1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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9 Lots of fixes and updates to the AUI classes.
11 Added wx.CollapsiblePane. On wxGTK it uses a native expander widget,
12 on the other platforms a regular button is used to control the
13 collapsed/expanded state.
15 Added the wx.combo module, which contains the ComboCtrl and ComboPopup
16 classes. These classes allow you to implement a wx.ComboBox-like
17 widget where the popup can be nearly any kind of widget, and where you
18 have a lot of control over other aspects of the combo widget as well.
19 It works very well on GTK and MSW, using native renderers for drawing
20 the combo button, but is unfortunatly still a bit klunky on OSX...
22 Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4 by default.
24 Added wx.combo.OwnerDrawnComboBox, which is a ComboCtrl that delegates
25 the drawing of the items in the popup and in the control itself to
26 overridden methods of a derived class, similarly to how wx.VListBox
29 Added wx.combo.BitmapComboBox which is a combobox that displays a
30 bitmap in front of the list items.
32 Added the wx.lib.mixins.inspect module. It contains the InspectMixin
33 class which can be mixed with a wx.App class and provides a PyCrust
34 window that can be activated with a Ctrl-Alt-I keystroke (or Cmd-Alt-I
37 Added some modules from Riaan Booysen:
39 * wx.lib.flagart: contains icons of the flags of many countries.
41 * wx.lib.art.img2pyartprov: makes images embedded in a python file
42 with img2py available via the wx.ArtProvider.
44 * wx.lib.langlistctrl: A wx.ListCtrl for selecting a language,
45 which uses the country flag icons.
47 * An I18N sample for the demo.
49 wx.lib.masked: Patch from Will Sadkin. Includes Unicode fixes, plus
50 more helpful exceptions and ability to designate fields in mask
51 without intervening fixed characters.
53 Added wx.SearchCtrl, which is a composite of a wx.TextCtrl with optional
54 bitmap buttons and a drop-down menu. Controls like this can typically
55 be found on a toolbar of applications that support some form of search
56 functionality. On the Mac this control is implemneted using the
57 native HISearchField control, on the other platforms a generic control
58 is used, although that may change in the future as more platforms
59 introduce native search widgets.
69 Patch [ 1583183 ] Fixes printing/print preview inconsistencies
71 Add events API to wxHtmlWindow (patch #1504493 by Francesco Montorsi)
73 Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot)
75 Added New Zealand NZST and NZDT timezone support to wx.DateTime.
77 wx.Window.GetAdjustedBestSize is deprecated. In every conceivable
78 scenario GetEffectiveMinSize is probably what you want to use instead.
80 wx.Image: Gained support for TGA image file format.
82 wx.aui: The classes in the wx.aui module have been renamed to be more
83 consistent with each other, and make it easier to recognize in the
84 docs and etc. that they belong together.
86 FrameManager --> AuiManager
87 FrameManagerEvent --> AuiManagerEvent
88 PaneInfo --> AuiPaneInfo
89 FloatingPane --> AuiFloatingPane
90 DockArt --> AuiDockArt
92 AuiMultiNotebook --> AuiNotebook
93 AuiNotebookEvent --> AuiNotebookEvent
95 wx.lib.customtreectrl: A patch from Frank Niessink which adds an
96 additional style (TR_AUTO_CHECK_PARENT) that (un)checks a parent when
97 all children are (un)checked.
99 wx.animate.AnimationCtrl fixed to display inactive bitmap at start
102 Patch from Dj Gilcrease adding the FNB_HIDE_ON_SINGLE_TAB style flag
103 for wx.lib.flatnotebook.
105 wx.Window.GetBestFittingSize has been renamed to GetEffectiveMinSize.
106 SetBestFittingSize has been renamed to SetInitialSize, since it is
107 most often used only to set the initial (and minimal) size of a
110 The QuickTime backend for wx.media.MediaCtrl on MS Windows works
111 again. Just pass szBackend=wx.media.MEDIABACKEND_QUICKTIME to the
112 constructor to use it instead of the default ActiveMovie backend,
113 (assuming the quicktime DLLs are available on the system.)
124 wxGTK: The wx.ALWAYS_SHOW_SB style is now supported.
126 Fixed name errors in the old wxPython package namespace. As a
127 reminder, use of this package is deprecated and you are encouraged to
128 switch your programs over to the wx package.
130 Fixed wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas.SetCurrent to be compatible with prevoius
133 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetTmpDir.
135 Bug fixes in the wx.ListCtrl on Mac from Kevin Olivier, allowing it to
136 send events properly again. There is also a new native implementation
137 of wx.ListCtrl available, which will be used for wx.LC_REPORT style
138 list controls if you set the "mac.listctrl.always_use_generic"
139 SystemOption to zero. In a future release this will be the default.
141 Added a sample to the demo that shows some of what can be done with
142 the new wx.GraphicsContext and wx.GraphicsPath classes.
151 Fixed a bug in the MaskedEdit controls caused by conflicting IsEmpty
154 Patch #1579280: Some mimetype optimizations on unix-like systems.
156 wxMac: Several wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl enhancements/fixes, including:
158 - new methods for increasing/decreasing text size, getting
159 selection, getting/setting scroll position, printing, enabling
160 editing, and running JavaScripts on the page.
162 - added new event (wx.webkit.WebKitBeforeLoadEvent) for catching, and
163 possibly vetoing, load events before they occur.
165 - wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl now fires mouse events for certain events
166 that it was eating before. This improves wxSplitterWindow
169 - refactoring of the sizing logic to move the Cocoa view. Tested
170 with splitter windows, panels, notebooks and all position
173 Some improvements to the drawing code in CustomTreeCtrl.
175 Fixed refcount leak in wx.Window.GetChildren.
185 The following deprecated items have been removed:
187 * wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
189 * The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
191 * wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
193 * wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
195 * The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
197 * wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
199 * wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
201 * wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
203 * wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
207 wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
209 Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
212 wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
213 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
214 empty stubs in wxPython.
216 Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
217 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
218 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
219 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
220 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
221 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
222 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
223 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
224 that is renaming the base class methods with a "base_*" prefix, for
225 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
226 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
227 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
228 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
229 your overridden methods like this::
231 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
233 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
235 You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this::
237 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
239 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
241 Or like this with super()::
243 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
245 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
247 Note that the old way with the "base_*" function still works, but you
248 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
249 classes affected by this are:
255 * wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
256 * wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
260 * wx.PreviewControlBar
264 * wx.PyScrolledWindow
267 * wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
268 * wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
269 * wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
270 * wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
272 * wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
275 Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
278 wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2
281 Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch 1446207
283 Bumped up to SWIG 1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance
284 boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new
287 Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the
288 position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is
289 not a top-level window.
291 Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to
294 Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can
295 use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the
296 source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which
297 of the component data objects to use to access the data.
299 Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.)
300 are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances
301 using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before
302 OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each object is initialized.
303 This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality
304 that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for
305 wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously
306 hidden under the covers.
308 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.
310 Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.
312 wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first
313 is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip
314 flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip
315 button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time
318 A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is
319 imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert
320 your code to use the new wx package instead.
322 Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in
323 wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more
324 work, but it is a great start.
326 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
327 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
328 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
329 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
330 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
333 wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it
334 will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.
336 Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.
338 Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so
339 far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.
341 Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item (i.e. the
342 column in report mode) that was hit (if any) in addition to the item
345 Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl,
346 wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.
348 Patch #1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha
351 Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.
353 Added the PseudoDC class from Paul Lanier. It provides a way to
354 record operations on a DC and then play them back later.
356 Upgraded to Scintilla 1.70 for wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl.
358 Added CanSetTransparent and SetTransparent methods to the
359 wx.TopLevelWindow class, with implementations (so far) for wxMSW and
362 SetDefaultItem() and GetDefaultItem() are now members of
363 wx.TopLevelWindow, not wx.Panel.
365 wxGTK: Stock items (icons) will be used for menu items with stock
368 Added wx.lib.combotreebox from Frank Niessink
370 Added wx.ImageFromBuffer, wx.BitmapFromBuffer and
371 wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA factory functions. They enable loading of an
372 image or bitmap directly from a Python object that implements the
373 buffer interface, such as strings, arrays, etc.
375 Added wx.App.IsDisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a
376 GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an
377 implementation for wxMSW...)
379 The wx.html.HTML_FONT_SIZE_x constants are no longer available as the
380 default sizes are now calculated at runtime based on the size of the
383 wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to
384 wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new
385 alpha blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing
386 with pens and brushes on a wx.DC.
388 Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator
389 and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access
390 to the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.
392 The beginnings of support for RTL languages has been added, thanks to
393 a Google SoC project.
395 Added wx.lib.dragscroller from Riaan Booysen. It provides a helper
396 class that can used to scroll a wx.ScrolledWindow in response to a
399 Applied patch 1551409: Adds support for indeterminate mode gauges.
401 wxMac: I've turned on the compile option for using the native toolbar
402 on the Mac now that it supports hosting of controls. If the toolbar
403 is managed by the frame via either CreateToolBar() or SetToolBar()
404 then the native toolbar will be used. Additional toolbars, or
405 toolbars that are not children of the frame, are managed by sizers or
406 what-not will still use the emulated toolbar because of platform
407 restrictions in how/where the native toolbar can be used.
409 Added Python properties for many of the getter/setter methods of wx
410 classes. In order for the names to be predicatble for somebody
411 already familiar with wxPython the property names are simply the name
412 of the getter with the "Get" dropped. For example, wx.Window has a
413 property named "Size" that maps to GetSize and SetSize. So far there
414 is only one known name conflict using this naming convention, and that
415 is wx.KeyEvent.KeyCode, however since KeyCode was formerly a
416 compatibility alias for GetKeyCode (and has been for a long time) it
417 was decided to just switch it to a property. If you want to use the
418 method then change your calls to event.KeyCode() to
419 event.GetKeyCode(), otherwise you can use it as a property just by
420 dropping the parentheses.
422 Updated the C++ code for wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl from the wxCode
423 project. This has resulted in some minor API changes, most of which
424 were worked around in the wrapper code.
426 Added wx.lib.delayedresult from Oliver Schoenborn.
428 Added wx.lib.expando, a multi-line textctrl that expands as more lines
431 wx.Image.Scale and Rescale methods now take an extra parameter
432 specifying type of method to use for resampling the image. It
433 defaults to the current behavior of just replicating pixels, if
434 wx.IMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH is passed then it uses bicubic and box averaging
435 resampling methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively.
437 Added the wx.lib.buttonpanel module, which is a tweaked version of
438 Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.
440 Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.
442 Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like
443 wx.CallAfter. wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater
444 for compatibility of older code.
446 Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl module from Andrea Gavana.
448 Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook
449 and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't
450 send the change events.
452 Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but
453 doesn't send the text changed event.
455 For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have
456 IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't
459 Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class. They
460 provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which
461 will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info
462 is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.
464 The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the core wxWidgets
465 library, and refactored a bit along the way. For wxPython it still
466 exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two
467 classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl. You load
468 the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats
469 in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the
470 AnimatedCtrl for display. See the demo for an example. There is also
471 still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards
472 compatibility with the old implementation.
474 wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a
475 Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default. This means that all
476 drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the
477 old Quick Draw API. There are, however, a few places where Quartz and
478 wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for
479 logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there is work in progress
480 to provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with
481 Quartz and also on the other platforms.
483 The first parts of a new 2D drawing API has been added with the
484 wx.GraphicsPath and wx.GraphicsContext classes. They wrap GDI+ on
485 Windows, Cairo on wxGTK and CoreGraphics on OS X. They allow path-based
486 drawing with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, and use a floating
487 point cooridnate system. Currently they can only target drawing to
488 windows, but other wx.DC backends are forthcoming. The APIs may
489 evolve a bit more before they are finalaized with the 2.8 release, but
490 there is enough there now to get a good feel for how things will work.
491 There is also a transitional wx.GCDC class that provides the wx.DC API
492 on top of wx.GraphicsContext. Docs and a demo are still MIA.
494 Added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC on
495 platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of
496 wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't. You can use this
497 class to help avoid the overhead of buffering when it is not
498 needed. There is also a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory function that
499 does a little more and actually tests if the window has
500 double-buffering enabled and then decides whether to return a
501 wx.PaintDC or wx.BufferedPaintDC. This uses the new
502 wx.Window.IsDoubleBuffered method.
514 wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn:
515 - fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects
516 - now supports listeners that use \*args as an argument
517 (listener(\*args) was not passing the validity test)
518 - corrected some mistakes in documentation
519 - added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time
521 - changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented
522 pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher
524 DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua:
525 New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to
526 the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in
527 the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging.
528 Not important for python development, but at least that means the
529 debugger framework is more generalized.
531 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
532 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
533 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
534 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
535 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
538 Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog.
540 Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python 2.5. There
541 may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and 64-bit
542 machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it
552 Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.
554 wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change
555 was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem
556 (contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a
557 wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being
560 wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the
563 Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on 64-bit platforms. Used
564 the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of
567 wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap
568 buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button
569 it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly
570 generic button style.
572 XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.
574 Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic
575 data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a
576 TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return
577 a boolean as expected. For example::
579 wx.Colour(64,0,64) == 123 ==> False
581 wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on
582 a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is
585 wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item
586 is selected only with the keyboard.
594 Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
595 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on
596 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
597 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
599 wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
600 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
601 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
602 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
603 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
604 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
605 column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.
607 Switched to using SWIG 1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
608 are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
609 wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
610 which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
611 need to modify any of the \*.i files or to add your own, then you will
612 want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
613 in the source tarball for details.
615 wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing
616 with the alpha channel.
618 wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
619 wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
621 wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
624 wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
625 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
627 wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
628 not available in the themed version.
630 Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
632 Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
634 Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
636 wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
638 wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
640 wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
642 wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
643 window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
644 flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
646 wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
647 into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to "timer.clock.seconds"
648 is the same as subscribing to ("timer", "clock", "seconds").
650 Applied patch #1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
652 Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
654 Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version 1.67 of Scintilla.
655 NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
656 you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
658 wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the
659 DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
661 Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
664 Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
665 Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
667 Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
668 scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
669 zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
671 XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
673 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch 1214360)
684 wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
687 wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
688 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
691 wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
692 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
694 Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
696 Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
698 Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
700 Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
701 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
702 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
703 can manage more than two child windows.
705 Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890
706 "Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features:
708 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
709 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
710 For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that
711 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad"
712 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
714 Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
716 XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
718 * Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
719 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
720 for an available parent control if no specific view
721 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
724 * Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
726 * Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
727 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100
730 Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
733 Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
734 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
737 Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
739 wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
741 wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.
743 wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
746 Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
747 it doesn't fill up too soon.
749 Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
751 Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
753 Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
754 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
756 Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
758 Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
759 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
760 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
761 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() &
762 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
763 to synchronize with a single timer.
765 Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
768 Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
769 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
771 Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"
773 Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager
774 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
776 Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
777 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
778 instead of a separate menu item.
780 Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
781 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
782 workaround a bug in MSLU!
784 wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
785 and other special keys properly.
787 Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
788 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
789 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
791 * The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
792 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
794 * In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
795 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
798 * Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
801 * Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
802 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
804 * F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
806 * switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
808 * Display of line numbers can be toggled.
810 * F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
811 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
812 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
813 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
816 * Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
818 * General code cleanup and fixes.
820 * Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
823 * Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
825 * Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
826 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
827 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
828 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
830 * All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
831 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
832 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
833 place to do anything.
835 * Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
836 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
837 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
839 * Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
840 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
842 * PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
843 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
844 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
846 * Added an option for whether to insert text for function
847 parameters when popping up the call tip.
849 * Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
850 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
853 Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
855 * Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
857 * Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
859 * Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
862 * Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
865 * Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
866 integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
868 * Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove
869 default sign key handlers if false, so that
870 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
872 * Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
873 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
874 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
875 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
876 rather than toggling the previous sign.
878 wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
879 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
882 Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
883 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
884 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
885 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
886 and the modifier keys.
888 Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
890 A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
891 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
892 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
894 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
895 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
896 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
897 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
898 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)
907 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
910 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
912 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
913 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
914 any unknown file type.
916 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
917 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
919 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
920 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
921 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
924 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
926 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
927 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
929 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
930 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
932 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
934 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
937 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
938 change will get written at the next flush.
948 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
949 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
950 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
952 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
955 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
956 both has an icon and is a submenu.
958 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
961 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
962 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
963 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
964 instead of current values.
966 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
967 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
969 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
971 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
972 extra null character at the end.
974 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
975 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
977 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
980 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
982 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
985 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
987 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
988 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
989 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
992 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
993 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
996 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
997 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
998 default browser in response to the clicks.
1000 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
1001 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
1002 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
1003 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
1004 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
1005 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
1006 parameter, like this::
1009 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
1012 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
1013 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
1014 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
1016 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
1019 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
1020 wx/lib/ticker_xrc.py
1022 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
1024 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
1025 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
1027 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
1028 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
1031 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
1032 self.history is None.
1034 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
1035 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
1036 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
1038 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
1041 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
1042 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
1045 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
1046 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
1047 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
1048 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
1050 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
1052 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
1053 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
1056 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
1057 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
1059 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
1060 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
1063 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
1064 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
1066 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
1068 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
1070 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
1072 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
1073 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
1075 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
1076 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
1077 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
1078 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
1081 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
1082 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1084 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
1087 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
1089 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
1090 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
1093 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
1094 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
1105 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
1106 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
1109 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
1111 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
1113 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
1114 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
1115 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
1117 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
1118 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
1119 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
1120 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
1121 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
1122 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
1123 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
1124 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
1125 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
1126 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
1127 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
1129 =================== ====================
1130 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
1131 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
1132 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
1133 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
1134 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
1135 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
1136 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
1137 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
1138 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
1139 =================== ====================
1142 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
1143 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
1146 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
1147 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
1149 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
1151 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
1152 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
1153 * Hide command for test window.
1154 * Replacing classes works better.
1155 * Added Locate tool.
1164 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
1166 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
1167 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
1168 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
1169 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
1170 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
1172 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
1174 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
1177 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
1180 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
1181 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
1182 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
1183 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
1184 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
1187 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
1188 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
1191 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
1192 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
1194 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
1195 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
1196 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
1197 the width of any column.
1199 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
1202 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
1204 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
1206 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
1207 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
1209 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
1210 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
1211 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
1212 older generic file dialog is used.
1214 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
1217 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
1218 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
1219 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
1220 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
1222 Added MDI support to XRC
1224 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
1225 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
1227 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
1228 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
1230 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
1231 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
1233 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
1234 affecting the label.
1236 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
1237 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
1239 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
1240 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
1242 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
1245 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
1254 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
1255 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
1256 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
1258 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
1259 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
1261 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
1262 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
1263 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
1264 then calling GetValue().
1267 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
1268 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
1269 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
1270 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
1272 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
1275 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
1276 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
1277 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
1279 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
1281 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
1282 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
1284 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
1285 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
1287 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
1288 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
1289 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
1290 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
1291 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
1292 the origin of the canvas.
1294 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
1295 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
1296 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
1298 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
1299 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
1301 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
1302 internal scrollbar visible.
1304 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
1305 system paths for each platform.
1307 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
1308 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
1309 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
1310 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
1311 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
1313 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
1314 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
1315 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
1317 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
1318 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
1319 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
1321 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
1322 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
1323 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
1325 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
1327 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
1328 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
1329 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
1330 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
1332 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
1333 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
1334 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
1335 of how to use the control.
1337 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
1338 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
1340 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
1341 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
1344 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
1345 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
1347 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
1348 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
1349 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
1350 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
1351 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
1352 finished with the timer.
1354 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
1355 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
1356 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
1357 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
1358 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
1359 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
1360 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
1361 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
1362 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
1363 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
1365 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
1366 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
1367 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
1368 via the wxPython C API.
1370 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
1371 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
1372 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
1373 when docstrings are added for those items.
1375 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
1376 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
1377 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
1378 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
1379 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
1382 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
1383 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
1384 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
1385 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
1386 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
1387 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
1388 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
1389 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
1390 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
1391 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
1392 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
1395 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
1396 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
1397 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
1398 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
1399 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
1401 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
1402 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
1404 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
1405 lots of surplus events)
1407 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
1410 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
1411 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
1413 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
1414 and GTK+'s context menu code.
1416 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
1417 (not all actions are allowed).
1419 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
1421 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
1422 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
1423 when GetString is called from an event handler.
1425 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
1426 and max ends of the slider.
1428 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
1429 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
1430 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
1433 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
1434 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
1435 not with labels/sizers.
1436 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
1437 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
1440 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
1441 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
1443 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
1444 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
1447 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1448 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
1449 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
1450 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
1453 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
1454 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
1456 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
1458 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
1459 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
1460 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
1461 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
1463 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
1466 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
1467 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
1469 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
1471 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
1473 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
1474 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
1476 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
1479 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
1482 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
1483 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
1484 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
1485 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
1488 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
1490 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
1492 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
1493 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
1494 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
1495 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
1498 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
1499 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
1501 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
1502 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
1504 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
1505 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
1506 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
1507 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
1508 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
1509 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
1511 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
1514 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
1517 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
1520 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
1521 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
1522 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
1523 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
1532 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
1534 Updated internal PNG library.
1536 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
1538 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
1539 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
1541 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
1542 enabled (does an enable itself)
1544 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
1547 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
1548 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
1551 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
1552 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
1553 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
1554 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
1555 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
1556 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1557 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1558 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1559 also be an image of a red X::
1561 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1564 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
1566 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
1568 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
1570 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1571 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
1572 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
1573 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1574 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1575 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1576 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
1578 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1579 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1580 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1581 the wxPython modules.
1583 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1584 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1585 user that they should look at that window.
1587 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1588 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
1590 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
1592 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1593 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1594 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1595 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1596 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1597 and PyGetDate methods.
1599 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1600 also set the colour of the dropdown.
1602 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
1604 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
1606 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
1608 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1609 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1610 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
1612 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
1614 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
1616 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
1618 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1621 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1624 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
1626 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1627 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1630 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
1632 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1633 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1636 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1637 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1638 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
1640 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1641 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1642 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1643 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1644 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1645 should notice no difference.
1647 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1648 when a new one is selected.
1650 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
1652 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1653 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1654 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1655 more details and a warning.
1657 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1658 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
1660 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1661 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
1663 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
1665 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
1667 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
1669 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1670 holding down the mouse button.
1672 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1673 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
1675 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
1677 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
1678 - Added bar graph demo
1679 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
1680 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1682 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
1683 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
1684 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
1685 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
1686 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1687 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
1688 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1689 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1692 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
1693 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
1694 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
1695 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1697 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1699 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1700 reflect package's public contents.
1702 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1703 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1704 Migrarion Guide for more information.
1706 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
1707 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
1708 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
1709 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1711 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
1713 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1714 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1717 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1718 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
1728 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
1730 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
1732 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
1734 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1735 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
1737 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1738 flicker problems, and namespace use.
1740 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
1742 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
1744 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
1747 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
1749 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1750 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
1752 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1755 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1758 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
1760 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
1762 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
1773 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1774 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1775 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1776 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1777 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1778 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
1779 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1780 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1781 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
1783 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1784 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
1786 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
1787 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
1788 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1789 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1792 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1793 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
1795 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
1797 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1798 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
1800 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1801 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1802 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1803 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
1804 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1805 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1808 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1809 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1810 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1811 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1812 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1815 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1816 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1817 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
1819 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1820 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
1822 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1823 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
1825 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
1826 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1827 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1828 remaining compatible with "C".
1830 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1833 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1834 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1835 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1836 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1837 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1838 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1839 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1840 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1841 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
1843 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1845 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1846 Scintilla for several releases now.
1848 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1849 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1850 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1851 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
1853 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1854 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1855 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1858 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1859 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1860 with a more modern reimplementation.
1862 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1863 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
1865 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1866 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1867 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
1869 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1870 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1871 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1872 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1873 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
1875 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1876 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1877 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1878 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1881 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
1882 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
1885 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
1888 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
1893 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
1894 -----------------------------------------------
1897 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
1898 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1901 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1904 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1905 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1906 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1907 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1908 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1909 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1910 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1913 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1914 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1918 Added wxIconLocation
1920 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1921 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1923 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1926 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1929 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1930 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1931 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1933 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1934 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1935 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1936 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1937 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1938 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1939 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1940 distros please send me a patch.
1942 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1943 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1945 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1946 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1947 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1948 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1949 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1950 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1953 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1956 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1958 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1960 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1962 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1963 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1964 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1965 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1966 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1967 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1968 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1971 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1974 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1976 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1977 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1979 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1980 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1981 MigrationGuide for more details.
1983 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1984 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1985 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1986 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1987 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1988 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1989 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1990 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1991 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1992 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1993 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1994 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1995 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1996 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1997 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1998 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1999 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
2001 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
2003 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
2012 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
2014 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
2016 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
2017 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
2019 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
2021 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
2023 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
2031 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
2033 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
2035 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
2036 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
2037 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
2040 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
2041 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
2042 and wxWindows match.
2044 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
2045 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
2046 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
2047 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
2048 to the new namespace.
2050 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
2051 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
2052 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
2053 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
2055 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
2056 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
2057 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
2058 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
2059 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
2060 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
2061 package. These will be removed in a future release.
2063 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
2064 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
2065 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
2067 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
2069 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
2070 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
2072 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
2073 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
2075 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
2076 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
2078 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
2079 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
2082 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
2083 a call to any Python callable object.
2085 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
2086 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
2087 to override the C++ virtual methods.
2089 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
2090 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
2091 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
2092 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
2093 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
2095 Added wxCursorFromBits.
2105 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
2108 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
2109 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
2110 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
2112 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
2115 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
2118 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
2121 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
2123 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
2124 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
2125 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
2131 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
2132 ------------------------------------------
2135 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
2136 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
2137 think I am testing in the future...
2141 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
2142 ----------------------------------------------
2145 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
2147 Updated pycolourchooser.
2149 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
2157 Added missing wxRect methods
2159 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
2161 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
2163 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
2164 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
2165 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
2168 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
2171 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
2173 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
2174 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
2177 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
2179 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
2182 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
2184 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
2185 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
2186 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
2187 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
2188 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
2189 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
2190 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
2191 static stable in the C++ class.
2193 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
2194 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
2195 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
2196 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
2199 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
2200 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
2201 always call them. The functions are::
2203 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
2204 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2205 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
2206 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
2207 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
2208 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
2209 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
2210 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2211 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
2212 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
2213 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
2214 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
2216 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
2217 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
2219 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
2220 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
2221 doesn't have a standard place for them.
2223 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
2225 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
2227 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
2237 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2239 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
2248 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
2251 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
2252 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
2268 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
2270 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
2272 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
2276 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
2277 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
2278 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
2279 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
2280 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
2281 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
2282 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
2283 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
2284 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
2285 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
2286 you can use to play with this new feature.
2288 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
2289 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
2290 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
2291 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
2292 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
2293 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
2294 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
2295 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
2297 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
2300 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
2301 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
2304 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
2306 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
2307 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
2308 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
2309 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
2310 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
2312 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
2314 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
2316 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
2318 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
2319 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
2320 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
2322 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
2323 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
2324 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
2326 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
2327 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
2329 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
2330 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
2331 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
2332 windows when desired.
2334 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
2335 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
2336 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
2345 Added wxSplashScreen.
2347 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
2349 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
2351 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
2352 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
2353 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
2355 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
2356 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
2357 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
2359 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
2360 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
2361 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
2363 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
2364 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
2365 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
2366 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
2367 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
2370 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
2374 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
2375 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
2378 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
2379 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
2380 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
2381 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
2382 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
2383 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
2384 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
2386 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
2387 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
2388 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
2389 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
2390 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
2391 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
2392 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
2393 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
2394 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
2395 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
2396 unicode build on win95.
2398 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
2399 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
2400 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
2401 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
2402 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
2403 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
2404 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
2405 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
2406 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
2407 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
2410 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
2412 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
2414 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
2416 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
2417 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
2418 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
2419 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
2420 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
2421 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
2422 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
2423 for any class that is OOR aware.
2425 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
2426 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
2429 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
2430 the image data. (Patch #546009)
2432 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
2435 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
2436 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
2437 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
2450 TransferDataFromWindow
2451 TransferDataToWindow
2454 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
2459 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
2462 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
2463 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
2465 Added wxArtProvider.
2467 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
2468 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
2469 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
2470 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
2471 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
2473 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
2475 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
2476 creating a ScrolledPanel.
2478 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
2481 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
2482 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
2483 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
2484 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
2486 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
2487 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
2488 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
2489 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
2490 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
2492 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
2493 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
2494 respond to mouse events and etc.
2496 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
2497 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
2499 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
2500 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
2501 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
2502 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
2503 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
2504 started with just the "pycrust" command.
2506 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
2507 displays the details of the event.
2509 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
2511 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
2512 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
2515 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
2517 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2526 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
2527 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
2528 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
2530 Added some patches from library contributors.
2538 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
2539 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
2540 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2541 and a demo to show them in action.
2543 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
2544 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
2546 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
2548 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
2550 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
2553 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
2554 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
2555 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
2556 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2557 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2558 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2559 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
2560 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2563 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2564 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2565 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2566 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2567 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2568 wxSTC flag accordingly.
2570 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2571 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2572 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
2574 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
2576 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
2578 Added pySketch to the samples.
2580 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2581 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2582 multi-processor machine.
2584 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2585 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
2587 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
2589 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2590 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2591 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2592 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2593 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2594 original C++ pointer.
2596 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2599 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
2601 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2602 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
2604 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2605 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
2606 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2607 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
2608 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2613 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
2615 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2616 will now Disconnect the event.
2618 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
2620 Added wxFileHistory.
2622 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2623 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2624 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2627 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
2629 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2632 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
2633 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2634 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2635 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2636 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2637 also be useful by themselves.
2639 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2640 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2641 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2642 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2643 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2644 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2654 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2655 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2656 on a custom event handler for example.)
2658 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2659 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
2661 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2662 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
2664 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
2666 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
2668 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
2670 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
2678 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2679 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
2681 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2682 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2685 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
2687 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2688 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2691 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2692 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2693 access from non-GUI threads.
2695 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2696 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
2698 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
2700 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2701 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
2703 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2704 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
2706 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2707 it gobs faster in certain situations.
2709 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2710 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2711 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2712 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2713 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2714 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2715 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2716 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2717 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2720 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2721 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2724 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2725 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
2727 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
2729 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
2731 Added wxToggleButton.
2733 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
2735 Added some methods to wxGrid:
2736 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2737 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2738 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2739 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2741 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2742 GetGridColLabelWindow
2743 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
2745 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2746 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2747 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
2750 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2751 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2752 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2753 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2754 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2755 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2756 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2757 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2758 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2759 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2760 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
2761 use weak references.)
2763 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2764 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2765 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
2766 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2767 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2768 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2769 object-type related oddities to me.
2772 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2773 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2774 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2777 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2778 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
2780 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
2784 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2785 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2786 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2787 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2788 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2789 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
2791 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2792 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2802 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2803 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2811 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
2812 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2813 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2814 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
2816 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
2818 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
2820 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2821 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
2823 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2824 column in report mode.
2826 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2827 bar after 2 seconds.
2831 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2832 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2833 object, (usually a window.)
2835 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
2837 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
2839 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2840 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2841 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2842 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2843 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
2844 wxPython/src/export.h
2846 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2847 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2848 utils. Will probably add more later.
2850 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2851 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2854 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2855 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
2857 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
2859 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2860 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
2862 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2863 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2872 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2873 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2874 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2875 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2876 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2877 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2878 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2879 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2882 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2883 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
2884 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2885 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2886 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2887 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2888 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
2889 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2890 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
2892 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2893 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
2895 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2896 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2897 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2900 Removed the old python sizers.
2902 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2905 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2906 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2907 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2909 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2911 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2912 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2913 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2922 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2924 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2932 Added wxLog and friends.
2934 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2936 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2944 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2945 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2948 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2950 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2954 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2956 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2958 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2960 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2961 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2962 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2963 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2964 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2965 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2966 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2967 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2990 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2991 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2993 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2996 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2997 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2999 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
3001 Plugged a memory leak.
3003 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
3004 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
3005 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
3006 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
3009 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
3010 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
3011 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
3013 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
3014 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
3015 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
3016 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
3017 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
3018 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
3019 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
3020 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
3023 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
3024 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
3025 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
3026 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
3028 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
3029 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
3030 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
3031 but I've included a very readable source file in the
3032 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
3033 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
3034 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
3035 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
3036 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
3041 What's new in 2.1.13
3042 --------------------
3045 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
3047 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
3048 and some flicker problems.
3050 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
3051 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
3053 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
3056 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
3058 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
3060 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
3061 with wxWindow.GetParent.
3063 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
3064 It is used like this:
3066 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
3068 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
3069 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
3071 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
3073 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
3075 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
3076 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
3077 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
3078 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
3079 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
3080 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
3082 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
3083 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
3084 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
3085 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
3086 methods look like this:
3090 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
3093 shortHelpString = "",
3094 longHelpString = "")
3096 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
3098 shortHelpString = "",
3099 longHelpString = "",
3103 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
3104 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
3106 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
3108 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
3110 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
3111 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
3112 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
3114 Added some missing EVT functions.
3116 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
3119 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
3121 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
3122 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
3123 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
3128 What's new in 2.1.11
3129 --------------------
3132 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
3135 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
3136 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
3139 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
3140 being added. This should remove the need for our
3141 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
3143 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
3144 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
3145 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
3146 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
3147 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
3149 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
3151 Added new HTML printing classes.
3153 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
3155 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
3156 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
3157 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
3160 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
3161 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
3162 thread from other threads.
3164 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
3166 Added wxFontEnumerator.
3168 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
3170 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
3171 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
3173 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
3175 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
3178 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
3187 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
3188 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
3197 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
3198 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
3199 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
3200 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
3201 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
3204 Now back to what's new...
3206 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
3208 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
3210 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
3211 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
3212 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
3213 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
3214 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
3217 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
3218 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
3221 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
3222 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
3223 example, the following are equivallent::
3225 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
3226 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
3228 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
3229 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
3230 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
3231 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
3232 pages. See the demo for an example.
3234 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
3235 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
3237 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
3239 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
3240 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
3241 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
3242 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
3243 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
3244 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
3245 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
3246 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
3247 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
3248 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
3249 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
3252 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
3253 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
3254 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
3255 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
3256 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
3257 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
3258 for more info and examples in future releases.
3260 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
3261 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
3262 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
3263 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
3264 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
3265 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
3268 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
3269 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
3270 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
3271 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
3272 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
3273 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
3274 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
3275 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
3276 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
3277 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
3278 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
3280 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
3281 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
3282 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
3283 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
3284 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
3285 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
3286 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
3287 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
3288 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
3289 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
3290 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
3291 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
3292 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
3293 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
3294 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
3295 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
3298 outputWindowClass = MyClass
3302 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
3305 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
3306 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
3307 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
3308 to really screw things up.
3310 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
3311 in the wxWindows docs...
3313 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
3314 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
3315 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
3316 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
3317 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
3318 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
3319 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
3326 --------------------
3329 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
3331 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
3332 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
3333 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
3334 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
3337 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
3338 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
3339 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
3341 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
3343 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
3344 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
3345 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
3346 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
3349 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
3350 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
3351 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
3352 see distrib/build.py for more details.
3354 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
3355 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
3356 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
3357 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
3367 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
3369 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
3370 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
3371 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
3372 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
3373 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
3375 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
3376 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
3377 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
3378 is being unloaded by Python.
3380 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
3381 make wxPython look bad.
3383 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
3384 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
3386 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
3388 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
3389 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
3391 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
3392 code to show how to use it.
3394 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
3397 Added wxGrid.GetCells
3399 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
3400 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
3402 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
3403 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
3405 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
3406 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
3408 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
3409 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
3410 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
3412 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
3415 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
3417 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
3420 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
3422 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
3433 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
3434 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
3435 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
3437 Added the Printing Framework.
3439 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
3440 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
3441 data after loading each extension module.
3443 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
3446 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
3447 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
3448 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
3450 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
3451 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
3452 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
3453 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
3461 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
3463 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
3464 wxPython application.
3466 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
3468 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
3469 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
3472 Added wxSafeYield function.
3474 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
3476 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
3479 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
3480 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
3482 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
3484 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
3485 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
3487 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
3489 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
3498 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
3500 Several missing methods from various classes.
3510 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
3512 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
3520 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
3521 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
3528 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
3529 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
3530 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
3531 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
3532 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
3534 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
3535 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
3536 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
3537 diverges from wxWindows.
3539 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
3540 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
3541 it should just work... More news on this later.
3543 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
3545 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
3548 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
3556 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
3558 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
3559 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
3565 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
3566 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
3567 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
3568 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
3570 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
3572 Made the events work for wxGrid.
3576 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
3578 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
3579 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
3581 Other assorted fixes and additions.
3590 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
3591 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
3592 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
3593 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
3594 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
3595 behavior was so different on different platforms.
3597 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
3598 must have been a different issue all along...
3606 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3607 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3608 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3609 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3610 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3611 version segfault shortly after starting up.
3613 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
3615 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
3624 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
3625 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory