1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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7 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
8 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
9 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
10 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
11 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
12 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
13 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
14 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used.
16 Related to the above, when controls and some other window types are
17 created either the size passed to the constructor, or their "best
18 size" if an explicit size was not passed in, is set as the window's
19 minimal size. For non top-level windows that hasn't meant much in the
20 past, but now the sizers are sensitive to the window's minimal size.
21 The key point to understand here is that it is no longer the window's
22 size it has when added to the sizer that matters, but its minimal
23 size. So you might have some issues to iron out if you create a
24 control without a size and then set its size to something before
25 adding it to the sizer. Since it's minimal size is probably not the
26 size you set then the sizer will appear to be misbehaving. The fix is
27 to either set the size when calling the window's constructor, or to
28 reset the min size by calling SetSizeHints. You can call SetSizeHints
29 at anytime to change the minsize of a window, just call the sizer's
30 Layout method to redistribute the controls as needed.
33 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
34 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
36 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
37 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
38 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
39 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
42 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
43 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
45 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
47 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
48 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
50 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
51 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
52 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
53 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
54 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
55 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
58 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
59 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
60 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
61 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
62 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
65 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
66 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
67 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
69 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
70 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
72 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
73 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
75 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
76 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
77 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
78 remaining compatible with "C".
80 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
83 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
84 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
85 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
86 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
87 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
88 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
89 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
90 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
91 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
93 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
95 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
96 Scintilla for several releases now.
98 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
99 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
100 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
101 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
103 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
104 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
105 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
114 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
115 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
118 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
121 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
122 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
123 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
124 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
125 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
126 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
127 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
130 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
131 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
137 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
138 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
140 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
143 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
146 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
147 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
148 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
150 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
151 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
152 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
153 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
154 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
155 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
156 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
157 distros please send me a patch.
159 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
160 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
162 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
163 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
164 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
165 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
166 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
167 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
170 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
173 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
175 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
177 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
179 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
180 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
181 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
182 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
183 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
184 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
185 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
188 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
191 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
193 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
194 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
196 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
197 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
198 MigrationGuide for more details.
200 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
201 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
202 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
203 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
204 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
205 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
206 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
207 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
208 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
209 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
210 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
211 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
212 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
213 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
214 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
215 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
216 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
218 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
220 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
228 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
230 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
232 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
233 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
235 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
237 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
239 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
246 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
248 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
250 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
251 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
252 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
255 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
256 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
259 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
260 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
261 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
262 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
263 to the new namespace.
265 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
266 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
267 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
268 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
270 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
271 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
272 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
273 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
274 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
275 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
276 package. These will be removed in a future release.
278 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
279 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
280 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
282 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
284 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
285 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
287 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
288 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
290 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
291 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
293 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
294 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
297 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
298 a call to any Python callable object.
300 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
301 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
302 to override the C++ virtual methods.
304 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
305 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
306 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
307 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
308 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
310 Added wxCursorFromBits.
319 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
322 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
323 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
324 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
326 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
329 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
332 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
335 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
337 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
338 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
339 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
345 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
346 ------------------------------------------
348 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
349 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
350 think I am testing in the future...
354 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
355 ----------------------------------------------
357 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
359 Updated pycolourchooser.
361 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
367 Added missing wxRect methods
369 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
371 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
373 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
374 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
375 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
378 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
381 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
383 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
384 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
387 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
389 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
392 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
394 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
395 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
396 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
397 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
398 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
399 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
400 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
401 static stable in the C++ class.
403 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
404 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
405 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
406 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
409 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
410 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
411 always call them. The functions are:
413 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
414 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
415 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
416 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
417 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
418 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
419 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
420 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
421 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
422 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
423 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
424 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
426 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
427 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
429 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
430 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
431 doesn't have a standard place for them.
433 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
435 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
437 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
445 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
447 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
454 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
457 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
458 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
470 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
472 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
474 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
478 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
479 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
480 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
481 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
482 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
483 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
484 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
485 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
486 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
487 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
488 you can use to play with this new feature.
490 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
491 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
492 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
493 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
494 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
495 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
496 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
497 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
499 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
502 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
503 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
506 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
508 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
509 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
510 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
511 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
512 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
514 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
516 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
518 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
520 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
521 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
522 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
524 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
525 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
526 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
528 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
529 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
531 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
532 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
533 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
534 windows when desired.
536 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
537 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
538 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
545 Added wxSplashScreen.
547 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
549 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
551 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
552 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
553 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
555 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
556 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
557 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
559 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
560 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
561 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
563 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
564 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
565 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
566 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
567 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
570 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
574 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
575 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
578 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
579 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
580 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
581 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
582 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
583 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
584 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
586 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
587 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
588 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
589 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
590 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
591 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
592 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
593 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
594 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
595 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
596 unicode build on win95.
598 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
599 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
600 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
601 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
602 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
603 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
604 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
605 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
606 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
607 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
610 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
612 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
614 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
616 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
617 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
618 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
619 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
620 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
621 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
622 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
623 for any class that is OOR aware.
625 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
626 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
629 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
630 the image data. (Patch #546009)
632 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
635 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
636 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
637 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
650 TransferDataFromWindow
654 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
659 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
662 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
663 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
667 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
668 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
669 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
670 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
671 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
673 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
675 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
676 creating a ScrolledPanel.
678 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
681 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
682 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
683 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
684 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
686 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
687 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
688 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
689 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
690 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
692 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
693 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
694 respond to mouse events and etc.
696 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
697 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
699 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
700 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
701 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
702 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
703 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
704 started with just the "pycrust" command.
706 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
707 displays the details of the event.
709 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
711 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
712 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
715 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
717 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
724 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
725 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
726 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
728 Added some patches from library contributors.
734 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
735 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
736 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
737 and a demo to show them in action.
739 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
740 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
742 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
744 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
746 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
749 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
750 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
751 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
752 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
753 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
754 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
755 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
756 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
759 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
760 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
761 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
762 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
763 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
764 wxSTC flag accordingly.
766 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
767 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
768 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
770 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
772 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
774 Added pySketch to the samples.
776 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
777 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
778 multi-processor machine.
780 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
781 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
783 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
785 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
786 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
787 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
788 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
789 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
790 original C++ pointer.
792 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
795 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
797 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
798 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
800 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
801 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
802 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
803 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
804 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
809 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
811 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
812 will now Disconnect the event.
814 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
818 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
819 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
820 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
823 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
825 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
828 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
829 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
830 additional columns for each item. The classes are
831 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
832 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
833 also be useful by themselves.
835 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
836 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
837 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
838 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
839 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
840 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
848 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
849 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
850 on a custom event handler for example.)
852 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
853 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
855 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
856 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
858 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
860 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
862 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
864 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
870 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
871 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
873 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
874 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
877 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
879 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
880 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
883 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
884 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
885 access from non-GUI threads.
887 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
888 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
890 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
892 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
893 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
895 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
896 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
898 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
899 it gobs faster in certain situations.
901 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
902 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
903 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
904 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
905 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
906 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
907 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
908 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
909 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
912 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
913 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
916 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
917 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
919 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
921 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
923 Added wxToggleButton.
925 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
927 Added some methods to wxGrid:
928 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
929 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
930 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
931 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
933 GetGridRowLabelWindow
934 GetGridColLabelWindow
935 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
937 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
938 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
939 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
942 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
943 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
944 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
945 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
946 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
947 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
948 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
949 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
950 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
951 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
952 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
953 use weak references.)
955 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
956 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
957 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
958 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
959 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
960 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
961 object-type related oddities to me.
964 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
965 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
966 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
969 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
970 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
972 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
976 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
977 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
978 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
979 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
980 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
981 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
983 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
984 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
993 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
994 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
1001 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1002 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
1003 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1004 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
1006 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
1008 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
1010 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1011 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
1013 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1014 column in report mode.
1016 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1017 bar after 2 seconds.
1021 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1022 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1023 object, (usually a window.)
1025 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
1027 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
1029 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1030 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
1031 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1032 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1033 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1034 wxPython/src/export.h
1036 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1037 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1038 utils. Will probably add more later.
1040 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1041 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
1044 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
1045 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
1047 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
1049 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1050 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
1052 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1053 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1061 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1062 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
1063 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
1064 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1065 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1066 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1067 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
1068 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1071 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1072 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
1073 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1074 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1075 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1076 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
1077 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1078 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
1079 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
1081 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1082 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
1084 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
1085 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1086 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
1089 Removed the old python sizers.
1091 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
1094 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
1095 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
1096 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
1098 Lots of little fixes here and there.
1100 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
1101 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
1102 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
1110 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
1112 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
1119 Added wxLog and friends.
1121 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
1123 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
1130 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1131 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1134 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
1136 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
1140 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
1142 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
1144 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
1146 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
1147 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
1148 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
1149 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
1150 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
1151 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
1152 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
1153 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
1175 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
1176 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
1178 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
1181 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
1182 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
1184 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
1186 Plugged a memory leak.
1188 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
1189 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
1190 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
1191 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
1194 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
1195 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
1196 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
1198 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
1199 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
1200 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
1201 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
1202 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
1203 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
1204 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
1205 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
1208 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
1209 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
1210 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
1211 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
1213 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
1214 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
1215 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
1216 but I've included a very readable source file in the
1217 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
1218 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
1219 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
1220 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
1221 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
1226 What's new in 2.1.13
1227 --------------------
1228 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
1230 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
1231 and some flicker problems.
1233 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
1234 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
1236 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
1239 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
1241 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
1243 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
1244 with wxWindow.GetParent.
1246 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
1247 It is used like this:
1249 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
1251 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
1252 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
1254 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
1256 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
1258 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
1259 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
1260 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
1261 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
1262 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
1263 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
1265 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
1266 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
1267 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
1268 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
1269 methods look like this:
1273 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
1276 shortHelpString = "",
1277 longHelpString = "")
1279 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
1281 shortHelpString = "",
1282 longHelpString = "",
1286 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1287 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
1289 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
1291 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
1293 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1294 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
1295 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
1297 Added some missing EVT functions.
1299 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1302 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
1304 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1305 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1306 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
1311 What's new in 2.1.11
1312 --------------------
1313 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1316 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1317 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1320 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1321 being added. This should remove the need for our
1322 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
1324 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1325 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
1326 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1327 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1328 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
1330 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
1332 Added new HTML printing classes.
1334 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
1336 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
1337 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1338 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1341 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1342 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1343 thread from other threads.
1345 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
1347 Added wxFontEnumerator.
1349 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
1351 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1352 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
1354 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
1356 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1359 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
1366 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1367 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
1373 --------------------
1375 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1376 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1377 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1378 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
1379 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1382 Now back to what's new...
1384 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
1386 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
1388 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
1389 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1390 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1391 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1392 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1395 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1396 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1399 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1400 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1401 example, the following are equivallent:
1403 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
1404 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
1406 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1407 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1408 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1409 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1410 pages. See the demo for an example.
1412 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1413 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
1415 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
1417 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1418 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
1419 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1420 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1421 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1422 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1423 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1424 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1425 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1426 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1427 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1430 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1431 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1432 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1433 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1434 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1435 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1436 for more info and examples in future releases.
1438 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1439 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1440 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1441 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1442 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1443 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1446 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1447 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1448 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1449 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1450 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1451 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1452 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1453 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1454 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1455 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1456 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
1458 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1459 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1460 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1461 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1462 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1463 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1464 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1465 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1466 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1467 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1468 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1469 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1470 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1471 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1472 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1473 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
1476 outputWindowClass = MyClass
1480 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1483 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1484 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1485 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1486 to really screw things up.
1488 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1489 in the wxWindows docs...
1491 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1492 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1493 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1494 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1495 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1496 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1497 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1504 --------------------
1506 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
1508 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
1509 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1510 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1511 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1514 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1515 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1516 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
1518 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
1520 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1521 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1522 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1523 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
1526 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1527 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1528 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1529 see distrib/build.py for more details.
1531 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1532 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1533 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1534 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
1541 --------------------
1543 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
1545 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1546 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1547 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1548 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1549 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
1551 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1552 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1553 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1554 is being unloaded by Python.
1556 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1557 make wxPython look bad.
1559 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1560 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
1562 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
1564 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1565 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
1567 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1568 code to show how to use it.
1570 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1573 Added wxGrid.GetCells
1575 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1576 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
1578 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1579 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
1581 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
1582 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
1584 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1585 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1586 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
1588 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1591 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
1593 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1596 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
1598 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
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1607 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1608 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1609 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
1611 Added the Printing Framework.
1613 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1614 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1615 data after loading each extension module.
1617 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1620 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1621 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1622 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
1624 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1625 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1626 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1627 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
1633 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
1635 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1636 wxPython application.
1638 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
1640 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1641 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1644 Added wxSafeYield function.
1646 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
1648 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1651 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1652 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
1654 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
1656 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1657 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
1659 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
1661 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1668 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
1670 Several missing methods from various classes.
1678 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
1680 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
1686 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1687 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
1692 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1693 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1694 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1695 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1696 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
1698 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1699 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1700 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1701 diverges from wxWindows.
1703 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1704 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1705 it should just work... More news on this later.
1707 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
1709 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1712 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
1718 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
1720 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1721 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
1727 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
1728 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
1729 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
1730 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
1732 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
1734 Made the events work for wxGrid.
1738 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
1740 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1741 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
1743 Other assorted fixes and additions.
1751 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1752 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1753 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
1754 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1755 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1756 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
1758 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1759 must have been a different issue all along...
1766 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1767 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1768 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1769 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1770 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1771 version segfault shortly after starting up.
1773 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
1775 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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