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14 <h1><a name=
"id1">2.5.2.7</a></h1>
15 <p>wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
16 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
17 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
18 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
19 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
20 that it will
<em>not
</em> call the window's methods to determine the new best
21 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
22 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
23 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
</p>
24 <p>Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
25 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
</p>
26 <p>The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in
2.5.1.5
27 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the
2.4
28 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
29 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
31 <p>Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
32 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
</p>
33 <p>Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
</p>
34 <p>Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
35 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
</p>
36 <p>Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
37 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
38 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
39 buttons.py to handle attribute (font
& colour) defaults and
40 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
41 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
43 <p>wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
44 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
45 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
46 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
47 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
49 <p>Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
50 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
51 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
</p>
52 <p>wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
53 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
</p>
54 <p>wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
55 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
</p>
56 <p>The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to
"C
" (compatibility) when
57 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
58 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
59 remaining compatible with
"C
".
</p>
60 <p>Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
62 <p>OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
63 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
64 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
65 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
66 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
67 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
68 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
69 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
70 <a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details.
</p>
71 <p>EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
72 Scintilla for several releases now.
</p>
73 <p>All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
74 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
75 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
76 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
</p>
77 <p>Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
78 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
79 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
80 after construction.
</p>
81 <p>Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
82 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
83 with a more modern reimplementation.
</p>
84 <p>Added a new version (
0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
85 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
</p>
86 <p>It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
87 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
88 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
</p>
89 <p>Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
90 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:svip123@fastmail.fm">svip123
@fastmail.fm
</a>> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
91 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
92 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
93 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
</p>
94 <p>Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
95 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
96 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
97 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
99 <pre class=
"literal-block">
100 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[
0]
101 >>> for x in range(
0,
500,
10):
104 ... wx.MilliSleep(
10)
107 <div class=
"section" id=
"id2">
108 <h1><a name=
"id2">2.5.1.5</a></h1>
109 <p>(See also the
<a class=
"reference" href=
"MigrationGuide.html">MigrationGuide
</a> file for details about some of the
110 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
111 adapt your code.)
</p>
112 <p>The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
113 see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm">http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm
</a> for more details. This won't
114 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
115 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
116 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
117 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
118 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
</p>
119 <p>Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
120 to wxWidgets
2.5 that I have forgotten about.
</p>
121 <p>Added wxMirrorDC.
</p>
122 <p>Added wxIconLocation
</p>
123 <p>Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
124 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
</p>
125 <p>Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
127 <p>Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
128 wx.lib.plot module.
</p>
129 <p>I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
130 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
131 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
</p>
132 <p>The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
133 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
134 also installing icons and
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">*.desktop
</span></tt> items in the generic KDE and
135 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
136 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
137 RH-
9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
138 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
139 distros please send me a patch.
</p>
140 <p>The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-
9 box, and I have tested
141 installing them also on my main Mandrake
9.2 box.
</p>
142 <p>There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
143 Installer package now
<em>only
</em> installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
144 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
145 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
146 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
147 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
148 want to put them.
</p>
149 <p>The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
151 <p>Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
</p>
152 <p>wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
</p>
153 <p>wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version
1.58 of Scintilla.
</p>
154 <p>To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
155 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
156 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
157 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
158 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
159 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
160 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
162 <p>Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
163 "Adi
" Sieker.
</p>
164 <p>Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
</p>
165 <p>AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
166 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
</p>
167 <p>Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
168 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
169 MigrationGuide for more details.
</p>
170 <p>Created a new extension module
"activex
" from Lindsay Mathieson's
171 newest
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html">wxActiveX
</a> class. (The existing iewin module used an older
172 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
173 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
174 controls in a wx.Window,
<strong>without
</strong> requiring the use of the win32com
175 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
176 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
177 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
178 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
179 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
180 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
181 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
182 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
183 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
184 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
185 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
186 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
</p>
187 <p>Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
</p>
189 <div class=
"section" id=
"id4">
190 <h1><a name=
"id4">2.4.2.4</a></h1>
191 <p>Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
</p>
192 <p>Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
</p>
193 <p>Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
194 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
</p>
195 <p>Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
</p>
196 <p>Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
</p>
197 <p>Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
</p>
199 <div class=
"section" id=
"id5">
200 <h1><a name=
"id5">2.4.1.2</a></h1>
201 <p>Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
</p>
202 <p>Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
</p>
203 <p>Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
204 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">spam(*args,
</span> <span class=
"pre">**kw)
</span></tt> syntax
205 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
207 <p>Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
208 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
209 and wxWindows match.
</p>
210 <p>Added the new wx
"renamer
" package that will dynamically import from
211 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --
> FooBar. That means that
212 people can do imports without
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> and can use names like
213 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase
1 of a full transition
214 to the new namespace.
</p>
215 <p>Updated Scintilla to
1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
216 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
217 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
218 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
</p>
219 <p>Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
220 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
221 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as
"from wxPython
222 import py
" (or
"from wx import py
" using the new namespace.) There
223 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
224 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
225 package. These will be removed in a future release.
</p>
226 <p>Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
227 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
228 code like
"if obj: ...
" to be the same as
"if obj.IsOk(): ...
"</p>
229 <p>Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
</p>
230 <p>Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
231 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
</p>
232 <p>Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
233 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
</p>
234 <p>When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
235 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
</p>
236 <p>Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
237 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
239 <p>Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
240 a call to any Python callable object.
</p>
241 <p>Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
242 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
243 to override the C++ virtual methods.
</p>
244 <p>Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
245 the
"option
" parameter to
"proportion
" to match the docs (
"option
" is
246 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
247 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter,
248 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or
2-tuple) parameter
</p>
249 <p>Added wxCursorFromBits.
</p>
251 <div class=
"section" id=
"id6">
252 <h1><a name=
"id6">2.4.0.7</a></h1>
253 <p>Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
254 TRUE/FALSE values.
</p>
255 <p>Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
256 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
257 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a
16-bit value.
</p>
258 <p>Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
260 <p>Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
262 <p>Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
264 <p>Updated PyCrust to version
0.9</p>
265 <p>Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
266 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
267 default behavior) is enough. See below in the
2.3.4.1 notes for more
270 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">
271 <h1><a name=
"a-k-a-the-i-m-so-stupid-release">2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
</a></h1>
272 <p>The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
273 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
274 think I am testing in the future...
</p>
276 <div class=
"section" id=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">
277 <h1><a name=
"a-k-a-the-blame-it-on-kevin-release">2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
</a></h1>
278 <p>A few little but annoying bug fixes.
</p>
279 <p>Updated pycolourchooser.
</p>
280 <p>Updated to
0.9b of PyCrust.
</p>
282 <div class=
"section" id=
"id7">
283 <h1><a name=
"id7">2.4.0.4</a></h1>
284 <p>Added missing wxRect methods
</p>
285 <p>Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
</p>
286 <p>Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
</p>
287 <p>All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
288 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
289 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
291 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
293 <p>Fixed SF Bug #
689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
</p>
294 <p>Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
295 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
296 the parent window.
</p>
297 <p>Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
</p>
298 <p>Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
300 <p>Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
</p>
301 <p>Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
302 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
303 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
304 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
305 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
306 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
307 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
308 static stable in the C++ class.
</p>
309 <p>Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
310 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
311 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
312 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
314 <p>Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
315 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
316 always call them. The functions are:
</p>
318 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
319 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
320 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
321 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
322 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
323 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
324 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
325 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
326 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
327 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
328 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
329 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
</blockquote>
330 <p>Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
331 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
</p>
332 <p>The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
333 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
334 doesn't have a standard place for them.
</p>
335 <p>Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
</p>
336 <p>Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
</p>
337 <p>Updated to the
0.9a version of PyCrust
</p>
339 <div class=
"section" id=
"id8">
340 <h1><a name=
"id8">2.4.0.2</a></h1>
341 <p>Several bug fixes.
</p>
342 <p>Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
343 <p>Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
</p>
345 <div class=
"section" id=
"id9">
346 <h1><a name=
"id9">2.4.0.1</a></h1>
347 <p>No major new features since
2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
349 <p>Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
350 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
</p>
352 <div class=
"section" id=
"id10">
353 <h1><a name=
"id10">2.3.4.2</a></h1>
354 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
356 <div class=
"section" id=
"id11">
357 <h1><a name=
"id11">2.3.4.1</a></h1>
358 <p>Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
</p>
359 <p>Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
</p>
360 <p>Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
</p>
361 <p>Added wxHtmlFilter.
</p>
362 <p>wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
363 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
364 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
365 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
366 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
367 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
368 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
369 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
370 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
371 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
372 you can use to play with this new feature.
</p>
373 <p>Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
374 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
375 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
376 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
377 the old
"final
" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
378 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
379 2.3.3.1 and prior
"hybrid
" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
380 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
</p>
381 <p>You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
382 derived from wxApp.
</p>
383 <p>Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
384 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
386 <p>Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
</p>
387 <p>Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
388 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
389 they did before
2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
390 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
391 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
</p>
392 <p>Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
</p>
393 <p>Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
</p>
394 <p>Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
</p>
395 <p>Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
396 "Pythonic
" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
397 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
</p>
398 <p>Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
399 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
400 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
</p>
401 <p>Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
402 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
</p>
403 <p>Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
404 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
405 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
406 windows when desired.
</p>
407 <p>Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
408 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
409 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
</p>
411 <div class=
"section" id=
"id12">
412 <h1><a name=
"id12">2.3.3.1</a></h1>
413 <p>Added wxSplashScreen.
</p>
414 <p>Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
</p>
415 <p>Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
</p>
416 <p>The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
417 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
418 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
</p>
419 <p>Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
420 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
421 be loaded from any Python
"file-like
" object.
</p>
422 <p>Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
423 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
424 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
</p>
425 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
426 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
427 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
428 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
429 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
431 <p>Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
</p>
432 <p>Added wxBufferedDC.
</p>
433 <p>Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla
1.40 to Scintilla
1.45, and then again
434 to version
1.47, and one more time to
1.48!
<wink
></p>
437 <dd><p class=
"first">wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
438 disabled. Previous to wxPython
2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
439 used. Starting with
2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
440 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
441 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
442 the recent release of GTK+
2.0 it is only a matter of time until
443 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
</p>
444 <p>Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
445 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
446 same unicode binaries on win95/
98/ME platforms as well! This is
447 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
448 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
449 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
450 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
451 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
452 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
453 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
454 unicode build on win95.
</p>
455 <p class=
"last">So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
456 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
457 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
458 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
459 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
460 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
461 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
462 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
463 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
464 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
468 <p>Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
</p>
469 <p>Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
</p>
470 <p>Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
</p>
471 <p>A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
472 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
473 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
474 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
475 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
476 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
477 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
478 for any class that is OOR aware.
</p>
479 <p>Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
480 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
482 <p>Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
483 the image data. (Patch #
546009)
</p>
484 <p>Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
486 <p>Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
487 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
488 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
501 TransferDataFromWindow
505 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
509 <p>If there are other methods that you think should be supported
510 please let me know.
</p>
512 <p>Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
513 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
</p>
514 <p>Added wxArtProvider.
</p>
515 <p>Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
516 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
517 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
518 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
519 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
</p>
520 <p>Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
</p>
521 <p>Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
522 creating a ScrolledPanel.
</p>
523 <p>Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
524 other menu stuff.
</p>
525 <p>Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
526 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
527 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
528 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
</p>
529 <p>Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
530 modules make a
"callback
" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
531 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
532 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
533 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
</p>
534 <p>Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
535 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
536 respond to mouse events and etc.
</p>
537 <p>Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -
1
538 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
</p>
539 <p>Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
540 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
541 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
542 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
543 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
544 started with just the
"pycrust
" command.
</p>
545 <p>Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
546 displays the details of the event.
</p>
547 <p>Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
</p>
548 <p>Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
549 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
551 <p>Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
</p>
552 <p>Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
</p>
554 <div class=
"section" id=
"id13">
555 <h1><a name=
"id13">2.3.2.1</a></h1>
556 <p>Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
557 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
558 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
</p>
559 <p>Added some patches from library contributors.
</p>
561 <div class=
"section" id=
"id14">
562 <h1><a name=
"id14">2.3.2</a></h1>
563 <p>Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
564 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
565 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
566 and a demo to show them in action.
</p>
567 <p>Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
568 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/
</a>. )
</p>
569 <p>Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
</p>
570 <p>Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
</p>
571 <p>Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
573 <p>Added a new
"constructor
" to most of the window classes that calls the
574 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
575 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a
2-step
576 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
577 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
578 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
579 resource. The name of the new
"constructor
" is the original name of
580 the class with a
"Pre
" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
582 <p>Updated to version
1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
583 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
584 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
585 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
586 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
587 wxSTC flag accordingly.
</p>
588 <p>Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
589 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
590 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
</p>
591 <p>Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
</p>
592 <p>Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
</p>
593 <p>Added pySketch to the samples.
</p>
594 <p>Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
595 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
596 multi-processor machine.
</p>
597 <p>Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
598 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
</p>
599 <p>Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
</p>
600 <p>The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
601 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
602 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
603 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
604 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
605 original C++ pointer.
</p>
606 <p>Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
608 <p>Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
</p>
609 <p>Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
610 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
</p>
611 <p>Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
612 and from web browsers. It's still not
100% bullet-proof for all types
613 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
614 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape
4.x works,
615 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
617 <p>Added wxStopWatch.
</p>
618 <p>Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
</p>
619 <p>Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
620 will now Disconnect the event.
</p>
621 <p>Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
</p>
622 <p>Added wxFileHistory.
</p>
623 <p>Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
624 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
625 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
627 <p>Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
</p>
628 <p>Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
630 <p>Added the
"SplitTree gizmos
" which are a collection of classes that
631 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
632 additional columns for each item. The classes are
633 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
634 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
635 also be useful by themselves.
</p>
636 <p>Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
637 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
638 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
639 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
640 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
641 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
644 <div class=
"section" id=
"id15">
645 <h1><a name=
"id15">2.3.1</a></h1>
646 <p>Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
647 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
648 on a custom event handler for example.)
</p>
649 <p>Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
650 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
651 <p>Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
652 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
</p>
653 <p>Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
</p>
654 <p>Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
</p>
655 <p>Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python
2.1.
</p>
656 <p>Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
</p>
658 <div class=
"section" id=
"id16">
659 <h1><a name=
"id16">2.3.0</a></h1>
660 <p>Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
661 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
</p>
662 <p>Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
663 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
665 <p>Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
</p>
666 <p>Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
667 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
669 <p>Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
670 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
671 access from non-GUI threads.
</p>
672 <p>wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
673 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
</p>
674 <p>Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
</p>
675 <p>Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
676 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
</p>
677 <p>Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
678 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
</p>
679 <p>Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
680 it gobs faster in certain situations.
</p>
681 <p>Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
682 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
683 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
684 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
685 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
686 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
687 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
688 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
689 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
690 the implementation.
</p>
691 <p>Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
692 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
694 <p>A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
695 the distutils that comes with Python
2.1.
</p>
696 <p>Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
</p>
697 <p>Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
</p>
698 <p>Added wxToggleButton.
</p>
699 <p>Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
</p>
701 <dt>Added some methods to wxGrid:
</dt>
702 <dd>GetCellHighlightPenWidth
703 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
704 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
705 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
707 GetGridRowLabelWindow
708 GetGridColLabelWindow
709 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
</dd>
711 <p>Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
712 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
713 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
</p>
716 <dd><p class=
"first">Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
717 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
718 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
719 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
720 "proper type
" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
721 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
722 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
723 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
724 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
725 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
726 will probably only work on Python
2.1 and beyond because it will
727 use weak references.)
</p>
728 <p class=
"last">This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
729 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
730 be transparent to you, however I'm not
100% sure that it didn't
731 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
732 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
733 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
734 object-type related oddities to me.
</p>
737 <p>There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
738 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
739 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
740 finally got done.
</p>
741 <p>Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
742 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
</p>
743 <p>Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
</p>
745 <p>Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
746 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
747 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
748 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
749 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
750 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
</p>
751 <p>Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
752 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
753 wxPython/samples.
</p>
755 <div class=
"section" id=
"id17">
756 <h1><a name=
"id17">2.2.6</a></h1>
757 <p>No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
758 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
</p>
760 <div class=
"section" id=
"id18">
761 <h1><a name=
"id18">2.2.5</a></h1>
762 <p>New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python
2.0 and beyond
763 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
764 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
765 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
</p>
766 <p>Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
</p>
767 <p>Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
</p>
768 <p>Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
769 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
</p>
770 <p>Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
771 column in report mode.
</p>
772 <p>Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
773 bar after
2 seconds.
</p>
774 <p>Added wxJoystick.
</p>
775 <p>Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
776 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
777 object, (usually a window.)
</p>
778 <p>Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
</p>
779 <p>Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
</p>
780 <p>Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
781 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
782 the
"export
" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
783 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
784 libraries. Should also be usable from
3rd party code, just include
785 wxPython/src/export.h
</p>
786 <p>Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
787 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
788 utils. Will probably add more later.
</p>
789 <p>Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
790 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
791 wxPrinterDC2 name.
</p>
792 <p>Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
793 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
</p>
794 <p>Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
</p>
795 <p>Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
796 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
</p>
797 <p>Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
798 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
801 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-2">
802 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-2">New in
2.2.2</a></h1>
803 <p>Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
804 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
805 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
806 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
807 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
808 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
809 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
810 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
812 <p>I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
813 of the distribution files. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
</a>)
814 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
815 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
816 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
817 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
818 wxPython for Python
1.5.2 or for
1.6, then you will need to get and
819 install version
1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
820 using Python
2.0 then you already have it.
</p>
821 <p>Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
822 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
</p>
823 <p>Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
824 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
825 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
827 <p>Removed the old python sizers.
</p>
828 <p>Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
830 <p>Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
831 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
832 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
</p>
833 <p>Lots of little fixes here and there.
</p>
834 <p>Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
835 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
836 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
</p>
838 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-1">
839 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-1">New in
2.2.1</a></h1>
840 <p>Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
</p>
841 <p>Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
</p>
843 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-2-0">
844 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-2-0">New in
2.2.0</a></h1>
845 <p>Added wxLog and friends.
</p>
846 <p>Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
</p>
847 <p>Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
</p>
849 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-16">
850 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-16">New in
2.1.16</a></h1>
851 <p>Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
852 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
854 <p>Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
</p>
855 <p>wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
</p>
856 <p>Added wxDragImage.
</p>
857 <p>Fixed printing on wxGTK.
</p>
858 <p>Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
</p>
859 <p>Added wxCalendarCtrl.
</p>
860 <p>WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
861 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
862 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
863 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
864 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
865 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
866 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
867 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
</p>
879 OnScroll
</blockquote>
880 <p>Added wxSpinCtrl.
</p>
882 <div class=
"section" id=
"new-in-2-1-15">
883 <h1><a name=
"new-in-2-1-15">New in
2.1.15</a></h1>
884 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
885 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
</p>
886 <p>Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
888 <p>Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
889 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
</p>
890 <p>Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
</p>
891 <p>Plugged a memory leak.
</p>
892 <p>Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
893 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
894 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
895 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
897 <p>Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
898 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
899 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
</p>
900 <p>Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
901 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
902 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
903 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
904 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
905 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
906 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
907 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
909 <p>Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
910 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
911 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
912 "#RRGGBB
". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
</p>
913 <p>I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
914 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
915 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
916 but I've included a very readable source file in the
917 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
918 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
919 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html">http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
</a> to help fill in the gaps
920 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
921 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
</p>
923 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">
924 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-13">What's new in
2.1.13</a></h1>
925 <p>Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
</p>
926 <p>Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
927 and some flicker problems.
</p>
928 <p>Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
929 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://www.kitware.com/">http://www.kitware.com/
</a>)
</p>
930 <p>Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
931 "which
" parameter.
</p>
932 <p>Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
933 <p>Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
</p>
934 <p>Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
935 with wxWindow.GetParent.
</p>
936 <p>Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
937 It is used like this:
</p>
939 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
</blockquote>
940 <p>If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
941 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
</p>
942 <p>Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
</p>
943 <p>Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
</p>
944 <p>Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
945 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
946 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
947 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
948 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
949 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
</p>
950 <p>The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
951 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
952 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
953 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
954 methods look like this:
</p>
957 <dt>def AddTool(ID,
</dt>
959 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
962 shortHelpString =
"",
963 longHelpString =
"")
</dd>
964 <dt>def AddSimpleTool(ID,
</dt>
966 shortHelpString =
"",
967 longHelpString =
"",
971 <p>There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
972 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
</p>
973 <p>Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
</p>
974 <p>wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
</p>
975 <p>Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
976 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
977 <a class=
"reference" href=
"http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL">http://starship.python.net:
9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL
</a>.
</p>
978 <p>Added some missing EVT functions.
</p>
979 <p>Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
981 <p>Changed all the
"LIST
" parameter names to
"choices
" to match the docs.
</p>
982 <p>More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
983 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
984 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
</p>
986 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">
987 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-11">What's new in
2.1.11</a></h1>
988 <p>Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
990 <p>wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
991 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
993 <p>Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
994 being added. This should remove the need for our
995 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
</p>
996 <p>wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
997 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
998 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
999 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
1000 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
</p>
1001 <p>Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
</p>
1002 <p>Added new HTML printing classes.
</p>
1003 <p>Added wxWindow.GetHandle
</p>
1004 <p>Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been depreciated in wxWindows as
1005 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
1006 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
1008 <p>Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
1009 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
1010 thread from other threads.
</p>
1011 <p>Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
</p>
1012 <p>Added wxFontEnumerator.
</p>
1013 <p>Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
</p>
1014 <p>wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
1015 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
</p>
1016 <p>Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
</p>
1017 <p>Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
1019 <p>Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
</p>
1021 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">
1022 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-5">What's new in
2.1.5</a></h1>
1023 <p>This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
1024 crept in at the last minute before
2.1.4 was called done. No new
1027 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">
1028 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1-4">What's new in
2.1.4</a></h1>
1029 <p>This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
1030 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
1031 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
1032 wxGTK from CVS. (See
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm">http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm
</a>)
1033 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
1034 the wxPy-
2-
1-
4 tag.
</p>
1035 <p>Now back to what's new...
</p>
1036 <p>Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
</p>
1037 <p>Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
</p>
1038 <p>Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a
<em>copy
</em>
1039 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
1040 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
1041 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
1042 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
1044 <p>Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
1045 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
1046 default sort order.
</p>
1047 <p>Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
1048 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
1049 example, the following are equivallent:
</p>
1051 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(
100,
100))
1052 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (
100,
100))
</blockquote>
1053 <p>Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
1054 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
1055 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
1056 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
1057 pages. See the demo for an example.
</p>
1058 <p>A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
1059 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
</p>
1060 <p>Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
</p>
1061 <p>Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
1062 versions are still in the library, but depreciated. (You will get a
1063 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
1064 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
1065 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
1066 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
1067 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
1068 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
1069 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
1070 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
1071 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
1072 further details.
</p>
1073 <p>Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
1074 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
1075 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
1076 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
1077 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
1078 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
1079 for more info and examples in future releases.
</p>
1080 <p>Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
1081 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
1082 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
1083 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
1084 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
1085 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
1087 <p>Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
1088 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
1089 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
1090 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
1091 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
1092 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
1093 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
1094 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
1095 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
1096 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
1097 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
</p>
1098 <p>I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
1099 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
1100 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
1101 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
1102 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
1103 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
1104 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
1105 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
1106 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
1107 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
1108 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
1109 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
1110 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
1111 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
1112 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
1113 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this:
</p>
1116 <dt>class MyApp(wxApp):
</dt>
1117 <dd><p class=
"first">outputWindowClass = MyClass
</p>
1119 <dt>def OnInit(self):
</dt>
1120 <dd>frame = MyFrame()
1121 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
1127 <p>Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
1128 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
1129 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
1130 to really screw things up.
</p>
1131 <p>Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
1132 in the wxWindows docs...
</p>
1133 <p>Some new
3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
1134 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
1135 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
1136 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
1137 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
1138 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
1139 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
1142 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">
1143 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b3">What's new in
2.1b3
</a></h1>
1144 <p>This release is syncronized with release
2.1 snapshot
9 of wxWindows.
</p>
1145 <p>Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see
<a class=
"reference" href=
"http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html">http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html
</a>)
1146 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
1147 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
1148 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
1152 <li><p class=
"first">Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
1153 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
1154 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
</p>
1156 <p>win = wxWindow(parent, -
1, style = mystyle)
</p>
1159 <li><p class=
"first">There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
1160 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
1161 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
1162 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
</p>
1166 <p>There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
1167 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
1168 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
1169 see distrib/build.py for more details.
</p>
1170 <p>wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
1171 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
1172 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
1173 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
</p>
1175 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">
1176 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b2">What's new in
2.1b2
</a></h1>
1177 <p>Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
</p>
1178 <p>Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
1179 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
1180 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
1181 It was only a
1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
1182 line
496 if you want to do it by hand.
</p>
1183 <p>It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
1184 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
1185 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
1186 is being unloaded by Python.
</p>
1187 <p>I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
1188 make wxPython look bad.
</p>
1189 <p>wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
1190 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
</p>
1191 <p>Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
</p>
1192 <p>You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
1193 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
</p>
1194 <p>Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
1195 code to show how to use it.
</p>
1196 <p>Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
1198 <p>Added wxGrid.GetCells
</p>
1199 <p>Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
1200 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
</p>
1201 <p>Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
1202 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
</p>
1204 <dt>Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
</dt>
1205 <dd>wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth =
1)
</dd>
1207 <p>Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
1208 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
1209 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
</p>
1210 <p>Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
1212 <p>Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
</p>
1213 <p>New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
1214 for unix systems.
</p>
1215 <p>Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
</p>
1216 <p>SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
1219 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">
1220 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-1b1">What's new in
2.1b1
</a></h1>
1221 <p>Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
1222 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
1223 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
</p>
1224 <p>Added the Printing Framework.
</p>
1225 <p>Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
1226 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
1227 data after loading each extension module.
</p>
1228 <p>Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
1229 wxWindows classes.
</p>
1230 <p>Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
1231 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
1232 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
</p>
1233 <p>wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
1234 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
1235 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
1236 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
</p>
1238 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">
1239 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b9">What's new in
2.0b9
</a></h1>
1240 <p>Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
</p>
1241 <p>Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
1242 wxPython application.
</p>
1243 <p>Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
</p>
1244 <p>Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
1245 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
1246 this feature off.
</p>
1247 <p>Added wxSafeYield function.
</p>
1248 <p>OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
</p>
1249 <p>Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
1250 how it all works.
</p>
1251 <p>The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
1252 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
</p>
1253 <p>Added a couple missing items from the docs.
</p>
1254 <p>Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
1255 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
</p>
1256 <p>Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
</p>
1257 <p>Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
1260 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">
1261 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b8">What's new in
2.0b8
</a></h1>
1262 <p>Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
</p>
1263 <p>Several missing methods from various classes.
</p>
1264 <p>Various bug fixes.
</p>
1266 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">
1267 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b7">What's new in
2.0b7
</a></h1>
1268 <p>Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
</p>
1269 <p>Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
</p>
1271 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">
1272 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b6">What's new in
2.0b6
</a></h1>
1273 <p>Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
1274 Python
1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
</p>
1276 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">
1277 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-2-0b5">What's new in
2.0b5
</a></h1>
1278 <p>Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
1279 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
1280 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
1281 wxWindows
1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
1282 with the
2.0 version of wxWindows.
</p>
1283 <p>I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
1284 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
1285 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
1286 diverges from wxWindows.
</p>
1287 <p>Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
1288 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
1289 it should just work... More news on this later.
</p>
1290 <p>Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
</p>
1291 <p>Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
1292 wxRegConfig class.
</p>
1293 <p>As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
</p>
1295 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">
1296 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-3">What's new in
0.5.3</a></h1>
1297 <p>Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
</p>
1298 <p>Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
1299 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
</p>
1301 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">
1302 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-5-0">What's new in
0.5.0</a></h1>
1303 <p>Changed the import semantics from
<tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> to
1304 <tt class=
"literal"><span class=
"pre">"from
</span> <span class=
"pre">wxPython.wx
</span> <span class=
"pre">import
</span> <span class=
"pre">*
"</span></tt> This is for people who are worried about
1305 namespace pollution, they can use
"from wxPython import wx
" and then
1306 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with
"wx.
"</p>
1307 <p>Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
</p>
1308 <p>Made the events work for wxGrid.
</p>
1309 <p>Added wxConfig.
</p>
1310 <p>Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
</p>
1311 <p>Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
1312 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
</p>
1313 <p>Other assorted fixes and additions.
</p>
1315 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">
1316 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4-2">What's new in
0.4.2</a></h1>
1317 <p>wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
1318 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm
1319 <<a class=
"reference" href=
"mailto:H.v.d.Heijden@phys.tue.nl">H.v.d.Heijden
@phys.tue.nl
</a>> for his astute detective work on tracking
1320 down a nasty DECREF bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a
1321 DSM (Dumb Stupid Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less
1322 because the behavior was so different on different platforms.
</p>
1323 <p>The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
1324 must have been a different issue all along...
</p>
1326 <div class=
"section" id=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">
1327 <h1><a name=
"what-s-new-in-0-4">What's New in
0.4</a></h1>
1328 <p>1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
1329 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
1330 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
1331 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
1332 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
1333 version segfault shortly after starting up.
</p>
1334 <ol class=
"arabic simple" start=
"2">
1335 <li>Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
</li>
1336 <li>Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
</li>
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