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2 wxWidgets 2.5 Change Log
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5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
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8 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
9 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
10 with '!' in the first column.
12 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4
13 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.4
16 ! windows are no longer fully repainted when resized, use new style
17 wxFULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE to force this (wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE still
18 exists but doesn't do anything any more, this behaviour is default now)
20 ! wxWindow::m_font and m_backgroundColour/m_foregroundColour are no longer
21 always set, use GetFont(), GetBack/ForegroundColour() to access
22 them, and they will be dynamically determined if necessary.
25 ! The Sizers have had some fundamental internal changes in the 2.5.2
26 and 2.5.3 releases intended to make them do more of the "Right
27 Thing" but also be as backwards compatible as possible. First a bit
28 about how things used to work:
30 * The size that a window had when Add()ed to the sizer was assumed
31 to be its minimal size, and that size would always be used by
32 default when calculating layout size and positions, and the
33 sizer itself would keep track of that minimal size.
35 * If the window item was Add()ed with the wxADJUST_MINSIZE flag
36 then when layout was calculated the item's GetBestSize would be
37 used to reset the minimal size that the sizer used.
39 The main thrust of the new Sizer changes was to make behaviour like
40 wxADJUST_MINSIZE be the default, and also to push the tracking of
41 the minimal size to the window itself (since it knows its own needs)
42 instead of having the sizer take care of it. Consequently these
45 * The wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag was added to allow for the old
46 behaviour. When this flag is used the size a window has when
47 Add()ed to the sizer will be treated as its minimal size and it
48 will not be readjusted on each layout.
50 * The min size stored in wxWindow and settable with SetSizeHints or
51 SetMinSize will by default be used by the sizer (if it was set)
52 as the minimal size of the sizer item. If the minsize was not
53 set (or was only partially set) then the window's best size is
54 fetched and it is used instead of (or blended with) the minsize.
55 wxWindow:GetBestFittingSize was added to facilitate getting the
56 size to be used by the sizers.
58 * The best size of a window is cached so it doesn't need to
59 recaculated on every layout. wxWindow::InvalidateBestSize was
60 added and should be called (usually just internally in control
61 methods) whenever something is done that would make the best
64 * All wxControls were changed to set the minsize to what is passed
65 to the constructor or Create method, and also to set the real
66 size of the control to the blending of the minsize and bestsize.
67 wxWindow::SetBestFittingSize was added to help with this,
68 although most controls don't need to call it directly because it
69 is called indirectly via the SetInitialSize called in the base
72 At this time, the only situation known not to work the same as
73 before is the following:
75 win = new SomeWidget(parent);
76 win->SetSize(SomeNonDefaultSize);
79 In this case the old code would have used the new size as the
80 minimum, but now the sizer will use the default size as the minimum
81 rather than the size set later. It is an easy fix though, just move
82 the specification of the size to the constructor (assuming that
83 SomeWidget will set its minsize there like the rest of the controls
84 do) or call SetMinSize instead of SetSize.
86 In order to fit well with this new scheme of things, all wxControls
87 or custom controls should do the following things. (Depending on
88 how they are used you may also want to do the same thing for
89 non-control custom windows.)
91 * Either override or inherit a meaningful DoGetBestSize method
92 that calculates whatever size is "best" for the control. Once
93 that size is calculated then there should normally be a call to
94 CacheBestSize to save it for later use, unless for some reason
95 you want the best size to be recalculated on every layout.
97 * Any method that changes the attributes of the control such that
98 the best size will change should call InvalidateBestSize so it
99 will be recalculated the next time it is needed.
101 * The control's constructor and/or Create method should ensure
102 that the minsize is set to the size passed in, and that the
103 control is sized to a blending of the min size and best size.
104 This can be done by calling SetBestFittingSize.
108 - no initialization/cleanup can be done in wxApp/~wxApp because they are
109 now called much earlier/later than before; please move any exiting code
110 from there to wxApp::OnInit()/OnExit()
111 - also, OnExit() is not called if OnInit() fails
112 - finally the program exit code is OnRun() return value, not OnExit() one
113 - wxTheApp can't be assigned to any longer, use wxApp::SetInstance() instead
114 - wxFileType::GetIcon() returns wxIconLocation, not wxIcon
115 - wxColourDatabase is not a wxList any more, use AddColour to add new colours
116 - wxWindow::Clear() is now called ClearBackground()
117 - pointer returned by wxFont::GetNativeFontInfo() must not be deleted now
118 - wxMouseEvent::Moving() doesn't return true if mouse is being dragged any more
119 - (most) controls now inherit parents colours by default, override
120 ShouldInheritColours() to return false if you don't want this to happen
121 - wxApp::SendIdleEvent() now takes 2 arguments
122 - wxTabView::GetLayers() changed return type from wxList& to wxTabLayerList&
123 (when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0)
124 - wxID_SEPARATOR (id used for the menu separators) value changed from -1 to -2
125 - wxGetNumberFromUser() is now in separate wx/numdlg.h, not wx/textdlg.h
126 - wxChoice and wxCombobox now handle their size in the same way as in all the
127 other ports under MSW, new code is actually correct but different from weird
128 stuff they were doing before so the behaviour of your programs might change
129 - wxTaskBarIcon objects must now be destroyed before the application can exit.
130 Previously, the application terminated if there were no top level windows;
131 now it terminates if there are no top level windows or taskbar icons left.
132 - wxZlibInputStream is not by default compatible with the output of the
133 2.4.x version of wxZlibOutputStream. However, there is a compatibilty mode,
134 switched on by passing wxZLIB_24COMPATIBLE to the constructor.
135 - when WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 == 0 wxHashTable uses a new implementation
136 not using wxList keyed interface (the same used when wxUSE_STL == 1),
137 the only incompatibility being that Next() returns a wxHashTable::Node*
138 instead of a wxNode*.
139 - non-const wxDC methods GetBackground(), GetBrush(), GetFont() and GetPen()
140 as well as wxWindow methods GetFont() and GetCursor() don't exist any more,
141 please fix your code -- it never worked correctly anyhow if you modified the
142 objects returned by these methods so you should simply switch to using const
144 - wxWindow::GetFont() now returns wxFont object instead of reference
145 - EVT_XXX macros are now type-safe; code that uses wrong type for event
146 handler's argument will no longer compile.
147 - Identical functionality of wxFileDialog::ParseWildcard,
148 wxGenericDirCtrl::ParseFilter, Motif and MSW parsing native dialogs
149 is now accessible in ::wxParseCommonDialogsFilter
150 - wxNotebookSizer and wxBookCtrlSizer are now deprecated -- the are no longer
151 needed, you can treat wxNotebook as any other control and put it directly
152 into the sizer that was wxNotebookSizer's parent sizer in old code.
156 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
157 ==============================
159 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
160 versions, please update your code to not use them.
162 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
163 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
164 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
165 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
166 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
167 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
168 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
169 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
170 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
171 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
172 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
173 methods taking wxArrayString
174 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
175 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
176 - wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
177 and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
178 accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
179 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
180 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
181 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
182 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
183 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
184 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
186 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
187 - The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
188 and has now been removed
189 - wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
200 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
201 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
202 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
203 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
204 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
205 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
206 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
210 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
211 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now recommended way
212 of showing popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
214 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
215 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control.
216 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
217 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
218 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
222 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
223 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
227 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
228 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
229 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
230 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
231 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
232 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
233 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
234 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
235 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
236 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
237 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
238 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
242 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
246 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
247 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
251 - added automatized but customizable handling of native SmartPhone menus
255 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
256 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
264 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
265 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
266 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
267 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
269 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
270 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
271 to forward declare these classes.
275 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
276 resulting in much better display of scaled images
277 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
278 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
279 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
280 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
281 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
282 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
283 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
284 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
285 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
286 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
287 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
288 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
289 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
293 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
294 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
295 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
296 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
297 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
298 even try to do it by default -- now it does
299 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
300 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
301 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
302 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
303 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
304 - subdindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
308 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
312 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
313 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
314 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
315 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
319 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
323 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
324 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
328 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
329 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
333 - Full Unicode support is now available
334 - BLOB support is working
342 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
343 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
344 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
345 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
346 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
347 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
348 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
349 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
350 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
351 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
352 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
353 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
354 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
356 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
357 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
358 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
359 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
360 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
361 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
362 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
363 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
364 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
365 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
366 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
367 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
371 - added wxListBook control
372 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
373 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
374 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
375 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
376 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
377 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
378 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
379 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
380 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
381 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
382 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
383 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
384 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
385 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
386 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
387 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
388 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
389 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
390 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
391 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
392 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
393 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
394 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
395 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
396 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
397 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
401 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
402 - fixed DDE memory leaks
403 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
404 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
405 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
406 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
407 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
408 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
409 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
410 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
411 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
412 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
413 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
414 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
415 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
416 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
417 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
418 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
419 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
420 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
421 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
422 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
423 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
424 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
425 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
426 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
427 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
428 than the specified default size
429 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
433 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
434 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
435 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
436 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
437 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
438 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
439 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
440 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
441 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
445 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
446 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
447 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
448 - use unix sockets for Mach-o builds
452 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
456 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
457 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
461 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
462 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
463 addition to existing OSS one
464 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
472 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
473 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
474 separately compiled library
475 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
476 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
477 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
478 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
479 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
480 - added wxArray::SetCount()
481 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
482 by default in Unicode mode
483 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
484 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
485 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
486 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
487 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
488 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
489 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
490 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
491 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
492 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
493 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
494 - added wxRecursionGuard class
495 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
496 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
497 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
498 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
499 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
500 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
501 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
502 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
506 - added Watcom makefiles
507 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
511 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
513 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
514 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
515 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
516 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
517 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
518 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
519 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
520 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
521 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
522 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
523 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
524 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
525 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
526 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
527 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
528 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
529 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
530 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
531 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
532 - FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
533 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
534 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
535 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
536 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
537 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
538 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
539 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
540 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
541 default extension for the template
542 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
543 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
544 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
545 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
546 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
547 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
548 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
549 to allow better rich text support.
550 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
551 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
552 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
553 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
554 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
555 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
556 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
557 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
558 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
559 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
560 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
561 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
562 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
563 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
564 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
565 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
566 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
567 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
568 - added wxMirrorDC class
569 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
570 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
571 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
572 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
573 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
574 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
579 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
580 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
581 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
582 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
583 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
587 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
588 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
589 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
590 to contrib/src/deprecated
594 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
595 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
596 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
597 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
598 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
599 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
600 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
601 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
602 be appended to filenames with no extension
603 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
604 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
605 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
606 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a poup menu
610 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
611 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
615 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
616 - added wxCrashReport
617 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
618 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
619 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
620 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
621 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
622 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
623 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
624 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
625 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
626 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
627 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
628 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
629 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
630 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
631 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
632 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
633 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
634 - improved border handling under Windows XP
635 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
636 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
637 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
638 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
639 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
640 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
641 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
645 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
646 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
647 documentation for a detailed explanation
648 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
649 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
650 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
651 with Motif 1.x compatibility
652 - implemented wxToggleButton
653 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
654 instead of a sunken border
655 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
656 - finished wxClipboard implementation
660 - controls in toolbars now supported
664 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
665 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
666 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
667 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
668 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
674 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
675 ================================
677 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
678 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
679 with '!' in the first column.
681 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
682 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
683 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
684 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
687 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
688 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
689 (see the documentation) useful.
694 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
695 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
698 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
699 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
700 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
701 arrays containing non-pointers.
703 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
704 simply don't make sense for all objects
706 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
707 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
708 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
710 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
712 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
713 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
714 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
715 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
716 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
718 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
719 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
720 the default assert handling.
724 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
725 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
726 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
728 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
729 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
732 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
733 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
734 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
736 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
737 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
738 you want to get OnChar() as well
740 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
741 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
742 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
744 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
745 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
746 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
747 will *NOT* work any longer:
749 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
752 ... do something else ...
754 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
755 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
758 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
760 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
761 if you derived any classes from it
763 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
764 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
766 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
767 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
769 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
770 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
772 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
773 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
776 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
777 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
778 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
780 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
781 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
782 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
783 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
787 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
788 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
789 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
790 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
791 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
792 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
793 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
794 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
795 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
796 is only present for the DLLs builds.
798 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
801 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
802 previously selected one instead of replacing it
804 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
805 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
806 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
808 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
809 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
814 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
815 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
816 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
817 to compile pure C files.
820 wxThread and related classes:
822 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
823 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
824 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
825 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
827 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
828 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
829 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
830 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
832 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
833 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
834 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
836 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
837 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
848 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
855 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
856 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
857 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
861 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
862 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
863 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
866 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
867 - Addition of native frame site grip.
870 - Unicode support through Pango library.
874 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
875 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
879 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
886 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
887 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
888 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
889 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
890 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
891 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
892 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
893 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
894 after (non standard) STL hash_map
895 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
896 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
897 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
898 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
899 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
900 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
901 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
905 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
906 programs and not only GNU make
907 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
908 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
909 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
910 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
911 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
915 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
916 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
917 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
918 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
919 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
921 - significantly improved native font support
922 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
924 - added IFF image handler
925 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
926 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
927 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
928 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
929 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
930 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
931 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
932 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
933 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
934 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
935 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
936 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
937 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
938 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
939 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
940 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
941 - wxMessageOutput class added
942 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
943 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
945 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
946 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
947 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
948 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
950 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
951 whether a label edit was cancelled.
952 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
956 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
957 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
958 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
959 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
960 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
961 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
962 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
963 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
964 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
965 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
967 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
968 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
969 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
970 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
971 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
972 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
973 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
975 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
976 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
977 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
978 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
979 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
980 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
981 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
982 has the capture before release it.
983 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
984 - default button handling is now closer to expected
985 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
986 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
987 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
988 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
989 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
990 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
991 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
992 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
993 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
994 provided in wxFontData
995 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
996 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1000 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1001 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1002 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1003 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1004 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1005 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1006 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1007 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1008 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1009 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1010 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1011 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1012 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1016 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1017 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1018 - improved toolbar control alignment
1019 - implemented wxSpinButton
1020 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1021 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1022 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1026 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1027 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1035 - First alpha-quality release
1039 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1040 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1041 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1042 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1043 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1048 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1052 - wxRegEx class added
1053 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1054 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1055 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1056 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1057 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1061 - support for virtual list control added
1062 - column images in report mode of the list control
1063 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1064 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1065 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1066 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1067 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1068 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1069 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1070 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1071 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1072 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1073 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1074 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1078 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1079 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1084 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1085 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1086 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1087 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1091 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1096 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1098 - added support for animated GIFs
1106 - Fixed new charset detection code
1107 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1108 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1109 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1110 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1111 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1112 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1116 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1117 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1118 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1119 push on a custom event handler for example)
1120 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1121 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1122 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1123 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1124 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1125 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1127 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1128 - Various wxXML enhancements
1129 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1130 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1131 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1133 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1134 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1138 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1139 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1140 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1141 alt or shift) now work
1142 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1143 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1144 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1145 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1146 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1147 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1148 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1149 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1150 - We now send iconize events
1151 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1152 - Added mousewheel processing
1153 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1154 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1156 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1157 child frame styles are honoured
1161 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1162 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1163 - We now send iconize events
1164 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1165 GetSelection() results
1172 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1173 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1174 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1175 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1176 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1177 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1178 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1179 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1180 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1181 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1185 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1186 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1187 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1188 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1189 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1190 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1191 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1192 wxImage methods and ctor)
1193 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1194 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1195 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1196 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1197 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1198 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1202 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1203 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1204 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1205 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1209 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1213 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1214 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1221 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1222 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1223 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1224 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1225 - Completed Czech translations
1226 - Some stream corrections
1227 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1228 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1229 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1230 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1234 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1235 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1236 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1237 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1238 - Paper names now translated
1240 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1241 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1242 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1243 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1245 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1246 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1248 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1249 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1250 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1251 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1255 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1256 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1257 backward compatibility, please set
1258 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1259 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1260 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1261 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1262 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1263 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1264 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1265 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1266 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1267 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1268 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1269 - wxFrame restores focus better
1270 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1271 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1272 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1273 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1274 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1275 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1276 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1277 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1278 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1279 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1283 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1287 - Small compilation fixes
1291 - wxCaret documented
1303 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1304 files. This works under VC++ only
1305 - Modal dialog handling improved
1306 - Printer dialog now modal
1321 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1325 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1326 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1331 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1332 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1333 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1334 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1335 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1336 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1337 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1338 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1339 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1341 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1342 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1343 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1344 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1345 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1346 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1348 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1352 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1353 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1354 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1355 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1356 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1357 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1358 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1359 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1361 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1362 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1363 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1364 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1365 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1366 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1367 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1368 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1369 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1370 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1371 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1372 - wxDragImage class added
1373 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1374 controllers, as well as native help
1375 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1379 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1380 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1381 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1382 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1383 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1384 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1385 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1386 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1387 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1388 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1390 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1391 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1392 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1396 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1397 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1398 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1402 - wxMenu::Enable works
1403 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1404 - OGL samples made to work again
1408 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1409 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1410 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1411 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1412 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1413 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1414 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1415 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1416 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1417 - improved HTML printing
1418 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1419 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1420 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1421 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1424 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1427 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1428 -----------------------
1432 - JPEG support added.
1433 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1437 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1439 - JPEG support added.
1440 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1441 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1442 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1449 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1452 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1453 -------------------------------
1458 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1462 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1463 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1464 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1465 - Some makefile fixes.
1473 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1474 - More topic overviews.
1475 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1476 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1477 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1480 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1481 --------------------------
1485 - wxExecute improved.
1489 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1491 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1492 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1493 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1494 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1495 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1496 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1500 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1501 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1505 - wxLocale documented.
1506 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1507 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1508 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1509 (though doesn't display help yet).
1511 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1512 --------------------------
1516 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1520 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1522 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1526 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1527 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1528 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1529 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1530 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1531 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1532 crashes for some reason).
1533 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1534 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1538 - Further doc improvements.
1539 - wxGenericValidator added.
1540 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1543 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1544 -------------------------
1548 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1549 - wxToolTip class added.
1550 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1554 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1555 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1556 - TWIN32 support added.
1557 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1558 factored out program/library settings.
1559 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1563 - A few more colour fixes.
1564 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1565 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1566 - wxChoice crash fix.
1567 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1571 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1572 - Added samples/dde.
1573 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1575 Beta 2, January 1999
1576 --------------------
1582 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1586 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1588 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1589 - Added thread support (Robert).
1590 - wxPoem sample now works.
1594 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1595 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1596 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1598 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1599 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1601 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1603 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1604 --------------------------
1610 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1613 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1614 ----------------------------
1618 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1619 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1620 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1621 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1622 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1624 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1625 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1630 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1631 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1632 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1633 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1634 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1636 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1637 when any button was pressed.
1638 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1639 have a white background.
1640 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1641 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1642 they have sensible colours by default.
1643 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1644 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1645 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1646 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1647 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1649 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1650 ----------------------------
1654 - More documentation updates, especially for
1655 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1656 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1658 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1659 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1660 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1662 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1666 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1667 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1669 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1670 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1671 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1672 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1673 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1674 the debugging implementation.
1675 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1676 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1677 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1678 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1679 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1680 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1681 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1683 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1685 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1686 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1687 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1688 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1689 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1690 - wxNotebook almost done.
1691 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1692 to vertical toolbars).
1696 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1698 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1699 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1700 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1702 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1703 ----------------------------
1707 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1709 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1710 - A few more makefiles added.
1711 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1712 - Further doc updates.
1713 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1717 - First start at Motif port.
1718 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1719 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1720 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1721 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1723 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1724 --------------------------
1728 - wxBitmap debugged.
1729 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1730 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1731 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1732 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1733 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1734 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1735 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1737 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1738 ------------------------
1742 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1743 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1744 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1745 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1746 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1747 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1748 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1749 changes, wxNotebook.
1750 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1752 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1753 -----------------------
1757 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1758 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1759 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1760 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1761 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1763 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1764 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1766 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1767 -----------------------
1771 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1772 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1774 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1775 -----------------------
1779 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1780 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1782 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1783 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1784 wxMenuItem accessors.
1785 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1786 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1787 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1788 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1789 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1790 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1791 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1792 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1793 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1794 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1795 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1796 first, then doing the assignment.
1797 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1798 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1802 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1803 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1805 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1806 ----------------------
1810 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1811 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1812 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1813 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1814 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1815 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1816 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1817 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1818 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1820 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1821 ------------------------
1825 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1827 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1828 compilation and pragmas.
1829 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1830 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1834 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1835 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1836 compilation and pragmas.
1837 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1839 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1840 ------------------------
1844 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1845 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1847 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1848 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1849 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1850 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1852 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1853 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1854 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1856 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1857 compatibility functions.
1858 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1859 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1860 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1861 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1862 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1863 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1864 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1868 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1869 - Added samples/png.
1870 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1871 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1873 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1875 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1876 ------------------------
1880 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1881 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1882 cleaned up properly before exit.
1883 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1885 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1886 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1887 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1889 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1890 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1892 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
1893 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1894 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1895 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1899 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1900 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1901 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1902 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1903 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1904 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1905 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1906 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1907 allow better control of memory.
1908 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1910 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1911 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1913 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1914 ------------------------
1918 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1919 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1920 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1921 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1922 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1923 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1924 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1925 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1926 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1927 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1928 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1929 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1931 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1932 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1933 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1934 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1935 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1936 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1937 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1938 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1939 internal implementation.
1940 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1941 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1942 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1946 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1947 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1948 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1949 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1950 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1952 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1953 --------------------------
1957 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1958 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1959 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1961 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1962 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1963 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1964 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1966 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1967 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1972 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1973 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1974 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1976 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1977 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1979 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1980 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1981 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1982 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1983 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1984 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1985 - Added gcc pragmas.
1986 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1987 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1988 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1989 added a few references to wxTransString.
1990 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1991 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1992 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1993 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1994 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1995 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1996 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1997 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1998 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2001 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2002 --------------------------
2006 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2007 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2008 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2009 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2010 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2011 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2012 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2013 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2014 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2015 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2016 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2018 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2019 to help printing with multiple pages.
2020 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2021 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2022 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2023 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2024 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2025 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2026 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2027 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2028 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2029 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2030 New files from Vadim:
2036 src\common\string.cpp
2040 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2041 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2042 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2043 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2044 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2045 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2046 including changes to defs.h.
2047 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2049 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2051 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2052 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2054 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2056 Alpha 3, September 1997
2057 -----------------------
2061 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2062 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2063 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2064 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2065 - Started documentation.
2067 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2068 ------------------------
2072 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2073 with MetroWerks compiler.
2074 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2075 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2076 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2077 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2078 for testing purposes.
2079 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2081 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2082 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2084 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2085 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2088 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2089 -----------------------
2093 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2095 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2096 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2097 wxString instead of char *.
2098 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2099 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2100 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2101 as wxbWindow now removed.
2102 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2103 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2105 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2106 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2107 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2109 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2110 settings mucho rationalised.
2111 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2112 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2114 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2115 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2116 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2117 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2118 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2119 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2121 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2122 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2124 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2125 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
2126 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2127 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2128 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2129 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2130 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2131 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2132 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2133 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2135 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2136 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2138 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2139 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2140 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2141 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2142 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2143 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2145 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2146 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2147 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2148 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2149 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2150 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).