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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
6 ================================
7
8 Unicode-related changes
9 -----------------------
10
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
14 changes:
15
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:
20
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
23 base class version.
24
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.
28
29
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).
34
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.
40
41
42 wxODBC library removal
43 ----------------------
44
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.
48
49
50 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
51 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
52
53 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
54 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
55
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.
59
60 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
61 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
62 instead.
63
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.
70
71 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
72 -----------------------------------------------------------
73
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
76
77 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
78 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
79 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
80
81 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
82 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
83 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
84 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
85
86 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
87 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
88 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
89 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
90 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
91
92 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
93 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
94 this won't compile:
95 switch (str[i]) { ... }
96 and has to be replaced with this:
97 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
98
99 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
100 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
101 const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
102 convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
103 don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
104 compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
105 to const wxChar*:
106 wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
107
108 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
109 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
110
111 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
112 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
113 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
114 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
115 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
116 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
117
118 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
119
120 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
121 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
122 must be used instead.
123
124 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
125 with void pointers.
126
127 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
128
129 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
130 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
131
132 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
133 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
134 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
135
136 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
137 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
138 necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
139 next/previous control sibling instead.
140
141
142 Deprecated methods and their replacements
143 -----------------------------------------
144
145 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
146 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
147 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
148 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
149 specified so this style should simply be removed
150 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
151 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
152 to use
153 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
154 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
155 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
156
157
158 Major new features in this release
159 ----------------------------------
160
161 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
162 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
163 past.
164
165 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
166 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
167
168 - Events loops and timers can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
169
170
171 2.9.0
172 -----
173
174 All:
175
176 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
177 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
178 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
179 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
180 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
181 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
182 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
183 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
184 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
185 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
186 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
187 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
188 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
189 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
190 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
191 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
192 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
193 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
194 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
195 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
196 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
197 Linnakangas).
198 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
199 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
200
201 All (Unix):
202
203 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
204
205 All (GUI):
206
207 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
208 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
209 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
210 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
211 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
212 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
213 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
214 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
215 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
216 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
217 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
218 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
219 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
220 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
221 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
222 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
223 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
224 - Slovak translation added.
225 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
226 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
227 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
228 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
229 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
230 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
231 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
232 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
233 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
234 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
235 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
236 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
237 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
238 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
239 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
240 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
241 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
242 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
243 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
244 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
245 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
246 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
247 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
248 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
249 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
250 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren(). (Szczepan Holyszewski)
251 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
252
253 wxGTK:
254
255 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
256 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
257 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
258 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
259 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
260 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
261 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
262 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
263 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
264 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
265 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
266 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
267
268 wxMac:
269
270 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
271 - Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
272 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
273 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
274 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
275 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
276
277 wxMSW:
278
279 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
280 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
281 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
282 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
283 - Fix centering wxFileDialog
284
285 wxX11:
286
287 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
288 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
289
290
291 2.8.8
292 -----
293
294 All:
295
296 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
297
298 All (GUI):
299
300 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
301
302
303 2.8.7
304 -----
305
306 All:
307
308 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
309
310 wxMSW:
311
312 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
313 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
314
315 wxGTK:
316
317 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
318 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
319 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
320
321
322 2.8.6
323 -----
324
325 All:
326
327 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
328 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
329
330
331 2.8.5
332 -----
333
334 All (GUI):
335
336 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
337 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
338 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
339 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
340 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
341 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
342 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
343 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
344 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
345 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
346
347 wxMSW:
348
349 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
350 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
351 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
352 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
353 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
354 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
355 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
356
357 wxGTK:
358
359 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
360 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
361 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
362 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
363 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
364 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
365 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
366 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
367 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
368 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
369 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
370
371
372 2.8.4
373 -----
374
375 All:
376
377 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
378 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
379 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
380 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
381
382 All (Unix):
383
384 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
385
386 All (GUI):
387
388 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
389 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
390 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
391 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
392
393 wxMSW:
394
395 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
396 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
397 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
398 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
399 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
400 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
401 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
402 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
403 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
404
405 wxGTK:
406
407 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
408 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
409 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
410
411 wxMac:
412
413 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
414
415 wxUniv:
416
417 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
418 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
419 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
420
421
422 2.8.3
423 -----
424
425 All:
426
427 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
428 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
429
430 wxMac:
431
432 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
433
434 wxMSW:
435
436 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
437
438 wxGTK:
439
440 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
441
442
443 2.8.2
444 -----
445
446 All:
447
448 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
449 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
450 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
451 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
452 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
453 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
454 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
455 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
456 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
457
458 Unix Ports:
459
460 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
461
462 wxMSW
463
464 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
465 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
466
467 wxGTK
468
469 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
470
471 wxMac
472
473 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
474 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
475
476 wxX11:
477
478 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
479
480 wxUniv:
481
482 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
483
484
485 2.8.1
486 -----
487
488 All:
489
490 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
491 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
492 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
493 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
494 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
495 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
496
497 wxMSW:
498
499 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
500 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
501
502 wxGTK:
503
504 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
505
506 wxUniv:
507
508 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
509
510
511 2.8.0
512 -----
513
514 All:
515
516 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
517 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
518 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
519 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
520 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
521 a stream that is seekable.
522 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
523 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
524 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
525
526 wxMSW:
527
528 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
529 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
530 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
531 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
532
533 wxGTK:
534
535 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
536 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
537
538
539 2.7.2
540 -----
541
542 All:
543
544 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
545 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
546 - Added wxTar streams.
547 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
548 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
549
550 All (GUI):
551
552 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
553 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
554 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
555 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
556 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
557 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
558 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
559 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
560 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
561 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
562 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
563 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
564 formatting.
565 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
566 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
567 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
568 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
569
570 Unix Ports:
571
572 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
573 program (Francesco Montorsi).
574
575 wxGTK:
576
577 - More RTL work.
578 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
579 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
580 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
581 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
582
583
584 2.7.1
585 -----
586
587 All:
588
589 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
590 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
591 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
592 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
593 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
594 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
595 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
596 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
597 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
598 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
599 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
600 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
601 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
602 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
603 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
604
605 All (GUI):
606
607 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
608 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
609 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
610 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
611 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
612 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
613 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
614 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
615 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
616 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
617 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
618 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
619 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
620 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
621
622 wxMSW:
623
624 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
625 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
626 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
627 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
628 high-contrast theme).
629 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
630
631 wxMac:
632
633 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
634 to the SDK.
635
636 wxGTK:
637
638 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
639 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
640 - Implemented right-to-left support.
641 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
642 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
643
644 wxUniv:
645
646 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
647
648
649 2.7.0
650 -----
651
652 All:
653
654 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
655 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
656 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
657 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
658 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
659 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
660 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
661 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
662 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
663 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
664 during a search and replace.
665 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
666 are both used in the same program.
667 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
668 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
669 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
670 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
671 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
672 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
673 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
674 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
675 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
676 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
677 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
678 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
679 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
680 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
681 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
682 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
683 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
684 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
685 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
686 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
687 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
688 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
689 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
690 the first time it was called.
691 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
692 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
693 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
694 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
695 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
696 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
697 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
698 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
699 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
700 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
701
702 All (GUI):
703
704 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
705 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
706 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
707 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
708 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
709 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
710 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
711 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
712 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
713 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
714 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
715 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
716 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
717 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
718 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
719 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
720 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
721 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
722 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
723 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
724 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
725 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
726 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
727 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
728 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
729 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
730 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
731 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
732 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
733 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
734 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
735 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
736 by Sandro Sigala).
737 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
738 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
739 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
740 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
741 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
742 best size.
743 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
744 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
745 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
746 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
747 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
748 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
749 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
750 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
751 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
752 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
753 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
754 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
755 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
756 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
757 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
758 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
759 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
760 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
761 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
762 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
763 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
764 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
765 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
766 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
767 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
768 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
769 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
770 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
771 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
772 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
773 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
774 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
775 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
776 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
777 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
778 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
779 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
780 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
781 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
782 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
783
784 wxMSW:
785
786 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
787 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
788 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
789 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
790 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
791 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
792 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
793 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
794 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
795 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
796 wxMSW faq for details).
797 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
798 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
799 to the link command.
800 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
801 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
802 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
803 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
804 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
805 show.
806 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
807 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
808 initial construction.
809 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
810 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
811 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
812 events).
813 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
814 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
815 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
816 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
817 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
818 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
819 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
820 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
821 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
822 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
823 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
824 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
825 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
826 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
827 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
828 changes the system font.
829 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
830 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
831 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
832 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
833 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
834 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
835
836 wxGTK:
837
838 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
839 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
840 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
841 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
842 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
843 implementation.
844 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
845 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
846 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
847 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
848 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
849 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
850 previously unable to be focused before.
851 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
852 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
853 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
854 class was used.
855 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
856 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
857 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
858 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
859 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
860 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
861 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
862 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
863 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
864
865 wxMac:
866
867 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
868 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
869 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
870 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
871 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
872 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
873 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
874 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
875 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
876 - Corrected idle wake-up.
877 - Corrected wxExecute.
878 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
879 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
880 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
881 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
882 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
883 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
884 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
885 were found.
886 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
887 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
888 under Mach-O.
889 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
890 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
891 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
892 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
893 end of file with an error.
894 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
895 binaries.
896 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
897 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
898 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
899 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
900 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
901 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
902 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
903
904 wxCocoa:
905
906 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
907
908 wxWinCE:
909
910 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
911 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
912 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
913 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
914 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
915 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
916 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
917 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
918 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
919 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
920 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
921 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
922 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
923 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
924 directly, however.
925 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
926 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
927 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
928 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
929 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
930
931 wxUniv:
932
933 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
934 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
935 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
936
937 wxX11:
938
939 - Invisible text problem fixed.
940 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
941 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
942 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
943
944 Unix:
945
946 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
947
948 wxMGL:
949
950 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
951 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
952
953
954 2.6.2
955 -----
956
957 All:
958
959 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
960 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
961 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
962 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
963 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
964 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
965 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
966 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
967 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
968 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
969 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
970 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
971
972 All (GUI):
973
974 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
975 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
976 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
977 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
978 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
979 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
980 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
981 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
982 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
983 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
984 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
985 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
986
987 wxMSW:
988
989 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
990 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
991 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
992 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
993 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
994 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
995 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
996 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
997 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
998 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
999 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1000 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1001 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1002 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1003 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1004
1005 wxGTK:
1006
1007 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1008 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1009 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1010 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1011 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1012 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1013 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1014 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1015 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1016 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1017 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1018
1019 wxMac:
1020
1021 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1022 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1023 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1024 - Various text control bug fixes.
1025 - Automatic menu management improved.
1026 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1027 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1028 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1029 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1030 showing modally).
1031
1032 wxOS2
1033
1034 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1035
1036 wxUniv:
1037
1038 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1039 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1040
1041 wxMotif:
1042
1043 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1044 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1045 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1046 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1047 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1048 flag has been specified.
1049 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1050 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1051 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1052 showing modally).
1053
1054 wxMGL:
1055
1056 - Fixed crash on exit.
1057 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1058
1059 wxX11:
1060
1061 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1062
1063
1064 2.6.1
1065 -----
1066
1067 All:
1068
1069 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1070 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1071
1072 All (GUI):
1073
1074 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1075 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1076 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1077 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1078 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1079 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1080 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1081 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1082 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1083 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1084
1085 wxMSW:
1086
1087 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1088 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1089 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1090 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1091 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1092 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1093 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1094 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1095 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1096 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1097 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1098 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1099 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1100 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1101 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1102 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1103 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1104 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1105 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1106 - Winelib compilation now works.
1107 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
1108 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1109 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
1110 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
1111 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
1112 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
1113 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
1114 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
1115 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
1116 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
1117 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
1118 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1119 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1120
1121 wxWinCE:
1122
1123 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1124
1125 wxGTK:
1126
1127 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1128 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1129 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1130 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1131
1132 wxMac:
1133
1134 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1135 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1136 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1137 incorrect state.
1138 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1139 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1140 - Window menu now added automatically.
1141 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1142 - Modified function key support fixed.
1143 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1144
1145 wxX11:
1146
1147 - Menu problems fixed.
1148 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1149 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1150 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1151
1152
1153 2.6.0
1154 -----
1155
1156 All:
1157
1158 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1159 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1160
1161 All (GUI):
1162
1163 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1164 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1165
1166 wxMSW:
1167
1168 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1169 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1170 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1171
1172 wxWinCE:
1173
1174 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1175
1176 wxGTK:
1177 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1178 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1179 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1180 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1181 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1182 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1183 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1184
1185 wxMac:
1186 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1187
1188 2.5.5
1189 -----
1190
1191 All:
1192
1193 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1194 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1195 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1196 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1197 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1198 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1199 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1200 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1201 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1202
1203 All (GUI):
1204
1205 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1206 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1207 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1208 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1209 the whole virtual area.
1210 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1211 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1212 isn't used to set the window size.
1213 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1214 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1215 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1216 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1217
1218 Unix:
1219
1220 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1221
1222 wxMSW:
1223
1224 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1225 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1226 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1227 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1228 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1229 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1230
1231 wxGTK:
1232
1233 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1234 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1235 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1236 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1237 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1238 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1239 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1240 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1241
1242 wxMac:
1243
1244 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1245
1246 wxPalmOS:
1247
1248 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1249
1250 wxWinCE:
1251
1252 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1253 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1254 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1255 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1256 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1257 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1258 with correct titlebar style.
1259 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1260 PocketPC guidelines
1261 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1262 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1263 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1264 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1265 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1266 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1267 to the dialog's toolbar.
1268
1269 2.5.4
1270 -----
1271
1272 All:
1273
1274 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1275 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1276 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1277 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1278 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1279 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1280 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1281 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1282 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1283 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1284 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1285 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1286 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1287 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1288 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1289 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1290 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1291 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1292 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1293 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1294 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1295 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1296 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1297 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1298 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1299 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1300 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1301 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1302 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1303 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1304 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1305 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1306 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1307 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1308 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1309 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1310 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1311 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1312 due to a rounding error.
1313 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1314 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1315 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1316 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1317 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1318 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1319 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1320 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1321
1322
1323 All (GUI):
1324
1325 - added wxMediaCtrl
1326 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1327 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1328 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1329 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1330 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1331 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1332 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1333 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1334 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1335 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1336 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1337 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1338 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1339 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1340 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1341 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1342 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1343
1344 Unix:
1345
1346 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1347
1348 wxGTK:
1349
1350 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1351 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1352 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1353 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1354 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1355 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1356 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1357 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1358 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1359 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1360 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1361 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1362 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1363 errors otherwise.
1364 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1365 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1366 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1367 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1368 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1369
1370 wxMac:
1371
1372 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1373 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1374 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1375 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1376
1377 wxMSW:
1378
1379 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1380 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1381 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1382 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1383 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1384
1385 wxWinCE:
1386 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1387 but not mentioned anywhere.
1388 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1389
1390 wxUniv:
1391
1392 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1393 - vertical notebook orientation support
1394 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1395 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1396
1397 wxPalmOS:
1398
1399 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1400 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1401 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1402 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1403 - enumeration of available volumes
1404 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1405 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1406 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1407 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1408 - native wxButton implementation
1409 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1410 - native wxSlider implementation
1411 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1412 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1413 - native wxStaticText implementation
1414 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1415
1416
1417 2.5.3
1418 -----
1419
1420 All:
1421
1422 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1423 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1424 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1425 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1426 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1427 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1428 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1429 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1430 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1431 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1432 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1433 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1434 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1435 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1436 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1437 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1438
1439 All (GUI):
1440
1441 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1442 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1443 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1444 is discouraged
1445 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1446 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1447 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1448 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1449 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1450 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1451 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1452 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1453 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1454 - added samples/splash
1455 - added support for stock buttons
1456 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1457 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1458 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1459 - added wxChoicebook control
1460 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1461 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1462 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1463 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1464 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1465 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1466 supported, instead of zero.
1467 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1468
1469 Unix:
1470
1471 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1472 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1473 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1474 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1475 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1476
1477 wxCocoa:
1478
1479 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1480 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1481 - Tooltips now supported
1482 - wxSound now supported
1483 - wxDisplay now supported
1484 - Some stock cursors now supported
1485
1486 wxMac:
1487
1488 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1489 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1490 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1491 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1492
1493 wxGTK:
1494
1495 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1496 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1497 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1498 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1499 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1500 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1501 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1502 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1503 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1504 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1505 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1506 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1507 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1508 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1509 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1510 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1511 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1512 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1513 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1514
1515 wxMotif:
1516
1517 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1518
1519 wxMSW:
1520
1521 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1522 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1523 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1524 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1525 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1526 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1527 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1528 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1529 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1530 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1531 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1532 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1533 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1534 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1535
1536 wxUniv/X11:
1537
1538 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1539
1540 wxWinCE:
1541
1542 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1543 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1544 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1545 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1546
1547 wxHTML:
1548
1549 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1550 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1551
1552
1553 2.5.2
1554 -----
1555
1556 All:
1557
1558 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1559 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1560 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1561 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1562 of run-time) now
1563 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1564 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1565 to forward declare these classes.
1566
1567 All (GUI):
1568
1569 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1570 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1571 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1572 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1573 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1574 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1575 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1576 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1577 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1578 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1579 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1580 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1581 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1582 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1583 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1584
1585 wxMSW:
1586
1587 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1588 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1589 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1590 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1591 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1592 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1593 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1594 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1595 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1596 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1597 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1598 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1599
1600 wxGTK:
1601
1602 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1603
1604 wxMotif:
1605
1606 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1607 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1608 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1609 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1610
1611 wxUniv/X11:
1612
1613 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1614
1615 wxHTML:
1616
1617 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1618 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1619
1620 Unix:
1621
1622 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1623 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1624
1625 wxODBC:
1626
1627 - Full Unicode support is now available
1628 - BLOB support is working
1629
1630
1631 2.5.1
1632 -----
1633
1634 All:
1635
1636 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1637 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1638 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1639 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1640 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1641 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1642 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1643 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1644 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1645 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1646 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1647 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1648 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1649 (as in 2.5.0).
1650 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1651 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1652 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1653 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1654 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1655 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1656 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1657 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1658 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1659 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1660 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1661 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1662
1663 All (GUI):
1664
1665 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1666 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1667 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1668 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1669 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1670 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1671 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1672 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1673 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1674 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1675 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1676 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1677 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1678 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1679 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1680 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1681 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1682 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1683 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1684 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1685 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1686 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1687 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1688 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1689 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1690 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1691
1692 wxMSW:
1693
1694 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1695 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1696 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1697 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1698 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1699 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1700 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1701 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1702 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1703 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1704 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1705 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1706 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1707 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1708 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1709 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1710 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1711 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1712 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1713 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1714 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1715 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1716 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1717 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1718 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1719 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1720 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1721 than the specified default size
1722 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1723
1724 wxGTK:
1725
1726 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1727 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1728 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1729 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1730 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1731 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1732 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1733 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1734 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1735
1736 wxMac:
1737
1738 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1739 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1740 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1741 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1742
1743 wxMotif:
1744
1745 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1746
1747 wxHTML:
1748
1749 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1750 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1751
1752 Unix:
1753
1754 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1755 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1756 addition to existing OSS one
1757 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1758
1759
1760 2.5.0
1761 -----
1762
1763 All:
1764
1765 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1766 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1767 separately compiled library
1768 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1769 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1770 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1771 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1772 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1773 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1774 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1775 by default in Unicode mode
1776 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1777 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1778 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1779 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1780 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1781 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1782 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1783 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1784 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1785 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1786 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1787 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1788 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1789 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1790 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1791 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1792 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1793 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1794 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1795 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1796
1797 wxBase:
1798
1799 - added Watcom makefiles
1800 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1801
1802 All GUI ports:
1803
1804 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1805 - added wxListbook control
1806 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1807 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1808 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1809 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1810 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1811 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1812 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1813 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1814 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1815 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1816 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1817 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1818 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1819 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1820 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1821 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1822 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1823 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1824 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1825 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1826 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1827 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1828 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1829 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1830 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1831 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1832 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1833 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1834 default extension for the template
1835 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1836 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1837 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1838 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1839 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1840 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1841 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1842 to allow better rich text support.
1843 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1844 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1845 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1846 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1847 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1848 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1849 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1850 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1851 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1852 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1853 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1854 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1855 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1856 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1857 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1858 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1859 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1860 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1861 - added wxMirrorDC class
1862 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1863 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1864 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1865 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1866 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1867 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1868 improved
1869
1870 Unix:
1871
1872 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1873 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1874 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1875 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1876 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1877
1878 Generic controls:
1879
1880 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1881 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1882 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1883 to contrib/src/deprecated
1884
1885 wxGTK:
1886
1887 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1888 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1889 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1890 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1891 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1892 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1893 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1894 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1895 be appended to filenames with no extension
1896 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1897 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1898 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1899 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1900
1901 wxMac:
1902
1903 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1904 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1905
1906 wxMSW:
1907
1908 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1909 - added wxCrashReport
1910 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1911 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1912 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1913 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1914 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1915 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1916 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1917 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1918 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1919 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1920 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1921 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1922 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1923 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1924 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1925 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1926 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1927 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1928 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1929 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1930 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1931 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1932 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1933 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1934 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1935
1936 wxMotif:
1937
1938 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1939 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1940 documentation for a detailed explanation
1941 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1942 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1943 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1944 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1945 - implemented wxToggleButton
1946 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1947 instead of a sunken border
1948 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1949 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1950
1951 wxUniv:
1952
1953 - controls in toolbars now supported
1954
1955 wxHTML:
1956
1957 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1958 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1959 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1960 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1961 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1962
1963
1964 OLD CHANGES
1965 ===========
1966
1967 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1968 ================================
1969
1970 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1971 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1972 with '!' in the first column.
1973
1974 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1975 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1976 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1977 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1978 2.6 release.
1979
1980 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1981 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1982 (see the documentation) useful.
1983
1984
1985 wxBase:
1986
1987 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1988 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1989 code.
1990
1991 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1992 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1993 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1994 arrays containing non-pointers.
1995
1996 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1997 simply don't make sense for all objects
1998
1999 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2000 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2001 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2002
2003 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2004
2005 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2006 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2007 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2008 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2009 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2010
2011 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2012 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2013 the default assert handling.
2014
2015 All (GUI):
2016
2017 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2018 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2019 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2020
2021 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2022 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2023 instead!
2024
2025 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2026 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2027 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2028
2029 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2030 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2031 you want to get OnChar() as well
2032
2033 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2034 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2035 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2036
2037 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2038 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2039 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2040 will *NOT* work any longer:
2041
2042 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2043 ... do something ...
2044 if ( flags & wxYES )
2045 ... do something else ...
2046
2047 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2048 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2049 the ctor
2050
2051 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2052
2053 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2054 if you derived any classes from it
2055
2056 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2057 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2058
2059 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2060 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2061
2062 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2063 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2064
2065 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2066 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2067 from happening
2068
2069 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2070 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2071 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2072
2073 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2074 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2075 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2076 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2077
2078 wxMSW:
2079
2080 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2081 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2082 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2083 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2084 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2085 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2086 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2087 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2088 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2089 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2090
2091 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2092 style to avoid it
2093
2094 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2095 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2096
2097 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2098 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2099 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2100
2101 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2102 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2103
2104
2105 Unix ports:
2106
2107 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
2108 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
2109 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
2110 to compile pure C files.
2111
2112
2113 wxThread and related classes:
2114
2115 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
2116 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
2117 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
2118 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2119
2120 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2121 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2122 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2123 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2124
2125 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2126 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2127 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2128
2129 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2130 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2131
2132
2133 OTHER CHANGES
2134 =============
2135
2136 2.4.0
2137 -----
2138
2139 wxMSW:
2140
2141 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2142
2143 2.3.4
2144 -----
2145
2146 All:
2147
2148 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2149 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2150 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2151
2152 Unix (Base/GUI):
2153
2154 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2155 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2156 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2157
2158 wxGTK:
2159 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2160 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2161
2162 wxX11:
2163 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2164
2165 wxMSW:
2166
2167 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2168 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2169
2170 wxHTML:
2171
2172 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2173
2174 2.3.3
2175 -----
2176
2177 wxBase:
2178
2179 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2180 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2181 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2182 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2183 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2184 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2185 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2186 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2187 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2188 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2189 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2190 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2191 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2192 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2193 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2194 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2195
2196 Unix (Base/GUI):
2197
2198 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2199 programs and not only GNU make
2200 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2201 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2202 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2203 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2204 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2205
2206 All (GUI):
2207
2208 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2209 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2210 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2211 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2212 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2213 wxWidgets dialogs
2214 - significantly improved native font support
2215 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2216 wxHashTable
2217 - added IFF image handler
2218 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2219 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2220 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2221 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2222 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2223 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2224 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2225 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2226 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2227 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2228 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2229 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2230 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2231 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2232 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2233 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2234 - wxMessageOutput class added
2235 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2236 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2237 table fills up
2238 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2239 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2240 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2241 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2242 (Rene Rivera).
2243 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2244 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2245 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2246
2247 wxMSW:
2248
2249 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2250 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2251 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2252 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2253 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2254 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2255 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2256 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2257 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2258 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2259 are changed
2260 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2261 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2262 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2263 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2264 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2265 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2266 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2267 recursion any more
2268 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2269 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2270 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2271 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2272 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2273 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2274 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2275 has the capture before release it.
2276 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2277 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2278 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2279 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2280 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2281 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2282 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2283 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2284 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2285 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2286 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2287 provided in wxFontData
2288 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2289 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2290
2291 wxGTK:
2292
2293 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2294 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2295 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2296 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2297 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2298 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2299 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2300 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2301 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2302 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2303 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2304 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2305 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2306
2307 wxMotif:
2308
2309 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2310 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2311 - improved toolbar control alignment
2312 - implemented wxSpinButton
2313 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2314 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2315 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2316
2317 wxX11:
2318
2319 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2320 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2321
2322 wxMac:
2323
2324 - Many improvements
2325
2326 wxOS2:
2327
2328 - First alpha-quality release
2329
2330 wxHTML:
2331
2332 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2333 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2334 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2335 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2336 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2337
2338 2.3.2
2339 -----
2340
2341 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2342
2343 wxBase:
2344
2345 - wxRegEx class added
2346 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2347 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2348 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2349 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2350 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2351
2352 All (GUI):
2353
2354 - support for virtual list control added
2355 - column images in report mode of the list control
2356 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2357 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2358 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2359 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2360 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2361 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2362 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2363 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2364 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2365 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2366 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2367 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2368
2369 wxMSW:
2370
2371 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2372 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2373 project files
2374
2375 wxGTK:
2376
2377 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2378 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2379 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2380 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2381
2382 wxMac:
2383
2384 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2385 Tools
2386
2387 wxHTML:
2388
2389 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2390 to tags parsing
2391 - added support for animated GIFs
2392
2393 2.3.1
2394 -----
2395
2396 wxBase:
2397
2398 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
2399 - Fixed new charset detection code
2400 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2401 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2402 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2403 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2404 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2405 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2406
2407 All (GUI):
2408
2409 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2410 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2411 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2412 push on a custom event handler for example)
2413 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2414 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2415 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2416 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2417 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2418 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2419 first-time saved
2420 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2421 - Various wxXML enhancements
2422 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2423 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2424 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2425 instead of GetId()
2426 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2427 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2428
2429 wxMSW:
2430
2431 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2432 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2433 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2434 alt or shift) now work
2435 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2436 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2437 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2438 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2439 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2440 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2441 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2442 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2443 - We now send iconize events
2444 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2445 - Added mousewheel processing
2446 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2447 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2448 in wxDC
2449 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2450 child frame styles are honoured
2451
2452 wxGTK:
2453
2454 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2455 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2456 - We now send iconize events
2457 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2458 GetSelection() results
2459
2460 2.3.0
2461 -----
2462
2463 wxBase:
2464
2465 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2466 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2467 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2468 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2469 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2470 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2471 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2472 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2473 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2474 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2475
2476 All (GUI):
2477
2478 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2479 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2480 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2481 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2482 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2483 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2484 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2485 wxImage methods and ctor)
2486 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2487 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2488 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2489 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2490 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2491 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2492
2493 wxMSW:
2494
2495 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2496 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2497 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2498 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2499
2500 wxGTK:
2501
2502 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2503
2504 wxHTML:
2505
2506 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2507 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2508
2509 2.2.0
2510 -----
2511
2512 wxBase:
2513
2514 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2515 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2516 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2517 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2518 - Completed Czech translations
2519 - Some stream corrections
2520 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2521 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2522 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2523 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2524
2525 All (GUI):
2526
2527 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2528 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2529 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2530 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2531 - Paper names now translated
2532 - wxGrid fixes
2533 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2534 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2535 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2536 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2537 File dialog.
2538 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2539 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2540 writing code
2541 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2542 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2543 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2544 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2545
2546 wxMSW:
2547
2548 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2549 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2550 backward compatibility, please set
2551 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2552 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2553 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2554 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2555 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2556 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2557 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2558 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2559 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2560 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2561 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2562 - wxFrame restores focus better
2563 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2564 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2565 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2566 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2567 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2568 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2569 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2570 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2571 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2572 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2573
2574 wxGTK:
2575
2576 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2577
2578 wxMotif:
2579
2580 - Small compilation fixes
2581
2582 Documentation:
2583
2584 - wxCaret documented
2585
2586 2.1.16
2587 ------
2588
2589 wxBase:
2590
2591 All (GUI):
2592
2593 wxMSW:
2594
2595 - Various bug fixes
2596 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2597 files. This works under VC++ only
2598 - Modal dialog handling improved
2599 - Printer dialog now modal
2600
2601 wxGTK:
2602
2603 - Various bug fixes
2604
2605 wxMotif:
2606
2607 - Various bug fixes
2608
2609 2.1.15
2610 ------
2611
2612 Documentation:
2613
2614 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2615
2616 File hierarchy:
2617
2618 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2619 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2620
2621 wxBase:
2622
2623 - wxSocket support
2624 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2625 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2626 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2627 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2628 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2629 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2630 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2631 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2632 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2633 only so far)
2634 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2635 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2636 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2637 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2638 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2639 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2640 is available)
2641 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2642
2643 all (GUI):
2644
2645 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2646 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2647 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2648 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2649 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2650 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2651 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2652 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2653 John Norris)
2654 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2655 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2656 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2657 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2658 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2659 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2660 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2661 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2662 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2663 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2664 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2665 - wxDragImage class added
2666 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2667 controllers, as well as native help
2668 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2669
2670 wxMSW:
2671
2672 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2673 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2674 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2675 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2676 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2677 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2678 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2679 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2680 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2681 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2682 Unix ports
2683 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2684 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2685 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2686
2687 wxGTK:
2688
2689 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2690 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2691 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2692
2693 wxMotif:
2694
2695 - wxMenu::Enable works
2696 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2697 - OGL samples made to work again
2698
2699 wxHTML:
2700
2701 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2702 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2703 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2704 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2705 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2706 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2707 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2708 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2709 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2710 - improved HTML printing
2711 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2712 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2713 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2714 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2715
2716
2717 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2718 change log.
2719
2720 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2721 -----------------------
2722
2723 wxGTK:
2724
2725 - JPEG support added.
2726 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2727
2728 wxMSW:
2729
2730 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2731 SetTabSize added.
2732 - JPEG support added.
2733 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2734 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2735 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2736
2737 wxMotif:
2738
2739
2740 General:
2741
2742 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2743
2744
2745 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2746 -------------------------------
2747
2748 wxGTK:
2749
2750 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2751 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2752
2753 wxMSW:
2754
2755 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2756 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2757 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2758 - Some makefile fixes.
2759
2760 wxMotif:
2761
2762 - None.
2763
2764 General:
2765
2766 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2767 - More topic overviews.
2768 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2769 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2770 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2771
2772
2773 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2774 --------------------------
2775
2776 wxGTK:
2777
2778 - wxExecute improved.
2779
2780 wxMSW:
2781
2782 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2783 expected).
2784 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2785 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2786 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2787 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2788 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2789 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2790
2791 wxMotif:
2792
2793 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2794 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2795
2796 General:
2797
2798 - wxLocale documented.
2799 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2800 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2801 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2802 (though doesn't display help yet).
2803
2804 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2805 --------------------------
2806
2807 wxGTK:
2808
2809 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2810
2811 wxMSW:
2812
2813 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2814 rationalised.
2815 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2816
2817 wxMotif:
2818
2819 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2820 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2821 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2822 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2823 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2824 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2825 crashes for some reason).
2826 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2827 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2828
2829 General:
2830
2831 - Further doc improvements.
2832 - wxGenericValidator added.
2833 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2834 automatically.
2835
2836 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2837 -------------------------
2838
2839 wxGTK:
2840
2841 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2842 - wxToolTip class added.
2843 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2844
2845 wxMSW:
2846
2847 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2848 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2849 - TWIN32 support added.
2850 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2851 factored out program/library settings.
2852 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2853
2854 wxMotif:
2855
2856 - A few more colour fixes.
2857 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2858 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2859 - wxChoice crash fix.
2860 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2861
2862 General:
2863
2864 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2865 - Added samples/dde.
2866 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2867
2868 Beta 2, January 1999
2869 --------------------
2870
2871 wxGTK:
2872
2873 wxMSW:
2874
2875 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2876
2877 wxMotif:
2878
2879 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2880 the right place.
2881 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2882 - Added thread support (Robert).
2883 - wxPoem sample now works.
2884
2885 General:
2886
2887 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2888 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2889 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2890 or below).
2891 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2892 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2893 sample.
2894 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2895
2896 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2897 --------------------------
2898
2899 wxGTK:
2900
2901 - Various
2902
2903 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2904
2905
2906 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2907 ----------------------------
2908
2909 wxMSW:
2910
2911 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2912 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2913 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2914 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2915 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2916 on a tab.
2917 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2918 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2919 of Stefan Csomor.
2920
2921 wxMotif:
2922
2923 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2924 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2925 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2926 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2927 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2928 colours correctly.
2929 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2930 when any button was pressed.
2931 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2932 have a white background.
2933 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2934 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2935 they have sensible colours by default.
2936 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2937 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2938 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2939 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2940 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2941
2942 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2943 ----------------------------
2944
2945 wxMSW:
2946
2947 - More documentation updates, especially for
2948 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2949 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2950 of wxTrace.
2951 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2952 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2953 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2954 position.
2955 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2956
2957 wxMotif:
2958
2959 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2960 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2961 child frames).
2962 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2963 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2964 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2965 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2966 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2967 the debugging implementation.
2968 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2969 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2970 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2971 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2972 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2973 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2974 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2975
2976 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2977
2978 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2979 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2980 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2981 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2982 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2983 - wxNotebook almost done.
2984 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2985 to vertical toolbars).
2986
2987 More recently:
2988
2989 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2990 to scrollbars).
2991 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2992 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2993 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2994
2995 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2996 ----------------------------
2997
2998 wxMSW:
2999
3000 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3001 sample.
3002 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3003 - A few more makefiles added.
3004 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3005 - Further doc updates.
3006 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3007
3008 wxMotif:
3009
3010 - First start at Motif port.
3011 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3012 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3013 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3014 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3015
3016 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3017 --------------------------
3018
3019 wxMSW:
3020
3021 - wxBitmap debugged.
3022 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3023 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3024 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3025 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3026 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3027 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3028 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3029
3030 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3031 ------------------------
3032
3033 wxMSW:
3034
3035 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3036 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3037 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3038 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3039 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3040 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3041 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3042 changes, wxNotebook.
3043 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3044
3045 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3046 -----------------------
3047
3048 wxMSW:
3049
3050 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3051 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3052 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3053 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3054 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3055 don't support it.
3056 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3057 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3058
3059 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3060 -----------------------
3061
3062 wxMSW:
3063
3064 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3065 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3066
3067 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3068 -----------------------
3069
3070 wxMSW:
3071
3072 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3073 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3074 wxMenuBar.
3075 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3076 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3077 wxMenuItem accessors.
3078 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3079 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3080 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3081 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3082 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3083 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3084 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3085 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3086 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3087 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3088 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3089 first, then doing the assignment.
3090 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3091 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3092
3093 Generic:
3094
3095 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3096 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3097
3098 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3099 ----------------------
3100
3101 wxMSW:
3102
3103 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3104 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3105 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3106 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
3107 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
3108 require application-supplied positioning code though.
3109 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
3110 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
3111 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
3112
3113 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
3114 ------------------------
3115
3116 wxMSW:
3117
3118 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3119 fields were used.
3120 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3121 compilation and pragmas.
3122 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3123 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3124
3125 Generic:
3126
3127 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3128 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3129 compilation and pragmas.
3130 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3131
3132 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3133 ------------------------
3134
3135 wxMSW:
3136
3137 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3138 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3139 some reason :-(
3140 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3141 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3142 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3143 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3144 startup/exit.
3145 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3146 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3147 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3148 VADIM'S CHANGES:
3149 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3150 compatibility functions.
3151 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3152 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3153 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3154 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3155 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3156 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3157 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3158
3159 Generic:
3160
3161 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3162 - Added samples/png.
3163 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3164 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3165 header files.
3166 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3167
3168 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3169 ------------------------
3170
3171 wxMSW:
3172
3173 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3174 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3175 cleaned up properly before exit.
3176 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3177 automatically.
3178 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3179 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3180 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3181 unresolved issues.
3182 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3183 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3184 tray area.
3185 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3186 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3187 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3188 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3189
3190 Generic:
3191
3192 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3193 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3194 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3195 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3196 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3197 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3198 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3199 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3200 allow better control of memory.
3201 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3202 checking.
3203 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3204 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3205
3206 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3207 ------------------------
3208
3209 wxMSW:
3210
3211 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3212 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3213 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3214 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3215 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3216 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3217 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3218 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3219 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3220 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3221 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3222 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3223 IUnknown.
3224 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3225 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3226 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3227 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3228 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3229 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3230 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3231 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3232 internal implementation.
3233 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3234 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3235 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3236
3237 Generic:
3238
3239 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3240 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3241 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3242 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3243 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3244
3245 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3246 --------------------------
3247
3248 wxMSW:
3249
3250 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3251 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3252 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3253 changes.
3254 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3255 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3256 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3257 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3258 again.
3259 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3260 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3261 e.g. wxDC.
3262
3263 Generic:
3264
3265 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3266 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3267 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3268 changes.
3269 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3270 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3271 docs/gtk.
3272 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3273 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3274 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3275 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3276 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3277 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3278 - Added gcc pragmas.
3279 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3280 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3281 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3282 added a few references to wxTransString.
3283 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3284 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3285 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3286 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3287 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3288 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3289 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3290 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3291 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3292 MoreRequested.
3293
3294 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3295 --------------------------
3296
3297 All:
3298
3299 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3300 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3301 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3302 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3303 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3304 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3305 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3306 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3307 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3308 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3309 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3310 scrolling toolbars.
3311 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3312 to help printing with multiple pages.
3313 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3314 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3315 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3316 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3317 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3318 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3319 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3320 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3321 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3322 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3323 New files from Vadim:
3324 include\wx\string.h
3325 include\wx\debug.h
3326 include\wx\file.h
3327 include\wx\log.h
3328 include\wx\intl.h
3329 src\common\string.cpp
3330 src\common\log.cpp
3331 src\common\intl.cpp
3332 src\common\file.cpp
3333 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3334 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3335 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3336 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3337 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3338 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3339 including changes to defs.h.
3340 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3341 introduced.
3342 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3343 hidden).
3344 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3345 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3346 trick).
3347 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3348
3349 Alpha 3, September 1997
3350 -----------------------
3351
3352 All:
3353
3354 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3355 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3356 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3357 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3358 - Started documentation.
3359
3360 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3361 ------------------------
3362
3363 All:
3364
3365 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3366 with MetroWerks compiler.
3367 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3368 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3369 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3370 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3371 for testing purposes.
3372 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3373 handlers.
3374 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3375 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3376 fully).
3377 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3378 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3379 a separate file.
3380
3381 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3382 -----------------------
3383
3384 Generic:
3385
3386 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3387
3388 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3389 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3390 wxString instead of char *.
3391 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3392 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3393 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3394 as wxbWindow now removed.
3395 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3396 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3397 - PrologIO revised.
3398 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3399 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3400 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3401 Windows settings.
3402 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3403 settings mucho rationalised.
3404 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3405 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3406 classes removed.
3407 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3408 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3409 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3410 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3411 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3412 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3413 of event handlers.
3414 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3415 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3416 wxToolBarBase
3417 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3418 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3419 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3420 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3421 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3422 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3423 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3424 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3425 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3426 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3427 in the future.
3428 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3429 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3430 variables instead.
3431 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3432 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3433 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3434 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3435 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3436 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3437 Win95.
3438 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3439 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3440 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3441 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3442 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3443 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).