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1784 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1785 - Added gcc pragmas.
1786 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1787 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1788 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1789 added a few references to wxTransString.
1790 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1791 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1792 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1793 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1794 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1795 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1796 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1797 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1798 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1799 MoreRequested.
1800
1801 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1802 --------------------------
1803
1804 All:
1805
1806 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1807 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1808 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1809 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1810 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1811 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1812 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1813 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1814 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1815 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1816 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1817 scrolling toolbars.
1818 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1819 to help printing with multiple pages.
1820 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1821 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1822 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1823 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1824 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1825 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1826 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1827 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1828 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1829 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1830 New files from Vadim:
1831 include\wx\string.h
1832 include\wx\debug.h
1833 include\wx\file.h
1834 include\wx\log.h
1835 include\wx\intl.h
1836 src\common\string.cpp
1837 src\common\log.cpp
1838 src\common\intl.cpp
1839 src\common\file.cpp
1840 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1841 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1842 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1843 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1844 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1845 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1846 including changes to defs.h.
1847 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1848 introduced.
1849 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1850 hidden).
1851 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1852 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1853 trick).
1854 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1855
1856 Alpha 3, September 1997
1857 -----------------------
1858
1859 All:
1860
1861 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1862 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1863 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1864 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1865 - Started documentation.
1866
1867 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1868 ------------------------
1869
1870 All:
1871
1872 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1873 with MetroWerks compiler.
1874 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1875 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1876 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1877 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1878 for testing purposes.
1879 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1880 handlers.
1881 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1882 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1883 fully).
1884 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1885 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1886 a separate file.
1887
1888 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1889 -----------------------
1890
1891 Generic:
1892
1893 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1894
1895 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1896 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1897 wxString instead of char *.
1898 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1899 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1900 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1901 as wxbWindow now removed.
1902 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1903 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1904 - PrologIO revised.
1905 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1906 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1907 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1908 Windows settings.
1909 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1910 settings mucho rationalised.
1911 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1912 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1913 classes removed.
1914 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1915 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1916 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1917 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1918 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1919 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1920 of event handlers.
1921 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1922 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1923 wxToolBarBase
1924 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1925 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1926 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1927 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1928 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1929 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1930 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1931 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1932 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1933 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1934 in the future.
1935 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1936 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1937 variables instead.
1938 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1939 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1940 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1941 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1942 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1943 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1944 Win95.
1945 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1946 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1947 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1948 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1949 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1950 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).
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