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1 CHANGES.txt for wxPython
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4
5 ?????
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7 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
8 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them.
9
10 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
11 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List behind the scenes, but to use normal ctor
12 and dtors.
13
14 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
15
16 Also wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
17 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
18 colour database.
19
20 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
21 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
22 access from non-GUI threads.
23
24 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now thread safe if non-GUI threads use
25 print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
26
27
28
29
30 2.2.6
31 -----
32
33 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
34 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
35
36
37
38 2.2.5
39 -----
40
41 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
42 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
43 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
44 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
45
46 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
47
48 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
49
50 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
51 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
52
53 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
54 column in report mode.
55
56 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
57 bar after 2 seconds.
58
59 Added wxJoystick.
60
61 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
62 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
63 object, (usually a window.)
64
65 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
66
67 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
68
69 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
70 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
71 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
72 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
73 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
74 wxPython/src/export.h
75
76 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
77 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
78 utils. Will probably add more later.
79
80 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
81 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
82 wxPrinterDC2 name.
83
84 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
85 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
86
87 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
88
89 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
90 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
91
92 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
93 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
94 XML-RPC server.
95
96
97
98 New in 2.2.2
99 ------------
100
101 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
102 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
103 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
104 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
105 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
106 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
107 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
108 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
109 how things work.
110
111 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
112 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
113 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
114 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
115 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
116 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
117 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
118 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
119 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
120
121 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
122 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
123
124 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
125 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
126 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
127 stdin.
128
129 Removed the old python sizers.
130
131 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
132 and wxRealPoint.
133
134 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
135 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
136 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
137
138 Lots of little fixes here and there.
139
140 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
141 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
142 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
143
144
145
146
147 New in 2.2.1
148 ------------
149
150 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
151
152 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
153
154
155
156 New in 2.2.0
157 ------------
158
159 Added wxLog and friends.
160
161 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
162
163 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
164
165
166
167 New in 2.1.16
168 -------------
169
170 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
171 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
172 depressed state.
173
174 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
175
176 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
177
178 Added wxDragImage.
179
180 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
181
182 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
183
184 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
185
186 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
187 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
188 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
189 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
190 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
191 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
192 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
193 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
194
195 OnChar
196 OnSize
197 OnEraseBackground
198 OnSysColourChanged
199 OnInitDialog
200 OnPaint
201 OnIdle
202 OnActivate
203 OnMenuHighlight
204 OnCloseWindow
205 OnScroll
206
207 Added wxSpinCtrl.
208
209
210
211
212 New in 2.1.15
213 -------------
214
215 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
216 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
217
218 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
219 GetSelections.
220
221 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
222 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
223
224 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
225
226 Plugged a memory leak.
227
228 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
229 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
230 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
231 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
232 good...)
233
234 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
235 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
236 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
237
238 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
239 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
240 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
241 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
242 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
243 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
244 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
245 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
246 them.
247
248 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
249 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
250 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
251 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
252
253 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
254 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
255 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
256 but I've included a very readable source file in the
257 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
258 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
259 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
260 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
261 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
262
263
264
265
266 What's new in 2.1.13
267 --------------------
268 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
269
270 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
271 and some flicker problems.
272
273 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
274 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
275
276 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
277 "which" parameter.
278
279 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
280
281 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
282
283 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
284 with wxWindow.GetParent.
285
286 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
287 It is used like this:
288
289 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
290
291 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
292 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
293
294 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
295
296 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
297
298 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
299 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
300 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
301 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
302 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
303 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
304
305 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
306 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
307 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
308 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
309 methods look like this:
310
311 def AddTool(ID,
312 bitmap,
313 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
314 toggle = FALSE,
315 clientData = NULL,
316 shortHelpString = "",
317 longHelpString = "")
318
319 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
320 bitmap,
321 shortHelpString = "",
322 longHelpString = "",
323 toggle=FALSE)
324
325
326 There are also coresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
327 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
328
329 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
330
331 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
332
333 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
334 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
335 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
336
337 Added some missing EVT_ functions.
338
339 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
340 package.
341
342 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
343
344 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
345 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
346 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
347
348
349
350
351 What's new in 2.1.11
352 --------------------
353 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
354 syncronized.
355
356 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
357 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
358 itself.
359
360 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
361 being added. This should remove the need for our
362 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
363
364 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
365 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
366 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
367 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
368 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
369
370 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
371
372 Added new HTML printing classes.
373
374 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
375
376 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
377 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
378 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
379 wxPoint.)
380
381 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
382 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
383 thread from other threads.
384
385 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
386
387 Added wxFontEnumerator.
388
389 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
390
391 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
392 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
393
394 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
395
396 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
397 wxGTK...
398
399 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
400
401
402
403
404 What's new in 2.1.5
405 -------------------
406 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
407 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
408 major features.
409
410
411
412 What's new in 2.1.4
413 --------------------
414
415 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
416 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
417 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
418 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
419 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
420 the wxPy-2-1-4 tag.
421
422 Now back to what's new...
423
424 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
425
426 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
427
428 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
429 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
430 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
431 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
432 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
433 great!
434
435 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
436 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
437 default sort order.
438
439 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
440 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
441 example, the following are equivallent:
442
443 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
444 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
445
446 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
447 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
448 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
449 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
450 pages. See the demo for an example.
451
452 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
453 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
454
455 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
456
457 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
458 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
459 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
460 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
461 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
462 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
463 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
464 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
465 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
466 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
467 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
468 further details.
469
470 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
471 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
472 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
473 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
474 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
475 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
476 for more info and examples in future releases.
477
478 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
479 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
480 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
481 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
482 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
483 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
484 to use them.
485
486 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
487 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
488 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
489 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
490 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
491 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
492 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
493 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
494 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
495 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
496 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
497
498 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
499 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
500 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
501 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
502 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
503 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
504 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
505 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
506 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
507 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
508 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
509 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
510 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
511 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
512 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
513 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
514
515 class MyApp(wxApp):
516 outputWindowClass = MyClass
517
518 def OnInit(self):
519 frame = MyFrame()
520 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
521 return true
522
523 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
524 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
525 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
526 to really screw things up.
527
528 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
529 in the wxWindows docs...
530
531 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
532 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
533 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
534 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
535 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
536 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
537 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
538 problems...)
539
540
541
542
543 What's new in 2.1b3
544 --------------------
545
546 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
547
548 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
549 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
550 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
551 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
552 features:
553
554 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
555 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
556 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
557
558 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
559
560 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
561 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
562 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
563 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
564
565
566 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
567 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
568 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
569 see distrib/build.py for more details.
570
571 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
572 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
573 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
574 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
575
576
577
578
579
580 What's new in 2.1b2
581 --------------------
582
583 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
584
585 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
586 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
587 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
588 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
589 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
590
591 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
592 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
593 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
594 is being unloaded by Python.
595
596 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
597 make wxPython look bad.
598
599 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
600 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
601
602 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
603
604 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
605 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
606
607 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
608 code to show how to use it.
609
610 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
611 matches MSW's.
612
613 Added wxGrid.GetCells
614
615 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
616 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
617
618 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
619 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
620
621 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
622 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
623
624 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
625 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
626 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
627
628 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
629 data transfer.
630
631 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
632
633 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
634 for unix systems.
635
636 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
637
638 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
639 in wx.cpp.
640
641
642
643
644
645 What's new in 2.1b1
646 --------------------
647 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
648 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
649 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
650
651 Added the Printing Framework.
652
653 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
654 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
655 data after loading each extension module.
656
657 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
658 wxWindows classes.
659
660 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
661 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
662 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
663
664 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
665 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
666 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
667 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
668
669
670
671 What's new in 2.0b9
672 -------------------
673 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
674
675 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
676 wxPython application.
677
678 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
679
680 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
681 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
682 this feature off.
683
684 Added wxSafeYield function.
685
686 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
687
688 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
689 how it all works.
690
691 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
692 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
693
694 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
695
696 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
697 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
698
699 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
700
701 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
702 methods.
703
704
705
706 What's new in 2.0b8
707 -------------------
708 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
709
710 Several missing methods from various classes.
711
712 Various bug fixes.
713
714
715
716 What's new in 2.0b7
717 -------------------
718 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
719
720 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
721
722
723
724 What's new in 2.0b6
725 -------------------
726 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
727 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
728
729
730 What's new in 2.0b5
731 -------------------
732 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
733 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
734 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
735 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
736 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
737
738 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
739 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
740 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
741 diverges from wxWindows.
742
743 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
744 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
745 it should just work... More news on this later.
746
747 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
748
749 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
750 wxRegConfig class.
751
752 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
753
754
755
756 What's new in 0.5.3
757 -------------------
758 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
759
760 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
761 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
762
763
764
765 What's new in 0.5.0
766 -------------------
767 Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to "from
768 wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about
769 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
770 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
771
772 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
773
774 Made the events work for wxGrid.
775
776 Added wxConfig.
777
778 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
779
780 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
781 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
782
783 Other assorted fixes and additions.
784
785
786
787
788 What's new in 0.4.2
789 -------------------
790
791 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
792 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
793 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
794 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
795 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
796 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
797
798 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
799 must have been a different issue all along...
800
801
802
803 What's New in 0.4
804 -----------------
805
806 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
807 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
808 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
809 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
810 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
811 version segfault shortly after starting up.
812
813 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
814
815 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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