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2 wxWidgets Change Log
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4
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
6 ================================
7
8
9 Notice that these changes are described in more details in
10 the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
11 please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
12
13
14 Unicode-related changes
15 -----------------------
16
17 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
18 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
19 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
20 changes:
21
22 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
23 either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
24 the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
25 strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
26 backwards compatible except:
27
28 a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
29 "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
30 base class version.
31
32 b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
33 wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
34 should be replaced with an empty string.
35
36
37 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
38 wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
39 type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
40 to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
41
42 - wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
43 but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
44 to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
45 also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
46 bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
47 Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
48 their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
49
50
51 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
52 ------------------------------------
53
54 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
55 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
56 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
57
58 Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
59 were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
60 The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
61 wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
62 open for futher development by volunteers.
63
64 The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
65 "official" library stc and in the core lib.
66
67
68 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
69 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
70
71 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
72 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
73
74 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
75 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
76 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
77
78 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
79 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
80 instead.
81
82 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
83 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
84 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
85 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
86 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
87 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
88
89 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
90 your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
91
92 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
93 than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
94 can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
95 you need the extra features.
96
97 - wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
98 reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
99 your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
100 derived classes to use const reference as well.
101
102
103 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
104 -----------------------------------------------------------
105
106 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
107 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
108
109 - wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
110 need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
111 uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
112
113 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
114 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
115 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
116 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
117
118 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
119 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
120 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
121 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
122 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
123
124 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
125 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
126 this won't compile:
127 switch (str[i]) { ... }
128 and has to be replaced with this:
129 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
130
131 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
132 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
133 and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
134 apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
135
136 + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
137 take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
138 between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
139 matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
140 explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
141
142 Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
143 Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
144 of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
145 some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
146
147 + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
148 convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
149 error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
150 wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
151
152 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
153 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
154
155 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
156 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
157 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
158 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
159 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
160 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
161
162 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
163
164 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
165 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
166 must be used instead.
167
168 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
169 with void pointers.
170
171 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
172
173 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
174 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
175
176 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
177 derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
178 can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
179
180 - wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
181 implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
182 necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
183 next/previous control sibling instead.
184
185 - Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
186 wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
187 The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
188
189 - Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
190 have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
191 wxBitmapType in your code.
192
193 Deprecated methods and their replacements
194 -----------------------------------------
195
196 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
197 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
198 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
199 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
200 specified so this style should simply be removed
201 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
202 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
203 to use
204 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
205 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
206 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
207 - wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
208 use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
209 - wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
210 - wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
211 - wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
212 - wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
213 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
214 respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
215 use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
216 of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
217 - EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
218 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
219 use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
220 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
221
222
223
224 Major new features in this release
225 ----------------------------------
226
227 - wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
228 simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
229 past.
230
231 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
232 depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
233
234 - Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
235
236
237 2.9.0
238 -----
239
240 All:
241
242 - Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
243 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
244 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
245 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
246 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
247 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
248 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
249 - Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
250 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
251 - Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
252 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
253 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
254 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
255 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
256 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
257 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
258 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
259 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
260 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
261 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
262 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
263 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
264 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
265 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
266 - wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
267 Linnakangas).
268 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
269 if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
270 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
271 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
272 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
273 - Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
274 wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
275 - wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
276 now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
277 - Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
278 - Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
279 - Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
280
281 All (Unix):
282
283 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
284
285 All (GUI):
286
287 - Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
288 - Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
289 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
290 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
291 - Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
292 - Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
293 - Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
294 - Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
295 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
296 - Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
297 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
298 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
299 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
300 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
301 - Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)
302 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
303 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
304 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
305 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
306 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
307 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
308 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
309 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
310 - Slovak translation added.
311 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
312 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
313 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
314 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
315 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
316 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
317 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
318 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
319 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
320 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
321 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
322 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
323 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
324 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
325 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
326 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
327 - Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
328 - Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
329 - Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
330 - Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
331 - Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
332 - Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
333 behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
334 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
335 to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
336 - Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
337 (Szczepan Holyszewski).
338 - Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
339 - Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
340 wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
341 topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
342 - Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
343 via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
344 Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
345 - Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
346 - Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
347 - Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
348 - Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
349 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
350 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
351 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
352 - Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
353 from any window class, not just wxPanel.
354 - Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
355 - Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
356 - Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
357 - Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
358
359 wxGTK:
360
361 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
362 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
363 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
364 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
365 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
366 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
367 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
368 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
369 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
370 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
371 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
372 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
373 - Added support for GTK+ print backend
374
375 wxMac:
376
377 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
378 - Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
379 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
380 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
381 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
382 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
383 - Added native wxCollapsiblePane
384
385 wxMSW:
386
387 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
388 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
389 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
390 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
391 - Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
392 - Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
393 - Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko)
394 - Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
395 - Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk)
396
397 wxX11:
398
399 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
400 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
401
402
403 2.8.8
404 -----
405
406 All:
407
408 - Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
409 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
410
411 All (GUI):
412
413 - Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
414 - Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
415 - Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
416 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
417 charset in ANSI build.
418
419 wxMSW:
420
421 - Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
422 - Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
423 - Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
424 - Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
425 - Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK
426
427 wxGTK:
428
429 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
430 so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
431
432
433 2.8.7
434 -----
435
436 All:
437
438 - Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
439
440 wxMSW:
441
442 - Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
443 by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
444
445 wxGTK:
446
447 - Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
448 a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
449 - Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
450
451
452 2.8.6
453 -----
454
455 All:
456
457 - Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
458 - Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
459
460
461 2.8.5
462 -----
463
464 All (GUI):
465
466 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
467 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
468 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
469 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
470 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
471 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
472 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
473 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
474 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
475 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
476
477 wxMSW:
478
479 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
480 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
481 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
482 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
483 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
484 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
485 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
486
487 wxGTK:
488
489 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
490 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
491 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
492 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
493 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
494 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
495 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
496 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
497 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
498 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
499 - Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
500
501
502 2.8.4
503 -----
504
505 All:
506
507 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
508 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
509 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
510 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
511
512 All (Unix):
513
514 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
515
516 All (GUI):
517
518 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
519 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
520 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
521 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
522
523 wxMSW:
524
525 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
526 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
527 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
528 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
529 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
530 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
531 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
532 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
533 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
534
535 wxGTK:
536
537 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
538 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
539 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
540
541 wxMac:
542
543 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
544
545 wxUniv:
546
547 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
548 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
549 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
550
551
552 2.8.3
553 -----
554
555 All:
556
557 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
558 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
559
560 wxMac:
561
562 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
563
564 wxMSW:
565
566 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
567
568 wxGTK:
569
570 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
571
572
573 2.8.2
574 -----
575
576 All:
577
578 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
579 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
580 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
581 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
582 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
583 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
584 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
585 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
586 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
587
588 Unix Ports:
589
590 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
591
592 wxMSW
593
594 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
595 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
596
597 wxGTK
598
599 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
600
601 wxMac
602
603 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
604 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
605
606 wxX11:
607
608 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
609
610 wxUniv:
611
612 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
613
614
615 2.8.1
616 -----
617
618 All:
619
620 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
621 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
622 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
623 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
624 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
625 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
626
627 wxMSW:
628
629 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
630 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
631
632 wxGTK:
633
634 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
635
636 wxUniv:
637
638 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
639
640
641 2.8.0
642 -----
643
644 All:
645
646 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
647 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
648 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
649 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
650 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
651 a stream that is seekable.
652 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
653 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
654 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
655
656 wxMSW:
657
658 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
659 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
660 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
661 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
662
663 wxGTK:
664
665 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
666 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
667
668
669 2.7.2
670 -----
671
672 All:
673
674 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
675 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
676 - Added wxTar streams.
677 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
678 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
679
680 All (GUI):
681
682 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
683 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
684 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
685 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
686 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
687 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
688 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
689 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
690 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
691 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
692 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
693 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
694 formatting.
695 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
696 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
697 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
698 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
699
700 Unix Ports:
701
702 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
703 program (Francesco Montorsi).
704
705 wxGTK:
706
707 - More RTL work.
708 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
709 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
710 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
711 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
712
713
714 2.7.1
715 -----
716
717 All:
718
719 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
720 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
721 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
722 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
723 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
724 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
725 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
726 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
727 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
728 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
729 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
730 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
731 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
732 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
733 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
734
735 All (GUI):
736
737 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
738 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
739 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
740 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
741 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
742 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
743 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
744 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
745 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
746 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
747 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
748 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
749 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
750 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
751
752 wxMSW:
753
754 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
755 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
756 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
757 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
758 high-contrast theme).
759 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
760
761 wxMac:
762
763 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
764 to the SDK.
765
766 wxGTK:
767
768 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
769 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
770 - Implemented right-to-left support.
771 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
772 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
773
774 wxUniv:
775
776 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
777
778
779 2.7.0
780 -----
781
782 All:
783
784 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
785 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
786 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
787 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
788 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
789 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
790 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
791 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
792 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
793 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
794 during a search and replace.
795 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
796 are both used in the same program.
797 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
798 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
799 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
800 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
801 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
802 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
803 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
804 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
805 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
806 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
807 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
808 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
809 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
810 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
811 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
812 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
813 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
814 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
815 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
816 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
817 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
818 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
819 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
820 the first time it was called.
821 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
822 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
823 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
824 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
825 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
826 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
827 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
828 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
829 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
830 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
831
832 All (GUI):
833
834 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
835 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
836 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
837 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
838 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
839 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
840 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
841 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
842 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
843 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
844 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
845 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
846 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
847 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
848 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
849 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
850 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
851 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
852 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
853 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
854 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
855 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
856 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
857 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
858 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
859 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
860 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
861 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
862 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
863 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
864 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
865 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
866 by Sandro Sigala).
867 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
868 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
869 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
870 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
871 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
872 best size.
873 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
874 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
875 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
876 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
877 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
878 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
879 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
880 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
881 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
882 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
883 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
884 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
885 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
886 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
887 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
888 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
889 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
890 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
891 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
892 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
893 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
894 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
895 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
896 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
897 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
898 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
899 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
900 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
901 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
902 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
903 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
904 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
905 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
906 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
907 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
908 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
909 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
910 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
911 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
912 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
913
914 wxMSW:
915
916 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
917 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
918 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
919 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
920 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
921 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
922 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
923 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
924 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
925 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
926 wxMSW faq for details).
927 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
928 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
929 to the link command.
930 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
931 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
932 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
933 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
934 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
935 show.
936 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
937 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
938 initial construction.
939 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
940 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
941 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
942 events).
943 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
944 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
945 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
946 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
947 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
948 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
949 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
950 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
951 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
952 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
953 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
954 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
955 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
956 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
957 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
958 changes the system font.
959 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
960 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
961 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
962 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
963 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
964 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
965
966 wxGTK:
967
968 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
969 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
970 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
971 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
972 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
973 implementation.
974 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
975 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
976 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
977 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
978 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
979 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
980 previously unable to be focused before.
981 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
982 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
983 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
984 class was used.
985 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
986 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
987 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
988 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
989 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
990 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
991 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
992 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
993 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
994
995 wxMac:
996
997 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
998 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
999 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
1000 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
1001 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
1002 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
1003 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
1004 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
1005 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
1006 - Corrected idle wake-up.
1007 - Corrected wxExecute.
1008 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
1009 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
1010 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
1011 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1012 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
1013 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
1014 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
1015 were found.
1016 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
1017 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
1018 under Mach-O.
1019 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
1020 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
1021 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
1022 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
1023 end of file with an error.
1024 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
1025 binaries.
1026 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
1027 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
1028 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
1029 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
1030 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
1031 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
1032 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
1033
1034 wxCocoa:
1035
1036 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
1037
1038 wxWinCE:
1039
1040 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
1041 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
1042 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
1043 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
1044 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
1045 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
1046 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
1047 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
1048 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
1049 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
1050 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
1051 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
1052 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
1053 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
1054 directly, however.
1055 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
1056 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
1057 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
1058 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
1059 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
1060
1061 wxUniv:
1062
1063 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
1064 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
1065 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
1066
1067 wxX11:
1068
1069 - Invisible text problem fixed.
1070 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
1071 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
1072 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
1073
1074 Unix:
1075
1076 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
1077
1078 wxMGL:
1079
1080 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
1081 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
1082
1083
1084 2.6.2
1085 -----
1086
1087 All:
1088
1089 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
1090 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
1091 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
1092 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
1093 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
1094 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
1095 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
1096 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
1097 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
1098 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
1099 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
1100 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
1101
1102 All (GUI):
1103
1104 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
1105 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
1106 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
1107 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
1108 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
1109 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
1110 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1111 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
1112 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
1113 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
1114 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
1115 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
1116
1117 wxMSW:
1118
1119 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
1120 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
1121 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
1122 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
1123 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
1124 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
1125 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
1126 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
1127 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
1128 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
1129 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
1130 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
1131 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
1132 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
1133 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
1134
1135 wxGTK:
1136
1137 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
1138 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
1139 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1140 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
1141 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1142 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
1143 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
1144 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1145 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
1146 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
1147 - Fixed domain socket handling.
1148
1149 wxMac:
1150
1151 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
1152 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
1153 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
1154 - Various text control bug fixes.
1155 - Automatic menu management improved.
1156 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
1157 due to dangling cycle pointers.
1158 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
1159 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1160 showing modally).
1161
1162 wxOS2
1163
1164 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
1165
1166 wxUniv:
1167
1168 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
1169 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
1170
1171 wxMotif:
1172
1173 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
1174 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
1175 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
1176 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
1177 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
1178 flag has been specified.
1179 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
1180 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
1181 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
1182 showing modally).
1183
1184 wxMGL:
1185
1186 - Fixed crash on exit.
1187 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
1188
1189 wxX11:
1190
1191 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
1192
1193
1194 2.6.1
1195 -----
1196
1197 All:
1198
1199 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
1200 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
1201
1202 All (GUI):
1203
1204 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
1205 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
1206 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
1207 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
1208 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
1209 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
1210 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
1211 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
1212 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
1213 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
1214
1215 wxMSW:
1216
1217 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
1218 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
1219 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
1220 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
1221 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
1222 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
1223 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
1224 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
1225 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
1226 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
1227 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
1228 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
1229 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
1230 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
1231 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
1232 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
1233 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
1234 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
1235 - Compiles again with WIN64.
1236 - Winelib compilation now works.
1237 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
1238 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
1239 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
1240 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
1241 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
1242 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
1243 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
1244 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
1245 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
1246 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
1247 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
1248 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1249 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1250
1251 wxWinCE:
1252
1253 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1254
1255 wxGTK:
1256
1257 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1258 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1259 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1260 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1261
1262 wxMac:
1263
1264 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1265 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1266 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1267 incorrect state.
1268 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1269 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1270 - Window menu now added automatically.
1271 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1272 - Modified function key support fixed.
1273 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1274
1275 wxX11:
1276
1277 - Menu problems fixed.
1278 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1279 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1280 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1281
1282
1283 2.6.0
1284 -----
1285
1286 All:
1287
1288 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1289 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1290
1291 All (GUI):
1292
1293 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1294 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1295
1296 wxMSW:
1297
1298 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1299 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1300 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1301
1302 wxWinCE:
1303
1304 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1305
1306 wxGTK:
1307 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1308 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1309 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1310 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1311 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1312 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1313 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1314
1315 wxMac:
1316 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1317
1318 2.5.5
1319 -----
1320
1321 All:
1322
1323 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1324 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1325 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1326 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1327 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1328 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1329 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1330 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1331 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1332
1333 All (GUI):
1334
1335 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1336 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1337 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1338 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1339 the whole virtual area.
1340 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1341 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1342 isn't used to set the window size.
1343 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1344 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1345 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1346 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1347
1348 Unix:
1349
1350 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1351
1352 wxMSW:
1353
1354 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1355 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1356 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1357 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1358 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1359 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1360
1361 wxGTK:
1362
1363 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1364 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1365 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1366 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1367 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1368 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1369 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1370 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1371
1372 wxMac:
1373
1374 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1375
1376 wxPalmOS:
1377
1378 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1379
1380 wxWinCE:
1381
1382 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1383 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1384 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1385 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1386 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1387 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1388 with correct titlebar style.
1389 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1390 PocketPC guidelines
1391 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1392 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1393 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1394 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1395 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1396 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1397 to the dialog's toolbar.
1398
1399 2.5.4
1400 -----
1401
1402 All:
1403
1404 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1405 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1406 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1407 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1408 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1409 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1410 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1411 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1412 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1413 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1414 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1415 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1416 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1417 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1418 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1419 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1420 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1421 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1422 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1423 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1424 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1425 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1426 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1427 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1428 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1429 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1430 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1431 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1432 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1433 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1434 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1435 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1436 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1437 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1438 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1439 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1440 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1441 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1442 due to a rounding error.
1443 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1444 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1445 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1446 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1447 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1448 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1449 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1450 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1451
1452
1453 All (GUI):
1454
1455 - added wxMediaCtrl
1456 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1457 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1458 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1459 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1460 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1461 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1462 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1463 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1464 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1465 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1466 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1467 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1468 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1469 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1470 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1471 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1472 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1473
1474 Unix:
1475
1476 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1477
1478 wxGTK:
1479
1480 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1481 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1482 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1483 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1484 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1485 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1486 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1487 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1488 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1489 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1490 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1491 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1492 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1493 errors otherwise.
1494 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1495 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1496 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1497 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1498 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1499
1500 wxMac:
1501
1502 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1503 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1504 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1505 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1506
1507 wxMSW:
1508
1509 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1510 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1511 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1512 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1513 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1514
1515 wxWinCE:
1516 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1517 but not mentioned anywhere.
1518 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1519
1520 wxUniv:
1521
1522 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1523 - vertical notebook orientation support
1524 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1525 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1526
1527 wxPalmOS:
1528
1529 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1530 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1531 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1532 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1533 - enumeration of available volumes
1534 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1535 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1536 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1537 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1538 - native wxButton implementation
1539 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1540 - native wxSlider implementation
1541 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1542 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1543 - native wxStaticText implementation
1544 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1545
1546
1547 2.5.3
1548 -----
1549
1550 All:
1551
1552 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1553 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1554 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1555 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1556 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1557 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1558 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1559 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1560 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1561 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1562 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1563 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1564 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1565 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1566 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1567 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1568
1569 All (GUI):
1570
1571 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1572 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1573 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1574 is discouraged
1575 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1576 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1577 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1578 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1579 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1580 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1581 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1582 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1583 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1584 - added samples/splash
1585 - added support for stock buttons
1586 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1587 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1588 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1589 - added wxChoicebook control
1590 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1591 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1592 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1593 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1594 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1595 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1596 supported, instead of zero.
1597 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1598
1599 Unix:
1600
1601 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1602 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1603 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1604 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1605 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1606
1607 wxCocoa:
1608
1609 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1610 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1611 - Tooltips now supported
1612 - wxSound now supported
1613 - wxDisplay now supported
1614 - Some stock cursors now supported
1615
1616 wxMac:
1617
1618 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1619 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1620 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1621 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1622
1623 wxGTK:
1624
1625 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1626 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1627 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1628 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1629 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1630 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1631 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1632 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1633 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1634 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1635 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1636 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1637 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1638 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1639 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1640 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1641 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1642 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1643 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1644
1645 wxMotif:
1646
1647 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1648
1649 wxMSW:
1650
1651 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1652 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1653 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1654 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1655 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1656 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1657 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1658 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1659 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1660 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1661 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1662 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1663 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1664 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1665
1666 wxUniv/X11:
1667
1668 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1669
1670 wxWinCE:
1671
1672 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1673 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1674 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1675 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1676
1677 wxHTML:
1678
1679 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1680 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1681
1682
1683 2.5.2
1684 -----
1685
1686 All:
1687
1688 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1689 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1690 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1691 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1692 of run-time) now
1693 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1694 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1695 to forward declare these classes.
1696
1697 All (GUI):
1698
1699 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1700 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1701 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1702 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1703 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1704 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1705 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1706 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1707 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1708 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1709 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1710 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1711 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1712 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1713 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1714
1715 wxMSW:
1716
1717 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1718 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1719 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1720 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1721 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1722 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1723 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1724 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1725 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1726 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1727 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1728 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1729
1730 wxGTK:
1731
1732 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1733
1734 wxMotif:
1735
1736 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1737 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1738 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1739 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1740
1741 wxUniv/X11:
1742
1743 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1744
1745 wxHTML:
1746
1747 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1748 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1749
1750 Unix:
1751
1752 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1753 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1754
1755 wxODBC:
1756
1757 - Full Unicode support is now available
1758 - BLOB support is working
1759
1760
1761 2.5.1
1762 -----
1763
1764 All:
1765
1766 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1767 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1768 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1769 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1770 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1771 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1772 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1773 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1774 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1775 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1776 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1777 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1778 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1779 (as in 2.5.0).
1780 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1781 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1782 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1783 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1784 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1785 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1786 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1787 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1788 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1789 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1790 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1791 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1792
1793 All (GUI):
1794
1795 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1796 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1797 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1798 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1799 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1800 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1801 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1802 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1803 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1804 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1805 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1806 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1807 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1808 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1809 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1810 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1811 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1812 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1813 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1814 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1815 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1816 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1817 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1818 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1819 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1820 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1821
1822 wxMSW:
1823
1824 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1825 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1826 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1827 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1828 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1829 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1830 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1831 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1832 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1833 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1834 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1835 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1836 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1837 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1838 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1839 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1840 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1841 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1842 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1843 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1844 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1845 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1846 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1847 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1848 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1849 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1850 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1851 than the specified default size
1852 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1853
1854 wxGTK:
1855
1856 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1857 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1858 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1859 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1860 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1861 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1862 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1863 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1864 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1865
1866 wxMac:
1867
1868 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1869 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1870 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1871 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1872
1873 wxMotif:
1874
1875 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1876
1877 wxHTML:
1878
1879 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1880 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1881
1882 Unix:
1883
1884 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1885 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1886 addition to existing OSS one
1887 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1888
1889
1890 2.5.0
1891 -----
1892
1893 All:
1894
1895 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1896 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1897 separately compiled library
1898 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1899 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1900 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1901 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1902 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1903 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1904 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1905 by default in Unicode mode
1906 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1907 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1908 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1909 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1910 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1911 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1912 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1913 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1914 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1915 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1916 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1917 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1918 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1919 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1920 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1921 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1922 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1923 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1924 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1925 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1926
1927 wxBase:
1928
1929 - added Watcom makefiles
1930 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1931
1932 All GUI ports:
1933
1934 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1935 - added wxListbook control
1936 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1937 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1938 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1939 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1940 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1941 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1942 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1943 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1944 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1945 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1946 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1947 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1948 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1949 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1950 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1951 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1952 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1953 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1954 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1955 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1956 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1957 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1958 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1959 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1960 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1961 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1962 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1963 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1964 default extension for the template
1965 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1966 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1967 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1968 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1969 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1970 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1971 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1972 to allow better rich text support.
1973 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1974 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1975 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1976 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1977 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1978 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1979 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1980 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1981 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1982 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1983 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1984 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1985 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1986 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1987 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1988 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1989 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1990 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1991 - added wxMirrorDC class
1992 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1993 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1994 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1995 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1996 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1997 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1998 improved
1999
2000 Unix:
2001
2002 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
2003 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
2004 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
2005 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
2006 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
2007
2008 Generic controls:
2009
2010 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
2011 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
2012 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
2013 to contrib/src/deprecated
2014
2015 wxGTK:
2016
2017 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
2018 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
2019 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
2020 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
2021 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
2022 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
2023 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
2024 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
2025 be appended to filenames with no extension
2026 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
2027 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
2028 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
2029 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
2030
2031 wxMac:
2032
2033 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
2034 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2035
2036 wxMSW:
2037
2038 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
2039 - added wxCrashReport
2040 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
2041 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
2042 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
2043 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
2044 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
2045 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
2046 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
2047 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
2048 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
2049 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
2050 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
2051 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
2052 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
2053 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
2054 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
2055 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
2056 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
2057 - improved border handling under Windows XP
2058 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
2059 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
2060 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
2061 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
2062 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
2063 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
2064 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
2065
2066 wxMotif:
2067
2068 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
2069 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
2070 documentation for a detailed explanation
2071 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
2072 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
2073 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
2074 with Motif 1.x compatibility
2075 - implemented wxToggleButton
2076 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
2077 instead of a sunken border
2078 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
2079 - finished wxClipboard implementation
2080
2081 wxUniv:
2082
2083 - controls in toolbars now supported
2084
2085 wxHTML:
2086
2087 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
2088 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
2089 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
2090 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
2091 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
2092
2093
2094 OLD CHANGES
2095 ===========
2096
2097 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
2098 ================================
2099
2100 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
2101 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
2102 with '!' in the first column.
2103
2104 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
2105 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
2106 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
2107 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
2108 2.6 release.
2109
2110 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
2111 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
2112 (see the documentation) useful.
2113
2114
2115 wxBase:
2116
2117 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
2118 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
2119 code.
2120
2121 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
2122 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
2123 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
2124 arrays containing non-pointers.
2125
2126 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
2127 simply don't make sense for all objects
2128
2129 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
2130 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
2131 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
2132
2133 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
2134
2135 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
2136 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
2137 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
2138 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
2139 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
2140
2141 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
2142 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
2143 the default assert handling.
2144
2145 All (GUI):
2146
2147 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
2148 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
2149 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
2150
2151 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
2152 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
2153 instead!
2154
2155 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
2156 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
2157 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
2158
2159 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
2160 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
2161 you want to get OnChar() as well
2162
2163 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
2164 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
2165 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
2166
2167 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
2168 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
2169 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
2170 will *NOT* work any longer:
2171
2172 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
2173 ... do something ...
2174 if ( flags & wxYES )
2175 ... do something else ...
2176
2177 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
2178 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
2179 the ctor
2180
2181 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
2182
2183 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
2184 if you derived any classes from it
2185
2186 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
2187 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
2188
2189 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
2190 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
2191
2192 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
2193 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
2194
2195 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
2196 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
2197 from happening
2198
2199 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
2200 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
2201 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
2202
2203 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
2204 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
2205 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
2206 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
2207
2208 wxMSW:
2209
2210 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
2211 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
2212 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
2213 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
2214 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
2215 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
2216 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
2217 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
2218 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
2219 is only present for the DLLs builds.
2220
2221 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
2222 style to avoid it
2223
2224 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
2225 previously selected one instead of replacing it
2226
2227 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
2228 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
2229 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
2230
2231 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
2232 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
2233
2234
2235 Unix ports:
2236
2237 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
2238 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
2239 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
2240 to compile pure C files.
2241
2242
2243 wxThread and related classes:
2244
2245 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
2246 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
2247 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
2248 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2249
2250 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2251 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2252 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2253 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2254
2255 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2256 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2257 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2258
2259 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2260 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2261
2262
2263 OTHER CHANGES
2264 =============
2265
2266 2.4.0
2267 -----
2268
2269 wxMSW:
2270
2271 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2272
2273 2.3.4
2274 -----
2275
2276 All:
2277
2278 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2279 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2280 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2281
2282 Unix (Base/GUI):
2283
2284 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2285 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2286 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2287
2288 wxGTK:
2289 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2290 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2291
2292 wxX11:
2293 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2294
2295 wxMSW:
2296
2297 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2298 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2299
2300 wxHTML:
2301
2302 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2303
2304 2.3.3
2305 -----
2306
2307 wxBase:
2308
2309 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2310 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2311 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2312 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2313 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2314 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2315 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2316 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2317 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2318 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2319 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2320 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2321 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2322 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2323 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2324 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2325
2326 Unix (Base/GUI):
2327
2328 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2329 programs and not only GNU make
2330 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2331 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2332 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2333 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2334 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2335
2336 All (GUI):
2337
2338 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2339 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2340 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2341 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2342 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2343 wxWidgets dialogs
2344 - significantly improved native font support
2345 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2346 wxHashTable
2347 - added IFF image handler
2348 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2349 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2350 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2351 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2352 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2353 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2354 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2355 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2356 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2357 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2358 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2359 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2360 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2361 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2362 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2363 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2364 - wxMessageOutput class added
2365 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2366 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2367 table fills up
2368 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2369 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2370 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2371 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2372 (Rene Rivera).
2373 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2374 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2375 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2376
2377 wxMSW:
2378
2379 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2380 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2381 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2382 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2383 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2384 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2385 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2386 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2387 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2388 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2389 are changed
2390 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2391 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2392 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2393 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2394 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2395 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2396 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2397 recursion any more
2398 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2399 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2400 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2401 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2402 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2403 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2404 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2405 has the capture before release it.
2406 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2407 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2408 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2409 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2410 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2411 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2412 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2413 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2414 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2415 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2416 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2417 provided in wxFontData
2418 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2419 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2420
2421 wxGTK:
2422
2423 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2424 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2425 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2426 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2427 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2428 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2429 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2430 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2431 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2432 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2433 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2434 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2435 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2436
2437 wxMotif:
2438
2439 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2440 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2441 - improved toolbar control alignment
2442 - implemented wxSpinButton
2443 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2444 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2445 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2446
2447 wxX11:
2448
2449 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2450 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2451
2452 wxMac:
2453
2454 - Many improvements
2455
2456 wxOS2:
2457
2458 - First alpha-quality release
2459
2460 wxHTML:
2461
2462 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2463 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2464 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2465 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2466 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2467
2468 2.3.2
2469 -----
2470
2471 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2472
2473 wxBase:
2474
2475 - wxRegEx class added
2476 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2477 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2478 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2479 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2480 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2481
2482 All (GUI):
2483
2484 - support for virtual list control added
2485 - column images in report mode of the list control
2486 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2487 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2488 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2489 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2490 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2491 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2492 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2493 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2494 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2495 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2496 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2497 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2498
2499 wxMSW:
2500
2501 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2502 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2503 project files
2504
2505 wxGTK:
2506
2507 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2508 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2509 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2510 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2511
2512 wxMac:
2513
2514 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2515 Tools
2516
2517 wxHTML:
2518
2519 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2520 to tags parsing
2521 - added support for animated GIFs
2522
2523 2.3.1
2524 -----
2525
2526 wxBase:
2527
2528 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
2529 - Fixed new charset detection code
2530 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2531 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2532 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2533 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2534 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2535 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2536
2537 All (GUI):
2538
2539 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2540 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2541 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2542 push on a custom event handler for example)
2543 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2544 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2545 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2546 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2547 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2548 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2549 first-time saved
2550 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2551 - Various wxXML enhancements
2552 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2553 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2554 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2555 instead of GetId()
2556 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2557 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2558
2559 wxMSW:
2560
2561 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2562 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2563 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2564 alt or shift) now work
2565 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2566 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2567 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2568 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2569 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2570 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2571 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2572 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2573 - We now send iconize events
2574 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2575 - Added mousewheel processing
2576 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2577 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2578 in wxDC
2579 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2580 child frame styles are honoured
2581
2582 wxGTK:
2583
2584 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2585 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2586 - We now send iconize events
2587 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2588 GetSelection() results
2589
2590 2.3.0
2591 -----
2592
2593 wxBase:
2594
2595 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2596 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2597 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2598 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2599 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2600 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2601 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2602 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2603 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2604 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2605
2606 All (GUI):
2607
2608 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2609 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2610 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2611 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2612 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2613 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2614 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2615 wxImage methods and ctor)
2616 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2617 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2618 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2619 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2620 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2621 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2622
2623 wxMSW:
2624
2625 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2626 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2627 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2628 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2629
2630 wxGTK:
2631
2632 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2633
2634 wxHTML:
2635
2636 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2637 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2638
2639 2.2.0
2640 -----
2641
2642 wxBase:
2643
2644 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2645 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2646 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2647 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2648 - Completed Czech translations
2649 - Some stream corrections
2650 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2651 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2652 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2653 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2654
2655 All (GUI):
2656
2657 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2658 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2659 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2660 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2661 - Paper names now translated
2662 - wxGrid fixes
2663 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2664 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2665 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2666 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2667 File dialog.
2668 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2669 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2670 writing code
2671 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2672 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2673 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2674 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2675
2676 wxMSW:
2677
2678 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2679 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2680 backward compatibility, please set
2681 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2682 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2683 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2684 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2685 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2686 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2687 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2688 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2689 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2690 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2691 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2692 - wxFrame restores focus better
2693 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2694 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2695 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2696 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2697 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2698 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2699 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2700 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2701 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2702 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2703
2704 wxGTK:
2705
2706 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2707
2708 wxMotif:
2709
2710 - Small compilation fixes
2711
2712 Documentation:
2713
2714 - wxCaret documented
2715
2716 2.1.16
2717 ------
2718
2719 wxBase:
2720
2721 All (GUI):
2722
2723 wxMSW:
2724
2725 - Various bug fixes
2726 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2727 files. This works under VC++ only
2728 - Modal dialog handling improved
2729 - Printer dialog now modal
2730
2731 wxGTK:
2732
2733 - Various bug fixes
2734
2735 wxMotif:
2736
2737 - Various bug fixes
2738
2739 2.1.15
2740 ------
2741
2742 Documentation:
2743
2744 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2745
2746 File hierarchy:
2747
2748 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2749 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2750
2751 wxBase:
2752
2753 - wxSocket support
2754 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2755 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2756 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2757 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2758 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2759 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2760 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2761 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2762 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2763 only so far)
2764 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2765 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2766 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2767 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2768 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2769 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2770 is available)
2771 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2772
2773 all (GUI):
2774
2775 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2776 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2777 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2778 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2779 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2780 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2781 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2782 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2783 John Norris)
2784 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2785 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2786 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2787 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2788 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2789 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2790 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2791 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2792 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2793 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2794 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2795 - wxDragImage class added
2796 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2797 controllers, as well as native help
2798 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2799
2800 wxMSW:
2801
2802 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2803 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2804 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2805 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2806 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2807 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2808 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2809 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2810 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2811 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2812 Unix ports
2813 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2814 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2815 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2816
2817 wxGTK:
2818
2819 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2820 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2821 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2822
2823 wxMotif:
2824
2825 - wxMenu::Enable works
2826 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2827 - OGL samples made to work again
2828
2829 wxHTML:
2830
2831 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2832 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2833 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2834 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2835 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2836 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2837 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2838 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2839 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2840 - improved HTML printing
2841 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
2842 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2843 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2844 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2845
2846
2847 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2848 change log.
2849
2850 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2851 -----------------------
2852
2853 wxGTK:
2854
2855 - JPEG support added.
2856 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2857
2858 wxMSW:
2859
2860 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2861 SetTabSize added.
2862 - JPEG support added.
2863 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2864 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2865 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2866
2867 wxMotif:
2868
2869
2870 General:
2871
2872 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2873
2874
2875 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2876 -------------------------------
2877
2878 wxGTK:
2879
2880 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
2881 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2882
2883 wxMSW:
2884
2885 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2886 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2887 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2888 - Some makefile fixes.
2889
2890 wxMotif:
2891
2892 - None.
2893
2894 General:
2895
2896 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2897 - More topic overviews.
2898 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2899 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2900 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2901
2902
2903 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2904 --------------------------
2905
2906 wxGTK:
2907
2908 - wxExecute improved.
2909
2910 wxMSW:
2911
2912 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2913 expected).
2914 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2915 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2916 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2917 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2918 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2919 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2920
2921 wxMotif:
2922
2923 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2924 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2925
2926 General:
2927
2928 - wxLocale documented.
2929 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2930 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2931 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2932 (though doesn't display help yet).
2933
2934 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2935 --------------------------
2936
2937 wxGTK:
2938
2939 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2940
2941 wxMSW:
2942
2943 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2944 rationalised.
2945 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2946
2947 wxMotif:
2948
2949 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2950 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2951 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2952 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2953 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2954 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2955 crashes for some reason).
2956 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2957 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2958
2959 General:
2960
2961 - Further doc improvements.
2962 - wxGenericValidator added.
2963 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2964 automatically.
2965
2966 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2967 -------------------------
2968
2969 wxGTK:
2970
2971 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2972 - wxToolTip class added.
2973 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2974
2975 wxMSW:
2976
2977 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2978 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2979 - TWIN32 support added.
2980 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2981 factored out program/library settings.
2982 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2983
2984 wxMotif:
2985
2986 - A few more colour fixes.
2987 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2988 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2989 - wxChoice crash fix.
2990 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2991
2992 General:
2993
2994 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2995 - Added samples/dde.
2996 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2997
2998 Beta 2, January 1999
2999 --------------------
3000
3001 wxGTK:
3002
3003 wxMSW:
3004
3005 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
3006
3007 wxMotif:
3008
3009 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
3010 the right place.
3011 - Cured some widget table clashes.
3012 - Added thread support (Robert).
3013 - wxPoem sample now works.
3014
3015 General:
3016
3017 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
3018 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
3019 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
3020 or below).
3021 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
3022 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
3023 sample.
3024 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
3025
3026 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
3027 --------------------------
3028
3029 wxGTK:
3030
3031 - Various
3032
3033 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
3034
3035
3036 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
3037 ----------------------------
3038
3039 wxMSW:
3040
3041 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
3042 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
3043 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
3044 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
3045 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
3046 on a tab.
3047 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
3048 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
3049 of Stefan Csomor.
3050
3051 wxMotif:
3052
3053 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
3054 without (permanently) resizing the window.
3055 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
3056 that disabled scrollbar paging.
3057 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
3058 colours correctly.
3059 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
3060 when any button was pressed.
3061 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
3062 have a white background.
3063 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
3064 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
3065 they have sensible colours by default.
3066 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
3067 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
3068 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
3069 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
3070 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
3071
3072 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
3073 ----------------------------
3074
3075 wxMSW:
3076
3077 - More documentation updates, especially for
3078 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
3079 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
3080 of wxTrace.
3081 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
3082 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
3083 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
3084 position.
3085 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
3086
3087 wxMotif:
3088
3089 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
3090 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
3091 child frames).
3092 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
3093 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
3094 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
3095 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
3096 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
3097 the debugging implementation.
3098 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
3099 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
3100 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
3101 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
3102 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
3103 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
3104 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
3105
3106 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
3107
3108 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
3109 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
3110 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
3111 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
3112 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
3113 - wxNotebook almost done.
3114 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
3115 to vertical toolbars).
3116
3117 More recently:
3118
3119 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
3120 to scrollbars).
3121 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
3122 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
3123 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
3124
3125 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
3126 ----------------------------
3127
3128 wxMSW:
3129
3130 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
3131 sample.
3132 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
3133 - A few more makefiles added.
3134 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
3135 - Further doc updates.
3136 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
3137
3138 wxMotif:
3139
3140 - First start at Motif port.
3141 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
3142 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
3143 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
3144 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
3145
3146 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
3147 --------------------------
3148
3149 wxMSW:
3150
3151 - wxBitmap debugged.
3152 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
3153 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
3154 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
3155 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
3156 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
3157 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
3158 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
3159
3160 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
3161 ------------------------
3162
3163 wxMSW:
3164
3165 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
3166 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
3167 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
3168 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
3169 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
3170 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
3171 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
3172 changes, wxNotebook.
3173 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
3174
3175 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
3176 -----------------------
3177
3178 wxMSW:
3179
3180 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
3181 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
3182 Windows functions, for efficiency.
3183 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
3184 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
3185 don't support it.
3186 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
3187 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
3188
3189 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
3190 -----------------------
3191
3192 wxMSW:
3193
3194 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
3195 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
3196
3197 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
3198 -----------------------
3199
3200 wxMSW:
3201
3202 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
3203 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
3204 wxMenuBar.
3205 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
3206 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
3207 wxMenuItem accessors.
3208 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
3209 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
3210 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
3211 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
3212 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
3213 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
3214 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
3215 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
3216 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
3217 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
3218 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
3219 first, then doing the assignment.
3220 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
3221 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
3222
3223 Generic:
3224
3225 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
3226 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
3227
3228 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
3229 ----------------------
3230
3231 wxMSW:
3232
3233 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
3234 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
3235 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
3236 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
3237 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
3238 require application-supplied positioning code though.
3239 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
3240 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
3241 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
3242
3243 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
3244 ------------------------
3245
3246 wxMSW:
3247
3248 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3249 fields were used.
3250 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3251 compilation and pragmas.
3252 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3253 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3254
3255 Generic:
3256
3257 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3258 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3259 compilation and pragmas.
3260 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3261
3262 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3263 ------------------------
3264
3265 wxMSW:
3266
3267 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3268 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3269 some reason :-(
3270 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3271 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3272 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3273 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3274 startup/exit.
3275 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3276 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3277 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3278 VADIM'S CHANGES:
3279 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3280 compatibility functions.
3281 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3282 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3283 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3284 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3285 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3286 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3287 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3288
3289 Generic:
3290
3291 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3292 - Added samples/png.
3293 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3294 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3295 header files.
3296 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3297
3298 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3299 ------------------------
3300
3301 wxMSW:
3302
3303 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3304 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3305 cleaned up properly before exit.
3306 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3307 automatically.
3308 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3309 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3310 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3311 unresolved issues.
3312 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3313 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3314 tray area.
3315 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3316 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3317 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3318 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3319
3320 Generic:
3321
3322 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3323 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3324 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3325 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3326 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3327 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3328 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3329 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3330 allow better control of memory.
3331 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3332 checking.
3333 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3334 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3335
3336 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3337 ------------------------
3338
3339 wxMSW:
3340
3341 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3342 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3343 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3344 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3345 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3346 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3347 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3348 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3349 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3350 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3351 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3352 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3353 IUnknown.
3354 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3355 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3356 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3357 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3358 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3359 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3360 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3361 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3362 internal implementation.
3363 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3364 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3365 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3366
3367 Generic:
3368
3369 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3370 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3371 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3372 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3373 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3374
3375 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3376 --------------------------
3377
3378 wxMSW:
3379
3380 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3381 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3382 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3383 changes.
3384 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3385 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3386 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3387 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3388 again.
3389 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3390 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3391 e.g. wxDC.
3392
3393 Generic:
3394
3395 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3396 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3397 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3398 changes.
3399 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3400 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3401 docs/gtk.
3402 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3403 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3404 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3405 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3406 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3407 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3408 - Added gcc pragmas.
3409 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3410 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3411 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3412 added a few references to wxTransString.
3413 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3414 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3415 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3416 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3417 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3418 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3419 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3420 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3421 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3422 MoreRequested.
3423
3424 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3425 --------------------------
3426
3427 All:
3428
3429 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3430 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3431 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3432 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3433 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3434 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3435 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3436 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3437 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3438 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3439 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3440 scrolling toolbars.
3441 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3442 to help printing with multiple pages.
3443 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3444 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3445 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3446 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3447 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3448 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3449 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3450 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3451 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3452 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3453 New files from Vadim:
3454 include\wx\string.h
3455 include\wx\debug.h
3456 include\wx\file.h
3457 include\wx\log.h
3458 include\wx\intl.h
3459 src\common\string.cpp
3460 src\common\log.cpp
3461 src\common\intl.cpp
3462 src\common\file.cpp
3463 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3464 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3465 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3466 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3467 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3468 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3469 including changes to defs.h.
3470 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3471 introduced.
3472 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3473 hidden).
3474 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3475 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3476 trick).
3477 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3478
3479 Alpha 3, September 1997
3480 -----------------------
3481
3482 All:
3483
3484 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3485 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3486 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3487 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3488 - Started documentation.
3489
3490 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3491 ------------------------
3492
3493 All:
3494
3495 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3496 with MetroWerks compiler.
3497 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3498 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3499 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3500 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3501 for testing purposes.
3502 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3503 handlers.
3504 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3505 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3506 fully).
3507 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3508 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3509 a separate file.
3510
3511 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3512 -----------------------
3513
3514 Generic:
3515
3516 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3517
3518 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3519 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3520 wxString instead of char *.
3521 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3522 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3523 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3524 as wxbWindow now removed.
3525 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3526 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3527 - PrologIO revised.
3528 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3529 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3530 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3531 Windows settings.
3532 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3533 settings mucho rationalised.
3534 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3535 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3536 classes removed.
3537 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3538 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3539 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3540 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3541 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3542 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3543 of event handlers.
3544 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3545 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3546 wxToolBarBase
3547 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3548 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3549 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3550 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3551 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3552 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3553 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3554 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3555 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3556 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3557 in the future.
3558 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3559 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3560 variables instead.
3561 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3562 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3563 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3564 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3565 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3566 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3567 Win95.
3568 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3569 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3570 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3571 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3572 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3573 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).