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15 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
16 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
17 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
19 Added some patches from library contributors.
26 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
27 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
28 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
29 and a demo to show them in action.
31 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
34 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
36 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
38 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
41 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
42 default C++ contructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
43 coresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
44 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
45 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
46 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
47 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
48 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
51 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
52 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
53 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
54 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
55 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
56 wxSTC flag accordingly.
58 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
59 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
60 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
62 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
64 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
66 Added pySketch to the samples.
68 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
69 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
70 multi-processor machine.
72 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
73 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
75 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
77 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
78 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
79 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
80 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
81 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
84 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
87 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
89 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
90 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
92 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
93 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
94 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
95 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
96 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
101 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
103 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
104 will now Disconnect the event.
106 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
110 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
111 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
112 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
115 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
117 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
120 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
121 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
122 additional columns for each item. The classes are
123 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
124 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
125 also be useful by themselves.
127 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
128 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
129 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
130 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
131 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
132 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
140 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
141 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
142 on a custom event handler for example.)
144 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
145 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
147 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
148 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
150 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
152 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
154 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
156 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
162 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
163 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
165 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
166 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
169 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
171 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
172 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
175 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
176 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
177 access from non-GUI threads.
179 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
180 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
182 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
184 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
185 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
187 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
188 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
190 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
191 it gobs faster in certain situations.
193 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
194 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
195 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
196 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
197 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
198 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
199 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
200 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
201 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
204 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
205 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
208 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
209 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
211 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
213 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
215 Added wxToggleButton.
217 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
219 Added some methods to wxGrid:
220 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
221 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
222 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
223 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
225 GetGridRowLabelWindow
226 GetGridColLabelWindow
227 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
229 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
230 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
231 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
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235 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
236 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
237 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
238 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
239 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
240 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
241 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
242 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
243 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
244 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
245 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
246 use weak references.)
248 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
249 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
250 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
251 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
252 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
253 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
254 object-type related oddities to me.
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257 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
258 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
259 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
262 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
263 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
265 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
269 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
270 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
271 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
272 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
273 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
274 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
276 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
277 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
286 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
287 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
294 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
295 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
296 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
297 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
299 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
301 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
303 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
304 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
306 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
307 column in report mode.
309 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
314 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
315 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
316 object, (usually a window.)
318 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
320 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
322 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
323 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
324 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
325 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
326 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
327 wxPython/src/export.h
329 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
330 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
331 utils. Will probably add more later.
333 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
334 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
337 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
338 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
340 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
342 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
343 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
345 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
346 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
354 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
355 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
356 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
357 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
358 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
359 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
360 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
361 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
364 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
365 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
366 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
367 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
368 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
369 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
370 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
371 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
372 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
374 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
375 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
377 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
378 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
379 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
382 Removed the old python sizers.
384 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
387 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
388 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
389 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
391 Lots of little fixes here and there.
393 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
394 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
395 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
403 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
405 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
412 Added wxLog and friends.
414 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
416 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
423 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
424 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
427 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
429 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
433 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
435 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
437 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
439 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
440 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
441 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
442 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
443 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
444 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
445 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
446 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
468 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
469 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
471 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
474 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
475 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
477 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
479 Plugged a memory leak.
481 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
482 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
483 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
484 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
487 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
488 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
489 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
491 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
492 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
493 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
494 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
495 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
496 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
497 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
498 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
501 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
502 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
503 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
504 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
506 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
507 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
508 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
509 but I've included a very readable source file in the
510 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
511 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
512 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
513 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
514 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
521 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
523 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
524 and some flicker problems.
526 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
527 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
529 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
532 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
534 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
536 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
537 with wxWindow.GetParent.
539 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
540 It is used like this:
542 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
544 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
545 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
547 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
549 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
551 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
552 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
553 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
554 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
555 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
556 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
558 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
559 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
560 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
561 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
562 methods look like this:
566 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
569 shortHelpString = "",
572 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
574 shortHelpString = "",
579 There are also coresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
580 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
582 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
584 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
586 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
587 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
588 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
590 Added some missing EVT_ functions.
592 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
595 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
597 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
598 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
599 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
606 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
609 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
610 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
613 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
614 being added. This should remove the need for our
615 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
617 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
618 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
619 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
620 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
621 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
623 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
625 Added new HTML printing classes.
627 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
629 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
630 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
631 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
634 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
635 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
636 thread from other threads.
638 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
640 Added wxFontEnumerator.
642 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
644 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
645 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
647 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
649 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
652 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
659 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
660 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
668 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
669 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
670 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
671 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
672 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
675 Now back to what's new...
677 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
679 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
681 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
682 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
683 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
684 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
685 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
688 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
689 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
692 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
693 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
694 example, the following are equivallent:
696 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
697 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
699 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
700 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
701 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
702 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
703 pages. See the demo for an example.
705 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
706 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
708 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
710 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
711 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
712 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
713 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
714 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
715 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
716 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
717 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
718 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
719 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
720 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
723 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
724 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
725 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
726 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
727 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
728 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
729 for more info and examples in future releases.
731 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
732 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
733 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
734 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
735 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
736 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
739 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
740 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
741 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
742 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
743 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
744 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
745 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
746 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
747 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
748 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
749 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
751 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
752 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
753 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
754 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
755 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
756 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
757 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
758 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
759 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
760 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
761 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
762 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
763 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
764 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
765 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
766 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
769 outputWindowClass = MyClass
773 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
776 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
777 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
778 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
779 to really screw things up.
781 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
782 in the wxWindows docs...
784 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
785 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
786 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
787 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
788 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
789 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
790 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
799 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
801 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
802 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
803 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
804 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
807 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
808 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
809 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
811 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
813 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
814 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
815 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
816 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
819 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
820 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
821 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
822 see distrib/build.py for more details.
824 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
825 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
826 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
827 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
836 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
838 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
839 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
840 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
841 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
842 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
844 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
845 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
846 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
847 is being unloaded by Python.
849 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
850 make wxPython look bad.
852 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
853 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
855 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
857 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
858 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
860 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
861 code to show how to use it.
863 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
866 Added wxGrid.GetCells
868 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
869 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
871 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
872 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
874 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
875 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
877 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
878 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
879 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
881 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
884 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
886 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
889 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
891 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
900 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
901 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
902 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
904 Added the Printing Framework.
906 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
907 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
908 data after loading each extension module.
910 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
913 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
914 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
915 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
917 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
918 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
919 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
920 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
926 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
928 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
929 wxPython application.
931 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
933 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
934 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
937 Added wxSafeYield function.
939 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
941 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
944 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
945 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
947 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
949 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
950 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
952 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
954 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
961 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
963 Several missing methods from various classes.
971 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
973 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
979 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
980 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
985 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
986 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
987 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
988 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
989 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
991 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
992 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
993 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
994 diverges from wxWindows.
996 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
997 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
998 it should just work... More news on this later.
1000 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
1002 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1005 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
1011 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
1013 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1014 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
1020 Changed the import semantics from "from wxPython import *" to "from
1021 wxPython.wx import *" This is for people who are worried about
1022 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
1023 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
1025 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
1027 Made the events work for wxGrid.
1031 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
1033 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1034 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
1036 Other assorted fixes and additions.
1044 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1045 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1046 <H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl> for his astute detective work on tracking
1047 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1048 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1049 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
1051 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1052 must have been a different issue all along...
1059 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1060 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1061 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1062 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1063 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1064 version segfault shortly after starting up.
1066 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
1068 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
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