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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
11 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
12 - added wxDebugReport class.
13 - added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev
14 - fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First)
18 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
19 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
20 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
21 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
22 the whole virtual area.
23 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
24 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
25 isn't used to set the window size.
29 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64
33 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11. (Mart Raudsepp)
34 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
35 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
36 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
37 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
41 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
45 - native wxRadioBox implementation.
49 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
50 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
51 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
52 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
53 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
54 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
55 with correct titlebar style.
56 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
58 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
66 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
67 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
68 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
69 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
70 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
71 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
72 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
73 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
74 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
75 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
76 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
77 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
78 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
79 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
80 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
81 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
82 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
83 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
84 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
85 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
86 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
87 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
88 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
89 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
90 printing stuff in the GTK port.
91 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
92 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
93 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
94 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
95 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
96 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
97 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
98 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
99 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
100 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
101 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
102 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
103 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
104 due to a rounding error.
105 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
106 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
107 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
108 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
109 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
110 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
111 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
112 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
118 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
119 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
120 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
121 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
122 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
123 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
124 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
125 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
126 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
127 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
128 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
129 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
130 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
131 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
132 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
133 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
134 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
138 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
142 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
143 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
144 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
145 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
146 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
147 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
148 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
149 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
150 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
151 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
152 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
153 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
154 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
156 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
157 - Added wxRawBitmap support
158 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
159 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
160 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
164 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
165 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
166 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
167 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
171 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
172 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
173 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
174 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
175 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
178 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
179 but not mentioned anywhere.
180 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
184 - wxBU_... button align flags support
185 - vertical notebook orientation support
186 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
187 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
191 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
192 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
193 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
194 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
195 - enumeration of available volumes
196 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
197 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
198 - native wxColourDialog implementation
199 - native wxSystemSettings colours
200 - native wxButton implementation
201 - native wxCheckBox implementation
202 - native wxSlider implementation
203 - native wxToggleButton implementation
204 - native wxRadioButton implementation
205 - native wxStaticText implementation
206 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
214 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
215 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
216 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
217 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
218 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
219 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
220 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
221 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
222 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
223 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
224 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
225 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
226 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
227 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
228 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
229 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
233 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
234 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
235 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
237 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
238 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
239 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
240 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
241 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
242 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
243 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
244 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
245 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
246 - added samples/splash
247 - added support for stock buttons
248 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
249 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
250 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
251 - added wxChoicebook control
252 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
253 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
254 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
255 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
256 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
257 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
258 supported, instead of zero.
259 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
263 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
264 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
265 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
266 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
267 - wx-config has new --version-full option
271 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
272 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
273 - Tooltips now supported
274 - wxSound now supported
275 - wxDisplay now supported
276 - Some stock cursors now supported
280 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
281 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
282 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
283 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
287 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
288 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
289 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
290 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
291 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
292 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
293 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
294 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
295 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
296 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
297 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
298 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
299 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
300 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
301 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
302 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
303 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
304 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
305 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
309 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
313 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
314 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
315 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
316 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
317 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
318 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
319 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
320 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
321 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
322 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
323 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
324 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
325 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
326 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
330 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
334 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
335 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
336 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
337 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
341 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
342 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
350 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
351 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
352 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
353 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
355 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
356 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
357 to forward declare these classes.
361 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
362 resulting in much better display of scaled images
363 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
364 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
365 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
366 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
367 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
368 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
369 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
370 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
371 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
372 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
373 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
374 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
375 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
379 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
380 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
381 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
382 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
383 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
384 even try to do it by default -- now it does
385 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
386 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
387 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
388 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
389 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
390 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
394 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
398 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
399 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
400 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
401 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
405 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
409 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
410 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
414 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
415 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
419 - Full Unicode support is now available
420 - BLOB support is working
428 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
429 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
430 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
431 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
432 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
433 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
434 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
435 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
436 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
437 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
438 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
439 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
440 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
442 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
443 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
444 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
445 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
446 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
447 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
448 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
449 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
450 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
451 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
452 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
453 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
457 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
458 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
459 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
460 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
461 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
462 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
463 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
464 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
465 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
466 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
467 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
468 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
469 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
470 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
471 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
472 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
473 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
474 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
475 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
476 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
477 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
478 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
479 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
480 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
481 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
482 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
486 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
487 - fixed DDE memory leaks
488 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
489 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
490 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
491 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
492 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
493 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
494 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
495 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
496 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
497 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
498 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
499 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
500 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
501 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
502 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
503 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
504 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
505 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
506 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
507 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
508 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
509 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
510 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
511 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
512 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
513 than the specified default size
514 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
518 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
519 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
520 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
521 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
522 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
523 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
524 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
525 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
526 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
530 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
531 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
532 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
533 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
537 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
541 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
542 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
546 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
547 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
548 addition to existing OSS one
549 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
557 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
558 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
559 separately compiled library
560 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
561 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
562 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
563 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
564 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
565 - added wxArray::SetCount()
566 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
567 by default in Unicode mode
568 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
569 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
570 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
571 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
572 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
573 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
574 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
575 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
576 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
577 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
578 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
579 - added wxRecursionGuard class
580 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
581 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
582 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
583 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
584 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
585 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
586 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
587 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
591 - added Watcom makefiles
592 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
596 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
597 - added wxListbook control
598 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
599 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
600 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
601 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
602 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
603 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
604 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
605 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
606 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
607 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
608 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
609 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
610 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
611 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
612 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
613 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
614 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
615 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
616 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
617 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
618 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
619 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
620 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
621 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
622 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
623 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
624 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
625 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
626 default extension for the template
627 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
628 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
629 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
630 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
631 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
632 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
633 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
634 to allow better rich text support.
635 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
636 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
637 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
638 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
639 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
640 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
641 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
642 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
643 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
644 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
645 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
646 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
647 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
648 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
649 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
650 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
651 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
652 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
653 - added wxMirrorDC class
654 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
655 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
656 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
657 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
658 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
659 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
664 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
665 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
666 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
667 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
668 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
672 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
673 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
674 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
675 to contrib/src/deprecated
679 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
680 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
681 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
682 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
683 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
684 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
685 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
686 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
687 be appended to filenames with no extension
688 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
689 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
690 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
691 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
695 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
696 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
700 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
701 - added wxCrashReport
702 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
703 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
704 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
705 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
706 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
707 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
708 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
709 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
710 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
711 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
712 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
713 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
714 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
715 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
716 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
717 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
718 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
719 - improved border handling under Windows XP
720 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
721 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
722 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
723 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
724 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
725 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
726 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
730 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
731 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
732 documentation for a detailed explanation
733 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
734 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
735 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
736 with Motif 1.x compatibility
737 - implemented wxToggleButton
738 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
739 instead of a sunken border
740 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
741 - finished wxClipboard implementation
745 - controls in toolbars now supported
749 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
750 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
751 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
752 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
753 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
759 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
760 ================================
762 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
763 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
764 with '!' in the first column.
766 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
767 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
768 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
769 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
772 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
773 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
774 (see the documentation) useful.
779 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
780 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
783 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
784 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
785 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
786 arrays containing non-pointers.
788 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
789 simply don't make sense for all objects
791 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
792 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
793 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
795 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
797 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
798 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
799 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
800 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
801 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
803 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
804 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
805 the default assert handling.
809 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
810 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
811 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
813 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
814 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
817 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
818 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
819 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
821 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
822 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
823 you want to get OnChar() as well
825 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
826 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
827 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
829 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
830 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
831 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
832 will *NOT* work any longer:
834 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
837 ... do something else ...
839 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
840 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
843 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
845 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
846 if you derived any classes from it
848 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
849 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
851 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
852 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
854 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
855 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
857 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
858 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
861 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
862 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
863 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
865 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
866 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
867 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
868 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
872 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
873 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
874 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
875 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
876 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
877 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
878 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
879 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
880 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
881 is only present for the DLLs builds.
883 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
886 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
887 previously selected one instead of replacing it
889 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
890 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
891 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
893 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
894 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
899 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
900 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
901 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
902 to compile pure C files.
905 wxThread and related classes:
907 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
908 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
909 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
910 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
912 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
913 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
914 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
915 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
917 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
918 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
919 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
921 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
922 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
933 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
940 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
941 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
942 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
946 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
947 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
948 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
951 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
952 - Addition of native frame site grip.
955 - Unicode support through Pango library.
959 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
960 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
964 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
971 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
972 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
973 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
974 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
975 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
976 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
977 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
978 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
979 after (non standard) STL hash_map
980 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
981 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
982 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
983 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
984 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
985 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
986 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
990 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
991 programs and not only GNU make
992 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
993 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
994 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
995 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
996 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1000 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1001 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1002 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1003 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1004 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1006 - significantly improved native font support
1007 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1009 - added IFF image handler
1010 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1011 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1012 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1013 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1014 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1015 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1016 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1017 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1018 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1019 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1020 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1021 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1022 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1023 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1024 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1025 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1026 - wxMessageOutput class added
1027 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1028 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1030 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1031 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1032 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1033 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1035 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1036 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1037 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1041 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1042 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1043 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1044 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1045 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1046 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1047 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1048 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1049 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1050 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1052 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1053 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1054 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1055 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1056 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1057 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1058 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1060 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1061 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1062 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1063 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1064 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1065 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1066 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1067 has the capture before release it.
1068 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1069 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1070 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1071 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1072 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1073 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1074 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1075 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1076 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1077 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1078 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1079 provided in wxFontData
1080 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1081 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1085 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1086 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1087 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1088 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1089 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1090 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1091 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1092 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1093 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1094 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1095 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1096 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1097 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1101 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1102 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1103 - improved toolbar control alignment
1104 - implemented wxSpinButton
1105 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1106 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1107 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1111 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1112 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1120 - First alpha-quality release
1124 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1125 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1126 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1127 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1128 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1133 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1137 - wxRegEx class added
1138 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1139 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1140 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1141 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1142 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1146 - support for virtual list control added
1147 - column images in report mode of the list control
1148 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1149 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1150 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1151 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1152 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1153 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1154 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1155 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1156 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1157 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1158 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1159 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1163 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1164 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1169 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1170 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1171 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1172 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1176 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1181 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1183 - added support for animated GIFs
1191 - Fixed new charset detection code
1192 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1193 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1194 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1195 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1196 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1197 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1201 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1202 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1203 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1204 push on a custom event handler for example)
1205 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1206 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1207 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1208 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1209 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1210 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1212 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1213 - Various wxXML enhancements
1214 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1215 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1216 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1218 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1219 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1223 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1224 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1225 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1226 alt or shift) now work
1227 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1228 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1229 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1230 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1231 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1232 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1233 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1234 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1235 - We now send iconize events
1236 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1237 - Added mousewheel processing
1238 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1239 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1241 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1242 child frame styles are honoured
1246 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1247 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1248 - We now send iconize events
1249 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1250 GetSelection() results
1257 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1258 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1259 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1260 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1261 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1262 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1263 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1264 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1265 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1266 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1270 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1271 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1272 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1273 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1274 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1275 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1276 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1277 wxImage methods and ctor)
1278 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1279 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1280 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1281 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1282 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1283 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1287 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1288 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1289 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1290 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1294 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1298 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1299 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1306 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1307 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1308 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1309 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1310 - Completed Czech translations
1311 - Some stream corrections
1312 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1313 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1314 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1315 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1319 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1320 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1321 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1322 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1323 - Paper names now translated
1325 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1326 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1327 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1328 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1330 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1331 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1333 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1334 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1335 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1336 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1340 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1341 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1342 backward compatibility, please set
1343 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1344 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1345 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1346 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1347 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1348 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1349 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1350 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1351 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1352 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1353 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1354 - wxFrame restores focus better
1355 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1356 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1357 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1358 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1359 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1360 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1361 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1362 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1363 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1364 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1368 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1372 - Small compilation fixes
1376 - wxCaret documented
1388 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1389 files. This works under VC++ only
1390 - Modal dialog handling improved
1391 - Printer dialog now modal
1406 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1410 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1411 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1416 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1417 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1418 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1419 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1420 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1421 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1422 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1423 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1424 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1426 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1427 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1428 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1429 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1430 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1431 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1433 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1437 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1438 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1439 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1440 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1441 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1442 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1443 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1444 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1446 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1447 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1448 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1449 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1450 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1451 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1452 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1453 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1454 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1455 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1456 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1457 - wxDragImage class added
1458 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1459 controllers, as well as native help
1460 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1464 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1465 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1466 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1467 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1468 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1469 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1470 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1471 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1472 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1473 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1475 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1476 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1477 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1481 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1482 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1483 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1487 - wxMenu::Enable works
1488 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1489 - OGL samples made to work again
1493 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1494 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1495 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1496 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1497 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1498 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1499 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1500 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1501 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1502 - improved HTML printing
1503 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1504 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1505 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1506 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1509 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1512 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1513 -----------------------
1517 - JPEG support added.
1518 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1522 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1524 - JPEG support added.
1525 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1526 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1527 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1534 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1537 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1538 -------------------------------
1543 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1547 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1548 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1549 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1550 - Some makefile fixes.
1558 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1559 - More topic overviews.
1560 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1561 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1562 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1565 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1566 --------------------------
1570 - wxExecute improved.
1574 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1576 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1577 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1578 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1579 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1580 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1581 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1585 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1586 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1590 - wxLocale documented.
1591 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1592 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1593 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1594 (though doesn't display help yet).
1596 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1597 --------------------------
1601 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1605 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1607 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1611 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1612 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1613 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1614 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1615 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1616 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1617 crashes for some reason).
1618 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1619 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1623 - Further doc improvements.
1624 - wxGenericValidator added.
1625 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1628 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1629 -------------------------
1633 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1634 - wxToolTip class added.
1635 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1639 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1640 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1641 - TWIN32 support added.
1642 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1643 factored out program/library settings.
1644 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1648 - A few more colour fixes.
1649 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1650 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1651 - wxChoice crash fix.
1652 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1656 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1657 - Added samples/dde.
1658 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1660 Beta 2, January 1999
1661 --------------------
1667 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1671 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1673 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1674 - Added thread support (Robert).
1675 - wxPoem sample now works.
1679 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1680 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1681 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1683 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1684 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1686 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1688 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1689 --------------------------
1695 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1698 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1699 ----------------------------
1703 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1704 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1705 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1706 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1707 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1709 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1710 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1715 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1716 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1717 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1718 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1719 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1721 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1722 when any button was pressed.
1723 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1724 have a white background.
1725 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1726 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1727 they have sensible colours by default.
1728 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1729 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1730 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1731 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1732 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1734 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1735 ----------------------------
1739 - More documentation updates, especially for
1740 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1741 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1743 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1744 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1745 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1747 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1751 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1752 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1754 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1755 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1756 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1757 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1758 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1759 the debugging implementation.
1760 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1761 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1762 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1763 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1764 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1765 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1766 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1768 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1770 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1771 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1772 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1773 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1774 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1775 - wxNotebook almost done.
1776 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1777 to vertical toolbars).
1781 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1783 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1784 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1785 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1787 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1788 ----------------------------
1792 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1794 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1795 - A few more makefiles added.
1796 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1797 - Further doc updates.
1798 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1802 - First start at Motif port.
1803 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1804 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1805 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1806 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1808 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1809 --------------------------
1813 - wxBitmap debugged.
1814 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1815 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1816 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1817 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1818 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1819 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1820 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1822 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1823 ------------------------
1827 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1828 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1829 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1830 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1831 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1832 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1833 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1834 changes, wxNotebook.
1835 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1837 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1838 -----------------------
1842 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1843 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1844 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1845 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1846 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1848 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1849 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1851 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1852 -----------------------
1856 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1857 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1859 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1860 -----------------------
1864 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1865 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1867 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1868 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1869 wxMenuItem accessors.
1870 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1871 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1872 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1873 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1874 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1875 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1876 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1877 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1878 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1879 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1880 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1881 first, then doing the assignment.
1882 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1883 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1887 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1888 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1890 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1891 ----------------------
1895 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1896 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1897 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1898 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1899 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1900 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1901 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1902 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1903 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1905 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1906 ------------------------
1910 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1912 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1913 compilation and pragmas.
1914 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1915 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1919 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1920 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1921 compilation and pragmas.
1922 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1924 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1925 ------------------------
1929 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1930 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1932 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1933 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1934 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1935 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1937 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1938 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1939 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1941 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1942 compatibility functions.
1943 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1944 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1945 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1946 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1947 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1948 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1949 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1953 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1954 - Added samples/png.
1955 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1956 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1958 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1960 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1961 ------------------------
1965 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1966 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1967 cleaned up properly before exit.
1968 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1970 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1971 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1972 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1974 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1975 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1977 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1978 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1979 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1980 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1984 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1985 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1986 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1987 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1988 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1989 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1990 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1991 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1992 allow better control of memory.
1993 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1995 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1996 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1998 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1999 ------------------------
2003 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2004 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2005 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2006 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2007 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2008 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2009 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2010 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2011 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2012 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2013 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2014 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2016 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2017 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2018 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2019 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2020 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2021 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2022 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2023 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2024 internal implementation.
2025 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2026 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2027 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2031 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2032 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2033 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2034 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2035 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2037 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2038 --------------------------
2042 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2043 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2044 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2046 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2047 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2048 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2049 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2051 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2052 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2057 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2058 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2059 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2061 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2062 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2064 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2065 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2066 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2067 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2068 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2069 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2070 - Added gcc pragmas.
2071 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2072 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2073 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2074 added a few references to wxTransString.
2075 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2076 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2077 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2078 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2079 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2080 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2081 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2082 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2083 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2086 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2087 --------------------------
2091 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2092 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2093 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2094 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2095 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2096 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2097 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2098 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2099 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2100 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2101 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2103 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2104 to help printing with multiple pages.
2105 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2106 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2107 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2108 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2109 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2110 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2111 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2112 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2113 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2114 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2115 New files from Vadim:
2121 src\common\string.cpp
2125 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2126 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2127 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2128 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2129 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2130 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2131 including changes to defs.h.
2132 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2134 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2136 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2137 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2139 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2141 Alpha 3, September 1997
2142 -----------------------
2146 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2147 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2148 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2149 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2150 - Started documentation.
2152 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2153 ------------------------
2157 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2158 with MetroWerks compiler.
2159 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2160 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2161 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2162 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2163 for testing purposes.
2164 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2166 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2167 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2169 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2170 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2173 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2174 -----------------------
2178 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2180 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2181 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2182 wxString instead of char *.
2183 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2184 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2185 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2186 as wxbWindow now removed.
2187 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2188 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2190 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2191 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2192 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2194 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2195 settings mucho rationalised.
2196 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2197 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2199 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2200 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2201 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2202 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2203 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2204 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2206 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2207 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2209 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2210 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2211 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2212 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2213 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2214 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2215 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2216 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2217 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2218 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2220 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2221 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2223 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2224 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2225 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2226 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2227 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2228 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2230 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2231 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2232 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2233 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2234 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2235 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).