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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
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8 Unicode-related changes
9 -----------------------
11 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
12 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
13 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
16 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
17 either "const wxString&" so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings.
18 and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
19 ANSI but may be NULL. This change is normally backwards compatible except:
21 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
22 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
25 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
26 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
27 should be replaced with an empty string.
30 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
31 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
32 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
33 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
35 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
36 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
37 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
38 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
39 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
42 wxODBC library removal
43 ----------------------
45 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
46 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
47 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
50 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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53 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
54 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
56 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
57 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
58 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
60 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
61 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
64 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
65 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
66 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
67 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
68 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
69 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
71 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
72 -----------------------------------------------------------
74 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
75 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
77 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
78 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
79 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
80 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
82 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
83 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
84 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
85 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
86 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
88 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
89 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
91 switch (str[i]) { ... }
92 and has to be replaced with this:
93 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
95 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
96 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
97 const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
98 convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
99 don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
100 compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
102 wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
104 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
105 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
107 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
108 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
109 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
110 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
111 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
112 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
114 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
116 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
117 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
118 must be used instead.
120 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
123 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
125 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
126 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
128 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
129 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
130 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
133 Deprecated methods and their replacements
134 -----------------------------------------
136 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
137 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
138 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
139 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
140 specified so this style should simply be removed
141 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
142 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
144 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
145 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
146 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
149 Major new features in this release
150 ----------------------------------
158 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
159 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
160 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
161 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
162 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
163 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
164 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
165 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
166 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
167 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
168 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
169 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
170 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
171 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
172 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
173 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
174 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
175 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
176 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
177 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
179 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
180 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
184 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
188 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
189 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
190 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
191 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
192 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
193 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
194 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
195 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
196 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
197 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
198 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
199 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for X11-based ports
200 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
201 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
202 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
203 - Slovak translation added.
204 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
205 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
206 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
207 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
208 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
209 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
210 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
211 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
212 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
213 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
214 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
215 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
216 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
217 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
218 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
219 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
220 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
221 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
222 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
223 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
224 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
225 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
226 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
227 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
228 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
229 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
233 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
234 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
235 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
236 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
237 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
238 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
239 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
240 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
241 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
242 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
243 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
244 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
248 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
249 - Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
250 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
251 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
252 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
253 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
257 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
258 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
259 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
260 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
261 - Fix centering wxFileDialog
265 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
266 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
274 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe)
278 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
279 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut)
283 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
284 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
292 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
293 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
301 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
302 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
303 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
304 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
305 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
306 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
307 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
308 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
309 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
310 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
314 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
315 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
316 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
317 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
318 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
319 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
320 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
324 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
325 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
326 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
327 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
328 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
329 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
330 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
331 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
332 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
333 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
334 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
342 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
343 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
344 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
345 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
349 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
353 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
354 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
355 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
356 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
360 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
361 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
362 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
363 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
364 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
365 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
366 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
367 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
368 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
372 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
373 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
374 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
378 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
382 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
383 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
384 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
392 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
393 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
397 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
401 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
405 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
413 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
414 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
415 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
416 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
417 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
418 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
419 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
420 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
421 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
425 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
429 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
430 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
434 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
438 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
439 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
443 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
447 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
455 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
456 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
457 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
458 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
459 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
460 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
464 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
465 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
469 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
473 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
481 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
482 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
483 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
484 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
485 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
486 a stream that is seekable.
487 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
488 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
489 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
493 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
494 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
495 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
496 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
500 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
501 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
509 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
510 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
511 - Added wxTar streams.
512 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
513 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
517 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
518 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
519 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
520 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
521 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
522 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
523 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
524 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
525 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
526 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
527 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
528 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
530 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
531 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
532 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
533 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
537 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
538 program (Francesco Montorsi).
543 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
544 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
545 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
546 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
554 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
555 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
556 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
557 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
558 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
559 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
560 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
561 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
562 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
563 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
564 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
565 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
566 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
567 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
568 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
572 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
573 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
574 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
575 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
576 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
577 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
578 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
579 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
580 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
581 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
582 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
583 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
584 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
585 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
589 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
590 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
591 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
592 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
593 high-contrast theme).
594 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
598 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
603 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
604 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
605 - Implemented right-to-left support.
606 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
607 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
611 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
619 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
620 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
621 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
622 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
623 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
624 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
625 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
626 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
627 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
628 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
629 during a search and replace.
630 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
631 are both used in the same program.
632 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
633 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
634 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
635 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
636 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
637 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
638 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
639 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
640 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
641 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
642 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
643 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
644 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
645 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
646 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
647 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
648 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
649 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
650 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
651 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
652 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
653 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
654 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
655 the first time it was called.
656 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
657 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
658 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
659 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
660 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
661 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
662 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
663 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
664 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
665 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
669 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
670 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
671 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
672 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
673 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
674 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
675 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
676 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
677 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
678 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
679 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
680 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
681 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
682 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
683 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
684 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
685 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
686 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
687 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
688 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
689 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
690 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
691 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
692 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
693 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
694 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
695 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
696 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
697 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
698 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
699 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
700 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
702 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
703 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
704 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
705 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
706 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
708 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
709 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
710 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
711 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
712 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
713 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
714 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
715 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
716 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
717 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
718 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
719 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
720 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
721 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
722 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
723 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
724 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
725 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
726 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
727 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
728 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
729 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
730 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
731 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
732 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
733 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
734 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
735 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
736 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
737 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
738 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
739 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
740 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
741 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
742 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
743 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
744 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
745 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
746 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
747 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
751 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
752 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
753 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
754 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
755 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
756 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
757 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
758 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
759 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
760 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
761 wxMSW faq for details).
762 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
763 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
765 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
766 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
767 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
768 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
769 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
771 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
772 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
773 initial construction.
774 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
775 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
776 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
778 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
779 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
780 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
781 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
782 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
783 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
784 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
785 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
786 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
787 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
788 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
789 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
790 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
791 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
792 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
793 changes the system font.
794 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
795 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
796 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
797 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
798 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
799 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
803 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
804 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
805 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
806 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
807 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
809 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
810 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
811 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
812 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
813 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
814 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
815 previously unable to be focused before.
816 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
817 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
818 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
820 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
821 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
822 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
823 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
824 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
825 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
826 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
827 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
828 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
832 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
833 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
834 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
835 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
836 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
837 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
838 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
839 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
840 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
841 - Corrected idle wake-up.
842 - Corrected wxExecute.
843 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
844 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
845 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
846 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
847 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
848 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
849 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
851 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
852 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
854 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
855 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
856 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
857 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
858 end of file with an error.
859 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
861 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
862 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
863 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
864 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
865 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
866 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
867 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
871 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
875 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
876 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
877 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
878 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
879 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
880 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
881 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
882 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
883 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
884 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
885 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
886 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
887 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
888 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
890 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
891 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
892 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
893 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
894 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
898 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
899 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
900 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
904 - Invisible text problem fixed.
905 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
906 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
907 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
911 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
915 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
916 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
924 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
925 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
926 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
927 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
928 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
929 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
930 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
931 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
932 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
933 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
934 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
935 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
939 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
940 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
941 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
942 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
943 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
944 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
945 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
946 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
947 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
948 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
949 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
950 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
954 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
955 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
956 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
957 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
958 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
959 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
960 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
961 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
962 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
963 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
964 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
965 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
966 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
967 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
968 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
972 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
973 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
974 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
975 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
976 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
977 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
978 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
979 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
980 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
981 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
982 - Fixed domain socket handling.
986 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
987 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
988 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
989 - Various text control bug fixes.
990 - Automatic menu management improved.
991 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
992 due to dangling cycle pointers.
993 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
994 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
999 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1003 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1004 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1008 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1009 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1010 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1011 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1012 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1013 flag has been specified.
1014 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1015 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1016 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1021 - Fixed crash on exit.
1022 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1026 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1034 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1035 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1039 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1040 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1041 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1042 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1043 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1044 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1045 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1046 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1047 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1048 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1052 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1053 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1054 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1055 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1056 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1057 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1058 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1059 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1060 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1061 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1062 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1063 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1064 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1065 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1066 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1067 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1068 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1069 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1070 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1071 - Winelib compilation now works.
1072 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
1073 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1074 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
1075 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
1076 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
1077 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
1078 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
1079 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
1080 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
1081 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
1082 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
1083 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1084 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1088 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1092 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1093 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1094 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1095 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1099 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1100 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1101 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1103 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1104 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1105 - Window menu now added automatically.
1106 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1107 - Modified function key support fixed.
1108 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1112 - Menu problems fixed.
1113 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1114 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1115 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1123 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1124 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1128 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1129 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1133 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1134 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1135 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1139 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1142 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1143 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1144 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1145 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1146 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1147 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1148 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1151 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1158 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1159 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1160 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1161 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1162 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1163 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1164 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1165 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1166 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1170 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1171 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1172 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1173 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1174 the whole virtual area.
1175 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1176 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1177 isn't used to set the window size.
1178 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1179 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1180 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1181 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1185 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1189 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1190 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1191 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1192 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1193 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1194 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1198 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1199 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1200 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1201 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1202 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1203 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1204 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1205 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1209 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1213 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1217 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1218 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1219 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1220 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1221 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1222 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1223 with correct titlebar style.
1224 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1226 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1227 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1228 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1229 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1230 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1231 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1232 to the dialog's toolbar.
1239 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1240 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1241 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1242 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1243 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1244 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1245 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1246 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1247 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1248 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1249 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1250 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1251 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1252 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1253 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1254 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1255 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1256 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1257 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1258 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1259 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1260 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1261 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1262 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1263 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1264 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1265 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1266 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1267 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1268 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1269 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1270 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1271 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1272 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1273 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1274 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1275 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1276 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1277 due to a rounding error.
1278 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1279 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1280 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1281 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1282 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1283 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1284 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1285 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1291 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1292 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1293 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1294 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1295 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1296 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1297 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1298 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1299 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1300 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1301 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1302 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1303 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1304 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1305 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1306 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1307 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1311 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1315 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1316 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1317 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1318 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1319 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1320 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1321 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1322 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1323 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1324 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1325 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1326 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1327 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1329 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1330 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1331 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1332 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1333 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1337 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1338 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1339 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1340 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1344 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1345 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1346 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1347 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1348 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1351 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1352 but not mentioned anywhere.
1353 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1357 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1358 - vertical notebook orientation support
1359 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1360 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1364 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1365 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1366 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1367 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1368 - enumeration of available volumes
1369 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1370 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1371 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1372 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1373 - native wxButton implementation
1374 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1375 - native wxSlider implementation
1376 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1377 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1378 - native wxStaticText implementation
1379 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1387 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1388 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1389 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1390 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1391 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1392 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1393 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1394 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1395 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1396 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1397 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1398 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1399 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1400 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1401 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1402 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1406 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1407 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1408 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1410 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1411 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1412 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1413 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1414 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1415 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1416 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1417 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1418 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1419 - added samples/splash
1420 - added support for stock buttons
1421 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1422 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1423 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1424 - added wxChoicebook control
1425 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1426 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1427 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1428 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1429 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1430 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1431 supported, instead of zero.
1432 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1436 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1437 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1438 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1439 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1440 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1444 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1445 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1446 - Tooltips now supported
1447 - wxSound now supported
1448 - wxDisplay now supported
1449 - Some stock cursors now supported
1453 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1454 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1455 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1456 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1460 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1461 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1462 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1463 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1464 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1465 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1466 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1467 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1468 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1469 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1470 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1471 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1472 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1473 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1474 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1475 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1476 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1477 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1478 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1482 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1486 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1487 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1488 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1489 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1490 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1491 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1492 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1493 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1494 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1495 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1496 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1497 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1498 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1499 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1503 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1507 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1508 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1509 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1510 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1514 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1515 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1523 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1524 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1525 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1526 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1528 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1529 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1530 to forward declare these classes.
1534 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1535 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1536 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1537 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1538 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1539 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1540 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1541 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1542 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1543 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1544 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1545 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1546 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1547 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1548 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1552 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1553 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1554 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1555 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1556 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1557 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1558 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1559 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1560 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1561 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1562 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1563 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1567 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1571 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1572 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1573 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1574 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1578 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1582 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1583 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1587 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1588 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1592 - Full Unicode support is now available
1593 - BLOB support is working
1601 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1602 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1603 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1604 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1605 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1606 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1607 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1608 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1609 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1610 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1611 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1612 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1613 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1615 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1616 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1617 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1618 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1619 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1620 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1621 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1622 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1623 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1624 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1625 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1626 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1630 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1631 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1632 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1633 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1634 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1635 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1636 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1637 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1638 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1639 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1640 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1641 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1642 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1643 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1644 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1645 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1646 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1647 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1648 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1649 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1650 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1651 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1652 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1653 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1654 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1655 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1659 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1660 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1661 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1662 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1663 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1664 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1665 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1666 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1667 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1668 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1669 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1670 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1671 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1672 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1673 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1674 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1675 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1676 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1677 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1678 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1679 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1680 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1681 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1682 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1683 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1684 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1685 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1686 than the specified default size
1687 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1691 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1692 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1693 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1694 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1695 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1696 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1697 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1698 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1699 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1703 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1704 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1705 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1706 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1710 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1714 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1715 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1719 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1720 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1721 addition to existing OSS one
1722 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1730 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1731 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1732 separately compiled library
1733 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1734 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1735 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1736 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1737 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1738 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1739 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1740 by default in Unicode mode
1741 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1742 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1743 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1744 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1745 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1746 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1747 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1748 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1749 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1750 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1751 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1752 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1753 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1754 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1755 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1756 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1757 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1758 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1759 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1760 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1764 - added Watcom makefiles
1765 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1769 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1770 - added wxListbook control
1771 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1772 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1773 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1774 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1775 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1776 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1777 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1778 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1779 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1780 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1781 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1782 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1783 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1784 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1785 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1786 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1787 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1788 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1789 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1790 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1791 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1792 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1793 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1794 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1795 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1796 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1797 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1798 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1799 default extension for the template
1800 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1801 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1802 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1803 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1804 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1805 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1806 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1807 to allow better rich text support.
1808 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1809 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1810 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1811 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1812 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1813 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1814 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1815 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1816 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1817 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1818 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1819 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1820 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1821 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1822 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1823 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1824 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1825 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1826 - added wxMirrorDC class
1827 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1828 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1829 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1830 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1831 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1832 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1837 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1838 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1839 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1840 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1841 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1845 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1846 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1847 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1848 to contrib/src/deprecated
1852 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1853 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1854 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1855 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1856 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1857 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1858 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1859 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1860 be appended to filenames with no extension
1861 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1862 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1863 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1864 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1868 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1869 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1873 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1874 - added wxCrashReport
1875 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1876 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1877 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1878 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1879 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1880 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1881 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1882 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1883 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1884 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1885 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1886 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1887 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1888 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1889 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1890 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1891 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1892 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1893 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1894 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1895 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1896 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1897 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1898 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1899 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1903 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1904 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1905 documentation for a detailed explanation
1906 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1907 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1908 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1909 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1910 - implemented wxToggleButton
1911 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1912 instead of a sunken border
1913 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1914 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1918 - controls in toolbars now supported
1922 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1923 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1924 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1925 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1926 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1932 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1933 ================================
1935 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1936 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1937 with '!' in the first column.
1939 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1940 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1941 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1942 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1945 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1946 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1947 (see the documentation) useful.
1952 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1953 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1956 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1957 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1958 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1959 arrays containing non-pointers.
1961 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1962 simply don't make sense for all objects
1964 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1965 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1966 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1968 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1970 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1971 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1972 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1973 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1974 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1976 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1977 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1978 the default assert handling.
1982 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1983 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1984 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1986 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1987 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1990 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1991 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1992 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1994 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1995 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1996 you want to get OnChar() as well
1998 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1999 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2000 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2002 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2003 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2004 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2005 will *NOT* work any longer:
2007 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2008 ... do something ...
2009 if ( flags & wxYES )
2010 ... do something else ...
2012 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2013 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2016 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2018 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2019 if you derived any classes from it
2021 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2022 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2024 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2025 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2027 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2028 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2030 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2031 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2034 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2035 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2036 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2038 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2039 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2040 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2041 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2045 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2046 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2047 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2048 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2049 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2050 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2051 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2052 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2053 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2054 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2056 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2059 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2060 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2062 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2063 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2064 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2066 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2067 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2072 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
2073 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
2074 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
2075 to compile pure C files.
2078 wxThread and related classes:
2080 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
2081 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
2082 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
2083 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2085 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2086 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2087 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2088 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2090 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2091 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2092 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2094 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2095 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2106 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2113 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2114 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2115 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2119 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2120 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2121 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2124 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2125 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2128 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2132 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2133 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2137 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2144 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2145 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2146 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2147 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2148 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2149 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2150 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2151 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2152 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2153 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2154 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2155 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2156 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2157 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2158 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2159 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2163 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2164 programs and not only GNU make
2165 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2166 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2167 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2168 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2169 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2173 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2174 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2175 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2176 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2177 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2179 - significantly improved native font support
2180 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2182 - added IFF image handler
2183 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2184 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2185 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2186 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2187 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2188 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2189 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2190 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2191 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2192 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2193 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2194 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2195 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2196 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2197 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2198 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2199 - wxMessageOutput class added
2200 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2201 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2203 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2204 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2205 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2206 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2208 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2209 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2210 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2214 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2215 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2216 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2217 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2218 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2219 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2220 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2221 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2222 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2223 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2225 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2226 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2227 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2228 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2229 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2230 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2231 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2233 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2234 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2235 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2236 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2237 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2238 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2239 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2240 has the capture before release it.
2241 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2242 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2243 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2244 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2245 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2246 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2247 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2248 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2249 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2250 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2251 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2252 provided in wxFontData
2253 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2254 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2258 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2259 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2260 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2261 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2262 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2263 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2264 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2265 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2266 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2267 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2268 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2269 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2270 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2274 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2275 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2276 - improved toolbar control alignment
2277 - implemented wxSpinButton
2278 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2279 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2280 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2284 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2285 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2293 - First alpha-quality release
2297 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2298 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2299 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2300 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2301 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2306 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2310 - wxRegEx class added
2311 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2312 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2313 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2314 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2315 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2319 - support for virtual list control added
2320 - column images in report mode of the list control
2321 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2322 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2323 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2324 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2325 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2326 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2327 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2328 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2329 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2330 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2331 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2332 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2336 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2337 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2342 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2343 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2344 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2345 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2349 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2354 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2356 - added support for animated GIFs
2364 - Fixed new charset detection code
2365 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2366 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2367 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2368 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2369 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2370 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2374 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2375 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2376 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2377 push on a custom event handler for example)
2378 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2379 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2380 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2381 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2382 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2383 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2385 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2386 - Various wxXML enhancements
2387 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2388 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2389 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2391 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2392 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2396 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2397 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2398 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2399 alt or shift) now work
2400 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2401 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2402 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2403 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2404 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2405 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2406 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2407 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2408 - We now send iconize events
2409 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2410 - Added mousewheel processing
2411 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2412 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2414 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2415 child frame styles are honoured
2419 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2420 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2421 - We now send iconize events
2422 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2423 GetSelection() results
2430 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2431 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2432 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2433 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2434 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2435 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2436 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2437 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2438 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2439 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2443 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2444 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2445 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2446 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2447 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2448 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2449 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2450 wxImage methods and ctor)
2451 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2452 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2453 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2454 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2455 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2456 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2460 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2461 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2462 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2463 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2467 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2471 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2472 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2479 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2480 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2481 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2482 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2483 - Completed Czech translations
2484 - Some stream corrections
2485 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2486 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2487 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2488 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2492 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2493 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2494 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2495 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2496 - Paper names now translated
2498 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2499 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2500 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2501 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2503 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2504 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2506 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2507 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2508 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2509 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2513 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2514 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2515 backward compatibility, please set
2516 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2517 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2518 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2519 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2520 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2521 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2522 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2523 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2524 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2525 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2526 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2527 - wxFrame restores focus better
2528 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2529 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2530 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2531 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2532 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2533 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2534 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2535 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2536 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2537 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2541 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2545 - Small compilation fixes
2549 - wxCaret documented
2561 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2562 files. This works under VC++ only
2563 - Modal dialog handling improved
2564 - Printer dialog now modal
2579 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2583 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2584 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2589 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2590 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2591 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2592 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2593 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2594 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2595 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2596 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2597 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2599 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2600 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2601 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2602 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2603 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2604 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2606 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2610 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2611 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2612 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2613 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2614 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2615 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2616 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2617 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2619 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2620 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2621 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2622 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2623 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2624 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2625 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2626 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2627 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2628 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2629 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2630 - wxDragImage class added
2631 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2632 controllers, as well as native help
2633 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2637 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2638 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2639 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2640 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2641 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2642 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2643 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2644 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2645 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2646 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2648 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2649 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2650 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2654 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2655 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2656 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2660 - wxMenu::Enable works
2661 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2662 - OGL samples made to work again
2666 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2667 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2668 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2669 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2670 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2671 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2672 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2673 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2674 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2675 - improved HTML printing
2676 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
2677 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2678 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2679 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2682 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2685 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2686 -----------------------
2690 - JPEG support added.
2691 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2695 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2697 - JPEG support added.
2698 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2699 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2700 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2707 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2710 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2711 -------------------------------
2716 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2720 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2721 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2722 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2723 - Some makefile fixes.
2731 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2732 - More topic overviews.
2733 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2734 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2735 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2738 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2739 --------------------------
2743 - wxExecute improved.
2747 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2749 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2750 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2751 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2752 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2753 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2754 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2758 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2759 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2763 - wxLocale documented.
2764 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2765 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2766 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2767 (though doesn't display help yet).
2769 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2770 --------------------------
2774 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2778 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2780 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2784 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2785 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2786 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2787 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2788 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2789 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2790 crashes for some reason).
2791 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2792 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2796 - Further doc improvements.
2797 - wxGenericValidator added.
2798 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2801 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2802 -------------------------
2806 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2807 - wxToolTip class added.
2808 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2812 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2813 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2814 - TWIN32 support added.
2815 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2816 factored out program/library settings.
2817 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2821 - A few more colour fixes.
2822 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2823 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2824 - wxChoice crash fix.
2825 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2829 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2830 - Added samples/dde.
2831 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2833 Beta 2, January 1999
2834 --------------------
2840 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2844 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2846 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2847 - Added thread support (Robert).
2848 - wxPoem sample now works.
2852 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2853 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2854 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2856 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2857 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2859 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2861 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2862 --------------------------
2868 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2871 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2872 ----------------------------
2876 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2877 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2878 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2879 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2880 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2882 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2883 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2888 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2889 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2890 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2891 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2892 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2894 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2895 when any button was pressed.
2896 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2897 have a white background.
2898 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2899 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2900 they have sensible colours by default.
2901 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2902 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2903 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2904 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2905 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2907 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2908 ----------------------------
2912 - More documentation updates, especially for
2913 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2914 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2916 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2917 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2918 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2920 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2924 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2925 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2927 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2928 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2929 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2930 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2931 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2932 the debugging implementation.
2933 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2934 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2935 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2936 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2937 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2938 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2939 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2941 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2943 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2944 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2945 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2946 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2947 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2948 - wxNotebook almost done.
2949 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2950 to vertical toolbars).
2954 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2956 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2957 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2958 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2960 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2961 ----------------------------
2965 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2967 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2968 - A few more makefiles added.
2969 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2970 - Further doc updates.
2971 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2975 - First start at Motif port.
2976 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2977 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2978 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2979 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2981 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2982 --------------------------
2986 - wxBitmap debugged.
2987 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2988 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2989 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2990 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2991 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2992 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2993 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2995 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2996 ------------------------
3000 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3001 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3002 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3003 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3004 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3005 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3006 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3007 changes, wxNotebook.
3008 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3010 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3011 -----------------------
3015 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3016 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3017 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3018 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3019 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3021 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3022 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3024 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3025 -----------------------
3029 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3030 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3032 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3033 -----------------------
3037 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3038 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3040 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3041 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3042 wxMenuItem accessors.
3043 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3044 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3045 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3046 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3047 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3048 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3049 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3050 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3051 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3052 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3053 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3054 first, then doing the assignment.
3055 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3056 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3060 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3061 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3063 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3064 ----------------------
3068 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3069 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3070 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3071 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
3072 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
3073 require application-supplied positioning code though.
3074 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
3075 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
3076 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
3078 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
3079 ------------------------
3083 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3085 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3086 compilation and pragmas.
3087 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3088 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3092 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3093 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3094 compilation and pragmas.
3095 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3097 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3098 ------------------------
3102 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3103 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3105 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3106 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3107 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3108 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3110 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3111 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3112 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3114 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3115 compatibility functions.
3116 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3117 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3118 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3119 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3120 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3121 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3122 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3126 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3127 - Added samples/png.
3128 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3129 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3131 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3133 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3134 ------------------------
3138 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3139 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3140 cleaned up properly before exit.
3141 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3143 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3144 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3145 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3147 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3148 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3150 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3151 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3152 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3153 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3157 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3158 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3159 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3160 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3161 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3162 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3163 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3164 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3165 allow better control of memory.
3166 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3168 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3169 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3171 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3172 ------------------------
3176 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3177 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3178 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3179 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3180 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3181 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3182 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3183 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3184 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3185 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3186 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3187 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3189 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3190 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3191 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3192 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3193 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3194 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3195 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3196 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3197 internal implementation.
3198 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3199 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3200 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3204 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3205 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3206 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3207 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3208 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3210 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3211 --------------------------
3215 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3216 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3217 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3219 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3220 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3221 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3222 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3224 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3225 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3230 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3231 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3232 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3234 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3235 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3237 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3238 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3239 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3240 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3241 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3242 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3243 - Added gcc pragmas.
3244 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3245 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3246 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3247 added a few references to wxTransString.
3248 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3249 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3250 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3251 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3252 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3253 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3254 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3255 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3256 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3259 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3260 --------------------------
3264 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3265 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3266 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3267 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3268 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3269 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3270 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3271 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3272 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3273 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3274 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3276 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3277 to help printing with multiple pages.
3278 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3279 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3280 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3281 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3282 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3283 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3284 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3285 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3286 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3287 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3288 New files from Vadim:
3294 src\common\string.cpp
3298 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3299 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3300 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3301 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3302 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3303 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3304 including changes to defs.h.
3305 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3307 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3309 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3310 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3312 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3314 Alpha 3, September 1997
3315 -----------------------
3319 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3320 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3321 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3322 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3323 - Started documentation.
3325 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3326 ------------------------
3330 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3331 with MetroWerks compiler.
3332 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3333 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3334 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3335 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3336 for testing purposes.
3337 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3339 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3340 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3342 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3343 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3346 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3347 -----------------------
3351 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3353 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3354 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3355 wxString instead of char *.
3356 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3357 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3358 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3359 as wxbWindow now removed.
3360 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3361 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3363 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3364 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3365 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3367 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3368 settings mucho rationalised.
3369 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3370 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3372 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3373 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3374 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3375 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3376 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3377 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3379 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3380 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3382 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3383 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3384 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3385 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3386 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3387 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3388 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3389 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3390 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3391 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3393 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3394 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3396 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3397 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3398 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3399 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3400 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3401 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3403 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3404 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3405 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3406 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3407 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3408 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).