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2 wxWidgets Change Log - For more verbose changes, see the manual
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10 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
14 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
15 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
16 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
17 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
21 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
22 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
23 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
24 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
25 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
26 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
27 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
28 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
29 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
30 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
31 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
32 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
33 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
34 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
35 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
36 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
37 - Compiles again with WIN64.
38 - Winelib compilation now works.
39 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
40 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
44 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
48 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
49 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
50 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
58 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
59 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
63 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
64 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
68 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
69 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
70 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
74 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
77 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
78 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
79 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
80 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
81 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
82 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
83 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
86 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
93 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
94 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
95 - Added wxDebugReport class.
96 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
97 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
98 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
99 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
100 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
101 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
105 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
106 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
107 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
108 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
109 the whole virtual area.
110 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
111 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
112 isn't used to set the window size.
113 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
114 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
115 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
116 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
120 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
124 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
125 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
126 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
127 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
128 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
129 handling (Jamie Gadd).
133 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
134 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
135 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
136 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
137 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
138 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
139 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
140 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
144 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
148 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
152 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
153 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
154 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
155 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
156 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
157 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
158 with correct titlebar style.
159 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
161 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
162 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
163 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
164 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
165 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
166 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
167 to the dialog's toolbar.
174 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
175 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
176 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
177 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
178 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
179 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
180 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
181 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
182 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
183 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
184 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
185 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
186 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
187 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
188 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
189 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
190 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
191 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
192 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
193 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
194 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
195 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
196 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
197 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
198 printing stuff in the GTK port.
199 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
200 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
201 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
202 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
203 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
204 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
205 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
206 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
207 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
208 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
209 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
210 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
211 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
212 due to a rounding error.
213 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
214 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
215 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
216 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
217 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
218 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
219 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
220 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
226 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
227 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
228 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
229 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
230 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
231 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
232 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
233 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
234 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
235 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
236 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
237 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
238 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
239 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
240 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
241 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
242 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
246 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
250 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
251 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
252 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
253 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
254 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
255 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
256 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
257 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
258 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
259 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
260 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
261 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
262 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
264 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
265 - Added wxRawBitmap support
266 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
267 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
268 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
272 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
273 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
274 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
275 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
279 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
280 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
281 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
282 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
283 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
286 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
287 but not mentioned anywhere.
288 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
292 - wxBU_... button align flags support
293 - vertical notebook orientation support
294 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
295 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
299 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
300 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
301 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
302 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
303 - enumeration of available volumes
304 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
305 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
306 - native wxColourDialog implementation
307 - native wxSystemSettings colours
308 - native wxButton implementation
309 - native wxCheckBox implementation
310 - native wxSlider implementation
311 - native wxToggleButton implementation
312 - native wxRadioButton implementation
313 - native wxStaticText implementation
314 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
322 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
323 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
324 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
325 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
326 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
327 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
328 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
329 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
330 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
331 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
332 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
333 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
334 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
335 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
336 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
337 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
341 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
342 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
343 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
345 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
346 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
347 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
348 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
349 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
350 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
351 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
352 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
353 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
354 - added samples/splash
355 - added support for stock buttons
356 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
357 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
358 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
359 - added wxChoicebook control
360 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
361 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
362 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
363 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
364 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
365 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
366 supported, instead of zero.
367 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
371 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
372 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
373 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
374 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
375 - wx-config has new --version-full option
379 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
380 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
381 - Tooltips now supported
382 - wxSound now supported
383 - wxDisplay now supported
384 - Some stock cursors now supported
388 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
389 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
390 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
391 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
395 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
396 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
397 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
398 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
399 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
400 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
401 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
402 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
403 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
404 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
405 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
406 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
407 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
408 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
409 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
410 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
411 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
412 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
413 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
417 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
421 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
422 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
423 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
424 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
425 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
426 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
427 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
428 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
429 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
430 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
431 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
432 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
433 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
434 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
438 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
442 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
443 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
444 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
445 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
449 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
450 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
458 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
459 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
460 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
461 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
463 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
464 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
465 to forward declare these classes.
469 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
470 resulting in much better display of scaled images
471 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
472 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
473 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
474 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
475 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
476 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
477 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
478 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
479 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
480 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
481 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
482 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
483 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
487 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
488 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
489 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
490 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
491 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
492 even try to do it by default -- now it does
493 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
494 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
495 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
496 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
497 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
498 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
502 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
506 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
507 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
508 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
509 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
513 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
517 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
518 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
522 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
523 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
527 - Full Unicode support is now available
528 - BLOB support is working
536 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
537 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
538 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
539 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
540 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
541 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
542 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
543 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
544 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
545 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
546 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
547 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
548 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
550 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
551 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
552 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
553 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
554 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
555 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
556 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
557 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
558 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
559 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
560 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
561 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
565 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
566 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
567 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
568 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
569 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ågren)
570 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
571 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
572 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
573 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
574 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
575 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
576 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
577 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
578 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
579 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
580 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
581 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
582 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
583 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
584 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
585 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
586 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
587 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
588 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
589 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
590 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
594 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
595 - fixed DDE memory leaks
596 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
597 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
598 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
599 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
600 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
601 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
602 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
603 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
604 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
605 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
606 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
607 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
608 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
609 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
610 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
611 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
612 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
613 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
614 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
615 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
616 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
617 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
618 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
619 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
620 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
621 than the specified default size
622 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
626 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
627 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
628 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
629 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
630 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
631 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
632 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
633 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
634 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
638 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
639 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
640 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
641 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
645 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
649 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
650 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
654 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
655 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
656 addition to existing OSS one
657 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
665 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
666 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
667 separately compiled library
668 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
669 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
670 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
671 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
672 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
673 - added wxArray::SetCount()
674 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
675 by default in Unicode mode
676 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
677 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
678 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
679 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
680 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
681 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
682 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
683 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
684 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
685 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
686 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
687 - added wxRecursionGuard class
688 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
689 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
690 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
691 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
692 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
693 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
694 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
695 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
699 - added Watcom makefiles
700 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
704 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
705 - added wxListbook control
706 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
707 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
708 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
709 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
710 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
711 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
712 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
713 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
714 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
715 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
716 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
717 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
718 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
719 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
720 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
721 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
722 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
723 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
724 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
725 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
726 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
727 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
728 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
729 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
730 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
731 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
732 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
733 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
734 default extension for the template
735 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
736 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
737 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
738 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
739 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
740 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
741 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
742 to allow better rich text support.
743 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
744 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
745 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
746 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
747 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
748 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
749 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
750 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
751 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
752 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
753 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
754 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
755 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
756 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
757 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
758 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
759 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
760 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
761 - added wxMirrorDC class
762 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
763 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
764 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
765 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
766 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
767 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
772 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
773 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
774 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
775 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
776 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
780 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
781 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
782 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
783 to contrib/src/deprecated
787 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
788 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
789 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
790 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
791 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
792 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
793 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
794 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
795 be appended to filenames with no extension
796 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
797 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
798 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
799 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
803 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
804 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
808 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
809 - added wxCrashReport
810 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
811 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
812 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
813 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
814 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
815 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
816 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
817 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
818 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
819 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
820 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
821 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
822 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
823 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
824 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
825 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
826 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
827 - improved border handling under Windows XP
828 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
829 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
830 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
831 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
832 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
833 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
834 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
838 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
839 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
840 documentation for a detailed explanation
841 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
842 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
843 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
844 with Motif 1.x compatibility
845 - implemented wxToggleButton
846 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
847 instead of a sunken border
848 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
849 - finished wxClipboard implementation
853 - controls in toolbars now supported
857 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
858 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
859 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
860 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
861 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
867 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
868 ================================
870 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
871 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
872 with '!' in the first column.
874 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
875 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
876 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
877 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
880 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
881 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
882 (see the documentation) useful.
887 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
888 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
891 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
892 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
893 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
894 arrays containing non-pointers.
896 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
897 simply don't make sense for all objects
899 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
900 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
901 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
903 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
905 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
906 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
907 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
908 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
909 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
911 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
912 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
913 the default assert handling.
917 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
918 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
919 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
921 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
922 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
925 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
926 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
927 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
929 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
930 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
931 you want to get OnChar() as well
933 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
934 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
935 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
937 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
938 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
939 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
940 will *NOT* work any longer:
942 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
945 ... do something else ...
947 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
948 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
951 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
953 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
954 if you derived any classes from it
956 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
957 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
959 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
960 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
962 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
963 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
965 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
966 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
969 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
970 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
971 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
973 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
974 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
975 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
976 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
980 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
981 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
982 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
983 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
984 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
985 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
986 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
987 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
988 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
989 is only present for the DLLs builds.
991 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
994 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
995 previously selected one instead of replacing it
997 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
998 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
999 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1001 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1002 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1007 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1008 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1009 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1010 to compile pure C files.
1013 wxThread and related classes:
1015 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1016 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1017 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1018 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
1020 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
1021 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
1022 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
1023 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
1025 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
1026 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
1027 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
1029 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
1030 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
1041 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
1048 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
1049 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
1050 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
1054 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
1055 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
1056 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
1059 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
1060 - Addition of native frame site grip.
1063 - Unicode support through Pango library.
1067 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
1068 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
1072 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
1079 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
1080 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
1081 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
1082 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
1083 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1084 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1085 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1086 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1087 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1088 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1089 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1090 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1091 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1092 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1093 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1094 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1098 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1099 programs and not only GNU make
1100 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1101 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1102 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1103 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1104 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1108 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1109 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1110 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1111 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1112 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1114 - significantly improved native font support
1115 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1117 - added IFF image handler
1118 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1119 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1120 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1121 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1122 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1123 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1124 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1125 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1126 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1127 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1128 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1129 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1130 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1131 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1132 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1133 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1134 - wxMessageOutput class added
1135 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1136 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1138 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1139 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1140 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1141 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1143 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1144 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1145 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1149 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1150 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1151 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1152 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1153 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1154 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1155 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1156 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1157 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1158 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1160 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1161 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1162 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1163 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1164 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1165 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1166 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1168 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1169 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1170 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1171 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1172 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1173 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1174 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1175 has the capture before release it.
1176 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1177 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1178 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1179 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1180 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1181 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1182 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1183 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1184 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1185 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1186 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1187 provided in wxFontData
1188 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1189 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1193 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1194 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1195 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1196 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1197 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1198 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1199 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1200 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1201 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1202 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1203 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1204 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1205 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1209 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1210 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1211 - improved toolbar control alignment
1212 - implemented wxSpinButton
1213 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1214 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1215 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1219 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1220 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1228 - First alpha-quality release
1232 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1233 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1234 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1235 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1236 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1241 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1245 - wxRegEx class added
1246 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1247 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1248 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1249 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1250 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1254 - support for virtual list control added
1255 - column images in report mode of the list control
1256 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1257 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1258 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1259 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1260 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1261 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1262 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1263 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1264 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1265 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1266 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1267 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1271 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1272 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1277 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1278 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1279 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1280 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1284 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1289 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1291 - added support for animated GIFs
1299 - Fixed new charset detection code
1300 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1301 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1302 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1303 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1304 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1305 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1309 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1310 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1311 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1312 push on a custom event handler for example)
1313 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1314 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1315 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1316 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1317 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1318 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1320 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1321 - Various wxXML enhancements
1322 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1323 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1324 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1326 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1327 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1331 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1332 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1333 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1334 alt or shift) now work
1335 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1336 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1337 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1338 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1339 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1340 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1341 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1342 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1343 - We now send iconize events
1344 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1345 - Added mousewheel processing
1346 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1347 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1349 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1350 child frame styles are honoured
1354 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1355 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1356 - We now send iconize events
1357 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1358 GetSelection() results
1365 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1366 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1367 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1368 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1369 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1370 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1371 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1372 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1373 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1374 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1378 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1379 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1380 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1381 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1382 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1383 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1384 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1385 wxImage methods and ctor)
1386 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1387 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1388 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1389 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1390 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1391 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1395 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1396 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1397 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1398 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1402 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1406 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1407 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1414 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1415 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1416 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1417 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1418 - Completed Czech translations
1419 - Some stream corrections
1420 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1421 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1422 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1423 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1427 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1428 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1429 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1430 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1431 - Paper names now translated
1433 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1434 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1435 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1436 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1438 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1439 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1441 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1442 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1443 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1444 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1448 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1449 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1450 backward compatibility, please set
1451 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1452 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1453 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1454 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1455 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1456 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1457 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1458 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1459 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1460 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1461 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1462 - wxFrame restores focus better
1463 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1464 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1465 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1466 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1467 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1468 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1469 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1470 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1471 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1472 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1476 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1480 - Small compilation fixes
1484 - wxCaret documented
1496 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1497 files. This works under VC++ only
1498 - Modal dialog handling improved
1499 - Printer dialog now modal
1514 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1518 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1519 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1524 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1525 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1526 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1527 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1528 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1529 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1530 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1531 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1532 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1534 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1535 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1536 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1537 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1538 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1539 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1541 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1545 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1546 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1547 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1548 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1549 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1550 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1551 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1552 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1554 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1555 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1556 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1557 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1558 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1559 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1560 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1561 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1562 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1563 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1564 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1565 - wxDragImage class added
1566 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1567 controllers, as well as native help
1568 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1572 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1573 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1574 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1575 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1576 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1577 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1578 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1579 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1580 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1581 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1583 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1584 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1585 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1589 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1590 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1591 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1595 - wxMenu::Enable works
1596 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1597 - OGL samples made to work again
1601 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1602 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1603 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1604 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1605 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1606 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1607 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1608 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1609 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1610 - improved HTML printing
1611 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1612 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1613 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1614 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1617 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1620 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1621 -----------------------
1625 - JPEG support added.
1626 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1630 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1632 - JPEG support added.
1633 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1634 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1635 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1642 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1645 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1646 -------------------------------
1651 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1655 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1656 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1657 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1658 - Some makefile fixes.
1666 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1667 - More topic overviews.
1668 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1669 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1670 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1673 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1674 --------------------------
1678 - wxExecute improved.
1682 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1684 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1685 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1686 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1687 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1688 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1689 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1693 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1694 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1698 - wxLocale documented.
1699 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1700 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1701 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1702 (though doesn't display help yet).
1704 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1705 --------------------------
1709 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1713 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1715 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1719 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1720 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1721 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1722 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1723 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1724 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1725 crashes for some reason).
1726 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1727 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1731 - Further doc improvements.
1732 - wxGenericValidator added.
1733 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1736 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1737 -------------------------
1741 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1742 - wxToolTip class added.
1743 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1747 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1748 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1749 - TWIN32 support added.
1750 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1751 factored out program/library settings.
1752 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1756 - A few more colour fixes.
1757 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1758 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1759 - wxChoice crash fix.
1760 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1764 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1765 - Added samples/dde.
1766 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1768 Beta 2, January 1999
1769 --------------------
1775 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1779 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1781 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1782 - Added thread support (Robert).
1783 - wxPoem sample now works.
1787 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1788 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1789 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1791 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1792 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1794 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1796 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1797 --------------------------
1803 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1806 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1807 ----------------------------
1811 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1812 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1813 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1814 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1815 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1817 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1818 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1823 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1824 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1825 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1826 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1827 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1829 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1830 when any button was pressed.
1831 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1832 have a white background.
1833 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1834 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1835 they have sensible colours by default.
1836 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1837 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1838 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1839 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1840 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1842 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1843 ----------------------------
1847 - More documentation updates, especially for
1848 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1849 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1851 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1852 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1853 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1855 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1859 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1860 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1862 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1863 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1864 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1865 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1866 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1867 the debugging implementation.
1868 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1869 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1870 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1871 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1872 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1873 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1874 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1876 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1878 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1879 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1880 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1881 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1882 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1883 - wxNotebook almost done.
1884 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1885 to vertical toolbars).
1889 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1891 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1892 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1893 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1895 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1896 ----------------------------
1900 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1902 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1903 - A few more makefiles added.
1904 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1905 - Further doc updates.
1906 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1910 - First start at Motif port.
1911 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1912 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1913 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1914 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1916 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1917 --------------------------
1921 - wxBitmap debugged.
1922 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1923 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1924 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1925 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1926 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1927 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1928 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1930 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1931 ------------------------
1935 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1936 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1937 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1938 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1939 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1940 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1941 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1942 changes, wxNotebook.
1943 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1945 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1946 -----------------------
1950 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1951 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1952 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1953 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1954 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1956 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1957 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1959 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1960 -----------------------
1964 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1965 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1967 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1968 -----------------------
1972 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1973 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1975 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1976 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1977 wxMenuItem accessors.
1978 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1979 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1980 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1981 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1982 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1983 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1984 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1985 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1986 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1987 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1988 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1989 first, then doing the assignment.
1990 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1991 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1995 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1996 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1998 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1999 ----------------------
2003 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2004 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2005 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2006 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2007 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2008 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2009 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2010 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2011 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2013 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2014 ------------------------
2018 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
2020 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2021 compilation and pragmas.
2022 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
2023 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
2027 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
2028 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
2029 compilation and pragmas.
2030 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
2032 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
2033 ------------------------
2037 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
2038 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
2040 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
2041 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
2042 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
2043 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
2045 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
2046 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
2047 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
2049 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
2050 compatibility functions.
2051 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
2052 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
2053 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
2054 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
2055 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
2056 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
2057 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
2061 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
2062 - Added samples/png.
2063 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
2064 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
2066 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
2068 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
2069 ------------------------
2073 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2074 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
2075 cleaned up properly before exit.
2076 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
2078 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
2079 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
2080 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
2082 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
2083 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2085 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2086 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2087 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2088 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2092 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2093 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2094 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2095 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2096 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2097 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2098 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2099 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2100 allow better control of memory.
2101 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2103 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2104 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2106 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2107 ------------------------
2111 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2112 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2113 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2114 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2115 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2116 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2117 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2118 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2119 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2120 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2121 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2122 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2124 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2125 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2126 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2127 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2128 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2129 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2130 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2131 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2132 internal implementation.
2133 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2134 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2135 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2139 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2140 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2141 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2142 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2143 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2145 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2146 --------------------------
2150 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2151 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2152 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2154 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2155 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2156 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2157 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2159 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2160 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2165 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2166 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2167 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2169 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2170 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2172 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2173 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2174 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2175 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2176 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2177 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2178 - Added gcc pragmas.
2179 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2180 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2181 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2182 added a few references to wxTransString.
2183 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2184 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2185 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2186 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2187 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2188 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2189 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2190 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2191 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2194 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2195 --------------------------
2199 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2200 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2201 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2202 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2203 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2204 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2205 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2206 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2207 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2208 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2209 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2211 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2212 to help printing with multiple pages.
2213 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2214 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2215 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2216 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2217 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2218 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2219 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2220 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2221 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2222 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2223 New files from Vadim:
2229 src\common\string.cpp
2233 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2234 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2235 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2236 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2237 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2238 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2239 including changes to defs.h.
2240 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2242 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2244 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2245 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2247 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2249 Alpha 3, September 1997
2250 -----------------------
2254 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2255 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2256 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2257 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2258 - Started documentation.
2260 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2261 ------------------------
2265 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2266 with MetroWerks compiler.
2267 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2268 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2269 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2270 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2271 for testing purposes.
2272 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2274 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2275 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2277 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2278 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2281 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2282 -----------------------
2286 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2288 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2289 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2290 wxString instead of char *.
2291 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2292 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2293 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2294 as wxbWindow now removed.
2295 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2296 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2298 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2299 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2300 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2302 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2303 settings mucho rationalised.
2304 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2305 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2307 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2308 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2309 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2310 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2311 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2312 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2314 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2315 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2317 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2318 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2319 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2320 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2321 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2322 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2323 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2324 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2325 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2326 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2328 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2329 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2331 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2332 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2333 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2334 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2335 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2336 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2338 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2339 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2340 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2341 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2342 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2343 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).