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1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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3
4
5 2.5.3.3
6 -------
7
8 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
9 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
10 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
11
12 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
13 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
14
15 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
16 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
17 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
18 then calling GetValue().
19
20 XRC:
21 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
22 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
23 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
24 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
25
26 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
27 bug.
28
29 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
30 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
31 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
32
33 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
34
35 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
36 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially:
37
38 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
39 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
40
41 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
42 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
43 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
44 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
45 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
46 the origin of the canvas.
47
48 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
49 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
50 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
51
52 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
53 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
54
55 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
56 internal scrollbar visible.
57
58 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
59 system paths for each platform.
60
61 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
62 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
63 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
64 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
65 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
66
67 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
68 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
69 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
70
71 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
72 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
73 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
74
75 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
76 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
77 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
78
79 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
80
81 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
82 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
83 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
84 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
85
86 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
87 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
88 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
89 of how to use the control.
90
91 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
92 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
93
94 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
95 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
96 running.
97
98 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
99 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
100
101 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
102 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
103 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
104 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
105 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
106 finished with the timer.
107
108 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
109 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
110 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
111 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
112 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
113 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
114 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
115 wxPython's *.i files, or building their own extension modules or
116 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
117 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
118
119 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
120 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
121 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
122 via the wxPython C API.
123
124 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
125 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
126 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
127 when docstrings are added for those items.
128
129 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
130 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
131 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
132 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
133 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
134 using long().
135
136 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
137 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
138 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
139 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
140 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
141 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
142 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
143 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
144 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
145 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
146 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
147 encodings.
148
149 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
150 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
151 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
152 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
153 ID's. Then call `Finalize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
154
155 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
156 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
157
158 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
159 lots of surplus events)
160
161 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
162 wx.SystemSettings.
163
164 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
165 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
166
167 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
168 and GTK+'s context menu code.
169
170 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
171 (not all actions are allowed).
172
173 Fixed memory leak in wxGRID::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
174
175 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
176 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
177 when GetString is called from an event handler.
178
179 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
180 and max ends of the slider. (Only for wxGTK so far.)
181
182
183
184
185
186 2.5.3.1
187 -------
188
189 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
190
191 Updated internal PNG library.
192
193 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
194
195 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
196 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
197
198 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
199 enabled (does an enable itself)
200
201 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
202 OGL.
203
204 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
205 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
206 XRCed.
207
208 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
209 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
210 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
211 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
212 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
213 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
214 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
215 button with "Cancel" as the label and an accelerator on the "C", and
216 if run on wxGTK2 then there will also be an image of a red X::
217
218 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
219
220
221 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
222
223 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
224
225 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
226
227 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
228 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
229 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
230 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
231 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
232 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
233 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
234
235 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
236 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
237 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
238 the wxPython modules.
239
240 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
241 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
242 user that they should look at that window.
243
244 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
245 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
246
247 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
248
249 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
250 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
251 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
252 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
253 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
254 and PyGetDate methods.
255
256 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
257 also set the colour of the dropdown.
258
259 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
260
261 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
262
263 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
264
265 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
266 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
267 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
268
269 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
270
271 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
272
273 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
274
275 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
276 1001271)
277
278 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
279 (patch 1030021)
280
281 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
282
283 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
284 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
285 1019440)
286
287 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
288
289 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
290 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
291 button.
292
293 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
294 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
295 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
296
297 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
298 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
299 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
300 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
301 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
302 should notice no difference.
303
304 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
305 when a new one is selected.
306
307 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
308
309 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
310 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
311 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
312 more details and a warning.
313
314 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
315 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
316
317 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
318 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
319
320 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
321
322 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
323
324 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
325
326 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
327 holding down the mouse button.
328
329 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
330 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
331
332 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
333
334 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
335 - Added bar graph demo
336 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
337 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
338 arguments
339 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
340 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
341 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
342 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
343 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
344 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
345 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
346 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
347 coords.
348
349 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
350 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
351 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
352 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
353 creation
354 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
355 epydoc support
356 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
357 reflect package's public contents.
358
359 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
360 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
361 Migrarion Guide for more information.
362
363 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
364 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
365 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
366 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
367 TextEditMixin)
368 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
369
370 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
371 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
372 it.
373
374 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
375 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
376
377
378
379
380
381 2.5.2.8
382 -------
383
384 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
385
386 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
387
388 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
389
390 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
391 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
392
393 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
394 flicker problems, and namespace use.
395
396 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
397
398 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
399
400 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
401 parameter.
402
403 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
404
405 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
406 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
407
408 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
409 wxScrolledWindow.
410
411 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
412 wxCheckListBox.
413
414 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
415
416 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
417
418 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
419
420 * etc.
421
422
423
424
425 2.5.2.7
426 -------
427
428 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
429 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
430 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
431 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
432 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
433 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
434 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
435 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
436 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
437
438 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
439 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
440
441 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
442 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
443 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
444 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
445 parameters.
446
447 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
448 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
449
450 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
451
452 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
453 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
454
455 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
456 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
457 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
458 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
459 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
460 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
461 done.
462
463 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
464 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
465 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
466 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
467 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
468 problems.
469
470 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
471 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
472 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
473
474 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
475 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
476
477 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
478 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
479
480 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
481 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
482 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
483 remaining compatible with "C".
484
485 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
486 wxCode project.
487
488 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
489 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
490 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
491 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
492 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
493 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
494 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
495 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
496 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
497
498 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
499
500 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
501 Scintilla for several releases now.
502
503 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
504 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
505 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
506 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
507
508 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
509 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
510 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
511 after construction.
512
513 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
514 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
515 with a more modern reimplementation.
516
517 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
518 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
519
520 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
521 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
522 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
523
524 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
525 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
526 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
527 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
528 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
529
530 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
531 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
532 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
533 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
534 in the PyShell::
535
536 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
537 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
538 ... b.Move((x, 50))
539 ... app.Yield(True)
540 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
541
542
543 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
544 box.
545
546
547
548 2.5.1.5
549 -------
550
551 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
552 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
553 adapt your code.)
554
555 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
556
557
558 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
559 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
560 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
561 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
562 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
563 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
564 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
565
566
567 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
568 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
569
570 Added wxMirrorDC.
571
572 Added wxIconLocation
573
574 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
575 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
576
577 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
578 from wxBookCtrl.
579
580 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
581 wx.lib.plot module.
582
583 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
584 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
585 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
586
587 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
588 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
589 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
590 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
591 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
592 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
593 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
594 distros please send me a patch.
595
596 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
597 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
598
599 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
600 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
601 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
602 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
603 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
604 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
605 want to put them.
606
607 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
608 different API.
609
610 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
611
612 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
613
614 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
615
616 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
617 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
618 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
619 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
620 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
621 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
622 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
623 it.
624
625 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
626 "Adi" Sieker.
627
628 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
629
630 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
631 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
632
633 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
634 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
635 MigrationGuide for more details.
636
637 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
638 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
639 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
640 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
641 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
642 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
643 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
644 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
645 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
646 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
647 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
648 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
649 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
650 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
651 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
652 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
653 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
654
655 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
656
657 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
658
659
660
661
662 2.4.2.4
663 -------
664
665 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
666
667 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
668
669 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
670 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
671
672 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
673
674 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
675
676 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
677
678
679
680 2.4.1.2
681 -------
682
683 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
684
685 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
686
687 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
688 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
689 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
690 informative.
691
692 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
693 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
694 and wxWindows match.
695
696 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
697 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
698 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
699 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
700 to the new namespace.
701
702 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
703 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
704 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
705 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
706
707 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
708 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
709 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
710 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
711 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
712 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
713 package. These will be removed in a future release.
714
715 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
716 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
717 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
718
719 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
720
721 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
722 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
723
724 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
725 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
726
727 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
728 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
729
730 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
731 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
732 wxTreeCtrl.)
733
734 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
735 a call to any Python callable object.
736
737 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
738 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
739 to override the C++ virtual methods.
740
741 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
742 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
743 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
744 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
745 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
746
747 Added wxCursorFromBits.
748
749
750
751
752
753 2.4.0.7
754 -------
755
756 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
757 TRUE/FALSE values.
758
759 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
760 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
761 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
762
763 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
764 unicode.
765
766 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
767 OOR.
768
769 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
770 wxSize and etc.
771
772 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
773
774 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
775 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
776 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
777 details.
778
779
780
781
782 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
783 ------------------------------------------
784
785 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
786 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
787 think I am testing in the future...
788
789
790
791 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
792 ----------------------------------------------
793
794 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
795
796 Updated pycolourchooser.
797
798 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
799
800
801
802 2.4.0.4
803 -------
804 Added missing wxRect methods
805
806 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
807
808 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
809
810 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
811 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
812 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
813 problems.
814
815 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
816 return type.
817
818 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
819
820 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
821 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
822 the parent window.
823
824 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
825
826 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
827 wrapper.
828
829 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
830
831 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
832 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
833 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
834 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
835 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
836 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
837 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
838 static stable in the C++ class.
839
840 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
841 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
842 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
843 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
844 present.
845
846 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
847 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
848 always call them. The functions are:
849
850 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
851 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
852 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
853 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
854 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
855 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
856 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
857 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
858 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
859 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
860 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
861 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
862
863 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
864 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
865
866 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
867 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
868 doesn't have a standard place for them.
869
870 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
871
872 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
873
874 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
875
876
877
878 2.4.0.2
879 -------
880 Several bug fixes.
881
882 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
883
884 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
885
886
887
888
889 2.4.0.1
890 -------
891 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
892 enhancements.
893
894 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
895 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
896
897
898
899 2.3.4.2
900 -------
901 Various bug fixes.
902
903
904
905 2.3.4.1
906 -------
907 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
908
909 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
910
911 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
912
913 Added wxHtmlFilter.
914
915 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
916 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
917 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
918 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
919 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
920 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
921 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
922 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
923 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
924 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
925 you can use to play with this new feature.
926
927 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
928 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
929 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
930 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
931 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
932 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
933 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
934 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
935
936 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
937 derived from wxApp.
938
939 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
940 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
941 to wxGrid.
942
943 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
944
945 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
946 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
947 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
948 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
949 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
950
951 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
952
953 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
954
955 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
956
957 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
958 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
959 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
960
961 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
962 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
963 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
964
965 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
966 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
967
968 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
969 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
970 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
971 windows when desired.
972
973 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
974 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
975 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
976
977
978
979
980 2.3.3.1
981 -------
982 Added wxSplashScreen.
983
984 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
985
986 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
987
988 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
989 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
990 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
991
992 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
993 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
994 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
995
996 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
997 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
998 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
999
1000 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
1001 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
1002 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
1003 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
1004 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
1005 wxFlexGridSizer.
1006
1007 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
1008
1009 Added wxBufferedDC.
1010
1011 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
1012 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
1013
1014 UNICODE!
1015 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
1016 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
1017 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
1018 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
1019 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
1020 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
1021 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
1022
1023 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
1024 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
1025 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
1026 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
1027 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
1028 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
1029 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
1030 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
1031 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
1032 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
1033 unicode build on win95.
1034
1035 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
1036 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
1037 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
1038 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
1039 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
1040 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
1041 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
1042 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
1043 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
1044 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
1045 method.
1046
1047 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
1048
1049 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
1050
1051 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
1052
1053 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
1054 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
1055 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
1056 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
1057 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
1058 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
1059 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
1060 for any class that is OOR aware.
1061
1062 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
1063 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
1064 derived classes.
1065
1066 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
1067 the image data. (Patch #546009)
1068
1069 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
1070 application.
1071
1072 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
1073 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
1074 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
1075 supported are:
1076
1077 DoMoveWindow
1078 DoSetSize
1079 DoSetClientSize
1080 DoSetVirtualSize
1081 DoGetSize
1082 DoGetClientSize
1083 DoGetPosition
1084 DoGetVirtualSize
1085 DoGetBestSize
1086 InitDialog
1087 TransferDataFromWindow
1088 TransferDataToWindow
1089 Validate
1090 AcceptsFocus
1091 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
1092 GetMaxSize
1093 AddChild
1094 RemoveChild
1095
1096 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
1097 please let me know.
1098
1099 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
1100 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
1101
1102 Added wxArtProvider.
1103
1104 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
1105 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
1106 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
1107 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
1108 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
1109
1110 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
1111
1112 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
1113 creating a ScrolledPanel.
1114
1115 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
1116 other menu stuff.
1117
1118 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
1119 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
1120 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
1121 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
1122
1123 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
1124 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
1125 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
1126 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
1127 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
1128
1129 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
1130 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
1131 respond to mouse events and etc.
1132
1133 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
1134 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
1135
1136 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
1137 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
1138 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
1139 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
1140 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
1141 started with just the "pycrust" command.
1142
1143 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
1144 displays the details of the event.
1145
1146 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
1147
1148 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
1149 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
1150 example.
1151
1152 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
1153
1154 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
1155
1156
1157
1158
1159 2.3.2.1
1160 -------
1161 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
1162 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
1163 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
1164
1165 Added some patches from library contributors.
1166
1167
1168
1169 2.3.2
1170 -----
1171 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
1172 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
1173 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
1174 and a demo to show them in action.
1175
1176 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
1177 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
1178
1179 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
1180
1181 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
1182
1183 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
1184 Rolinsky.
1185
1186 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
1187 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
1188 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
1189 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
1190 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
1191 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
1192 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
1193 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
1194 etc.
1195
1196 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
1197 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
1198 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
1199 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
1200 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
1201 wxSTC flag accordingly.
1202
1203 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
1204 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
1205 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
1206
1207 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
1208
1209 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
1210
1211 Added pySketch to the samples.
1212
1213 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
1214 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
1215 multi-processor machine.
1216
1217 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
1218 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
1219
1220 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
1221
1222 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
1223 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
1224 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
1225 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
1226 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
1227 original C++ pointer.
1228
1229 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
1230 DrawPointList.
1231
1232 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
1233
1234 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
1235 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
1236
1237 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
1238 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
1239 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
1240 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
1241 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
1242 wx-dev list.
1243
1244 Added wxStopWatch.
1245
1246 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
1247
1248 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
1249 will now Disconnect the event.
1250
1251 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
1252
1253 Added wxFileHistory.
1254
1255 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
1256 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
1257 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
1258 same document.
1259
1260 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
1261
1262 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
1263 Feuer.
1264
1265 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
1266 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
1267 additional columns for each item. The classes are
1268 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
1269 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
1270 also be useful by themselves.
1271
1272 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
1273 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
1274 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
1275 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
1276 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
1277 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
1278 details.
1279
1280
1281
1282
1283 2.3.1
1284 -----
1285 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
1286 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
1287 on a custom event handler for example.)
1288
1289 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1290 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
1291
1292 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
1293 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
1294
1295 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
1296
1297 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
1298
1299 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
1300
1301 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
1302
1303
1304
1305 2.3.0
1306 -----
1307 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
1308 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
1309
1310 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
1311 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
1312 ctor and dtors.
1313
1314 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
1315
1316 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
1317 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
1318 colour database.
1319
1320 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
1321 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
1322 access from non-GUI threads.
1323
1324 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
1325 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
1326
1327 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
1328
1329 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
1330 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
1331
1332 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
1333 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
1334
1335 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
1336 it gobs faster in certain situations.
1337
1338 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
1339 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
1340 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
1341 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
1342 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
1343 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
1344 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
1345 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
1346 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
1347 the implementation.
1348
1349 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
1350 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
1351 many refreshes.
1352
1353 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
1354 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
1355
1356 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
1357
1358 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
1359
1360 Added wxToggleButton.
1361
1362 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
1363
1364 Added some methods to wxGrid:
1365 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
1366 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1367 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
1368 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
1369 GetGridWindow
1370 GetGridRowLabelWindow
1371 GetGridColLabelWindow
1372 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
1373
1374 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
1375 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
1376 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
1377
1378 OOR:
1379 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
1380 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
1381 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
1382 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
1383 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
1384 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
1385 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
1386 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
1387 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
1388 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
1389 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
1390 use weak references.)
1391
1392 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
1393 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
1394 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
1395 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
1396 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
1397 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
1398 object-type related oddities to me.
1399
1400
1401 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
1402 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
1403 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
1404 finally got done.
1405
1406 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
1407 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
1408
1409 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
1410
1411 Added wxWave.
1412
1413 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
1414 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
1415 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
1416 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
1417 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
1418 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
1419
1420 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
1421 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
1422 wxPython/samples.
1423
1424
1425
1426
1427 2.2.6
1428 -----
1429
1430 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
1431 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
1432
1433
1434
1435 2.2.5
1436 -----
1437
1438 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
1439 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
1440 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
1441 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
1442
1443 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
1444
1445 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
1446
1447 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
1448 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
1449
1450 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
1451 column in report mode.
1452
1453 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
1454 bar after 2 seconds.
1455
1456 Added wxJoystick.
1457
1458 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
1459 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
1460 object, (usually a window.)
1461
1462 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
1463
1464 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
1465
1466 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
1467 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
1468 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
1469 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
1470 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
1471 wxPython/src/export.h
1472
1473 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
1474 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
1475 utils. Will probably add more later.
1476
1477 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
1478 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
1479 wxPrinterDC2 name.
1480
1481 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
1482 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
1483
1484 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
1485
1486 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
1487 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
1488
1489 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
1490 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
1491 XML-RPC server.
1492
1493
1494
1495 New in 2.2.2
1496 ------------
1497
1498 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
1499 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
1500 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
1501 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
1502 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
1503 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
1504 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
1505 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
1506 how things work.
1507
1508 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
1509 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
1510 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
1511 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
1512 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
1513 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
1514 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
1515 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
1516 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
1517
1518 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
1519 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
1520
1521 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
1522 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
1523 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
1524 stdin.
1525
1526 Removed the old python sizers.
1527
1528 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
1529 and wxRealPoint.
1530
1531 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
1532 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
1533 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
1534
1535 Lots of little fixes here and there.
1536
1537 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
1538 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
1539 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
1540
1541
1542
1543
1544 New in 2.2.1
1545 ------------
1546
1547 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
1548
1549 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
1550
1551
1552
1553 New in 2.2.0
1554 ------------
1555
1556 Added wxLog and friends.
1557
1558 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
1559
1560 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
1561
1562
1563
1564 New in 2.1.16
1565 -------------
1566
1567 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
1568 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
1569 depressed state.
1570
1571 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
1572
1573 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
1574
1575 Added wxDragImage.
1576
1577 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
1578
1579 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
1580
1581 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
1582
1583 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
1584 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
1585 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
1586 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
1587 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
1588 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
1589 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
1590 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
1591
1592 OnChar
1593 OnSize
1594 OnEraseBackground
1595 OnSysColourChanged
1596 OnInitDialog
1597 OnPaint
1598 OnIdle
1599 OnActivate
1600 OnMenuHighlight
1601 OnCloseWindow
1602 OnScroll
1603
1604 Added wxSpinCtrl.
1605
1606
1607
1608
1609 New in 2.1.15
1610 -------------
1611
1612 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
1613 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
1614
1615 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
1616 GetSelections.
1617
1618 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
1619 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
1620
1621 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
1622
1623 Plugged a memory leak.
1624
1625 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
1626 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
1627 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
1628 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
1629 good...)
1630
1631 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
1632 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
1633 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
1634
1635 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
1636 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
1637 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
1638 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
1639 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
1640 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
1641 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
1642 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
1643 them.
1644
1645 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
1646 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
1647 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
1648 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
1649
1650 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
1651 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
1652 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
1653 but I've included a very readable source file in the
1654 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
1655 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
1656 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
1657 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
1658 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
1659
1660
1661
1662
1663 What's new in 2.1.13
1664 --------------------
1665 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
1666
1667 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
1668 and some flicker problems.
1669
1670 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
1671 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
1672
1673 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
1674 "which" parameter.
1675
1676 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
1677
1678 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
1679
1680 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
1681 with wxWindow.GetParent.
1682
1683 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
1684 It is used like this:
1685
1686 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
1687
1688 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
1689 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
1690
1691 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
1692
1693 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
1694
1695 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
1696 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
1697 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
1698 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
1699 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
1700 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
1701
1702 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
1703 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
1704 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
1705 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
1706 methods look like this:
1707
1708 def AddTool(ID,
1709 bitmap,
1710 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
1711 toggle = FALSE,
1712 clientData = NULL,
1713 shortHelpString = "",
1714 longHelpString = "")
1715
1716 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
1717 bitmap,
1718 shortHelpString = "",
1719 longHelpString = "",
1720 toggle=FALSE)
1721
1722
1723 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
1724 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
1725
1726 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
1727
1728 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
1729
1730 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
1731 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
1732 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
1733
1734 Added some missing EVT functions.
1735
1736 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
1737 package.
1738
1739 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
1740
1741 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
1742 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
1743 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
1744
1745
1746
1747
1748 What's new in 2.1.11
1749 --------------------
1750 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
1751 syncronized.
1752
1753 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
1754 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
1755 itself.
1756
1757 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
1758 being added. This should remove the need for our
1759 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
1760
1761 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
1762 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
1763 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
1764 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1765 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
1766
1767 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
1768
1769 Added new HTML printing classes.
1770
1771 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
1772
1773 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
1774 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1775 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1776 wxPoint.)
1777
1778 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1779 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1780 thread from other threads.
1781
1782 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
1783
1784 Added wxFontEnumerator.
1785
1786 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
1787
1788 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1789 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
1790
1791 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
1792
1793 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1794 wxGTK...
1795
1796 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801 What's new in 2.1.5
1802 -------------------
1803 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1804 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
1805 major features.
1806
1807
1808
1809 What's new in 2.1.4
1810 --------------------
1811
1812 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1813 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1814 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1815 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
1816 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1817 the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.
1818
1819 Now back to what's new...
1820
1821 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
1822
1823 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
1824
1825 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
1826 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1827 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1828 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1829 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1830 great!
1831
1832 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1833 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1834 default sort order.
1835
1836 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1837 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1838 example, the following are equivallent:
1839
1840 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
1841 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
1842
1843 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1844 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1845 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1846 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1847 pages. See the demo for an example.
1848
1849 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1850 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
1851
1852 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
1853
1854 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1855 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
1856 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1857 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1858 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1859 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1860 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1861 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1862 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1863 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1864 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1865 further details.
1866
1867 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1868 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1869 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1870 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1871 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1872 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1873 for more info and examples in future releases.
1874
1875 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1876 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1877 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1878 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1879 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1880 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1881 to use them.
1882
1883 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1884 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1885 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1886 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1887 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1888 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1889 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1890 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1891 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1892 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1893 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
1894
1895 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1896 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1897 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1898 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1899 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1900 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1901 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1902 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1903 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1904 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1905 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1906 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1907 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1908 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1909 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1910 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
1911
1912 class MyApp(wxApp):
1913 outputWindowClass = MyClass
1914
1915 def OnInit(self):
1916 frame = MyFrame()
1917 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1918 return true
1919
1920 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1921 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1922 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1923 to really screw things up.
1924
1925 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1926 in the wxWindows docs...
1927
1928 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1929 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1930 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1931 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1932 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1933 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1934 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1935 problems...)
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940 What's new in 2.1b3
1941 --------------------
1942
1943 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
1944
1945 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
1946 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1947 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1948 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1949 features:
1950
1951 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1952 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1953 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
1954
1955 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
1956
1957 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1958 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1959 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1960 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
1961
1962
1963 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1964 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1965 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1966 see distrib/build.py for more details.
1967
1968 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1969 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1970 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1971 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977 What's new in 2.1b2
1978 --------------------
1979
1980 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
1981
1982 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1983 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1984 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1985 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1986 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
1987
1988 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1989 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1990 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1991 is being unloaded by Python.
1992
1993 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1994 make wxPython look bad.
1995
1996 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1997 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
1998
1999 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
2000
2001 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
2002 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
2003
2004 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
2005 code to show how to use it.
2006
2007 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
2008 matches MSW's.
2009
2010 Added wxGrid.GetCells
2011
2012 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
2013 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
2014
2015 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
2016 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
2017
2018 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
2019 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
2020
2021 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
2022 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
2023 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
2024
2025 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
2026 data transfer.
2027
2028 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
2029
2030 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
2031 for unix systems.
2032
2033 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
2034
2035 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
2036 in wx.cpp.
2037
2038
2039
2040
2041
2042 What's new in 2.1b1
2043 --------------------
2044 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
2045 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
2046 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
2047
2048 Added the Printing Framework.
2049
2050 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
2051 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
2052 data after loading each extension module.
2053
2054 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
2055 wxWindows classes.
2056
2057 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
2058 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
2059 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
2060
2061 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
2062 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
2063 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
2064 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
2065
2066
2067
2068 What's new in 2.0b9
2069 -------------------
2070 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
2071
2072 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
2073 wxPython application.
2074
2075 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
2076
2077 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
2078 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
2079 this feature off.
2080
2081 Added wxSafeYield function.
2082
2083 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
2084
2085 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
2086 how it all works.
2087
2088 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
2089 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
2090
2091 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
2092
2093 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
2094 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
2095
2096 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
2097
2098 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
2099 methods.
2100
2101
2102
2103 What's new in 2.0b8
2104 -------------------
2105 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
2106
2107 Several missing methods from various classes.
2108
2109 Various bug fixes.
2110
2111
2112
2113 What's new in 2.0b7
2114 -------------------
2115 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
2116
2117 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
2118
2119
2120
2121 What's new in 2.0b6
2122 -------------------
2123 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
2124 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
2125
2126
2127 What's new in 2.0b5
2128 -------------------
2129 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
2130 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
2131 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
2132 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
2133 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
2134
2135 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
2136 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
2137 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
2138 diverges from wxWindows.
2139
2140 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
2141 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
2142 it should just work... More news on this later.
2143
2144 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
2145
2146 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
2147 wxRegConfig class.
2148
2149 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
2150
2151
2152
2153 What's new in 0.5.3
2154 -------------------
2155 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
2156
2157 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
2158 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
2159
2160
2161
2162 What's new in 0.5.0
2163 -------------------
2164 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
2165 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
2166 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
2167 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
2168
2169 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
2170
2171 Made the events work for wxGrid.
2172
2173 Added wxConfig.
2174
2175 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
2176
2177 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
2178 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
2179
2180 Other assorted fixes and additions.
2181
2182
2183
2184
2185 What's new in 0.4.2
2186 -------------------
2187
2188 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
2189 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
2190 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
2191 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
2192 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
2193 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
2194
2195 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
2196 must have been a different issue all along...
2197
2198
2199
2200 What's New in 0.4
2201 -----------------
2202
2203 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
2204 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
2205 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
2206 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
2207 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
2208 version segfault shortly after starting up.
2209
2210 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
2211
2212 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
2213
2214
2215