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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 recalculated 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 compatibility 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 -- they 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.
153 - wxFile methods now return either wxFileOffset or wxFileSize_t which may be a
154 64 bit integer type, even on 32 bit platforms, instead of off_t and so the
155 return value of wxFile::Length(), for example, shouldn't be assigned to off_t
156 variable any more (the compiler might warn you about this)
157 - wxListItem::m_data is now of type wxUIntPtr, not long, for compatibility
161 DEPRECATED METHODS SINCE 2.4.x
162 ==============================
164 Deprecated methods may still be used but will disappear in future wxWidgets
165 versions, please update your code to not use them.
167 - wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
168 - wxSizer::Remove(wxWindow *), use Detach() instead [it is more clear]
169 - wxSizer::Set/GetOption(): use Set/GetProportion() instead
170 - wxKeyEvent::KeyCode(): use GetKeyCode instead
171 - wxList::Number, First, Last, Nth: use GetCount, GetFirst/Last, Item instead
172 - wxNode::Next, Previous, Data: use GetNext, GetPrevious, GetData instead
173 - wxListBase::operator wxList&(): use typesafe lists instead
174 - wxTheFontMapper: use wxFontMapper::Get() instead
175 - wxStringHashTable: use wxHashMap instead
176 - wxHashTableLong: use wxHashMap instead
177 - wxArrayString::GetStringArray: use wxCArrayString or alternative wxWidgets
178 methods taking wxArrayString
179 - wxArrayString::Remove(index, count): use RemoveAt instead
180 - wxTreeItemId conversion to long is deprecated and shouldn't be used
181 - wxTreeCtrl::GetFirst/NextChild() 2nd argument now has type wxTreeItemIdValue
182 and not long, please change declarations of "cookie"s in your code
183 accordingly -- otherwise your code won't work on 64 bit platforms
184 - [MSW only] wxWindow::GetUseCtl3D(), GetTransparentBackground() and
185 SetTransparent() as well as wxNO_3D and wxUSER_COLOURS styles
186 - wxList keyed interface: use wxHashMap instead
187 - wxColourDatabase::FindColour(): use Find() instead (NB: different ret type)
188 - wxHashTable::Next: use wxHashTable::Node* or
189 wxHashTable::compatibility_iterator to store the return
191 - wxWave class; use wxSound instead
192 - The wxHIDE_READONLY flag for wxFileDialog was not implemented
193 and has now been removed
194 - wxTaskBarIcon::OnXXX() virtual methods: use events instead
195 - obsolete and not used wxUSE_GENERIC_DIALOGS_IN_MSW has been removed
196 - wxDbTable::wxDbTable with wxChar* deprecated, same with wxString& instead
207 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
208 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
209 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
213 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
217 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
221 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
225 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
226 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
230 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
231 - Group of wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive
239 - support for huge (>2 Gb) files (Tim Kosse)
240 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
241 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
242 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
243 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
244 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
245 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
246 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
247 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
248 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
249 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
250 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
251 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
252 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
253 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
254 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
258 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
259 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
260 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
262 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
263 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
264 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
265 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
266 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
267 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
268 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
269 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
270 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
271 - added samples/splash
272 - added support for stock buttons
273 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
274 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
275 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
276 - added wxChoicebook control
277 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
278 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
279 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
280 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
281 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
282 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
283 supported, instead of zero.
287 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
288 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
289 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
290 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
291 - wx-config has new --version-full option
295 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
296 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
297 - Tooltips now supported
298 - wxSound now supported
299 - wxDisplay now supported
300 - Some stock cursors now supported
304 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
305 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
306 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
307 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
311 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
312 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
313 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
314 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
315 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
316 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
317 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
318 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
319 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
320 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
321 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
322 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
323 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
324 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
325 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
326 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
327 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
328 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
329 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
333 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
337 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
338 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
339 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
340 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
341 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
342 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
343 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
344 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
345 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
346 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
347 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
348 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
349 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
350 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
354 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
358 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
359 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
360 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
361 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
365 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
366 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
374 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
375 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
376 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
377 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
379 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
380 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
381 to forward declare these classes.
385 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
386 resulting in much better display of scaled images
387 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
388 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
389 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
390 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
391 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
392 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
393 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
394 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
395 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
396 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
397 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
398 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
399 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
403 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
404 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
405 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
406 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
407 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
408 even try to do it by default -- now it does
409 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
410 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
411 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
412 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
413 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
414 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
418 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
422 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
423 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
424 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
425 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
429 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
433 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
434 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
438 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
439 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
443 - Full Unicode support is now available
444 - BLOB support is working
452 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
453 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
454 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
455 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
456 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
457 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
458 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
459 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
460 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
461 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
462 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
463 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
464 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
466 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
467 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
468 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
469 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
470 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
471 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
472 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
473 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
474 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
475 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
476 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
477 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
481 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
482 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
483 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
484 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
485 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
486 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
487 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
488 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
489 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
490 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
491 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
492 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
493 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
494 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
495 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
496 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
497 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
498 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
499 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
500 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
501 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
502 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
503 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
504 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
505 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
506 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
510 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
511 - fixed DDE memory leaks
512 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
513 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
514 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
515 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
516 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
517 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
518 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
519 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
520 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
521 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
522 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
523 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
524 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
525 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
526 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
527 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
528 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
529 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
530 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
531 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
532 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
533 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
534 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
535 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
536 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
537 than the specified default size
538 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
542 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
543 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
544 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
545 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
546 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
547 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
548 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
549 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
550 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
554 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
555 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
556 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
557 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
561 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
565 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
566 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
570 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
571 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
572 addition to existing OSS one
573 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
581 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
582 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
583 separately compiled library
584 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
585 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
586 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
587 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
588 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
589 - added wxArray::SetCount()
590 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
591 by default in Unicode mode
592 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
593 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
594 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
595 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
596 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
597 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
598 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
599 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
600 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
601 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
602 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
603 - added wxRecursionGuard class
604 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
605 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
606 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
607 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
608 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
609 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
610 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
611 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
615 - added Watcom makefiles
616 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
620 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
621 - added wxListbook control
622 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
623 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
624 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
625 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
626 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
627 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
628 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
629 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
630 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
631 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
632 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
633 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
634 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
635 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
636 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
637 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
638 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
639 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
640 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
641 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
642 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
643 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
644 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
645 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
646 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
647 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
648 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
649 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
650 default extension for the template
651 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
652 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
653 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
654 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
655 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
656 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
657 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
658 to allow better rich text support.
659 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
660 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
661 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
662 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
663 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
664 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
665 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
666 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
667 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
668 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
669 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
670 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
671 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
672 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
673 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
674 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
675 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
676 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
677 - added wxMirrorDC class
678 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
679 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
680 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
681 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
682 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
683 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
688 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
689 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
690 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
691 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
692 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
696 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
697 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
698 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
699 to contrib/src/deprecated
703 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
704 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
705 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
706 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
707 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
708 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
709 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
710 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
711 be appended to filenames with no extension
712 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
713 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
714 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
715 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
719 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
720 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
724 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
725 - added wxCrashReport
726 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
727 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
728 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
729 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
730 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
731 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
732 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
733 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
734 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
735 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
736 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
737 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
738 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
739 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
740 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
741 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
742 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
743 - improved border handling under Windows XP
744 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
745 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
746 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
747 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
748 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
749 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
750 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
754 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
755 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
756 documentation for a detailed explanation
757 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
758 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
759 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
760 with Motif 1.x compatibility
761 - implemented wxToggleButton
762 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
763 instead of a sunken border
764 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
765 - finished wxClipboard implementation
769 - controls in toolbars now supported
773 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
774 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
775 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
776 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
777 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
783 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
784 ================================
786 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
787 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
788 with '!' in the first column.
790 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
791 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
792 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
793 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
796 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
797 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
798 (see the documentation) useful.
803 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
804 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
807 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
808 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
809 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
810 arrays containing non-pointers.
812 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
813 simply don't make sense for all objects
815 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
816 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
817 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
819 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
821 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
822 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
823 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
824 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
825 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
827 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
828 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
829 the default assert handling.
833 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
834 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
835 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
837 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
838 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
841 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
842 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
843 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
845 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
846 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
847 you want to get OnChar() as well
849 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
850 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
851 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
853 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
854 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
855 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
856 will *NOT* work any longer:
858 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
861 ... do something else ...
863 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
864 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
867 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
869 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
870 if you derived any classes from it
872 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
873 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
875 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
876 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
878 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
879 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
881 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
882 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
885 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
886 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
887 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
889 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
890 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
891 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
892 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
896 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
897 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
898 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
899 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
900 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
901 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
902 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
903 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
904 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
905 is only present for the DLLs builds.
907 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
910 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
911 previously selected one instead of replacing it
913 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
914 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
915 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
917 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
918 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
923 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
924 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
925 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
926 to compile pure C files.
929 wxThread and related classes:
931 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
932 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
933 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
934 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
936 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
937 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
938 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
939 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
941 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
942 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
943 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
945 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
946 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
957 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
964 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
965 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
966 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
970 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
971 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
972 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
975 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
976 - Addition of native frame site grip.
979 - Unicode support through Pango library.
983 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
984 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
988 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
995 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
996 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
997 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
998 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
999 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
1000 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1001 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
1002 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
1003 after (non standard) STL hash_map
1004 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
1005 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
1006 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
1007 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
1008 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
1009 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
1010 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
1014 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
1015 programs and not only GNU make
1016 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
1017 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
1018 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
1019 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
1020 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
1024 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
1025 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
1026 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
1027 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
1028 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
1030 - significantly improved native font support
1031 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
1033 - added IFF image handler
1034 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
1035 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
1036 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
1037 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1038 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
1039 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
1040 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1041 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
1042 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
1043 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
1044 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
1045 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
1046 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
1047 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
1048 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
1049 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
1050 - wxMessageOutput class added
1051 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
1052 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
1054 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
1055 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
1056 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
1057 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
1059 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
1060 whether a label edit was cancelled.
1061 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
1065 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
1066 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
1067 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
1068 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
1069 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
1070 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
1071 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
1072 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
1073 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
1074 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
1076 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
1077 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
1078 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
1079 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
1080 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
1081 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
1082 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
1084 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
1085 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
1086 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
1087 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
1088 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
1089 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
1090 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
1091 has the capture before release it.
1092 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
1093 - default button handling is now closer to expected
1094 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
1095 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
1096 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
1097 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
1098 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
1099 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
1100 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
1101 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
1102 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
1103 provided in wxFontData
1104 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
1105 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
1109 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
1110 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
1111 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
1112 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
1113 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
1114 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
1115 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
1116 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
1117 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
1118 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
1119 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
1120 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
1121 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
1125 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
1126 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
1127 - improved toolbar control alignment
1128 - implemented wxSpinButton
1129 - implemented wxCheckListBox
1130 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
1131 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
1135 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
1136 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
1144 - First alpha-quality release
1148 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
1149 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
1150 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
1151 - fixed alignment handling in tables
1152 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
1157 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
1161 - wxRegEx class added
1162 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
1163 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
1164 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
1165 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
1166 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
1170 - support for virtual list control added
1171 - column images in report mode of the list control
1172 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
1173 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
1174 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
1175 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
1176 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
1177 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1178 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
1179 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
1180 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
1181 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
1182 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
1183 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
1187 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
1188 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
1193 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
1194 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
1195 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
1196 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
1200 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
1205 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
1207 - added support for animated GIFs
1215 - Fixed new charset detection code
1216 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
1217 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
1218 - Added wxDir::Traverse
1219 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
1220 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
1221 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
1225 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
1226 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
1227 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
1228 push on a custom event handler for example)
1229 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
1230 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
1231 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
1232 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
1233 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
1234 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
1236 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
1237 - Various wxXML enhancements
1238 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
1239 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
1240 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
1242 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
1243 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
1247 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
1248 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
1249 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
1250 alt or shift) now work
1251 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
1252 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
1253 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
1254 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
1255 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
1256 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
1257 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
1258 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
1259 - We now send iconize events
1260 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
1261 - Added mousewheel processing
1262 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
1263 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
1265 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
1266 child frame styles are honoured
1270 - Fixed slider rounding bug
1271 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
1272 - We now send iconize events
1273 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
1274 GetSelection() results
1281 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
1282 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
1283 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
1284 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
1285 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
1286 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
1287 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
1288 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
1289 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
1290 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
1294 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
1295 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
1296 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
1297 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
1298 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
1299 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
1300 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
1301 wxImage methods and ctor)
1302 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
1303 - ODBC documentation complete!!
1304 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
1305 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
1306 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
1307 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
1311 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
1312 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
1313 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
1314 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
1318 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
1322 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
1323 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
1330 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
1331 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
1332 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
1333 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
1334 - Completed Czech translations
1335 - Some stream corrections
1336 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
1337 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
1338 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
1339 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
1343 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
1344 flicker-free dragging is now possible
1345 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
1346 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
1347 - Paper names now translated
1349 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
1350 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
1351 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
1352 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
1354 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
1355 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
1357 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
1358 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
1359 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
1360 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
1364 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
1365 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
1366 backward compatibility, please set
1367 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
1368 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
1369 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
1370 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
1371 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
1372 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
1373 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
1374 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
1375 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
1376 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
1377 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
1378 - wxFrame restores focus better
1379 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
1380 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
1381 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
1382 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
1383 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
1384 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
1385 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
1386 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
1387 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
1388 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
1392 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
1396 - Small compilation fixes
1400 - wxCaret documented
1412 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
1413 files. This works under VC++ only
1414 - Modal dialog handling improved
1415 - Printer dialog now modal
1430 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
1434 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
1435 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
1440 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
1441 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
1442 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
1443 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
1444 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
1445 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
1446 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
1447 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
1448 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
1450 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
1451 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
1452 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
1453 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
1454 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
1455 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
1457 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
1461 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
1462 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
1463 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
1464 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
1465 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
1466 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
1467 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
1468 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
1470 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
1471 MIME types if available (Unix only)
1472 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
1473 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
1474 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
1475 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
1476 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
1477 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
1478 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
1479 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
1480 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
1481 - wxDragImage class added
1482 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
1483 controllers, as well as native help
1484 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
1488 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
1489 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
1490 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
1491 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
1492 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
1493 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
1494 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
1495 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
1496 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
1497 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
1499 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
1500 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
1501 - wxSetCursorEvent added
1505 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
1506 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
1507 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
1511 - wxMenu::Enable works
1512 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
1513 - OGL samples made to work again
1517 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
1518 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
1519 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
1520 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
1521 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
1522 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
1523 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
1524 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
1525 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
1526 - improved HTML printing
1527 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
1528 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
1529 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
1530 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
1533 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
1536 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
1537 -----------------------
1541 - JPEG support added.
1542 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
1546 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
1548 - JPEG support added.
1549 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
1550 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
1551 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
1558 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
1561 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
1562 -------------------------------
1567 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
1571 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
1572 - Fixed window cursor setting.
1573 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
1574 - Some makefile fixes.
1582 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
1583 - More topic overviews.
1584 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
1585 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
1586 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
1589 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
1590 --------------------------
1594 - wxExecute improved.
1598 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
1600 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
1601 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
1602 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
1603 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
1604 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
1605 - Fixed focus-related crash.
1609 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
1610 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
1614 - wxLocale documented.
1615 - Added include filenames to class reference.
1616 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
1617 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
1618 (though doesn't display help yet).
1620 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
1621 --------------------------
1625 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1629 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
1631 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
1635 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
1636 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
1637 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
1638 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
1639 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
1640 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
1641 crashes for some reason).
1642 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
1643 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
1647 - Further doc improvements.
1648 - wxGenericValidator added.
1649 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
1652 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
1653 -------------------------
1657 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
1658 - wxToolTip class added.
1659 - Miscellaneous fixes.
1663 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
1664 - Makefiles for more compilers.
1665 - TWIN32 support added.
1666 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
1667 factored out program/library settings.
1668 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
1672 - A few more colour fixes.
1673 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
1674 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
1675 - wxChoice crash fix.
1676 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
1680 - wxBusyCursor class added.
1681 - Added samples/dde.
1682 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
1684 Beta 2, January 1999
1685 --------------------
1691 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
1695 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
1697 - Cured some widget table clashes.
1698 - Added thread support (Robert).
1699 - wxPoem sample now works.
1703 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
1704 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
1705 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
1707 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
1708 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
1710 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
1712 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
1713 --------------------------
1719 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
1722 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
1723 ----------------------------
1727 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
1728 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
1729 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
1730 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
1731 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
1733 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
1734 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
1739 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
1740 without (permanently) resizing the window.
1741 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
1742 that disabled scrollbar paging.
1743 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
1745 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
1746 when any button was pressed.
1747 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
1748 have a white background.
1749 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
1750 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
1751 they have sensible colours by default.
1752 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
1753 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
1754 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
1755 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
1756 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
1758 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
1759 ----------------------------
1763 - More documentation updates, especially for
1764 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
1765 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
1767 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
1768 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
1769 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
1771 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
1775 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
1776 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
1778 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
1779 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
1780 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
1781 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
1782 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
1783 the debugging implementation.
1784 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
1785 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
1786 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
1787 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
1788 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
1789 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
1790 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
1792 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
1794 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
1795 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
1796 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
1797 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
1798 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
1799 - wxNotebook almost done.
1800 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
1801 to vertical toolbars).
1805 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
1807 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
1808 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
1809 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
1811 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
1812 ----------------------------
1816 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
1818 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
1819 - A few more makefiles added.
1820 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
1821 - Further doc updates.
1822 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
1826 - First start at Motif port.
1827 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
1828 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
1829 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
1830 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
1832 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
1833 --------------------------
1837 - wxBitmap debugged.
1838 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
1839 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
1840 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
1841 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
1842 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
1843 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
1844 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
1846 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
1847 ------------------------
1851 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
1852 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
1853 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
1854 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
1855 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
1856 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
1857 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
1858 changes, wxNotebook.
1859 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
1861 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
1862 -----------------------
1866 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
1867 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
1868 Windows functions, for efficiency.
1869 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
1870 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
1872 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
1873 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
1875 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
1876 -----------------------
1880 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
1881 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1883 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1884 -----------------------
1888 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1889 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1891 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1892 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1893 wxMenuItem accessors.
1894 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1895 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1896 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1897 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1898 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1899 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1900 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1901 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1902 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1903 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1904 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1905 first, then doing the assignment.
1906 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1907 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1911 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1912 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1914 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1915 ----------------------
1919 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1920 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1921 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1922 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1923 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1924 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1925 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1926 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1927 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1929 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1930 ------------------------
1934 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1936 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1937 compilation and pragmas.
1938 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1939 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1943 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1944 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1945 compilation and pragmas.
1946 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1948 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1949 ------------------------
1953 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1954 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1956 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1957 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1958 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1959 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
1961 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1962 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1963 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1965 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1966 compatibility functions.
1967 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1968 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1969 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1970 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1971 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1972 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1973 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1977 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1978 - Added samples/png.
1979 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1980 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1982 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1984 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1985 ------------------------
1989 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1990 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1991 cleaned up properly before exit.
1992 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1994 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1995 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1996 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1998 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1999 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
2001 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
2002 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
2003 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
2004 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
2008 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
2009 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
2010 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
2011 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
2012 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
2013 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
2014 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
2015 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
2016 allow better control of memory.
2017 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
2019 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
2020 float to long in wxToolBar files.
2022 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
2023 ------------------------
2027 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
2028 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
2029 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
2030 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
2031 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
2032 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
2033 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
2034 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
2035 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
2036 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
2037 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
2038 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
2040 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
2041 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
2042 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
2043 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
2044 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
2045 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
2046 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
2047 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
2048 internal implementation.
2049 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
2050 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
2051 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
2055 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
2056 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
2057 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
2058 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
2059 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
2061 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
2062 --------------------------
2066 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2067 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2068 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
2070 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
2071 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
2072 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
2073 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
2075 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
2076 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
2081 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
2082 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
2083 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
2085 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
2086 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
2088 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
2089 created dynamically, not as a global object.
2090 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
2091 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
2092 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
2093 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
2094 - Added gcc pragmas.
2095 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
2096 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
2097 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
2098 added a few references to wxTransString.
2099 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
2100 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
2101 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
2102 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
2103 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
2104 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
2105 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
2106 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
2107 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
2110 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
2111 --------------------------
2115 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
2116 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
2117 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
2118 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
2119 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
2120 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
2121 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
2122 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
2123 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
2124 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
2125 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
2127 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
2128 to help printing with multiple pages.
2129 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
2130 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
2131 implementation updated to use these base classes.
2132 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
2133 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
2134 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
2135 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
2136 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
2137 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
2138 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
2139 New files from Vadim:
2145 src\common\string.cpp
2149 No longer use GNU wxString files.
2150 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
2151 src\common\filefn.cpp.
2152 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
2153 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
2154 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
2155 including changes to defs.h.
2156 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
2158 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
2160 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
2161 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
2163 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
2165 Alpha 3, September 1997
2166 -----------------------
2170 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
2171 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
2172 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
2173 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
2174 - Started documentation.
2176 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
2177 ------------------------
2181 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
2182 with MetroWerks compiler.
2183 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
2184 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
2185 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
2186 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
2187 for testing purposes.
2188 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
2190 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
2191 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
2193 - Added back wxRadioBox.
2194 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
2197 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
2198 -----------------------
2202 At this point, the following has been achieved:
2204 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
2205 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
2206 wxString instead of char *.
2207 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
2208 old system event system) and code size reduced.
2209 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
2210 as wxbWindow now removed.
2211 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
2212 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
2214 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
2215 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
2216 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
2218 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
2219 settings mucho rationalised.
2220 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
2221 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
2223 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
2224 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
2225 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
2226 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
2227 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
2228 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
2230 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
2231 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
2233 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
2234 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
2235 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
2236 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
2237 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
2238 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
2239 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
2240 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
2241 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
2242 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
2244 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
2245 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
2247 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
2248 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
2249 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
2250 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
2251 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
2252 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
2254 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
2255 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
2256 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
2257 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
2258 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
2259 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).