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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
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8 Unicode-related changes
9 -----------------------
11 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
12 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
13 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
16 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
17 either "const wxString&" so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings.
18 and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
19 ANSI but may be NULL. This change is normally backwards compatible except:
21 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
22 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
25 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
26 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
27 should be replaced with an empty string.
30 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
31 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
32 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
33 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
35 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
36 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
37 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
38 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
39 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
42 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
43 ------------------------------------
45 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
46 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
47 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
49 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
50 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
51 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
52 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
53 open for futher development by volunteers.
55 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
56 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
59 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
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62 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
63 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
65 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
66 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
67 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
69 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
70 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
73 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
74 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
75 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
76 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
77 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
78 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
80 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
81 your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
84 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
85 -----------------------------------------------------------
87 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
88 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
90 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
91 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
92 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
94 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
95 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
96 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
97 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
99 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
100 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
101 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
102 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
103 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
105 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
106 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
108 switch (str[i]) { ... }
109 and has to be replaced with this:
110 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
112 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
113 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
114 const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
115 convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
116 don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
117 compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
119 wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
121 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
122 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
124 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
125 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
126 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
127 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
128 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
129 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
131 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
133 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
134 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
135 must be used instead.
137 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
140 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
142 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
143 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
145 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
146 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
147 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
149 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
150 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
151 necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
152 next/previous control sibling instead.
155 Deprecated methods and their replacements
156 -----------------------------------------
158 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
159 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
160 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
161 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
162 specified so this style should simply be removed
163 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
164 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
166 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
167 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
168 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
169 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
170 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
171 - wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
172 - wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
173 - wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
174 - wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
175 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
176 respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
177 use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
178 of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
181 Major new features in this release
182 ----------------------------------
184 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
185 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
188 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
189 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
191 - Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
199 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
200 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
201 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
202 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
203 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
204 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
205 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
206 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
207 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
208 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
209 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
210 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
211 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
212 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
213 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
214 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
215 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
216 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
217 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
218 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
219 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
220 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
221 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
222 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
223 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
225 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
226 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
227 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
228 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
229 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
233 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
237 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
238 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
239 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
240 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
241 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
242 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
243 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
244 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
245 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
246 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
247 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
248 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
249 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
250 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
251 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
252 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
253 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
254 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
255 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
256 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
257 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
258 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
259 - Slovak translation added.
260 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
261 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
262 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
263 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
264 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
265 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
266 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
267 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
268 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
269 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
270 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
271 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
272 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
273 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
274 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
275 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
276 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
277 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
278 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
279 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
280 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
281 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
282 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
283 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
284 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
285 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
286 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
287 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
288 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
289 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
290 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
291 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
292 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
293 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
294 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
295 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
296 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
297 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
298 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
299 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
300 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
304 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
305 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
306 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
307 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
308 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
309 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
310 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
311 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
312 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
313 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
314 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
315 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
316 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
320 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
321 - Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
322 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
323 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
324 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
325 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
326 - Added native wxCollapsiblePane
330 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
331 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
332 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
333 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
334 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
335 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
336 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
340 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
341 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
349 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
350 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
354 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
355 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
356 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
357 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
358 charset in ANSI build.
362 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
363 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
364 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
365 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
366 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK
370 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
371 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
379 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
383 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
384 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
388 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
389 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
390 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
398 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
399 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
407 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
408 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
409 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
410 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
411 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
412 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
413 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
414 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
415 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
416 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
420 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
421 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
422 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
423 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
424 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
425 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
426 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
430 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
431 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
432 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
433 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
434 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
435 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
436 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
437 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
438 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
439 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
440 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
448 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
449 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
450 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
451 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
455 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
459 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
460 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
461 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
462 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
466 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
467 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
468 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
469 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
470 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
471 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
472 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
473 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
474 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
478 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
479 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
480 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
484 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
488 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
489 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
490 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
498 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
499 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
503 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
507 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
511 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
519 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
520 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
521 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
522 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
523 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
524 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
525 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
526 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
527 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
531 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
535 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
536 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
540 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
544 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
545 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
549 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
553 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
561 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
562 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
563 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
564 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
565 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
566 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
570 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
571 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
575 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
579 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
587 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
588 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
589 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
590 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
591 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
592 a stream that is seekable.
593 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
594 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
595 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
599 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
600 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
601 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
602 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
606 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
607 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
615 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
616 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
617 - Added wxTar streams.
618 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
619 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
623 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
624 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
625 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
626 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
627 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
628 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
629 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
630 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
631 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
632 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
633 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
634 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
636 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
637 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
638 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
639 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
643 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
644 program (Francesco Montorsi).
649 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
650 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
651 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
652 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
660 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
661 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
662 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
663 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
664 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
665 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
666 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
667 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
668 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
669 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
670 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
671 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
672 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
673 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
674 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
678 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
679 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
680 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
681 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
682 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
683 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
684 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
685 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
686 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
687 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
688 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
689 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
690 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
691 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
695 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
696 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
697 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
698 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
699 high-contrast theme).
700 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
704 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
709 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
710 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
711 - Implemented right-to-left support.
712 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
713 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
717 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
725 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
726 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
727 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
728 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
729 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
730 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
731 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
732 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
733 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
734 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
735 during a search and replace.
736 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
737 are both used in the same program.
738 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
739 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
740 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
741 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
742 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
743 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
744 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
745 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
746 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
747 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
748 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
749 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
750 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
751 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
752 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
753 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
754 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
755 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
756 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
757 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
758 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
759 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
760 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
761 the first time it was called.
762 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
763 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
764 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
765 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
766 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
767 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
768 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
769 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
770 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
771 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
775 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
776 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
777 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
778 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
779 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
780 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
781 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
782 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
783 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
784 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
785 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
786 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
787 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
788 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
789 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
790 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
791 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
792 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
793 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
794 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
795 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
796 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
797 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
798 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
799 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
800 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
801 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
802 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
803 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
804 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
805 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
806 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
808 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
809 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
810 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
811 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
812 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
814 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
815 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
816 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
817 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
818 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
819 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
820 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
821 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
822 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
823 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
824 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
825 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
826 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
827 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
828 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
829 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
830 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
831 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
832 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
833 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
834 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
835 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
836 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
837 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
838 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
839 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
840 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
841 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
842 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
843 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
844 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
845 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
846 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
847 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
848 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
849 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
850 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
851 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
852 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
853 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
857 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
858 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
859 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
860 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
861 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
862 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
863 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
864 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
865 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
866 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
867 wxMSW faq for details).
868 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
869 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
871 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
872 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
873 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
874 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
875 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
877 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
878 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
879 initial construction.
880 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
881 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
882 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
884 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
885 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
886 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
887 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
888 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
889 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
890 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
891 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
892 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
893 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
894 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
895 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
896 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
897 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
898 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
899 changes the system font.
900 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
901 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
902 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
903 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
904 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
905 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
909 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
910 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
911 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
912 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
913 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
915 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
916 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
917 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
918 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
919 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
920 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
921 previously unable to be focused before.
922 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
923 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
924 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
926 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
927 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
928 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
929 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
930 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
931 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
932 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
933 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
934 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
938 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
939 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
940 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
941 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
942 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
943 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
944 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
945 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
946 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
947 - Corrected idle wake-up.
948 - Corrected wxExecute.
949 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
950 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
951 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
952 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
953 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
954 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
955 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
957 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
958 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
960 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
961 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
962 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
963 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
964 end of file with an error.
965 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
967 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
968 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
969 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
970 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
971 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
972 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
973 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
977 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
981 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
982 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
983 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
984 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
985 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
986 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
987 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
988 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
989 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
990 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
991 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
992 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
993 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
994 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
996 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
997 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
998 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
999 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
1000 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
1004 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
1005 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
1006 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
1010 - Invisible text problem fixed.
1011 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
1012 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
1013 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
1017 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
1021 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
1022 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
1030 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
1031 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
1032 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
1033 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
1034 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
1035 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
1036 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
1037 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
1038 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
1039 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
1040 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
1041 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
1045 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
1046 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
1047 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
1048 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
1049 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
1050 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
1051 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1052 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
1053 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
1054 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
1055 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
1056 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
1060 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
1061 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
1062 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
1063 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
1064 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
1065 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
1066 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1067 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
1068 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
1069 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
1070 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1071 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1072 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1073 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1074 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1078 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1079 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1080 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1081 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1082 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1083 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1084 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1085 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1086 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1087 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1088 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1092 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1093 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1094 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1095 - Various text control bug fixes.
1096 - Automatic menu management improved.
1097 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1098 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1099 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1100 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1105 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1109 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1110 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1114 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1115 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1116 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1117 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1118 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1119 flag has been specified.
1120 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1121 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1122 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1127 - Fixed crash on exit.
1128 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1132 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1140 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1141 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1145 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1146 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1147 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1148 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1149 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1150 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1151 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1152 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1153 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1154 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1158 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1159 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1160 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1161 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1162 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1163 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1164 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1165 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1166 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1167 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1168 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1169 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1170 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1171 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1172 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1173 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1174 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1175 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1176 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1177 - Winelib compilation now works.
1178 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
1179 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1180 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
1181 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
1182 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
1183 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
1184 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
1185 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
1186 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
1187 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
1188 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
1189 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1190 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1194 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1198 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1199 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1200 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1201 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1205 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1206 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1207 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1209 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1210 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1211 - Window menu now added automatically.
1212 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1213 - Modified function key support fixed.
1214 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1218 - Menu problems fixed.
1219 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1220 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1221 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1229 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1230 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1234 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1235 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1239 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1240 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1241 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1245 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1248 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1249 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1250 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1251 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1252 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1253 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1254 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1257 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1264 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1265 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1266 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1267 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1268 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1269 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1270 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1271 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1272 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1276 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1277 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1278 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1279 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1280 the whole virtual area.
1281 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1282 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1283 isn't used to set the window size.
1284 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1285 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1286 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1287 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1291 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1295 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1296 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1297 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1298 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1299 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1300 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1304 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1305 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1306 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1307 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1308 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1309 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1310 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1311 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1315 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1319 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1323 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1324 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1325 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1326 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1327 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1328 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1329 with correct titlebar style.
1330 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1332 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1333 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1334 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1335 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1336 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1337 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1338 to the dialog's toolbar.
1345 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1346 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1347 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1348 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1349 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1350 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1351 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1352 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1353 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1354 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1355 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1356 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1357 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1358 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1359 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1360 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1361 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1362 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1363 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1364 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1365 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1366 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1367 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1368 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1369 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1370 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1371 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1372 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1373 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1374 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1375 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1376 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1377 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1378 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1379 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1380 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1381 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1382 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1383 due to a rounding error.
1384 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1385 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1386 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1387 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1388 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1389 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1390 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1391 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1397 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1398 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1399 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1400 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1401 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1402 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1403 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1404 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1405 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1406 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1407 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1408 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1409 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1410 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1411 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1412 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1413 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1417 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1421 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1422 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1423 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1424 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1425 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1426 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1427 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1428 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1429 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1430 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1431 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1432 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1433 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1435 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1436 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1437 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1438 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1439 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1443 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1444 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1445 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1446 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1450 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1451 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1452 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1453 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1454 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1457 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1458 but not mentioned anywhere.
1459 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1463 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1464 - vertical notebook orientation support
1465 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1466 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1470 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1471 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1472 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1473 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1474 - enumeration of available volumes
1475 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1476 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1477 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1478 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1479 - native wxButton implementation
1480 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1481 - native wxSlider implementation
1482 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1483 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1484 - native wxStaticText implementation
1485 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1493 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1494 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1495 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1496 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1497 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1498 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1499 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1500 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1501 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1502 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1503 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1504 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1505 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1506 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1507 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1508 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1512 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1513 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1514 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1516 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1517 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1518 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1519 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1520 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1521 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1522 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1523 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1524 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1525 - added samples/splash
1526 - added support for stock buttons
1527 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1528 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1529 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1530 - added wxChoicebook control
1531 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1532 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1533 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1534 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1535 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1536 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1537 supported, instead of zero.
1538 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1542 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1543 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1544 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1545 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1546 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1550 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1551 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1552 - Tooltips now supported
1553 - wxSound now supported
1554 - wxDisplay now supported
1555 - Some stock cursors now supported
1559 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1560 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1561 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1562 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1566 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1567 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1568 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1569 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1570 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1571 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1572 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1573 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1574 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1575 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1576 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1577 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1578 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1579 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1580 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1581 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1582 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1583 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1584 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1588 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1592 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1593 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1594 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1595 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1596 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1597 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1598 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1599 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1600 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1601 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1602 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1603 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1604 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1605 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1609 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1613 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1614 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1615 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1616 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1620 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1621 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1629 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1630 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1631 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1632 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1634 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1635 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1636 to forward declare these classes.
1640 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1641 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1642 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1643 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1644 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1645 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1646 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1647 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1648 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1649 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1650 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1651 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1652 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1653 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1654 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1658 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1659 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1660 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1661 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1662 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1663 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1664 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1665 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1666 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1667 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1668 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1669 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1673 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1677 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1678 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1679 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1680 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1684 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1688 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1689 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1693 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1694 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1698 - Full Unicode support is now available
1699 - BLOB support is working
1707 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1708 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1709 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1710 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1711 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1712 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1713 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1714 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1715 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1716 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1717 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1718 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1719 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1721 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1722 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1723 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1724 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1725 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1726 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1727 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1728 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1729 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1730 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1731 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1732 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1736 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1737 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1738 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1739 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1740 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1741 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1742 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1743 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1744 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1745 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1746 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1747 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1748 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1749 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1750 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1751 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1752 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1753 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1754 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1755 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1756 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1757 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1758 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1759 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1760 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1761 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1765 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1766 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1767 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1768 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1769 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1770 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1771 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1772 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1773 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1774 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1775 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1776 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1777 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1778 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1779 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1780 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1781 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1782 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1783 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1784 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1785 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1786 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1787 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1788 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1789 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1790 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1791 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1792 than the specified default size
1793 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1797 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1798 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1799 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1800 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1801 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1802 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1803 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1804 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1805 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1809 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1810 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1811 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1812 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1816 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1820 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1821 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1825 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1826 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1827 addition to existing OSS one
1828 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1836 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1837 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1838 separately compiled library
1839 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1840 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1841 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1842 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1843 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1844 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1845 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1846 by default in Unicode mode
1847 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1848 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1849 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1850 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1851 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1852 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1853 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1854 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1855 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1856 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1857 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1858 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1859 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1860 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1861 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1862 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1863 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1864 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1865 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1866 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1870 - added Watcom makefiles
1871 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1875 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1876 - added wxListbook control
1877 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1878 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1879 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1880 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1881 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1882 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1883 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1884 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1885 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1886 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1887 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1888 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1889 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1890 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1891 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1892 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1893 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1894 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1895 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1896 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1897 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1898 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1899 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1900 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1901 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1902 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1903 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1904 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1905 default extension for the template
1906 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1907 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1908 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1909 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1910 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1911 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1912 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1913 to allow better rich text support.
1914 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1915 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1916 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1917 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1918 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1919 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1920 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1921 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1922 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1923 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1924 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1925 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1926 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1927 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1928 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1929 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1930 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1931 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1932 - added wxMirrorDC class
1933 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1934 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1935 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1936 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1937 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1938 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1943 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1944 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1945 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1946 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1947 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1951 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1952 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1953 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1954 to contrib/src/deprecated
1958 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1959 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1960 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1961 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1962 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1963 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1964 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1965 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1966 be appended to filenames with no extension
1967 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1968 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1969 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1970 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1974 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1975 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1979 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1980 - added wxCrashReport
1981 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1982 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1983 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1984 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1985 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1986 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1987 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1988 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1989 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1990 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1991 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1992 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1993 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1994 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1995 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1996 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1997 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1998 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1999 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
2000 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
2001 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
2002 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
2003 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
2004 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
2005 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
2009 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
2010 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
2011 documentation for a detailed explanation
2012 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
2013 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
2014 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
2015 with Motif 1.x compatibility
2016 - implemented wxToggleButton
2017 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
2018 instead of a sunken border
2019 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
2020 - finished wxClipboard implementation
2024 - controls in toolbars now supported
2028 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
2029 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
2030 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
2031 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
2032 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
2038 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
2039 ================================
2041 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
2042 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
2043 with '!' in the first column.
2045 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
2046 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
2047 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
2048 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
2051 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
2052 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
2053 (see the documentation) useful.
2058 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
2059 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
2062 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
2063 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
2064 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
2065 arrays containing non-pointers.
2067 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
2068 simply don't make sense for all objects
2070 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2071 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2072 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2074 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2076 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2077 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2078 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2079 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2080 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2082 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2083 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2084 the default assert handling.
2088 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2089 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2090 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2092 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2093 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2096 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2097 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2098 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2100 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2101 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2102 you want to get OnChar() as well
2104 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2105 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2106 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2108 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2109 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2110 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2111 will *NOT* work any longer:
2113 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2114 ... do something ...
2115 if ( flags & wxYES )
2116 ... do something else ...
2118 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2119 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2122 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2124 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2125 if you derived any classes from it
2127 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2128 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2130 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2131 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2133 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2134 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2136 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2137 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2140 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2141 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2142 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2144 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2145 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2146 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2147 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2151 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2152 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2153 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2154 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2155 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2156 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2157 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2158 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2159 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2160 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2162 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2165 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2166 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2168 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2169 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2170 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2172 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2173 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2178 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
2179 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
2180 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
2181 to compile pure C files.
2184 wxThread and related classes:
2186 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
2187 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
2188 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
2189 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2191 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2192 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2193 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2194 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2196 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2197 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2198 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2200 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2201 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2212 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2219 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2220 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2221 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2225 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2226 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2227 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2230 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2231 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2234 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2238 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2239 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2243 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2250 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2251 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2252 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2253 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2254 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2255 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2256 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2257 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2258 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2259 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2260 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2261 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2262 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2263 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2264 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2265 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2269 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2270 programs and not only GNU make
2271 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2272 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2273 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2274 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2275 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2279 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2280 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2281 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2282 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2283 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2285 - significantly improved native font support
2286 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2288 - added IFF image handler
2289 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2290 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2291 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2292 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2293 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2294 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2295 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2296 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2297 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2298 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2299 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2300 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2301 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2302 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2303 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2304 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2305 - wxMessageOutput class added
2306 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2307 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2309 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2310 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2311 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2312 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2314 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2315 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2316 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2320 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2321 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2322 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2323 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2324 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2325 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2326 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2327 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2328 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2329 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2331 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2332 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2333 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2334 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2335 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2336 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2337 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2339 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2340 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2341 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2342 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2343 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2344 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2345 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2346 has the capture before release it.
2347 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2348 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2349 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2350 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2351 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2352 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2353 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2354 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2355 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2356 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2357 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2358 provided in wxFontData
2359 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2360 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2364 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2365 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2366 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2367 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2368 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2369 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2370 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2371 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2372 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2373 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2374 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2375 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2376 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2380 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2381 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2382 - improved toolbar control alignment
2383 - implemented wxSpinButton
2384 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2385 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2386 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2390 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2391 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2399 - First alpha-quality release
2403 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2404 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2405 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2406 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2407 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2412 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2416 - wxRegEx class added
2417 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2418 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2419 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2420 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2421 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2425 - support for virtual list control added
2426 - column images in report mode of the list control
2427 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2428 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2429 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2430 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2431 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2432 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2433 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2434 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2435 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2436 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2437 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2438 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2442 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2443 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2448 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2449 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2450 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2451 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2455 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2460 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2462 - added support for animated GIFs
2470 - Fixed new charset detection code
2471 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2472 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2473 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2474 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2475 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2476 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2480 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2481 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2482 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2483 push on a custom event handler for example)
2484 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2485 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2486 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2487 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2488 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2489 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2491 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2492 - Various wxXML enhancements
2493 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2494 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2495 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2497 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2498 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2502 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2503 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2504 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2505 alt or shift) now work
2506 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2507 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2508 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2509 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2510 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2511 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2512 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2513 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2514 - We now send iconize events
2515 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2516 - Added mousewheel processing
2517 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2518 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2520 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2521 child frame styles are honoured
2525 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2526 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2527 - We now send iconize events
2528 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2529 GetSelection() results
2536 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2537 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2538 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2539 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2540 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2541 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2542 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2543 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2544 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2545 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2549 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2550 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2551 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2552 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2553 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2554 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2555 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2556 wxImage methods and ctor)
2557 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2558 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2559 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2560 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2561 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2562 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2566 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2567 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2568 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2569 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2573 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2577 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2578 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2585 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2586 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2587 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2588 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2589 - Completed Czech translations
2590 - Some stream corrections
2591 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2592 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2593 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2594 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2598 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2599 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2600 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2601 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2602 - Paper names now translated
2604 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2605 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2606 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2607 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2609 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2610 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2612 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2613 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2614 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2615 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2619 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2620 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2621 backward compatibility, please set
2622 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2623 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2624 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2625 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2626 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2627 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2628 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2629 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2630 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2631 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2632 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2633 - wxFrame restores focus better
2634 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2635 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2636 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2637 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2638 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2639 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2640 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2641 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2642 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2643 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2647 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2651 - Small compilation fixes
2655 - wxCaret documented
2667 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2668 files. This works under VC++ only
2669 - Modal dialog handling improved
2670 - Printer dialog now modal
2685 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2689 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2690 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2695 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2696 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2697 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2698 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2699 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2700 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2701 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2702 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2703 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2705 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2706 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2707 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2708 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2709 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2710 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2712 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2716 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2717 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2718 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2719 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2720 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2721 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2722 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2723 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2725 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2726 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2727 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2728 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2729 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2730 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2731 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2732 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2733 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2734 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2735 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2736 - wxDragImage class added
2737 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2738 controllers, as well as native help
2739 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2743 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2744 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2745 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2746 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2747 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2748 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2749 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2750 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2751 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2752 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2754 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2755 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2756 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2760 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2761 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2762 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2766 - wxMenu::Enable works
2767 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2768 - OGL samples made to work again
2772 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2773 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2774 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2775 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2776 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2777 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2778 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2779 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2780 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2781 - improved HTML printing
2782 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
2783 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2784 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2785 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2788 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2791 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2792 -----------------------
2796 - JPEG support added.
2797 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2801 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2803 - JPEG support added.
2804 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2805 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2806 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2813 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2816 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2817 -------------------------------
2822 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2826 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2827 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2828 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2829 - Some makefile fixes.
2837 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2838 - More topic overviews.
2839 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2840 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2841 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2844 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2845 --------------------------
2849 - wxExecute improved.
2853 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2855 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2856 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2857 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2858 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2859 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2860 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2864 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2865 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2869 - wxLocale documented.
2870 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2871 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2872 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2873 (though doesn't display help yet).
2875 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2876 --------------------------
2880 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2884 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2886 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2890 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2891 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2892 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2893 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2894 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2895 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2896 crashes for some reason).
2897 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2898 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2902 - Further doc improvements.
2903 - wxGenericValidator added.
2904 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2907 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2908 -------------------------
2912 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2913 - wxToolTip class added.
2914 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2918 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2919 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2920 - TWIN32 support added.
2921 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2922 factored out program/library settings.
2923 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2927 - A few more colour fixes.
2928 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2929 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2930 - wxChoice crash fix.
2931 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2935 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2936 - Added samples/dde.
2937 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2939 Beta 2, January 1999
2940 --------------------
2946 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2950 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2952 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2953 - Added thread support (Robert).
2954 - wxPoem sample now works.
2958 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2959 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2960 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2962 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2963 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2965 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2967 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2968 --------------------------
2974 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2977 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2978 ----------------------------
2982 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2983 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2984 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2985 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2986 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2988 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2989 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2994 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2995 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2996 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2997 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2998 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
3000 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
3001 when any button was pressed.
3002 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
3003 have a white background.
3004 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
3005 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
3006 they have sensible colours by default.
3007 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
3008 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
3009 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
3010 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
3011 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
3013 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
3014 ----------------------------
3018 - More documentation updates, especially for
3019 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
3020 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
3022 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
3023 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
3024 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
3026 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
3030 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
3031 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
3033 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
3034 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
3035 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
3036 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
3037 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
3038 the debugging implementation.
3039 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
3040 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
3041 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
3042 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
3043 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
3044 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
3045 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
3047 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
3049 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
3050 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
3051 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
3052 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
3053 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
3054 - wxNotebook almost done.
3055 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
3056 to vertical toolbars).
3060 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
3062 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
3063 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
3064 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
3066 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
3067 ----------------------------
3071 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3073 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3074 - A few more makefiles added.
3075 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3076 - Further doc updates.
3077 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3081 - First start at Motif port.
3082 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3083 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3084 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3085 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3087 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3088 --------------------------
3092 - wxBitmap debugged.
3093 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3094 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3095 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3096 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3097 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3098 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3099 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3101 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3102 ------------------------
3106 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3107 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3108 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3109 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3110 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3111 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3112 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3113 changes, wxNotebook.
3114 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3116 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3117 -----------------------
3121 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3122 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3123 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3124 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3125 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3127 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3128 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3130 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3131 -----------------------
3135 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3136 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3138 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3139 -----------------------
3143 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3144 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3146 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3147 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3148 wxMenuItem accessors.
3149 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3150 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3151 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3152 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3153 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3154 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3155 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3156 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3157 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3158 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3159 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3160 first, then doing the assignment.
3161 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3162 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3166 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3167 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3169 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3170 ----------------------
3174 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3175 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3176 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3177 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
3178 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
3179 require application-supplied positioning code though.
3180 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
3181 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
3182 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
3184 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
3185 ------------------------
3189 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3191 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3192 compilation and pragmas.
3193 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3194 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3198 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3199 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3200 compilation and pragmas.
3201 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3203 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3204 ------------------------
3208 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3209 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3211 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3212 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3213 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3214 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3216 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3217 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3218 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3220 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3221 compatibility functions.
3222 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3223 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3224 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3225 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3226 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3227 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3228 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3232 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3233 - Added samples/png.
3234 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3235 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3237 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3239 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3240 ------------------------
3244 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3245 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3246 cleaned up properly before exit.
3247 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3249 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3250 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3251 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3253 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3254 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3256 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3257 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3258 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3259 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3263 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3264 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3265 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3266 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3267 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3268 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3269 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3270 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3271 allow better control of memory.
3272 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3274 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3275 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3277 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3278 ------------------------
3282 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3283 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3284 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3285 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3286 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3287 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3288 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3289 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3290 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3291 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3292 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3293 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3295 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3296 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3297 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3298 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3299 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3300 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3301 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3302 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3303 internal implementation.
3304 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3305 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3306 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3310 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3311 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3312 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3313 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3314 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3316 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3317 --------------------------
3321 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3322 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3323 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3325 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3326 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3327 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3328 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3330 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3331 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3336 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3337 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3338 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3340 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3341 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3343 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3344 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3345 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3346 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3347 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3348 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3349 - Added gcc pragmas.
3350 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3351 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3352 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3353 added a few references to wxTransString.
3354 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3355 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3356 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3357 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3358 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3359 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3360 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3361 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3362 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3365 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3366 --------------------------
3370 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3371 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3372 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3373 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3374 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3375 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3376 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3377 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3378 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3379 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3380 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3382 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3383 to help printing with multiple pages.
3384 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3385 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3386 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3387 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3388 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3389 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3390 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3391 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3392 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3393 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3394 New files from Vadim:
3400 src\common\string.cpp
3404 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3405 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3406 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3407 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3408 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3409 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3410 including changes to defs.h.
3411 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3413 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3415 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3416 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3418 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3420 Alpha 3, September 1997
3421 -----------------------
3425 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3426 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3427 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3428 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3429 - Started documentation.
3431 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3432 ------------------------
3436 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3437 with MetroWerks compiler.
3438 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3439 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3440 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3441 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3442 for testing purposes.
3443 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3445 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3446 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3448 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3449 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3452 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3453 -----------------------
3457 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3459 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3460 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3461 wxString instead of char *.
3462 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3463 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3464 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3465 as wxbWindow now removed.
3466 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3467 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3469 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3470 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3471 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3473 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3474 settings mucho rationalised.
3475 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3476 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3478 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3479 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3480 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3481 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3482 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3483 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3485 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3486 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3488 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3489 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3490 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3491 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3492 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3493 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3494 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3495 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3496 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3497 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3499 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3500 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3502 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3503 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3504 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3505 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3506 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3507 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3509 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3510 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3511 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3512 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3513 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3514 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).