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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
11 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
12 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
13 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
14 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
15 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
16 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
17 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that for embedded null chars
18 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
19 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
20 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
21 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
22 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey ODonnell)
23 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
24 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
25 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
26 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
27 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
28 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
29 printing stuff in the GTK port.
33 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
34 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
35 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
36 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
37 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
38 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
39 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
40 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
44 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
48 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
49 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
50 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
51 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
52 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
53 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
54 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
55 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
56 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
57 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
58 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
59 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
60 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
65 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
66 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
70 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
71 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
72 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
75 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
76 but not mentioned anywhere.
80 - wxBU_... button align flags support
81 - vertical notebook orientation support
82 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
83 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
91 - support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
92 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
93 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
94 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
95 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
96 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
97 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
98 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
99 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
100 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
101 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
102 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
103 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
104 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
105 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
106 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
110 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
111 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
112 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
114 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
115 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
116 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
117 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
118 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
119 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
120 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
121 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
122 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
123 - added samples/splash
124 - added support for stock buttons
125 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
126 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
127 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
128 - added wxChoicebook control
129 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
130 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
131 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
132 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
133 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
134 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
135 supported, instead of zero.
139 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
140 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
141 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
142 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
143 - wx-config has new --version-full option
147 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
148 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
149 - Tooltips now supported
150 - wxSound now supported
151 - wxDisplay now supported
152 - Some stock cursors now supported
156 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
157 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
158 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
159 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
163 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
164 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
165 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
166 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
167 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
168 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
169 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
170 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
171 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
172 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
173 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
174 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
175 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
176 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
177 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
178 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
179 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
180 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
181 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
185 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
189 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
190 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
191 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
192 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
193 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
194 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
195 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
196 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
197 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
198 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
199 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
200 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
201 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
202 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
206 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
210 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
211 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
212 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
213 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
217 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
218 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
226 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
227 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
228 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
229 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
231 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
232 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
233 to forward declare these classes.
237 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
238 resulting in much better display of scaled images
239 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
240 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
241 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
242 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
243 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
244 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
245 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
246 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
247 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
248 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
249 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
250 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
251 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
255 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
256 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
257 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
258 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
259 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
260 even try to do it by default -- now it does
261 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
262 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
263 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
264 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
265 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
266 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
270 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
274 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
275 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
276 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
277 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
281 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
285 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
286 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
290 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
291 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
295 - Full Unicode support is now available
296 - BLOB support is working
304 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
305 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
306 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
307 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
308 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
309 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
310 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
311 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
312 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
313 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
314 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
315 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
316 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
318 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
319 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
320 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
321 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
322 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
323 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
324 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
325 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
326 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
327 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
328 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
329 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
333 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
334 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
335 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
336 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
337 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
338 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
339 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
340 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
341 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
342 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
343 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
344 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
345 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
346 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
347 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
348 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
349 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
350 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
351 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
352 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
353 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
354 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
355 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
356 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
357 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
358 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
362 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
363 - fixed DDE memory leaks
364 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
365 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
366 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
367 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
368 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
369 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
370 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
371 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
372 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
373 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
374 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
375 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
376 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
377 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
378 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
379 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
380 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
381 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
382 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
383 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
384 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
385 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
386 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
387 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
388 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
389 than the specified default size
390 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
394 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
395 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
396 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
397 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
398 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
399 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
400 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
401 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
402 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
406 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
407 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
408 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
409 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
413 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
417 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
418 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
422 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
423 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
424 addition to existing OSS one
425 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
433 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
434 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
435 separately compiled library
436 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
437 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
438 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
439 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
440 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
441 - added wxArray::SetCount()
442 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
443 by default in Unicode mode
444 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
445 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
446 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
447 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
448 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
449 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
450 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
451 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
452 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
453 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
454 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
455 - added wxRecursionGuard class
456 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
457 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
458 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
459 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
460 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
461 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
462 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
463 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
467 - added Watcom makefiles
468 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
472 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
473 - added wxListbook control
474 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
475 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
476 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
477 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
478 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
479 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
480 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
481 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
482 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
483 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
484 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
485 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
486 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
487 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
488 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
489 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
490 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
491 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
492 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
493 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
494 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
495 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
496 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
497 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
498 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
499 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
500 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
501 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
502 default extension for the template
503 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
504 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
505 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
506 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
507 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
508 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
509 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
510 to allow better rich text support.
511 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
512 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
513 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
514 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
515 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
516 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
517 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
518 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
519 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
520 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
521 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
522 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
523 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
524 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
525 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
526 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
527 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
528 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
529 - added wxMirrorDC class
530 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
531 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
532 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
533 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
534 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
535 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
540 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
541 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
542 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
543 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
544 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
548 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
549 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
550 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
551 to contrib/src/deprecated
555 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
556 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
557 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
558 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
559 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
560 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
561 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
562 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
563 be appended to filenames with no extension
564 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
565 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
566 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
567 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
571 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
572 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
576 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
577 - added wxCrashReport
578 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
579 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
580 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
581 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
582 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
583 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
584 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
585 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
586 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
587 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
588 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
589 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
590 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
591 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
592 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
593 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
594 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
595 - improved border handling under Windows XP
596 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
597 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
598 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
599 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
600 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
601 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
602 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
606 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
607 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
608 documentation for a detailed explanation
609 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
610 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
611 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
612 with Motif 1.x compatibility
613 - implemented wxToggleButton
614 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
615 instead of a sunken border
616 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
617 - finished wxClipboard implementation
621 - controls in toolbars now supported
625 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
626 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
627 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
628 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
629 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
635 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
636 ================================
638 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
639 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
640 with '!' in the first column.
642 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
643 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
644 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
645 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
648 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
649 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
650 (see the documentation) useful.
655 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
656 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
659 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
660 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
661 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
662 arrays containing non-pointers.
664 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
665 simply don't make sense for all objects
667 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
668 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
669 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
671 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
673 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
674 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
675 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
676 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
677 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
679 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
680 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
681 the default assert handling.
685 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
686 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
687 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
689 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
690 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
693 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
694 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
695 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
697 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
698 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
699 you want to get OnChar() as well
701 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
702 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
703 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
705 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
706 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
707 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
708 will *NOT* work any longer:
710 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
713 ... do something else ...
715 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
716 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
719 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
721 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
722 if you derived any classes from it
724 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
725 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
727 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
728 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
730 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
731 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
733 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
734 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
737 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
738 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
739 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
741 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
742 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
743 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
744 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
748 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
749 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
750 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
751 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
752 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
753 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
754 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
755 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
756 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
757 is only present for the DLLs builds.
759 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
762 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
763 previously selected one instead of replacing it
765 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
766 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
767 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
769 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
770 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
775 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
776 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
777 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
778 to compile pure C files.
781 wxThread and related classes:
783 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
784 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
785 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
786 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
788 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
789 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
790 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
791 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
793 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
794 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
795 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
797 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
798 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
809 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
816 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
817 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
818 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
822 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
823 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
824 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
827 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
828 - Addition of native frame site grip.
831 - Unicode support through Pango library.
835 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
836 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
840 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
847 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
848 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
849 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
850 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
851 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
852 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
853 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
854 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
855 after (non standard) STL hash_map
856 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
857 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
858 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
859 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
860 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
861 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
862 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
866 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
867 programs and not only GNU make
868 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
869 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
870 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
871 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
872 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
876 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
877 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
878 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
879 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
880 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
882 - significantly improved native font support
883 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
885 - added IFF image handler
886 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
887 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
888 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
889 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
890 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
891 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
892 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
893 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
894 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
895 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
896 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
897 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
898 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
899 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
900 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
901 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
902 - wxMessageOutput class added
903 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
904 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
906 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
907 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
908 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
909 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
911 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
912 whether a label edit was cancelled.
913 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
917 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
918 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
919 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
920 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
921 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
922 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
923 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
924 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
925 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
926 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
928 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
929 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
930 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
931 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
932 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
933 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
934 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
936 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
937 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
938 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
939 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
940 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
941 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
942 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
943 has the capture before release it.
944 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
945 - default button handling is now closer to expected
946 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
947 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
948 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
949 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
950 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
951 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
952 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
953 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
954 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
955 provided in wxFontData
956 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
957 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
961 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
962 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
963 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
964 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
965 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
966 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
967 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
968 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
969 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
970 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
971 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
972 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
973 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
977 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
978 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
979 - improved toolbar control alignment
980 - implemented wxSpinButton
981 - implemented wxCheckListBox
982 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
983 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
987 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
988 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
996 - First alpha-quality release
1000 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1001 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1002 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1003 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1004 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1009 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1013 - wxRegEx class added
1014 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1015 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1016 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1017 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1018 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1022 - support for virtual list control added
1023 - column images in report mode of the list control
1024 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1025 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1026 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1027 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1028 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1029 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1030 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1031 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1032 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1033 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1034 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1035 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1039 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1040 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1045 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1046 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1047 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1048 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1052 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1057 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1059 - added support for animated GIFs
1067 - Fixed new charset detection code
1068 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1069 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1070 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1071 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1072 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1073 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1077 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1078 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1079 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1080 push on a custom event handler for example)
1081 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1082 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1083 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1084 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1085 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1086 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1088 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1089 - Various wxXML enhancements
1090 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1091 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1092 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1094 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1095 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1099 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1100 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1101 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1102 alt or shift) now work
1103 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1104 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1105 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1106 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1107 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1108 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1109 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1110 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1111 - We now send iconize events
1112 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1113 - Added mousewheel processing
1114 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1115 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1117 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1118 child frame styles are honoured
1122 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1123 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1124 - We now send iconize events
1125 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1126 GetSelection() results
1133 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1134 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1135 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1136 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1137 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1138 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1139 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1140 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1141 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1142 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1146 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1147 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1148 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1149 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1150 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1151 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1152 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1153 wxImage methods and ctor)
1154 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1155 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1156 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1157 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1158 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1159 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1163 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1164 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1165 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1166 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1170 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1174 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1175 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1182 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1183 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1184 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1185 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1186 - Completed Czech translations
1187 - Some stream corrections
1188 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1189 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1190 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1191 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1195 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1196 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1197 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1198 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1199 - Paper names now translated
1201 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1202 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1203 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1204 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1206 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1207 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1209 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1210 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1211 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1212 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1216 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1217 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1218 backward compatibility, please set
1219 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1220 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1221 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1222 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1223 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1224 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1225 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1226 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1227 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1228 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1229 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1230 - wxFrame restores focus better
1231 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1232 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1233 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1234 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1235 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1236 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1237 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1238 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1239 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1240 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1244 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1248 - Small compilation fixes
1252 - wxCaret documented
1264 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1265 files. This works under VC++ only
1266 - Modal dialog handling improved
1267 - Printer dialog now modal
1282 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1286 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1287 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1292 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1293 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1294 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1295 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1296 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1297 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1298 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1299 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1300 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1302 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1303 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1304 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1305 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1306 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1307 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1309 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1313 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1314 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1315 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1316 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1317 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1318 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1319 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1320 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1322 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1323 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1324 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1325 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1326 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1327 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1328 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1329 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1330 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1331 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1332 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1333 - wxDragImage class added
1334 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1335 controllers, as well as native help
1336 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1340 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1341 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1342 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1343 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1344 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1345 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1346 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1347 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1348 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1349 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1351 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1352 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1353 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1357 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1358 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1359 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1363 - wxMenu::Enable works
1364 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1365 - OGL samples made to work again
1369 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1370 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1371 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1372 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1373 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1374 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1375 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1376 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1377 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1378 - improved HTML printing
1379 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1380 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1381 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1382 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1385 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1388 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1389 -----------------------
1393 - JPEG support added.
1394 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1398 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1400 - JPEG support added.
1401 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1402 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1403 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1410 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1413 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1414 -------------------------------
1419 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1423 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1424 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1425 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1426 - Some makefile fixes.
1434 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1435 - More topic overviews.
1436 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1437 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1438 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1441 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1442 --------------------------
1446 - wxExecute improved.
1450 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1452 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1453 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1454 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1455 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1456 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1457 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1461 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1462 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1466 - wxLocale documented.
1467 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1468 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1469 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1470 (though doesn't display help yet).
1472 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1473 --------------------------
1477 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1481 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1483 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1487 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1488 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1489 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1490 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1491 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1492 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1493 crashes for some reason).
1494 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1495 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1499 - Further doc improvements.
1500 - wxGenericValidator added.
1501 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1504 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1505 -------------------------
1509 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1510 - wxToolTip class added.
1511 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1515 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1516 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1517 - TWIN32 support added.
1518 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1519 factored out program/library settings.
1520 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1524 - A few more colour fixes.
1525 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1526 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1527 - wxChoice crash fix.
1528 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1532 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1533 - Added samples/dde.
1534 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1536 Beta 2, January 1999
1537 --------------------
1543 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1547 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1549 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1550 - Added thread support (Robert).
1551 - wxPoem sample now works.
1555 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1556 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1557 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1559 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1560 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1562 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1564 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1565 --------------------------
1571 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1574 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1575 ----------------------------
1579 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1580 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1581 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1582 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1583 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1585 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1586 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1591 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1592 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1593 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1594 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1595 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1597 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1598 when any button was pressed.
1599 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1600 have a white background.
1601 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1602 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1603 they have sensible colours by default.
1604 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1605 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1606 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1607 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1608 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1610 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1611 ----------------------------
1615 - More documentation updates, especially for
1616 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1617 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1619 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1620 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1621 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1623 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1627 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1628 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1630 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1631 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1632 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1633 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1634 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1635 the debugging implementation.
1636 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1637 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1638 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1639 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1640 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1641 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1642 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1644 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1646 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1647 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1648 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1649 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1650 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1651 - wxNotebook almost done.
1652 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1653 to vertical toolbars).
1657 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1659 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1660 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1661 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1663 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1664 ----------------------------
1668 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1670 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1671 - A few more makefiles added.
1672 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1673 - Further doc updates.
1674 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1678 - First start at Motif port.
1679 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1680 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1681 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1682 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1684 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1685 --------------------------
1689 - wxBitmap debugged.
1690 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1691 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1692 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1693 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1694 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1695 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1696 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1698 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1699 ------------------------
1703 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1704 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1705 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1706 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1707 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1708 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1709 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1710 changes, wxNotebook.
1711 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1713 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1714 -----------------------
1718 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1719 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1720 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1721 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1722 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1724 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1725 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1727 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1728 -----------------------
1732 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1733 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1735 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1736 -----------------------
1740 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1741 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1743 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1744 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1745 wxMenuItem accessors.
1746 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1747 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1748 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1749 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1750 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1751 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1752 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1753 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1754 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1755 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1756 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1757 first, then doing the assignment.
1758 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1759 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1763 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1764 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1766 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1767 ----------------------
1771 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1772 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1773 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1774 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1775 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1776 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1777 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1778 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1779 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1781 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1782 ------------------------
1786 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1788 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1789 compilation and pragmas.
1790 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1791 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1795 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1796 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1797 compilation and pragmas.
1798 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1800 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1801 ------------------------
1805 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1806 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1808 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1809 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1810 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1811 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1813 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1814 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1815 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1817 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1818 compatibility functions.
1819 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1820 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1821 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1822 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1823 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1824 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1825 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1829 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1830 - Added samples/png.
1831 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1832 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1834 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1836 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1837 ------------------------
1841 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1842 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1843 cleaned up properly before exit.
1844 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1846 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1847 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1848 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1850 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1851 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1853 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1854 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1855 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1856 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1860 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1861 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1862 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1863 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1864 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1865 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1866 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1867 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1868 allow better control of memory.
1869 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1871 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1872 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1874 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1875 ------------------------
1879 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1880 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1881 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1882 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1883 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1884 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1885 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1886 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1887 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1888 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1889 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1890 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1892 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1893 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1894 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1895 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1896 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1897 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1898 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1899 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1900 internal implementation.
1901 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1902 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1903 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1907 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1908 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1909 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1910 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1911 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1913 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1914 --------------------------
1918 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1919 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1920 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1922 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1923 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1924 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1925 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1927 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1928 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1933 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1934 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1935 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1937 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1938 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1940 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1941 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1942 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1943 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1944 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1945 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1946 - Added gcc pragmas.
1947 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1948 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1949 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1950 added a few references to wxTransString.
1951 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1952 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1953 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1954 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1955 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1956 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1957 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1958 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1959 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1962 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1963 --------------------------
1967 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1968 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1969 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1970 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1971 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1972 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1973 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1974 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1975 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1976 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1977 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1979 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1980 to help printing with multiple pages.
1981 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1982 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1983 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1984 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1985 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1986 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1987 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1988 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1989 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1990 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1991 New files from Vadim:
1997 src\common\string.cpp
2001 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2002 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2003 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2004 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2005 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2006 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2007 including changes to defs.h.
2008 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2010 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2012 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2013 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2015 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2017 Alpha 3, September 1997
2018 -----------------------
2022 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2023 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2024 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2025 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2026 - Started documentation.
2028 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2029 ------------------------
2033 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2034 with MetroWerks compiler.
2035 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2036 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2037 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2038 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2039 for testing purposes.
2040 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2042 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2043 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2045 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2046 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2049 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2050 -----------------------
2054 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2056 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2057 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2058 wxString instead of char *.
2059 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2060 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2061 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2062 as wxbWindow now removed.
2063 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2064 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2066 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2067 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2068 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2070 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2071 settings mucho rationalised.
2072 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2073 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2075 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2076 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2077 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2078 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2079 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2080 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2082 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2083 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2085 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2086 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2087 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2088 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2089 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2090 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2091 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2092 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2093 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2094 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2096 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2097 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2099 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2100 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2101 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2102 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2103 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2104 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2106 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2107 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2108 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2109 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2110 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2111 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).