1 Recent Changes for wxPython
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8 The following deprecated items have been removed:
10 * wx.Bitmap SetQuality and GetQuality methods
12 * The wx.GetNumberFromUser function
14 * wx.EVT_LIST_GET_INFO and wx.EVT_LIST_SET_INFO
16 * wx.BookCtrlSizer and wx.NotebookSizer
18 * The PostScript-specific methods of wx.PrintData
20 * wx.PrintDialogData SetSetupDialog and GetSetupDialog methods
22 * wx.FontMapper SetConfig method
24 * wx.html.HtmlSearchStatus.GetContentsItem method
26 * wx.html.HtmlHelpData.GetContents, GetContentsCnt, GetIndex, and
30 wx.EventLoop is now implemented for wxMac.
32 Added wxPython wrappers for the new wx.Treebook and wx.Toolbook
35 wx.DC.BeginDrawing and EndDrawing have been deprecated in the C++
36 code, so since they never really did anything before they are now just
37 empty stubs in wxPython.
39 Solved a problem that has been around for a very long time in how C++
40 methods are virtualized for overriding in derived Python classes.
41 Previously we couldn't do it for methods that needed to also exist in
42 the base class wrappers such that they could be called normally. (The
43 reasons are long and complex, but suffice it to say that it was due to
44 mixing C++'s dynamic dispatch, and Python's runtime lookup of the
45 method attributes resulting in endless recursion of function calls.)
46 Because of this problem I used a hack that I have always hated, and
47 that is renaming the base class methods with a "base_*" prefix, for
48 example wx.Printout.base_OnBeginDocument. Now that the problem has
49 finally been solved I have replaced all the base_Whatever() methods
50 with the real Whatever() method as well as a simple wrapper named
51 base_Whatever that is marked as deprecated. So now instead of writing
52 your overridden methods like this::
54 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
56 return self.base_OnBeginDocument(start, end)
58 You can now call the base class method the normal way, like this::
60 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
62 return Printout.OnBeginDocument(self, start, end)
64 Or like this with super()::
66 def OnBeginDocument(self, start, end):
68 return super(MyPrintout, self).OnBeginDocument(start, end)
71 Note that the old way with the "base_*" function still works, but you
72 will get a DeprecationWarning from calling base_OnBeginDocument. The
73 classes affected by this are:
79 * wx.PyLog (also added the ability to override Flush)
80 * wx.PyApp (also added the ability to override ExitMainLoop)
84 * wx.PreviewControlBar
91 * wx.grid.PyGridCellRenderer
92 * wx.grid.PyGridCellEditor
93 * wx.grid.PyGridCellAttrProvider
94 * wx.grid.PyGridTableBase
96 * wx.wizard.PyWizardPage
99 Added the wx.DC.GradientFillConcentric and wx.DC.GradientFillLinear
102 wxGTK: wx.ListBox and wx.CheckListBox are now using native GTK2
105 Added wx.ListBox.HitTest() from patch 1446207
107 Bumped up to SWIG 1.3.29. This provides some more runtime performance
108 boosts, gets rid of the dreaded Ptr classes, and some other nice new
111 Added wx.Window.GetScreenPosition and GetScreenRect which returns the
112 position of the window in screen coordinates, even if the window is
113 not a top-level window.
115 Added GetResourcesDir and GetLocalizedResourcesDir to
118 Added a GetReceivedFormat method to wx.DataObjectComposite. You can
119 use this to find out what format of data object was recieved from the
120 source of the clipboard or DnD operation, and then you'll know which
121 of the component data objects to use to access the data.
123 Changed how the stock objects (wx.RED, wx.RED_PEN, wx.RED_BRUSH, etc.)
124 are initialized. They are now created as uninitialized instances
125 using __new__. Then after the wx.App has been created, but before
126 OnInit is called, the .this attribute of each obhect is initialized.
127 This was needed because of some delayed initialization functionality
128 that was implemented in wxWidgets, but the end result is cleaner for
129 wxPython as well, and allowed me to remove some ugly code previously
130 hidden under the covers.
132 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir.
134 Added wx.RendererNative.DrawCheckButton.
136 wx.ProgressDialog.Update now returns a tuple of two values. The first
137 is a continue flag (what was returned before) and the second is a skip
138 flag. If the dialog has the wx.PD_CAN_SKIP flag and if the Skip
139 button is clicked, then the skip flag is set to True the next time
142 A DeprecationWarning is now issued when the old wxPython package is
143 imported. If you are still using the old namespace please convert
144 your code to use the new wx package instead.
146 Added wrappers for Julian's new wxRichTextCtrl class, visible in
147 wxPython as wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl window. It still needs some more
148 work, but it is a great start.
150 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
151 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
152 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
153 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
154 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
157 wx.StaticBoxSizer now keeps better track of the wx.StaticBox, and it
158 will destroy it if the sizer is destroyed before the parent window is.
160 Added wx.HyperlinkCtrl.
162 Added battery and power related functions and events (wxMSW only so
163 far.) See wx.PowerEvent, wx.GetPowerType and wx.GetBatteryState.
165 Added wx.ListCtrl.HitTestSubItem which returns the sub-item (i.e. the
166 column in report mode) that was hit (if any) in addition to the item
169 Added wrappers for wx.ColourPickerCtrl, wx.DirPickerCtrl,
170 wx.FilePickerCtrl, and wx.FontPickerCtrl.
172 Patch #1502016 wx.Image.ConvertToGreyscale now retains the alpha
175 Added wrappers for the wxAUI classes, in the wx.aui module.
177 Added the PseudoDC class from Paul Lanier. It provides a way to
178 record operations on a DC and then play them back later.
180 Upgraded to Scintilla 1.70 for wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl.
182 Added CanSetTransparent and SetTransparent methods to the
183 wx.TopLevelWindow class, with implementations (so far) for wxMSW and
186 SetDefaultItem() and GetDefaultItem() are now members of
187 wx.TopLevelWindow, not wx.Panel.
189 wxGTK: Stock items (icons) will be used for menu items with stock
192 Added wx.lib.combotreebox from Frank Niessink
194 Added wx.ImageFromBuffer, wx.BitmapFromBuffer and
195 wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA factory functions. They enable loading of an
196 image or bitmap directly from a Python object that implements the
197 buffer interface, such as strings, arrays, etc.
199 Added wx.App.IsDisplayAvailable() which can be used to determine if a
200 GUI can be created in the current environment. (Still need an
201 implementation for wxMSW...)
203 The wx.html.HTML_FONT_SIZE_x constants are no longer available as the
204 default sizes are now calculated at runtime based on the size of the
207 wx.Colour now includes an alpha component, which defaults to
208 wx.ALPHA_OPAQUE. This is in preparation for allowing various new
209 alpha blening functionality using wx.Colour objects, such as drawing
210 with pens and brushes on a wx.DC.
212 Added wx.NativePixelBuffer, wx.AlphPixelBuffer and related iterator
213 and accessor classes. They allow platform independent direct access
214 to the platform specific pixel buffer inside of a wx.Bitmap object.
216 The beginnings of support for RTL languages has been added, thanks to
217 a Google SoC project.
219 Added wx.lib.dragscroller from Riaan Booysen. It provides a helper
220 class that can used to scroll a wx.ScrolledWindow in response to a
223 Applied patch 1551409: Adds support for indeterminate mode gauges.
225 wxMac: I've turned on the compile option for using the native toolbar
226 on the Mac now that it supports hosting of controls. If the toolbar
227 is managed by the frame via either CreateToolBar() or SetToolBar()
228 then the native toolbar will be used. Additional toolbars, or
229 toolbars that are not children of the frame, are managed by sizers or
230 what-not will still use the emulated toolbar because of platform
231 restrictions in how/where the native toolbar can be used.
233 Added Python properties for many of the getter/setter methods of wx
234 classes. In order for the names to be predicatble for somebody
235 already familiar with wxPython the property names are simply the name
236 of the getter with the "Get" dropped. For example, wx.Window has a
237 property named "Size" that maps to GetSize and SetSize. So far there
238 is only one known name conflict using this naming convention, and that
239 is wx.KeyEvent.KeyCode, however since KeyCode was formerly a
240 compatibility alias for GetKeyCode (and has been for a long time) it
241 was decided to just switch it to a property. If you want to use the
242 method then change your calls to event.KeyCode() to
243 event.GetKeyCode(), otherwise you can use it as a property just by
244 dropping the parentheses.
246 Updated the C++ code for wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl from the wxCode
247 project. This has resulted in some minor API changes, most of which
248 were worked around in the wrapper code.
250 Added wx.lib.delayedresult from Oliver Schoenborn.
252 Added wx.lib.expando, a multi-line textctrl that exands as more lines
255 wx.Image.Scale and Rescale methods now take an extra parameter
256 specifying type of method to use for resampling the image. It
257 defaults to the current behavior of just replicating pixels, if
258 wx.IMAGE_QUALITY_HIGH is passed then it uses bicubic and box averaging
259 resampling methods for upsampling and downsampling respectively.
261 Added the wx.lib.buttonpanel module, which is a tweaked version of
262 Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.
264 Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.
266 Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like
267 wx.CallAfter. wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater
268 for compatibility of older code.
270 Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl the from Andrea Gavana.
272 Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook
273 and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't
274 send the change events.
276 Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but
277 doesn't send the text changed event.
279 For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have
280 IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't
283 wx.BufferedDC and wx.BufferedPaintDC, if created with a reference to a
284 window and no program supplied buffer bitmap, will not do its own
285 buffering if the window is already double buffered by the system.
286 Also added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC
287 on platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of
288 wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't.
290 Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class. They
291 provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which
292 will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info
293 is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.
295 The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the code wxWidgets
296 library, and refactored a bit along the way. For wxPython it still
297 exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two
298 classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl. You load
299 the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats
300 in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the
301 AnimatedCtrl for display. See the demo for an example. There is also
302 still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards
303 compatibility with the old implementation.
305 wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a
306 Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default. This means that all
307 drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the
308 old Quick Draw API. There are, however, a few places where Quartz and
309 wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for
310 logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there work in progress to
311 provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with
312 Quartz and also on the other platforms.
324 wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn:
325 - fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects
326 - now supports listeners that use \*args as an argument
327 (listener(\*args) was not passing the validity test)
328 - corrected some mistakes in documentation
329 - added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time
331 - changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented
332 pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher
334 DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua:
335 New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to
336 the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in
337 the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging.
338 Not important for python development, but at least that means the
339 debugger framework is more generalized.
341 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT
342 event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already
343 hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code
344 to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the
345 opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow
348 Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog.
350 Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python 2.5. There
351 may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and 64-bit
352 machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it
362 Fixed reference leak in wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl.GetSelections.
364 wxMSW: Fixed sizing issue with wx.Choice and wx.ComboBox. This change
365 was implemented by reverting a prior fix for a different problem
366 (contiuous painting/resizing when a combobox is used as a widget in a
367 wx.html.HtmlWindow) so a method to fix both problems is still being
370 wxGTK: Fixed potential buffer overrun when pasting from the
373 Fixed problem in wx.lib.splitter when used on 64-bit platforms. Used
374 the current length of the list for specifying an append instead of
377 wxMSW: Support added for XP themed owner drawn buttons and bitmap
378 buttons. For example, if you change the foreground color of a button
379 it will now be drawn with the XP themed style rather than an ugly
380 generic button style.
382 XRCed: Fix for Copy/Paste objects with international characters.
384 Fixed the equality and inequality operators for some of the basic
385 data types (wx.Point, wx.Size, wx.Colour, etc.) to no longer raise a
386 TypeError if the compared object is not compatible, but to just return
387 a boolean as expected. For example::
389 wx.Colour(64,0,64) == 123 ==> False
391 wxMSW: Fixed (again) sizing/positioning issues of calling Realize on
392 a wx.ToolBar that is not manaaged directly by a frame and that is
395 wxMSW: Fixed wx.Choice/wx.ComboBox so they send events when a new item
396 is selected only with the keyboard.
404 Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
405 takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on
406 wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
407 the native control doesn't use one anyway.
409 wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
410 other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
411 SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
412 use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
413 derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
414 parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
415 column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.
417 Switched to using SWIG 1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
418 are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
419 wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
420 which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
421 need to modify any of the \*.i files or to add your own, then you will
422 want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
423 in the source tarball for details.
425 wx.Image.Copy, Mirror, and GetSubImage now also do the right thing
426 with the alpha channel.
428 wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
429 wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
431 wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
434 wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
435 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
437 wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
438 not available in the themed version.
440 Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
442 Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
444 Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
446 wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
448 wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
450 wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
452 wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
453 window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
454 flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
456 wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
457 into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to "timer.clock.seconds"
458 is the same as subscribing to ("timer", "clock", "seconds").
460 Applied patch #1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
462 Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
464 Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version 1.67 of Scintilla.
465 NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
466 you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
468 wxSTC: Implemented Fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the
469 DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
471 Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
474 Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
475 Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
477 Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
478 scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
479 zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
481 XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
483 Added wx.StandardPaths.GetDocumentsDir() (patch 1214360)
494 wxMSW: Fix for bug #1211907, popup menu indenting inconsistent with
497 wxMac: Don't send an event for wx.RadioButton deselections, just the
498 selections. This was done to make it consistent with the other
501 wxMSW: Always set flat toolbar style, even under XP with themes: this
502 is necessary or separators aren't shown at all.
504 Fixes for bug #1217872, pydocview.DocService not correctly initialized.
506 Fix for bug #1217874, Error in parameter name in DocManager.CreateView.
508 Added wrappers for the wx.RendererNative class.
510 Added the wx.lib.splitter module, which contains the
511 MultiSplitterWindow class. This class is much like the standard
512 wx.SplitterWindow class, except it allows more than one split, so it
513 can manage more than two child windows.
515 Docview and IDE patch from Morgan Hua with fix for bug #1217890
516 "Closing view crashes Python" plus some new features:
518 New feature added to the IDE is 'Extensions'. Under
519 Tools|Options|Extensions, you can add calls to external programs.
520 For example you can add a "Notepad" extension (under windows) that
521 will exec Notepad on the currently open file. A new "Notepad"
522 menu item will appear under the Tools menu.
524 Some fixes to XRCed to make encoding errors a bit more user friendly.
526 XRCed changes from Roman Rolinsky:
528 * Added new controls (Choicebook, Listbook, StatusBar,
529 DatePicker), and completed style flags. Test window is opened
530 for an available parent control if no specific view
531 defined. Better handling of exceptions (highlighting does not
534 * Use system clipboard for Copy/Paste.
536 * Improved some dialogs (window styles, growable cols). Changed
537 the range for wxSpinCtrl min/max to all integers (default 0/100
540 Updates for wx.lib.foldpanelbar and wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea
543 Fix for Bug #1283496: wxPython TheClipboard class causes problems for
544 pychecker. Ensure the app has been created before initializing
547 Fix for Bug #1352602: FileBrowseButtonWithHistory can't type in Value.
549 wxHTML: Added space after list item number.
551 wx.lib.printout: Applied patch #1384440.
553 wxMSW: Fix for Bug #1293225 Window_FromHWND crashes if parent is
556 Fix for Bug #1261669, use a wx.TE_RICH2 style for the Process demo so
557 it doesn't fill up too soon.
559 Applied Patch #1354389: wxPython MenuItem SetBitmaps fix.
561 Applied Patch #1239456: wxPython wx.DataObject.GetAllFormats fix.
563 Applied Patch # #1230107 which allows image handlers to be written in
564 Python by deriving from wx.PyImageHandler.
566 Applied patch #1072210: generalize printout.py to allow text printing.
568 Applied patch #1243907: Give Throbber much more flexibility by
569 allowing the user to set the rest image, the direction, the current
570 index, custom sequence. Allows user to manually step through the
571 sequence with Next(), Previous(), Increment(), Decrement() &
572 SetCurrent(). Very handy if you have multiple throbbers that you want
573 to synchronize with a single timer.
575 Fix for bug #1336711: wx.lib.calendar.CalenDlg can yield incorrect
578 Applied patch from Morgan Hua for updates to ActiveGrid code
579 (pydocview, ActiveGrid IDE, etc.)
581 Applied patch #1326241: Supporting "setup.py install --install-headers=path"
583 Applied patch from Morgan Hua to fix bug #1219423: CommandManager
584 should not repeat old commands after a branch.
586 Applied patch #1238825 adding search backward capabilities to the
587 demo. Modified to use the up/down options in the wx.FindReplaceDialog
588 instead of a separate menu item.
590 Fix for bug #1266745 and #1387725 in the wx.FindReplaceDialog on MSW.
591 Actually check we are using MSLU before doing the hack designed to
592 workaround a bug in MSLU!
594 wxMSW: wx.lib.iewin.IEHtmlWindow now properly handles tabbing, return
595 and other special keys properly.
597 Lots of PyCrust enhancments started by Franz Steinaeusler, Adi Sieker,
598 and Sebastian Haase, and which in turn were further enhanced, fixed
599 tweaked and finished up by me. The changes include the following:
601 * The Autocomplete and Calltip windows can now be opened manually
602 with Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift-Space.
604 * In the stand alone PyCrust app the various option settings,
605 window size and position, and etc. are saved and restored at the
608 * Added a help dialog bound to the F1 key that shows the key
611 * Added a new text completion function that suggests words from
612 the history. Bound to Shift-Return.
614 * F11 will toggle the maximized state of the frame.
616 * switched to Bind() from wx.EVT_*().
618 * Display of line numbers can be toggled.
620 * F12 toggles a "free edit" mode of the shell buffer. This mode
621 is useful, for example, if you would like to remove some output
622 or errors or etc. from the buffer before doing a copy/paste.
623 The free edit mode is designated by the use of a red,
626 * Ctrl-Shift-F will fold/unfold (hide/show) the selected lines.
628 * General code cleanup and fixes.
630 * Use wx.StandardPaths to determine the location of the config
633 * Use wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE on crust and filling windows.
635 * Extended the saving of the config info and other new features to
636 the PyShell app too. Additionally, other apps that embed a
637 PyCrust or a PyShell can pass their own wx.Config object and
638 have the Py code save/restore its settings to/from there.
640 * All of the classes with config info get an opportunity to
641 save/load their own settings instead of putting all the
642 save/load code in one place that then has to reach all over the
643 place to do anything.
645 * Enable editing of the startup python code, which will either be
646 the file pointed to by PYTHONSTARTUP or a file in the config dir
647 if PYTHONSTARTUP is not set in the environment.
649 * Added an option to skip the running of the startup code when
650 PyShell or PyCrust starts.
652 * PyCrust adds a pp(item) function to the shell's namespace that
653 pretty prints the item in the Display tab of the notebook.
654 Added code to raise that tab when pp() is called.
656 * Added an option for whether to insert text for function
657 parameters when popping up the call tip.
659 * Added Find and Find-Next functions that use the
660 wx.FindReplaceDialog.
663 Applied patches from Will Sadkin for wx.lib.masked modules:
665 * Now ignores kill focus events when being destroyed.
667 * Added missing call to set insertion point on changing fields.
669 * Modified SetKeyHandler() to accept None as means of removing
672 * Fixed keyhandler processing for group and decimal character
675 * Fixed a problem that prevented input into the integer digit of a
676 integerwidth=1 numctrl, if the current value was 0.
678 * Fixed logic involving processing of "_signOk" flag, to remove
679 default sign key handlers if false, so that
680 SetAllowNegative(False) in the NumCtrl works properly.
682 * Fixed selection logic for numeric controls so that if
683 selectOnFieldEntry is true, and the integer portion of an
684 integer format control is selected and the sign position is
685 selected, the sign keys will always result in a negative value,
686 rather than toggling the previous sign.
688 wx.FontMapper.SetConfig is deprecated. You should instead just set an
689 application-wide config object with wx.Config.Set, which wx.FontMapper
692 Added wx.GetMouseState which returns the current state of the mouse.
693 It returns an instance of a wx.MouseState object that contains the
694 current position of the mouse pointer in screen coordinants, as well
695 as boolean values indicating the up/down status of the mouse buttons
696 and the modifier keys.
698 Added wx.SizerItem.SetUserData
700 A variety of updates to wx.lib.floatcanvas, including Added
701 DrawObjects, including a ScaledTextBox, with auto-wrapping, etc, and
702 Scaled and Unscaled Bitmap Objects.
704 WARNING: Changed all DrawObjects to take an (x,y) pair rather
705 than individual x,y parameters. Also changed rectangles and
706 ellipses to take (w,h) pair. This is an API change, but should
707 be easy to accommodate, all you need to do is add a parenthesis
708 pair: (...x, y, ...) ---> (...(x,y), ...)
717 wx.ListCtrl: patch #1210352, fixes editing in generic wx.ListCtrl with
720 Applied patch #208286, MediaCtrl DirectShow rewrite.
722 DocView patches from Morgan Hua: bug fixes, and additional SVN
723 commands, also added a default template that uses the text editor for
724 any unknown file type.
726 wxMSW: Use the system IDC_HAND cursor for wx.CURSOR_HAND and only fallback
727 to the strange wxWidgets version if the system one is not available.
729 wx.grid.Grid: Merge the cell size attribute the same way that other
730 attributes are merged, e.g., if it is already set to a non-default
731 value in the current GridCellAttr object then don't merge from the
734 wx.lib.evtmgr: Fixed to use wx._core._wxPyDeadObject
736 wx.lib.gridmovers: Don't scroll when the mouse is dragged outside of
737 the grid, unless the mouse is kept in motion.
739 wxMSW: Applied patch #1213290 incorrect logic in
740 wx.TopLevelWindow.ShowFullScreen.
742 Applied patch #1213066 correct device names for Joystick in Linux.
744 wxGTK: Applied patch #1207162 wx.TextCtrl.SetStyle fix for overlapping
747 wx.FileConfig: fixed DeleteEntry to set the dirty flag properly so the
748 change will get written at the next flush.
758 Added wx.BrushFromBitmap to create a stippled brush in a single step.
759 Also added missing brysh style flags: wx.STIPPLE_MASK
760 wx.STIPPLE_MASK_OPAQUE.
762 wxMSW: Fix for default control colours when the system text fg colour
765 wxGTK: Patch #1171754, It is now possible to have a menu item that
766 both has an icon and is a submenu.
768 wxMSW: Patch #1197009, better refreshes when windows are moved and
771 wxMSW: Patch #1197468. Keeps track of pending size/position changes
772 in case there is more than one adjustment for a window in a single
773 DeferWindowPos set, then the pending values can be used for defaults
774 instead of current values.
776 Fixed the typemap that converts a Python list of strings to a
777 wxArrayString so it uses the wxPython default encoding.
779 Several docstrings added and updated. Lots more to go.
781 wxMac: Strings added to the clipboard or used in DnD no longer have an
782 extra null character at the end.
784 Added wx.GetXDisplay that returns a raw swigified pointer for the X11
785 Display, or None for the non-X11 platforms.
787 wxMenu: Don't send an event when selecting an already selected radio
790 Added wx.LaunchDefaultBrowser.
792 wxMSW: Fixed erroneous selection of content in wx.ComboBox when within
795 wxMSW: Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
797 Ensure that Python is still in an initialized state before doing any
798 locking or unlocking in wxPyBeginBlockThreads and wxPyEndBlockThreads
799 as these can be triggered after Python has been finalized in embedding
802 Added alternate constructors for wx.Font: wx.FontFromPixelSize,
803 wx.FFont, wx.FFontFromPixelSize. See the docstrings or new api docs
806 Added wx.lib.hyperlink from Andrea Gavana. It is a control like
807 static text that acts like a hyper-link, launching the system's
808 default browser in response to the clicks.
810 Added an optional parameter to wxversion.select that allows you to
811 specify that the extra components specified in the version string are
812 required. For example, if you ask for "2.6-unicode" but only the ansi
813 version is installed then by default the ansi version will be selected
814 as it considered close enough since the version numbers match. If you
815 want to force the options to be required then you can just add a True
816 parameter, like this::
819 wxversion.select("2.6-unicode", True)
822 Tweaked wx.lib.buttons such that flat buttons (e.g. have no bevel and
823 a wx.BORDER_NONE style flag) paint themed backgrounds if there are
824 transparent areas and the parent is displaying a theme.
826 wxMSW: Fix for wrong sash colour of wx.SplitterWindow in the silver
829 Added a wx.xrc.XmlResourceHandler for the Ticker class. See
832 wxSTC: Fixed CmdKeyAssign key bindings for Ctrl-Backspace.
834 wxMSW: Fixed a bug in wx.TextCtrl where all the lines were being used
835 to calculate the best size, instead of using a reasonable limit.
837 XRCed: Use wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding/wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding for
838 changing active encoding. Fixed pasting siblings (Ctrl key pressed
841 wx.lib.filebrowsebutton: Bug fix from Chad Netzer for when
842 self.history is None.
844 wx.ogl: Patch from Davide Salomoni that adds an optional point
845 parameter to LineShape.InsertLineControlPoint allowing one to
846 optionally specify where the new control point has to be drawn.
848 wxMSW: setting foreground colour for wx.CheckBox now works when using
851 More updates to the docview library modules and sample apps from the
852 ActiveGrid folks. Their sample IDE is now able to integrate with
855 wx.grid.Grid: Ensure that the grid gets the focus when it is
856 left-clicked. Note that if you have custom widgets that handle the
857 EVT_LEFT_DOWN event but do not call event.Skip() then you will
858 probably want to add a call to self.SetFocus in the event handler.
860 wxGTK: Add wxSTAY_ON_TOP support [Patch 1206023]
862 wx.TreeCtrl: wx.EVT_TREE_ITEM_MENU event made consistent on all
863 platforms. The location of the click or the item is included in the
866 wxGTK: Setting background colour of a window now only affects the
867 window itself, not the borders, scrollbars, etc. (Bug #1204069)
869 Print framework: Add more paper sizes and code to fallback to an
870 explicit paper size if a known paper size is not found for the
873 wxMac: Applied patch for bug #1206181 Option-key decodes are wrong,
874 also applied patch for bug #1205691 Modified Fn keys don't work.
876 wx.Image: Fixed to preserve alpha channel in Rotate90 method.
878 wxMSW: Fixed incorrect background colour on wx.CheckListBox.
880 wxMSW: Fixed drawing of owner drawn buttons with multiline labels
882 Removed a bunch of unnecessary files, and removed or replaced images
883 that we're not sure of their origin or license.
885 The default DoGetBestSize is updated to not always return the current
886 size if the window has no sizer, children, or minsize set. Instead
887 the current size is set as the minsize. This solves the occasional
888 problem where a sizer may cause a childless panel to grow but never
891 wxMSW: When converting a wx.Icon to a bitmap check if the icon has an
892 alpha channel and set the bitmap to use it.
894 Fixed the wrong class name used in wx.PyScrolledWindow's call to
897 wxMSW: patch #1207202, Fixes GDI leak when using stock cursors.
899 wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl: Patch #1207531, Keeps the CalendarCtrl wide
900 enough even when the weekday names for the locale are shorter than
903 Made GridCellNumberEditor.StartingKey also insert the typed char when
904 there is a range of allowed values (so a wx.SpinCtrl is used instead
915 wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to
916 auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is
919 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE.
921 wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox.
923 wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has
924 changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is
925 either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'.
927 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways
928 to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly
929 to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go
930 through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw"
931 methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of
932 wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi
933 build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions
934 will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be
935 able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on
936 the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current
937 encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.)
939 =================== ====================
940 AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8
941 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8
942 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8
943 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8
944 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8
945 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8
946 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8
947 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8
948 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8
949 =================== ====================
952 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc)
953 method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for
956 wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN,
957 EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control.
959 wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid.
961 XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5.
962 * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu).
963 * Hide command for test window.
964 * Replacing classes works better.
974 wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected'
976 wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles
977 activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done
978 so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char
979 value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code
980 provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event.
982 Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile()
984 wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if
987 Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to
990 wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as
991 well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents
992 did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip
993 children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh.
994 This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with
997 wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after
998 end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch
1001 wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server
1002 crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132)
1004 wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic:
1005 * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled
1006 * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage
1007 the width of any column.
1009 wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is
1012 wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time.
1014 wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox
1016 Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++
1017 wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python.
1019 wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser
1020 wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only
1021 used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the
1022 older generic file dialog is used.
1024 wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch
1027 wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and
1028 alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all
1029 still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but
1030 this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from.
1032 Added MDI support to XRC
1034 Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a
1035 control that is able to display an animated GIF file.
1037 wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either
1038 vertical and/or horizontal gridlines.
1040 wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the
1041 upper line is not cliped when there is no label.
1043 wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only
1044 affecting the label.
1046 wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK
1047 events in a wx.TreeCtrl.
1049 Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the
1050 list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application.
1052 Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid
1055 Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application.
1064 wx.Sizer Add, Insert, and Prepend functions now return a reference to the
1065 wx.SizerItem that was added to the sizer, and the wx.SizerItem has a
1066 GetRect accessor to give the position of the item on the parent window.
1068 Added wx.Sizer.GetItem method which returns the wx.SizerItem for the given
1069 wx.Window, wx.Sizer or position index.
1071 wxMSW: wx.RadioButtons in the same group no longer have to be
1072 consecutive (there may be intervening controls). Without this fix, an
1073 out-of-sync assert is generated when clicking on a radio button and
1074 then calling GetValue().
1077 - Added 'icon' property to wxFrame and wxDialog
1078 - No longer ignores menu bitmaps on non-MSW platforms
1079 - Notebook page bitmaps are now supported
1080 - added system colours and fonts support (based on patch #1038207)
1082 wxMSW: fix for [ 1052989 ] TextCtrl.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NullColour)
1085 Added wx.PasswordEntryDialog analagous to wx.TextEntryDialog, allows
1086 detecting entering an empty string vs. cancel unlike the
1087 wx.GetPasswordFromUser dialog function.
1089 OGL patch from Shane Holloway:
1091 Two simple problems found in the new python ogl code. First is
1092 the patch for _canvas.py. Essentially::
1094 dx = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceX(x - self._firstDragX))
1095 dy = abs(dc.LogicalToDeviceY(y - self._firstDragY))
1097 was incorrect because (x,y) and (self._firstDragX,
1098 self._firstDragY) are both already in Logical coordinates.
1099 Therefore the difference between the two is also in logical
1100 coordinates, and the conversion call is an error. This bug
1101 surfaces when you have OGL on a scrollwin, and you are far from
1102 the origin of the canvas.
1104 The second change in _composit.py basically removes the assumption
1105 that the child is in both self._children and self._divisions.
1106 Causes many problems when it's not. ;)
1108 Fixed GetSaveData and SetSaveData in wx.lib.multisash to not depend on
1109 the default way that class objectss are converted to strings.
1111 Fixed problem in StyledTextCtrl.Set[HV]ScrollBar that could leave the
1112 internal scrollbar visible.
1114 Added wx.StandardPaths which provides methods for determining standard
1115 system paths for each platform.
1117 wxMSW: The window background is now only erased by default if the
1118 background colour or background mode has been changed. This better
1119 allows the default system themed behaviour to show through for
1120 uncustomized windows. Explicit support added for using the correct
1121 theme texture for wx.Notebook pages and their children.
1123 wx.Image: Added support for alpha channels in interpolated and
1124 non-interpolated image rotation. Added ConvertAlphaToMask helper
1125 method for turning shades of grey into shades of alpha and a colour.
1127 wxGTK2: Reimplemented DoDrawRotatedText() by way of a rotation of an
1128 alpha blended text bitmap. It would be better if Pango could draw
1129 directly into an wxImage (as FreeType can,) but that is for later...
1131 Added wrappers and a demo for the wx.MediaCtrl class, which can play
1132 various forms of audio/video media using native codecs install on the
1133 system. So far it is only implemented for Windows and OSX.
1135 wxGTK: Patch applied for Freeze()/Thaw() for wxTextCtrtl.
1137 Added "gravity" for splitter window (patch 1046105). Gravity is a
1138 floating-point factor between 0.0 and 1.0 which controls position of
1139 sash while resizing the wx.SplitterWindow. The gravity specifies
1140 how much the left/top window will grow while resizing.
1142 wxMSW: wx.Slider's C++ implementation rewritten to be more
1143 maintainable and hopefully less buggy. The position of the labels has
1144 also been changed in order to better comply with Microsoft's examples
1145 of how to use the control.
1147 wxMSW: Fix wx.TreeCtrl to end label editing if the control loses
1148 focus (a slightly modified patch 1084592.)
1150 Added wx.EXEC_NODISABLE flag for wx.Execute, which will prevent all
1151 the app's windows being disabled while a synchronous child process is
1154 wxMSW: Much work to correct painting (or leaving transparent) of
1155 control backgrounds, properly using background themes on XP, etc.
1157 Fixed a circular reference problem with wx.Timer. It will now
1158 completely cleanup after itself when the last reference to the timer
1159 is removed. If you were previously using timer.Destroy() to cleanup
1160 your timers it will no longer work. Instead you should hold a
1161 reference to the timer and then del the reference when you are
1162 finished with the timer.
1164 Updated to 1.3.24 of SWIG. All of my big patches have been applied to
1165 the main SWIG source tree, but unfortunatly there were also some bugs
1166 added that affected the wxPython build and a few details in my
1167 original patch were changed/removed, so we are still not free of
1168 patches. A new patch for SWIG is located in the wxPython/SWIG
1169 directory of the wxPython source tree. SWIG 1.3.24 plus this patch
1170 should be used by anyone who is making custom modifications to
1171 wxPython's .i files, or building their own extension modules or
1172 etc. that need to interact with the wxPython swigged types. For the
1173 morbidly curious, here are a few more details:
1175 * Since it is now possible easily and simply share the SWIG type
1176 tables across modules I reverted to always using the stock SWIG
1177 runtime instead of my slightly hacked up version of it exported
1178 via the wxPython C API.
1180 * The %name directive is now deprecated so I replaced most uses of
1181 it with a custom %Rename macro that uses %rename internally.
1182 These will evetually need to be replaced with a DocDecl macro
1183 when docstrings are added for those items.
1185 * The "this" attribute of all SWIGged classes is no longer a
1186 string containing a "swigified pointer", but rather a custom
1187 built-in type that holds the real C pointer to the object and
1188 the type info. It can be converted to a string like the old
1189 value using str() or to the long integer value of the pointer
1192 Added SetDefaultPyEncoding and GetDefaultPyEncoding functions which
1193 will set/get the encoding used by wxPython to convert string or
1194 unicode objects to/from wxString objects. Previously the default
1195 Python encoding was always used, but unless the user had tweaked their
1196 sitecustomize.py file it is always "ascii", which would result in
1197 errors if the strings contained character codes >= 128.
1198 SetDefaultPyEncoding will now allow you to control which encoding will
1199 be used to do those conversions. The default encoding is set to the
1200 value of `locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]` when wxPython is first
1201 imported. Please see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html
1202 for information on the differences between the common latin/roman
1205 Added wxStdDialogButtonSizer, which is a a special sizer that knows
1206 how to order and position standard buttons in order to conform to the
1207 current platform's standards. You simply need to add each `wx.Button`
1208 to the sizer, and be sure to create the buttons using the standard
1209 ID's. Then call `Realize` and the sizer will take care of the rest.
1211 wxMSW Toolbar: pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to the
1212 EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED handler
1214 wxGTK: Applied patch for combo box SELECTED events (no longer get
1215 lots of surplus events)
1217 wxGTK: Applied patch for proper menu highlight colour detection in
1220 wxGTK: Commited scrollbar patch #1093339 which sends lineup, linedown
1221 events based on intercepting the mouse down events.
1223 wxGTK: Applied patch #1102789 which solved conflicts between wxWidgets
1224 and GTK+'s context menu code.
1226 wxGTK: Applied patch #1100327 for correct feedback from DND actions
1227 (not all actions are allowed).
1229 Fixed memory leak in wxGrid::UpdateAttr[Rows][Or][Cols] (patch 1104355)
1231 For efficiency reasons, text controls no longer set the string for
1232 each text updated event, but rather query for the string value only
1233 when GetString is called from an event handler.
1235 Added wx.SL_INVERSE style which will cause wx.Slider to invert the min
1236 and max ends of the slider.
1238 Several patches applied, such as #1111174, #1110252 and others, that
1239 make the generic wx.TreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac) be more
1240 conistent with the wxMSW native wx.TreeCtrl.
1243 * Edit->Locate command (Ctrl-L) for quick selection of items.
1244 Works with event-handling controls (buttons, text fields) but
1245 not with labels/sizers.
1246 * Some improvements: relative paths for files supplied as command-
1247 line argument work correctly, notebook panels are highlighted
1250 wxMac: Fixed a long-standing issue where wxSlider controls with a
1251 hardcoded size would misplace their labels behind the slider control.
1253 wx.HtmlListBox fixed so calling RefreshLine(s) will cause the data for
1254 that line to be refetched from the overridden methods in the derived
1257 The default DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1258 the client size and total size of the window, (such as the size of
1259 borders.) Code that sets the client size using the best size, or that
1260 added extra space to sizers to compensate for this bug may need to be
1263 Can suppress themed notebook pages with the wxNB_NOPAGETHEME style or
1264 setting system option msw.notebook.themed-background to 0.
1266 wxSyledTextCtrl updated to use Scintilla 1.62.
1268 Can now set the msw.window.no-clip-children system option to 1 to
1269 eliminate weird refresh behaviour (delays between a window being
1270 erased and repainted, giving a ghostly gradual-redraw effect). May be
1271 a temporary 'fix' until properly fixed before 2.6.
1273 wxMac: Toolbar is now more native looking with borderless toolbar
1276 wxMac: Switched wx.Bitmap to use newer Quartz object types and APIs
1277 internally. This results in faster display and better alpha support.
1279 Added wx.DatePickerCtrl.
1281 wx.html.HtmlWindow now supports background images.
1283 Added wx.lib.gestures module from Daniel Pozmanter which supports
1284 using Mouse Gestures in an application.
1286 wxGTK2: ENTER and LEAVE mouse events are now sent for multi-line text
1289 wxMSW: "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not
1292 Added modules from Peter Yared and Morgan Hua that implement the wx
1293 Doc/View framework in pure Python code. See wx.lib.docview for the
1294 base implementation and wx.lib.pydocview for Python-specific
1295 extensions. There are also a couple sample applications located in
1298 Added GetBitmap, GetIcon to wx.ImageList.
1300 wxGTK wx.Button.SetLabel no longer invalidates/resets the font.
1302 wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer and etc. have now been
1303 undeprecated at the request of Riaan Booysen, the Boa Constructor team
1304 lead. Boa needs them to help keep track of what kind of item is being
1305 managed by the sizer. They are now just simple compatibility aliases
1308 The old C++ version of the OGL lib is no longer built by default. Use
1309 the Python version in the wx.lib.ogl package instead.
1311 The wx.iewin module is no longer built by default. You can use the
1312 wx.lib.iewin version instead.
1314 Fixed wx.BufferedPaintDC for scrolled windows to work whether the
1315 buffer is covering only the client area or the full virtual area of
1316 the scrolled window. By default it will assume that only the client
1317 area is covered. This is different than the old behavior so to
1318 indicate that the entire virtual area is covered simply add a
1319 style=wx.BUFFER_VIRTUAL_AREA parameter.
1321 wx.gizmos.TreeListCtrl: Add support for the EVT_TREE_ITEM_GETTOOLTIP
1324 Added Resize, SetRGBRect, Size, and GetOrFindMaskColour methods to
1327 Added wx.Rect.IsEmpty
1330 - Corrected wx.ListBox selection handling
1331 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes
1332 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes
1333 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys
1342 wxMac focus and border refreshes corrected.
1344 Updated internal PNG library.
1346 wxMac fix for metal appearance on wx.ToolBar.
1348 wx.grid.Grid fix allowing DoGetBestSize to be called before CreateGrid
1349 (which means that a min size doesn't need to be specified.)
1351 wxMac fix for not sending a native click to a control if it is not
1352 enabled (does an enable itself)
1354 Added wx.lib.ogl.DrawnShape, and fixed various little bugs in the new
1357 Added support to XRC and XRCed for the 3-state checkbox flags and also
1358 for wx.ToggleButton. Updated the generic window styles supported by
1361 It is now possible to create "stock" buttons. Basically this means
1362 that you only have to provide one of the stock IDs (and either an
1363 empty label or a label that matches the stock label) when creating the
1364 button and wxWidgets will choose the stock label to go with it
1365 automatically. Additionally on the platforms that have a native
1366 concept of a stock button (currently only GTK2) then the native stock
1367 button will be used. For example, the following will result in a
1368 button with "Cancel" as the label and if run on wxGTK2 then there will
1369 also be an image of a red X::
1371 b = wx.Button(parent, wx.ID_CANCEL)
1374 Added wx.lib.ticker.Ticker class from Chris Mellon.
1376 Fix some incorrect clipping regions in wxSTC on wxGTK.
1378 Added wrapper for wx.grid.Grid.GetOrCreateCellAttr.
1380 Removed my copy of distutils from the wxPython source tree. Now that
1381 I am no longer doing builds on Python 2.1 the newest distutils is no
1382 longer needed. (There is still one small bug in Python 2.2 distutils
1383 on win32, but it is easily worked around.) This sovles the problem of
1384 incorrect builds on some systems where the system installed distutils
1385 has been patched to behave slightly differently, for example SuSE on
1386 x86_64 or Chandler's build.
1388 Updated to SWIG 1.3.22 (plus my patch.) See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
1389 in the source tree if you need to use SWIG when building your own copy
1390 of wxPython, or other extension modules that need to integrate with
1391 the wxPython modules.
1393 Added wx.Frame.RequestUserAttention which, if the platform suports it,
1394 will do something (such as flash the task bar item) to suggest to the
1395 user that they should look at that window.
1397 "Fixed" wx.grid.Grid.SetDefaultEditor and SetDefaultRenderer by making
1398 them register the editor or renderer for the "string" data type.
1400 Added depth param to wx.Image.ConvertToBitmap.
1402 Extended the wx.calendar.CalendarCtrl class with methods that get/set
1403 a Python datetime or date object. (These will only work with Python
1404 2.3+) The methods are PySetDate, PyGetDate, PySetLowerDateLimit,
1405 PySetUpperDateLimit, PySetDateRange, PyGetLowerDateLimit, and
1406 PyGetUpperDateLimit. Also, CalendarEvent was extended with PySetDate
1407 and PyGetDate methods.
1409 wxMSW: SetBackgroundColour on a wx.Choice or a wx.ComboBox will now
1410 also set the colour of the dropdown.
1412 wxMac: MessageDialog now supports wx.NO_DEFAULT style
1414 wxMSW: added AssociateHandle and DissociateHandle to wx.Window
1416 wxMac: fix for toolbar tooltips
1418 wx.Sizer.Show (and Hide) now take an optional parameter specifying if
1419 the item to be shown should be searched for recursivly in subsizers,
1420 and return a boolean value indicating if the item was found.
1422 wxMSW: fixed MaximizeEvent generation in wx.Frame
1424 wxMSW: fixed sending duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events
1426 Smoother time estimation updates in wx.ProgressDialog (patch 992813)
1428 Made wx.Listbook events more consistent with wx.Notebook ones (patch
1431 Fixed rounding errors in variable status bar panes widths computation
1434 Added possibility to specify printer bin (patch 910272)
1436 wxMSW: fixed wx.ListCtrl's SetWindowStyleFlag() to not remove
1437 WS_VISIBLE; also refresh the control automatically (closes bug
1440 Added wx.Choicebook, yet another notebook-like control.
1442 wxMSW: Make radiobutton tab behaviour the same on MSW as in standard
1443 MSW app, i.e. tab into the activated, not necessarily the first radio
1446 Added limited support for wxEventLoop (you can't derive from a
1447 wx.PyEventLoop version yet...) Updated and moved the sample showing
1448 how to replace the MainLoop to samples/mainloop/mainloop.py.
1450 The C++ xrc lib has been moved out of contrib and into the core, so it
1451 is always built by default. wxPython's build has also changed
1452 accordingly and will build the xrc module as part of the core set of
1453 modules built by default. If you were axplicitly using BUILD_XRC then
1454 it will no longer be recognized as a build option, otherwise you
1455 should notice no difference.
1457 wxMac: Fixed radio toolbar buttons to correctly untoggle the others
1458 when a new one is selected.
1460 wxMac: Fixed GetLineLength and GetLineText for MLTE text controls
1462 wxMac: wx.TaskBarIcon is implemented by allowing you to change the
1463 app's icon on the Dock and also specifying a menu that should be
1464 merged with the normal dock popup menu. See the MigrationGuide for
1465 more details and a warning.
1467 Added wx.TopLevelWindow.IsActive() which tells you if the frame or
1468 dialog is or containts the active window with the keyboard focus.
1470 Added ability to create a font based on pixel size rather than point
1471 size via the FontFromPixelSize constructor.
1473 Updated the Scintilla used by StyledTextCtrl to version 1.61
1475 Improved image HitTest for TreeListCtrl.
1477 Added wx.App.IsMainLoopRunning.
1479 wxGTK: Make wxComboBox spit out a bit fewer surplus events when
1480 holding down the mouse button.
1482 wxGTK: Enable key based navigation through notebook tabs as in the
1483 native control with Left and right keys. Support for vetoing.
1485 FloatCanvas updates from Chris Barker
1487 PyPlot updates from Gordon Williams:
1488 - Added bar graph demo
1489 - Modified line end shape from round to square.
1490 - Removed FloatDCWrapper for conversion to ints and ints in
1492 - Imported modules given leading underscore to name.
1493 - Added Cursor Line Tracking and User Point Labels.
1494 - Demo for Cursor Line Tracking and Point Labels.
1495 - Size of plot preview frame adjusted to show page better.
1496 - Added helper functions PositionUserToScreen and
1497 PositionScreenToUser in PlotCanvas.
1498 - Added functions GetClosestPoints (all curves) and GetClosestPoint
1499 (only closest curve) can be in either user coords or screen
1502 MaskedEdit updates from Will Sadkin:
1503 - Added '*' mask char that means "all ansii chars" (ords 32-255)
1504 - Added proper unicode support to masked controls and wx.tools.dbg
1505 - Fixed two reported missing import bugs introduced by package
1507 - Converted masked package doc strings to reST format for better
1509 - lots of doc string improvements and function hiding to better
1510 reflect package's public contents.
1512 Restructured the installer packages slightly to help facilitate having
1513 multiple versions of wxPython installed at the same time. See the
1514 Migrarion Guide for more information.
1516 Applied patch from Pim Van Heuven that modifies 4 files:
1517 - wxPython/demo/ListCtrl_edit.py (new demo)
1518 - wxPython/demo/Main.py (include new demo in demo app)
1519 - wxPython/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py (several improvements to
1521 - wxPython/wx/lib/wxpTag.py (some small fixes)
1523 Added (thanks to Kevin Ollivier!) wrappers for wx.WebKitCtrl for the
1524 OSX build. Other platforms will raise an exception if you try to use
1527 wxPython on OSX can now be built in Unicode mode, can support multiple
1528 version installs, and comes with an uninstaller script.
1538 Predominantly a bug-fix release.
1540 * Fixed fatal error due to improper wrapping of wx.FSFile.
1542 * Fixed return type of EditableListBox.GetListCtrl
1544 * Give generic tree and list controls a DoGetBestSize so they play
1545 nicer with sizers when there is no minimal size.
1547 * Some tweaks in the demo and samples to correct layout, some
1548 flicker problems, and namespace use.
1550 * Add wx.Image.ConvertAlphaToMask
1552 * Minor corrections in wx.lib.dialogs
1554 * wx.FileHistory constructor now accepts the documented 2nd
1557 * Corrections for exceptions in the new ogl
1559 * Fixed XRCed to not use reparenting of windows to implement caching
1560 of property panels, since Reparent on wxMac is not implemented.
1562 * Add support for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL to the XRC handler for
1565 * Add support for all wxListBox styles to the XRC handler for
1568 * Fix for wx.Listbook.DeleteAllPages to really delete everything.
1570 * wxGTK2 now supports alpha blended bitmap drawing
1572 * Made wx.grid.Grid play nicer with sizers.
1583 wx.ADJUST_MINSIZE is now the default behaviour for window items in
1584 sizers. This means that the item's GetMinSize and/or GetBestSize will
1585 be called when calculating layout and the return value from that will
1586 be used for the minimum size used by the sizer. The wx.FIXED_MINSIZE
1587 flag was added that will cause the sizer to use the old behaviour in
1588 that it will *not* call the window's methods to determine the new best
1589 size, instead the minsize that the window had when added to the sizer
1590 (or the size the window was created with) will always be used. Please
1591 see the Sizers section in the Migration Guide for more details.
1593 Added new MaskedEditControl code from Will Sadkin. The modules are
1594 now locaed in their own sub-package, wx.lib.masked. Demos updated.
1596 The changes that implemented the incompatible wx.DC methods in 2.5.1.5
1597 have been reverted. The wx.DC methods are now compatible with the 2.4
1598 implemetation. In addition a set of renamed methods have been added
1599 that take wx.Point and/or wx.Size objects instead of individual
1602 Added wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin, a mixin class that allows
1603 all columns of a wx.ListCtrl in report mode to be edited.
1605 Deprecated the wx.iewin module.
1607 Deprecated the wx.Sizer.AddWindow, AddSizer, AddSpacer methods as well
1608 as their Insert* and Prepend* counterparts.
1610 Added a generic StaticBitmap class in wx.lib.statbmp for the same
1611 reasons that stattext was created, so it could be mouse sensitive on
1612 all platforms like normal windows. Also updated stattext.py and
1613 buttons.py to handle attribute (font & colour) defaults and
1614 inheritance the new way. If you have custom controls of your own you
1615 should review stattxt.py or one of the others to see how it is to be
1618 wx.InitAllImageHandlers is now an empty function that does nothing but
1619 exist for backwards compatibility. The C++ version is now called
1620 automatically when wxPython is initialized. Since all the handlers
1621 are included in the wxWidgets shared library anyway, this imposes only
1622 a very small amount of overhead and removes several unneccessary
1625 Replaced wx/lib/pubsub.py with a version that uses weak references to
1626 track the subscribers, plus other fixes/additions. Thanks go to
1627 Oliver Schoenborn and Robb Shecter.
1629 wxGTK now uses gtk_init_check so wxPython can raise an exception if
1630 there is no DISPLAY available or other initializaion problem.
1632 wx.GetKeyState now has an implementation for wxGTK and is able to
1633 detect the up/down or toggle state of modifier and toggle keys.
1635 The LC_NUMERIC locale is now reset back to "C" (compatibility) when
1636 running on wxGTK to work around the fact that GTK requires the locale
1637 to be set to the system settings but Python depends on LC_NUMERIC
1638 remaining compatible with "C".
1640 Switched gizmos.TreeListCtrl to the newer version of the code from the
1643 OGL is dead! LONG LIVE OGL! (Oops, sorry. A bit of my dramatic side
1644 leaked out there...) The wx.ogl module has been deprecated in favor
1645 of the new Python port of the OGL library located at wx.lib.ogl
1646 contributed by Pierre Hjälm. This will hopefully greatly extend the
1647 life of OGL within wxPython by making it more easily maintainable and
1648 less prone to getting rusty as there seems to be less and less
1649 interest in maintaining the C++ version. At this point there are just
1650 a couple minor known compatibility differences, please see the
1651 MigrationGuide_ file for details.
1653 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1655 EVT_STC_POSCHANGED has been removed as it has been deprecated in
1656 Scintilla for several releases now.
1658 All the Window and GDI (pen, bitmap, etc.) class constructors and also
1659 many toplevel functions and static methods will now check that a
1660 wx.App object has already been created and will raise a
1661 wx.PyNoAppError exception if not.
1663 Added more default args as needed to allow most window types to be
1664 constructed with only the parent window arg. In some cases other args
1665 may be required for normal operation, but they can usually be set
1668 Removed the deprecated ErrorDialogs and PythonBitmaps modules. If you
1669 were using these in your apps then please join wxPython-dev and assist
1670 with a more modern reimplementation.
1672 Added a new version (0.8.3) of FloatCanvas from Chris Barker. It's now
1673 in a subpackage of wx.lib.
1675 It is now possible to change the tab traversal order of controls on a
1676 panel or dialog. For details see the new MoveAfterInTabOrder and
1677 MoveBeforeInTabOrder methods of wx.Window.
1679 Applied (and heavily modified) a patch from Eugene
1680 <svip123@fastmail.fm> that allows the sample modules in the demo to be
1681 edited and reloaded, all from within the demo. You can switch back
1682 and forth between the default and your edited version, and any errors
1683 ocurring upon the reload are reported on the Demo tab.
1685 Added a menu item in the demo that will open a PyShell window that has
1686 the app and demo frame preloaded in the namespace. This is another
1687 good way to explore and play with the objects in the currently running
1688 sample. For example, load the Button sample and then do the following
1691 >>> b = frame.demoPage.GetChildren()[0]
1692 >>> for x in range(0, 500, 10):
1695 ... wx.MilliSleep(10)
1698 wxGTK: Applied wxNO_BORDER patch (#1098374) for text control and combo
1703 2.5.1.5 (the 'this is *not* a joke' release)
1704 -----------------------------------------------
1707 (See also the MigrationGuide_ file for details about some of the
1708 big changes that have happened in this release and how you should
1711 .. _MigrationGuide: MigrationGuide.html
1714 The wxWindows project and library is now known as wxWidgets. Please
1715 see http://www.wxwindows.org/name.htm for more details. This won't
1716 really affect wxPython all that much, other than the fact that the
1717 wxwindows.org domain name will be changing to wxwidgets.org, so mail
1718 list, CVS, and etc. addresses will be changing. We're going to try
1719 and smooth the transition as much as possible, but I wanted you all to
1720 be aware of this change if you run into any issues.
1723 Many, many little fixes, changes and additions done as part of the move
1724 to wxWidgets 2.5 that I have forgotten about.
1728 Added wxIconLocation
1730 Added Python wrappers and demos for the new wxVScrolledWindow,
1731 wxVListBox, and wxHtmlListBox classes.
1733 Added wrappers for wxBookCtrl and wxListbook. wxNotebook now derives
1736 Added Gordon Williams' PyPlot module to the library, available as the
1739 I made a small but important change in the code that aquires the
1740 Python Global Interpreter Lock to try and prevent deadlocks that can
1741 happen when there are nested attempts to aquire the GIL.
1743 The RPMs will now install menu items on Mandrake Linux in
1744 Applications/Development/Tools for PyCrust, XRCed, etc. The RPMs are
1745 also installing icons and ``*.desktop`` items in the generic KDE and
1746 GNOME locations, but I don't know yet if they are resulting in menu
1747 items on non-Mandrake systems. (It didn't automatically do it on my
1748 RH-9 build box but I didn't chase it very far...) If you have ideas
1749 for how to improve the .spec file to work better and/or on more
1750 distros please send me a patch.
1752 The RPMs are now built on a fairly generic RH-9 box, and I have tested
1753 installing them also on my main Mandrake 9.2 box.
1755 There are some big changes in the OS X disk image. The actual
1756 Installer package now *only* installs the wxMac dynlibs, wxPython
1757 extension modules and Python packages, and also the command-line tool
1758 scripts. The remaining items (demo, samples, and application bundles
1759 for the Demo, PyCrust and XRCed) are now top-level items in the disk
1760 image (.dmg file) that users can just drag and drop to wherever they
1763 The wxWave class has been renamed to wxSound, and now has a slightly
1766 Updated the AnalogClockWindow with many enhancements from E. A. Tacão.
1768 wxMac now has wx.ToggleButton!
1770 wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl has been updated to version 1.58 of Scintilla.
1772 To help with the wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl performance issues on wxMac
1773 I've added a SetUseAntiAliasing method (and GetUseAntiAliasing too)
1774 that will turn off the use of antialiased fonts in the wxSTC, allowing
1775 it to bypass the slow text measuring routines and use the fast and
1776 simple one instead. By default the setting is turned off (on wxMac
1777 only.) When run on OSX the Py* apps have a new item on the Options
1778 menu for controlling this setting if you would like to experiment with
1781 Updated wx.lib.calendar with many fixes and enhancements from Joerg
1784 Added wx.Display and wx.VideoMode.
1786 AppleEvents can be handled by overriding wx.App methods MacOpenFile,
1787 MacPrintFile, MacNewFile, and MacReopenApp.
1789 Added wx.PlatformInfo which is a tuple containing strings that
1790 describe the platform and build options of wxPython. See the
1791 MigrationGuide for more details.
1793 Created a new extension module "activex" from Lindsay Mathieson's
1794 newest wxActiveX_ class. (The existing iewin module used an older
1795 version of this code, but only exposed the wxIEHtmlWin class.) This
1796 new module will (in theory ;-) ) allow you to host arbitrary ActiveX
1797 controls in a wx.Window, **without** requiring the use of the win32com
1798 and other PyWin32 modules! This should eliminate the cronic problems
1799 that have resulted from minor mismatches in how PyWin32 handles the
1800 GIL and tstate when making callbacks, etc. The older iewin module
1801 will be left in this release as the new stuff is not fully backwards
1802 compatible, but you should migrate your code to the new IEHtmlWindow
1803 in wx.lib.iewin, so the old one can be eventually removed.
1804 Additionally, I've always considered that the wx.lib.activexwrapper
1805 module is an ugly hack that I only included in the lib because I
1806 couldn't figure out anything better. Well now we have something that,
1807 if it isn't already, has the potential to be better. So consider
1808 migrating away from using activexwrapper as well. Please see the
1809 MigrationGuide for more details on using the new module.
1811 .. _wxActiveX: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/wxactivex.html
1813 Floats are allowed again as function parameters where ints are expected.
1822 Use wxSTC in the demo for displaying the soucre code of the samples.
1824 Lots of bug fixes and such from the wxWindows folks.
1826 Added wxPython.lib.newevent from Miki Tebeka. Its usage is
1827 demonstrated in the Threads sample in the demo.
1829 Updates to wxMaskedEditCtrl.
1831 Added wxMaskedNumCtrl.
1833 Added Chris Barker's FloatCanvas.
1841 Added wxScrolledPanel from Will Sadkin
1843 Added SetShape method to top level windows (e.g. wxFrame.)
1845 Changed wxSWIG to not generate Python code using apply, (since it will
1846 be deprecated in the future) wxSWIG will use ``spam(*args, **kw)`` syntax
1847 instead. Also changed the generated __repr__ methods to be a bit more
1850 Made the version number information more robust and uh, informative.
1851 Also added asserts to check that the major.minor versions of wxPython
1852 and wxWindows match.
1854 Added the new wx "renamer" package that will dynamically import from
1855 the wxPython package and rename wxFooBar --> FooBar. That means that
1856 people can do imports without ``"import *"`` and can use names like
1857 wx.Frame instead of wx.wxFrame. This is phase 1 of a full transition
1858 to the new namespace.
1860 Updated Scintilla to 1.52. I also changed it to use wxListCtrl
1861 instead of wxListBox for the AutoComplete window, added the ability to
1862 use custom bitmaps in the margin and in the AutoComplete windows, and
1863 worked out how to do proper clipping of child windows on wxGTK.
1865 Patrick O'Brien's PyCrust package has been renamed to Py and now
1866 includes several new tools. As part of the change the location of the
1867 pacakge has changed as well, it is now accessible as "from wxPython
1868 import py" (or "from wx import py" using the new namespace.) There
1869 are still some transition modules in the wxPython.lib.PyCrust package
1870 that will issue a warning and then import what is needed from the new
1871 package. These will be removed in a future release.
1873 Added __nonzero__ method to wxTreeItemId, wxBitmap, wxImage, wxFont,
1874 and most other classes that have an Ok or IsOK method. This allows
1875 code like "if obj: ..." to be the same as "if obj.IsOk(): ..."
1877 Toolbars on wxMac can now have controls on them.
1879 Added wxPython.lib.analogclock module based on samples that were
1880 passed back and forth on wxPython-users a while back.
1882 Added masked edit controls (wxPython.lib.maskededit) by Jeff Childers
1883 and Will Sadkin. Updated wxTimeCtrl to use MaskedEdit.
1885 When the __class__ of a dead object is replaced with _wxPyDeadObject
1886 the __del__ of the original class is now called first.
1888 Added wxTreeListCtrl. (Looks like a wxTreeCtrl embedded in a
1889 wxListCtrl, but actually is just giving multiple columns to a
1892 Added wxFutureCall, a subclass of wxTimer that makes it easy to delay
1893 a call to any Python callable object.
1895 Added wxPy versions of wxPrintPreview, wxPreviewFrame, and
1896 wxPreviewControlBar so they can be derived from in Python and be able
1897 to override the C++ virtual methods.
1899 Simplified how the wxSizer methods are wrapped, changed the name of
1900 the "option" parameter to "proportion" to match the docs ("option" is
1901 still accepted for compatibility, but this will go away in a future
1902 release,) SetItemMinSize can now take a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter,
1903 and Spacers can be specified with a wxSize (or 2-tuple) parameter
1905 Added wxCursorFromBits.
1915 Gave up on generating a warning upon the use of the old true/false or
1918 Fixed wxGenericTreeCtrl (used on wxGTK and wxMac for wxTreeCtrl) so
1919 that it can successfully handle lots of nodes instead of overflowing
1920 when the virtual height of the widget overflowed a 16-bit value.
1922 Fixed the typemap that converts strings to wxColours to also accept
1925 Fixed problem where the wrong class name could sometimes be used for
1928 Fixed an interpreter lock problem in the __eq__ and __ne__ methods in
1931 Updated PyCrust to version 0.9
1933 Instead of always logging C++ assertions, added wxPYAPP_ASSERT_LOG
1934 flag to turn it on. In most cases turning it into an exception (the
1935 default behavior) is enough. See below in the 2.3.4.1 notes for more
1941 2.4.0.6 (a.k.a. the I'm so stupid release)
1942 ------------------------------------------
1945 The new deprecation class for the old true/false symbols can now be
1946 returned from OnInit. And I promise to be sure I am testing what I
1947 think I am testing in the future...
1951 2.4.0.5 (a.k.a. the blame it on Kevin release)
1952 ----------------------------------------------
1955 A few little but annoying bug fixes.
1957 Updated pycolourchooser.
1959 Updated to 0.9b of PyCrust.
1967 Added missing wxRect methods
1969 Add OOR support for wxApp objects too.
1971 Added wxCursorFromImage, which works on wxMSW and wxGTK so far.
1973 All platforms now send EVT_DESTROY_WINDOW. Be warned that at the time
1974 the event is sent the window is in the process of being deconstructed,
1975 and so calling some (most?) methods of the window itself may cause
1978 Fixed SF Bug #689481, a method in the OGL wrappers was using the wrong
1981 Fixed SF Bug #689958, an endless loop in printout.py.
1983 Added EVT_WINDOW_CREATE_ID and EVT_WINDOW_DESTROY_ID so these events
1984 can be associated with a specific window ID and more easily caught by
1987 Fixed copy-paste error in wxListCtrl.GetFirstSelected.
1989 Added missing Init method (and an overloading wrapper) to wxLocale
1992 Added a wxBitmap.SetMaskColour convenience method.
1994 Changed how the dynamic event tables (used for all Python wx classes,
1995 C++ wx classes typically use static event tables) are searched such
1996 that they behave from a Python perspective more like the static tables
1997 in C++. Namely that if there are identical event bindings in a base
1998 Python class and a derived Python class that the one in the derived
1999 class will be found first and that if Skip is called that the one in
2000 the base class will still be found instead of skipping directly to the
2001 static stable in the C++ class.
2003 Switched to using True/False in the wxPython lib and demo instead of
2004 true/false or TRUE/FALSE to prepare for the new boolean type and
2005 constants being added to Python. Added code to wx.py to test for the
2006 existence of the new constants and to create suitable values if not
2009 Added some static wxApp functions that help with integration with the
2010 Mac UI. They are no-ops on other platforms so it doesn't hurt to
2011 always call them. The functions are::
2013 wxApp_GetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
2014 wxApp_GetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2015 wxApp_GetMacAboutMenuItemId
2016 wxApp_GetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
2017 wxApp_GetMacExitMenuItemId
2018 wxApp_GetMacHelpMenuTitleName
2019 wxApp_SetMacDefaultEncodingIsPC
2020 wxApp_SetMacSupportPCMenuShortcuts
2021 wxApp_SetMacAboutMenuItemId
2022 wxApp_SetMacPreferencesMenuItemId
2023 wxApp_SetMacExitMenuItemId
2024 wxApp_SetMacHelpMenuTitleName
2026 Refactored, enhanced and added capabilities for the DrawXXXList
2027 functions, inspired by code from Chris Barker.
2029 The wxWindows .mo language catalog files are now installed in a
2030 subdirectory of the wxPython package dir on MSW since that platform
2031 doesn't have a standard place for them.
2033 Added missing deselect methods for wxGrid.
2035 Fixed typemaps for wxGridCellCoordsArray.
2037 Updated to the 0.9a version of PyCrust
2047 Added wxIntCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2049 Added wxPyColourChooser by Michael Gilfix.
2058 No major new features since 2.3.4.2, mostly bug fixes and minor
2061 Added function wrappers for the common dialogs from Kevin Altis. See
2062 wxPython/lib/dialogs.py for more details.
2078 Updated XRCed and wxTimeCtrl contribs.
2080 Show a couple new wxGrid features in the demo.
2082 Several bug fixes in wxWindows.
2086 wxASSERT and related C++ runtime diagnostics are now converted to
2087 Python exceptions. When an assert happens a wxPyAssertionError
2088 (which derives from AssertionError) exception is created and when
2089 control returns back to the Python code that invoked the C++ API it
2090 will be raised. The same exception restrictions are in place as
2091 before, namely that exceptions can't cross from one Python layer
2092 through C++ to another Python layer. That simply means that if you
2093 want to catch wxPyAssertionError or any other exception that you need
2094 to do it before control returns to C++ at the end of your event
2095 handler or callback code. There is some test code in demo/wxButton.py
2096 you can use to play with this new feature.
2098 Added some methods to wxApp (SetAssertMode and GetAssertMode) that let
2099 you control how C++ assertions are processed. Valid modes are:
2100 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_SUPPRESS, wxPYAPP_ASSERT_EXCEPTION, and
2101 wxPYAPP_ASSERT_DIALOG. Using _SUPPRESS will give you behavior like
2102 the old "final" builds and the assert will be ignored, _EXCEPTION is
2103 the new default described above, and _DIALOG is like the default in
2104 2.3.3.1 and prior "hybrid" builds. You can also combine _EXCEPTION
2105 and _DIALOG if you wish, although I don't know why you would.
2107 You can now overload OnInitGui, OnExit and OnAssert in your classes
2110 Added GetSelectedCells, GetSelectionBlockTopLeft,
2111 GetSelectionBlockBottomRight, GetSelectedRows, GetSelectedCols nethods
2114 Added Python == and != operators for some basic classes
2116 Fixed the Python wrappers for wxInputStream so they no longer block
2117 when reading from a wxProcess on wxGTK. They now work more or less as
2118 they did before 2.3.3.1 but the dual meaning of eof() has been
2119 removed. There is now a CanRead() method that lets you know if there
2120 is data waiting to be read from the pipe.
2122 Fixed method name clash in wxIEHtmlWin, renamed Refresh to RefreshPage.
2124 Added Throbber from Cliff Wells to the library and the demo.
2126 Windows installer prompts to uninstall old version first.
2128 Added wxPython.lib.evtmgr by Robb Shecter, which is an easier, more
2129 "Pythonic" and more OO method of registering handlers for wxWindows
2130 events using the Publish/Subscribe pattern.
2132 Added wxPython.lib.popupctl by Gerrit van Dyk which is a combobox-like
2133 gizmo for poping up arbitrary controls. It is currently using
2134 wxDialog because of some issues with wxPopupWindow...
2136 Added wxPython.lib.gridmovers by Gerrit van Dyk which facilitates the
2137 dragging of columns and/or rows in a wxGrid.
2139 Added wxPython.lib.multisash by Gerrit van Dyk which is a nice
2140 implementation of allowing the user to split a window any number of
2141 times either horizontally or vertically, and to close the split off
2142 windows when desired.
2144 Added helpviewer tool that displays HTML books similarly to how MS
2145 HTMLHelp viewer does. Changed how the wxPythonDocs tarball is built
2146 and added a script to launch the doc viewer.
2155 Added wxSplashScreen.
2157 Added wxGenericDirCtrl.
2159 Added wxMultiChoiceDialog.
2161 The calltip window and autocomplete window in wxSTC will now use a
2162 wxPopupWindow if available on the platform (and functioning correctly)
2163 so they can extend beyond the client area of the STC if needed.
2165 Finished wrapping and providing typemaps for wxInputStream and also
2166 added the stream ctor and other methods for wxImage so images can now
2167 be loaded from any Python "file-like" object.
2169 Changed the img2py tool to use PNG instead of XPM for embedding image
2170 data in Python source code, and the generated code now uses streams to
2171 convert the image data to wxImage, wxBitmap, or wxIcon.
2173 Added the wxPython.lib.rcsizer module which contains RowColSizer.
2174 This sizer is based on code from Niki Spahiev and lets you specify a
2175 row and column for each item, as well as optional column or row
2176 spanning. Cells with no item assigned to it are just left blank.
2177 Stretchable rows or columns are specified and work the same as in
2180 Updated XRCed from Roman Rolinsky
2184 Upgraded wxSTC from Scintilla 1.40 to Scintilla 1.45, and then again
2185 to version 1.47, and one more time to 1.48! <wink>
2188 wxWindows/wxPython can be compiled with unicode support enabled or
2189 disabled. Previous to wxPython 2.3.3 non-unicode mode was always
2190 used. Starting with 2.3.3 either mode is supported, but only if
2191 it is also available in wxWindows on the platform. Currently
2192 wxWindows only supports unicode on MS Windows platforms, but with
2193 the recent release of GTK+ 2.0 it is only a matter of time until
2194 it can be done on wxGTK (Linux and other unixes) as well.
2196 Unicode works best on platforms in the NT branch of the Windows
2197 family tree (NT, win2k, XP) but it is now also possible to use the
2198 same unicode binaries on win95/98/ME platforms as well! This is
2199 done by using a special library and DLL with the application
2200 called MSLU, (Microsoft Layer for Unicode). It simply gets out of
2201 the way if the app is run on an NT box, otherwise if run on a
2202 win9x box it loads a special DLL that provides the unicode
2203 versions of the windows API. So far I have not been able to get
2204 this to work perfectly on win9x. Most things work fine but
2205 wxTaskBarIcon for example will cause a crash if used with the
2206 unicode build on win95.
2208 So how do you use it? It's very simple. When unicode is enabled,
2209 then all functions and methods in wxPython that return a wxString
2210 from the C++ function will return a Python unicode object, and
2211 parameters to C++ functions/methods that expect a wxString can
2212 accept either a Python string or unicode object. If a string
2213 object is passed then it will be decoded into unicode using the
2214 converter pointed to by wxConvCurrent, which will use the default
2215 system encoding. If you need to use a string in some other
2216 encoding then you should convert it to unicode using the Python
2217 codecs first and then pass the unicode string to the wxPython
2220 Added wxListCtrlAutoWidthMixin from Erik Westra.
2222 Added wxIconBundle and wxTopLevelWindow.SetIcons.
2224 Added wxLocale and wxEncodingConverter.
2226 A little black magic... When the C++ object (for a window or
2227 whatever) is deleted there is no way to force the Python shadow object
2228 to also be destroyed and clean up all references to it. This leads to
2229 crashes if the shadow object tries to call a method with the old C++
2230 pointer. The black magic I've done is to replace the __class__ in the
2231 Python instance object with a class that raises an exception whenever
2232 a method call (or other attribute access) is attempted. This works
2233 for any class that is OOR aware.
2235 Added OOR support for wxGridCellRenderer, wxGridCellEditor,
2236 wxGridCellAttr, wxGridCellAttrProvider, wxGridTableBase and their
2239 Added wxImage.GetDataBuffer which returns an in-place edit buffer of
2240 the image data. (Patch #546009)
2242 Added a sample that shows how to embed wxPython in a wxWindows C++
2245 Added wxPyWindow, wxPyPanel and wxPyControl which are just like their
2246 wx counterparts except they allow some of the more common C++ virtual
2247 methods to be overridden in Python derived classes. The methods
2260 TransferDataFromWindow
2261 TransferDataToWindow
2264 AcceptsFocusFromKeyboard
2269 If there are other methods that you think should be supported
2272 Changed wxGenButton to derive from wxPyControl and overload
2273 DoGetBestSize and AcceptsFocus.
2275 Added wxArtProvider.
2277 Added wxCallAfter which is a helper function that registers a function
2278 (or any callable Python object) to be called once the next time there
2279 are no pending events. This is useful for when you need to do
2280 something but it can't be done during the current event handler. The
2281 implementation is very simple, see wxPython/wx.py.
2283 Fixed a boatload of reference leaks.
2285 Added a demo of using a sizer in a wxScrolledWindow, in effect
2286 creating a ScrolledPanel.
2288 Added a sample to the demo that shows how to use radio menu items, and
2291 Added wxIEHtmlWin. This is essentially the same as using IE with the
2292 ActiveXWrapper already in the library, but it is implemented all in
2293 C++ and therefore does not need any of the modules from win32all and
2294 so it is less fragile in the face of changes.
2296 Fixed the ActiveXWrapper problem. Looks like when the win32com
2297 modules make a "callback" that they (incorrectly, IMHO) allocate a
2298 transient thread state structure. Since wxPython is now saving
2299 tstates for it's own callbacks it ended up using garbage after
2300 win32com got rid of the temporary tstate...
2302 Added a generic static text control to wxPython.lib.stattext. This is
2303 so things like Boa and PythonCard can have a static text that can
2304 respond to mouse events and etc.
2306 Changed the wxDateTime.Parse* methods to return an int that will be -1
2307 on failure, and the index where parsing stopped otherwise.
2309 Moved tools to be a Python package in wxPython.tools, added scripts to
2310 import and launch each tool. This will let you import and use the
2311 tools in your own scripts or apps as needed. On Linux and OS X the
2312 tool scripts are installed to {prefix}/bin so you should be able to
2313 easily launch them from the command line. For example, PyCrust can be
2314 started with just the "pycrust" command.
2316 Added a sample to the demo that catches various key events and
2317 displays the details of the event.
2319 Added wxWizard, wxWizardPage, wxWizardPageSimple and wxPyWizardPage.
2321 Added wxXmlResourceHandler which allows you to create custom handlers
2322 for nonstandard class types in XRC resources. See the demo for an
2325 Added wxPython.lib.mixins.rubberband module from Robb Shecter.
2327 Added wxTimeCtrl from Will Sadkin.
2336 Changed (again) how the Python global interpreter lock is handled as
2337 well as the Python thread state. This time it works on SMP machines
2338 without barfing and is also still compatible with Python debuggers.
2340 Added some patches from library contributors.
2348 Added EVT_HELP, EVT_HELP_RANGE, EVT_DETAILED_HELP,
2349 EVT_DETAILED_HELP_RANGE, EVT_CONTEXT_MENU, wxHelpEvent,
2350 wxContextMenuEvent, wxContextHelp, wxContextHelpButton, wxTipWindow,
2351 and a demo to show them in action.
2353 Deprecated PyShell and PyShellWindow, added a snapshot of PyCrust (see
2354 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/. )
2356 Added the new virtual list capabilities to wxListCtrl.
2358 Added a wxSTC style editor from Riaan Booysen to the sample apps.
2360 Added XRCed to the wxPython Tools directory, contributed by Roman
2363 Added a new "constructor" to most of the window classes that calls the
2364 default C++ constructor, (the one with no parameters) and also added the
2365 corresponding Create(...) method. This allows you to do a 2-step
2366 creation of windows which is sometimes required for doing things such
2367 as setting extended style flags before the window is created, or for
2368 passing the object to the XRC resource system to be created from the
2369 resource. The name of the new "constructor" is the original name of
2370 the class with a "Pre" in it. For example, wxPreWindow, wxPreFrame,
2373 Updated to version 1.40 of Scintilla and updated wxStyledTextCtrl
2374 accordingly. While doing this update I dropped the wxLB_SORT style
2375 from the wxListBox created for the AutoComplete functionality. This
2376 means that you will have to sort the keyword lists yourself, but you
2377 are free to do case sensitive or case insensitive sorts and set the
2378 wxSTC flag accordingly.
2380 Updated wxColumnSorterMixin to also be able to place sort icons on the
2381 column headers, and updated the wxListCtrl demo to show it off by
2382 using wxColumnSorterMixin.
2384 Added wxGenBitmapTextButton, TablePrint, etc. contribs from Lorne White.
2386 Added wxNativeFontInfo and wxFontMapper.
2388 Added pySketch to the samples.
2390 Significantly changed how the Python interpreter lock and thread state
2391 are managed, which should fix the problem of running on a
2392 multi-processor machine.
2394 Added wxPyLog so log targets can be created in Python to handle log
2395 messages however is wished. See demo/Main.py for an example.
2397 Added wxFindReplaceDialog.
2399 The second phase of OOR is implemented for wxEvtHandler, wxSizer,
2400 wxShape and derived classes. This means that functions and methods
2401 that return an object derived from wxEvtHandler that was originally
2402 created in Python, will return the original Python object (if it still
2403 exists) instead of letting SWIG wrap a new shadow object around the
2404 original C++ pointer.
2406 Added some optimization methods to wxDC: GetBoundingBox, DrawLineList,
2409 Added a set of sophisticated Error Dialogs from Chris Fama.
2411 Added wxRightTextCtrl from Josu Oyanguren to wxPython.lib for aligning
2412 text in a wxTextCtrl to the right side.
2414 Added wxURLDataObject and an example showing drag and drop of URLs to
2415 and from web browsers. It's still not 100% bullet-proof for all types
2416 of browsers, but it works for the majority of cases with the popular
2417 browsers on Windows. On wxGTK it seems that only Netscape 4.x works,
2418 if anybody has any suggestions about this please bring it up on the
2423 Added wxMimeTypesManager and wxFileType.
2425 Passing None for the handler parameter to one of the EVT_** functions
2426 will now Disconnect the event.
2428 Added wxPopupWindow and wxPopupTransientWindow.
2430 Added wxFileHistory.
2432 Added wxDynamicSashWindow, which allows you to endlessly split windows
2433 by dragging a little tab next to the scrollbars. Added a demo to show
2434 this and also the ability of multiple wxStyledTextCtrls to share the
2437 Added wxEditableListBox gizmo.
2439 Updated wxEditor with lots of enhancements from Steve Howell and Adam
2442 Added the "SplitTree gizmos" which are a collection of classes that
2443 were designed to operate together and provide a tree control with
2444 additional columns for each item. The classes are
2445 wxRemotelyScrolledTreeCtrl, wxTreeCompanionWindow,
2446 wxThinSplitterWindow, and wxSplitterScrolledWindow, some of which may
2447 also be useful by themselves.
2449 Added wxDllWidget from Vaclav Slavik which allows wx widgets derived
2450 from wxWindow to be loaded from a C++ .dll (or .so) and be used in a
2451 wxPython program, without the widget having to be SWIGged first. The
2452 visible API of the widget is limited to wxWindow methods plus a
2453 SendCommand method, but it is still quite powerful. See
2454 wxPython/contrib/dllwidget and wxPython/demo/dllwidget for more
2464 Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the user
2465 code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to push
2466 on a custom event handler for example.)
2468 Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2469 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl.
2471 Added ability to use xml resource files. Still need to add ability to
2472 subclass wxXmlResourceHandler, etc...
2474 Added wxGridAutoEditMixin to the mixins library package.
2476 Made ColourSelect be derived from wxButton.
2478 Fixed img2py to work correctly with Python 2.1.
2480 Added enhanced wxVTKRenderWindow by Prabhu Ramachandran
2488 Removed initial startup dependency on the OpenGL DLLs so only the
2489 glcanvasc.pyd depends on them, (on wxMSW.)
2491 Changed wxFont, wxPen, wxBrush to not implicitly use the
2492 wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List objects behind the scenes, but to use normal
2495 Exposed the wxThe[Font|Pen|Brush]List to wxPython.
2497 Also added wxTheColourDatabase and added a library module (in the
2498 wxPython.lib.colourdb module) to load LOTS more colour names into the
2501 Added wxWakeUpMainThread, wxMutexGuiEnter, wxMutexGuiLeave,
2502 wxMutexGuiLocker and wxThread_IsMain to assist with dealing with GUI
2503 access from non-GUI threads.
2505 wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow is now (more) thread safe if non-GUI threads
2506 use print, sys.stdout.write, etc.
2508 Added CreateTextSizer and CreateButtonSizer to wxDialog
2510 Added wxPython/lib/infoframe.py from Chris Fama. It contains a class
2511 that can be used in place of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow.
2513 Added colourselect.py, imagebrowser.py and an updated calendar.py to
2514 wxPython/lib from Lorne White.
2516 Added patch to wxPoint_LIST_helper from Tim Hochberg that should make
2517 it gobs faster in certain situations.
2519 Added tools that will take an image file in a wx supported format and
2520 convert it to data embedded in a Python source file. The image is
2521 converted to XPM format which is essentially a list of strings
2522 containing info about each pixel. The image's transparency mask is
2523 included, if there is one, or a mask can be added if a mask colour is
2524 specified on the command line. It is then pickled and optionally
2525 compressed and written to a Python source file along with functions to
2526 convert it to either a wxBitmap or a wxImage. See
2527 wxPython/demo/images.py for examples, and wxPython/Tools/img2py.py for
2530 Fixed wxStyledTextCtrl to be much faster on wxGTK. There was some
2531 experimental code that got left in place that ended up causing way too
2534 A couple more hacks in my_distutils.py so wxPython can be built with
2535 the distutils that comes with Python 2.1.
2537 Added a ton of missing methods for wxPrintData.
2539 Switched to InnoSetup for MSW distributions.
2541 Added wxToggleButton.
2543 Fixed bug that prevented wxTreeCtrl.OnCompareItems from being called.
2545 Added some methods to wxGrid:
2546 GetCellHighlightPenWidth
2547 GetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2548 SetCellHighlightPenWidth
2549 SetCellHighlightROPenWidth
2551 GetGridRowLabelWindow
2552 GetGridColLabelWindow
2553 GetGridCornerLabelWindow
2555 Added wxGetClientDisplayRect which on wxMSW returns a wxRect
2556 representing the area on screen not occupied by the taskbar and such.
2557 On other platforms it is equivallent to wxGetDisplaySize.
2560 Implemented the first phase of OOR (Original Object Return). See
2561 the text in the demo for more details of what this means, but in a
2562 nutshell methods such as wxWindow.GetParent or FindWindowById will
2563 now return a shadow object of the proper type if it can. By
2564 "proper type" I mean that if the wxWindow pointer returned from
2565 FindWindowById really points to a wxButton then the Python object
2566 constructed will be of a wxButtonPtr class instead of wxWindowPtr
2567 as before. This should reduce or eliminiate the need for
2568 wxPyTypeCast. (Woo Hoo!) The objects returned are still not the
2569 original Python object, but that is the next step. (Although it
2570 will probably only work on Python 2.1 and beyond because it will
2571 use weak references.)
2573 This first phase of the OOR plan is fairly significant and has
2574 required a lot of changes all over wxPython, most of which should
2575 be transparent to you, however I'm not 100% sure that it didn't
2576 introduce any new bugs that are hiding somewhere and didn't get
2577 stomped on during my testing. So please be sure to test everything
2578 thoroughly when you install this version and be sure to report any
2579 object-type related oddities to me.
2582 There is now a wxObject class that most other classes derive from like
2583 in C++, but the methods provided don't really match but are wxPython
2584 specific. It could have been added long ago but OOR required it so it
2587 Finally added wxPyLineShape.GetLineControlPoints, which has been on my
2588 list for a while. The above OOR modification made this easier.
2590 Fixed the __cmp__ methods for wxPoint and others.
2594 Added the wxPython.lib.mixins package to the library, it is where
2595 useful mix-in classes can be placed. Currently there is one to help
2596 make the columns in a wxListCtrl sortable, and the MagicIMageList from
2597 Mike Fletcher. If you have any custom code that can be factored out
2598 of existing classes into a mix-in that would be useful to others
2599 please send it to me for inclusion in this package.
2601 Added a few little sample applications to help newbies to get started
2602 by having smaller functional apps to play with. They can be found in
2612 No changes happened in the Python wrappers for this release, only
2613 changes and fixes in the wxWindows library.
2621 New typemaps for wxString when compiling for Python 2.0 and beyond
2622 that allow Unicode objects to be passed as well as String objects. If
2623 a Unicode object is passed PyString_AsStringAndSize is used to convert
2624 it to a wxString using the default encoding.
2626 Fixed the generic buttons so tool tips work for them.
2628 Fixed a bug in the demo's tree control.
2630 Added a listbox to the listbox demo that shows how to find items with
2631 a matching prefix as keys are typed.
2633 Added code to the wxListCtrl demo to show how to get text from a
2634 column in report mode.
2636 Added code to the toolbar demo to clear the long help from the status
2637 bar after 2 seconds.
2641 Fixed wxTimer so it can be used as described in the docs, either with
2642 a Notify method in a subclass, or sending an event to a wxEvtHandler
2643 object, (usually a window.)
2645 Added wxNotifyEvent.Allow()
2647 Fixed GOBS of reference leaks.
2649 Massive code changes and cleanup to allow wxPython to be split into
2650 multiple extension modules again. A Python CObject is used to allow
2651 the "export" of SWIG functions and other common helper functions from
2652 the wxc module to other modules, even if they are in separate shared
2653 libraries. Should also be usable from 3rd party code, just include
2654 wxPython/src/export.h
2656 Changed the default setup so the following are built as separate
2657 extension modules: calendar, glcanvas, grid, html, ogl, stc, and
2658 utils. Will probably add more later.
2660 Changed the wxPrinterDC to use the new constructor taking a
2661 wxPrintData object. The old ctor is still there using the
2664 Added wxPython.lib.anchors.py from Riaan Booysen. It contains a class
2665 that implements Delphi's Anchors with wxLayoutConstraints.
2667 Added wxPython.lib.fancytext from Timothy Hochberg.
2669 Changed the GenericButtons to send their event in idle time, so the
2670 mouse won't be captured when the event handler is called.
2672 Added wxPython.lib.rpcMixin from Greg Landrum, although it's not
2673 integrated with the demo yet. It allows a wxPython GUI to be an
2682 Significantly changed how the wxStyledtextCtrl code that wraps
2683 Scintilla is implemented. Most of it is now automatically generated
2684 from an interface definition file provided by Scintilla. This means
2685 that it will be much easier to stay in sync with new Scintilla
2686 releases, but also means that some of the method and identifier names
2687 have changed. See wxPython/demo/data/stc.h for a copy of the C++
2688 interface from which the Python interface is generated. There is now
2689 some inline documentation in that file that should really help explain
2692 I am now using the Python Distutils to build wxPython and to make some
2693 of the distribution files. (See http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/)
2694 This means no more messing with my kludgy build.py/Makefile hack,
2695 builds will be more consistent with other Python extensions that also
2696 use Distutils, and will hopefully make wxPython easier to build for
2697 platforms where there have been troubles before. If you are building
2698 wxPython for Python 1.5.2 or for 1.6, then you will need to get and
2699 install version 1.0 of Distutils from the website above. If you are
2700 using Python 2.0 then you already have it.
2702 Added wxInputStream and the wxFileSystem family of classes,
2703 contributed by Joerg Baumann.
2705 Added wxProcess and support for it to wxExecute. wxProcess lets you
2706 get notified when an asyncronous child process terminates, and also to
2707 get input/output streams for the child process's stdout, stderr and
2710 Removed the old python sizers.
2712 Added __add__, __sub__ and __cmp__ (equality check only) for wxPoint
2715 Changed the build to make one big extension module instead of one for
2716 the core and each contrib. This allowed me to do away with the
2717 libwxPyHelpers.so on unix systems.
2719 Lots of little fixes here and there.
2721 Some hacks on wxGTK to try and make the AutoComplete listbox in the
2722 wxStyledTextCtrl to behave better. It's still not as nice as on
2723 wxMSW, but at least it's a bit more usable now.
2732 Various tweaks, fixes, missing methods, etc.
2734 Added example use of wxTaskBarIcon to the demo.
2742 Added wxLog and friends.
2744 Added wxFrame.ShowFullScreen for MSW.
2746 Added PyShellWindow to the wxPython.lib package.
2754 Added an attribute named labelDelta to the generic buttons that
2755 specifies how far to offset the label when the button is in the
2758 Added wxTipProvider and friends. See the demo for an example.
2760 wxGrid can now change the cell highlight colour.
2764 Fixed printing on wxGTK.
2766 Added wxDateTime, wxTimeSpan, and wxDateSpan to wxPython.utils.
2768 Added wxCalendarCtrl.
2770 WARNING: A while back I asked what should be done about the Magic
2771 Method Names. (Methods that are automatically turned into event
2772 handlers by virtue of their name.) The consensus was that it is more
2773 confusing to have them than to try and expand them to have greater
2774 coverage. I am finally getting around to removing the code that
2775 generates the event binding. This means that if you are using any of
2776 the following method names without a EVT_* call that you need to
2777 modify your code to add the EVT_* to hook the event to the method.
2800 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.HitTest to return both the tree item as well as the
2801 flags that clairify where the click was in relation to the item.
2803 Fixed thread state problem in wxTreeCtrl.GetBoundingBox and
2806 Fixed some problems in OGL. Also wxShape.SetClientData and
2807 .GetClientData can now deal with Python objects.
2809 Added wxListCtrl.SortItems and changed the demo to show how to use it.
2811 Plugged a memory leak.
2813 Wrapped the new wxGrid and friends. The old wxGrid class is no longer
2814 available. There are some incompatibilities, and unfortunately the
2815 new classes are not documented yet, (however the methods are more
2816 consistent with each other now so you may be able to guess pretty
2819 Updated filebrowsebutton.py and calendar.py with changes from their
2820 authors. There is now a FileBrowseButtonWithHistory class (what a
2821 mouthful!) and wxCalendar has printing support.
2823 Added ActiveXWrapper to the library, and some good demos of it too.
2824 It works great for embedding a COM (a.k.a OCX, a.k.a ActiveX) control
2825 in a window and calling its methods. It actually creates a new class
2826 on the fly that derives from wxWindow, the COM CoClass and others
2827 needed to make it all work. The resulting class can be instantiated
2828 just like wxWindow, used in sizers, etc. It also responds to all COM
2829 method calls, properties, etc., and if the class or a mix-in has
2830 matching method names, then the COM events will be propogated back to
2833 Created a typemap that allows a string to be used for parameters
2834 expecting a wxColour type. The string is either a colour name as
2835 defined in the wxColourDatabase, or a colour spec of the form
2836 "#RRGGBB". See the wxStyledTextCtrl demo for an example.
2838 I almost forgot to mention the wxStyledTextCtrl! Yes, the
2839 wxStyledTextCtrl is finally in wxPython!! (And the crowd goes
2840 wild...) There's no documentaTion yet (the crowd boos and hisses...)
2841 but I've included a very readable source file in the
2842 wxPython/demo/data directory, a couple fairly good examples, and you
2843 can also refer to the Scintilla documentaion at
2844 http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html to help fill in the gaps
2845 until the docs are done. (The croud murmers contentedly as the tool
2846 provider smiles convincingly and removes his flame-proof suit.)
2851 What's new in 2.1.13
2852 --------------------
2855 Skipped a version number to match what has been released for wxGTK.
2857 Updated wxMVCTree and added a demo for it, also fixed layout on GTK
2858 and some flicker problems.
2860 Added a wrapper class for the Visualization ToolKit (or VTK) in the
2861 wxPython.lib.vtk module. (http://www.kitware.com/)
2863 Fixed wxTreeCtrl.SetItemImage and GetItemImage to recognise the new
2866 Added wxPython.lib.spashscreen from Mike Fletcher.
2868 Added wxPython.lib.filebrowsebutton also from Mike Fletcher.
2870 Renamed wxTreeCtrl.GetParent to GetItemParent to avoid a name clash
2871 with wxWindow.GetParent.
2873 Added wxIntersectRect to compute the intersection of two wxRect's.
2874 It is used like this:
2876 intersect = wxIntersectRect(rect1, rect2)
2878 If r1 and r2 don't intersect then None is returned, otherwise the
2879 rectangle representing the intersection is returned.
2881 Some bug fixes for Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop.
2883 Rotated text!!! WooHoo! (See wxDC.DrawRotatedText())
2885 Added a set of Generic Buttons to the library. These are simple
2886 window classes that look and act like native buttons, but you can have
2887 a bit more control over them. The bezel width can be set in addition
2888 to colours, fonts, etc. There is a ToggleButton as well as Bitmap
2889 versions too. They should also serve as a good example of how to
2890 create your own classes derived from wxControl.
2892 The C++ wxToolBar classes have been redone, and so have the wxPython
2893 wrappers. There have been slight modifications to some of the methods
2894 but shouldn't impact anybody too much. I took the opportunity to add
2895 support for setting user data on each toolbar tool. The new AddTool
2896 methods look like this:
2900 pushedBitmap = wxNullBitmap,
2903 shortHelpString = "",
2904 longHelpString = "")
2906 def AddSimpleTool(ID,
2908 shortHelpString = "",
2909 longHelpString = "",
2913 There are also corresponding InsertTool and InsertSimpleTool methods
2914 that additionally take an integer position as the first parameter.
2916 Added a wrapper for the new PCX and TIFF ImageHandlers.
2918 wxRect now simulates attributes named left, right, top and bottom.
2920 Removed all non wx stuff from the glcanvas module since DA's PyOpenGL
2921 is better and compatible with the wxGLCanvas. You can get it at
2922 http://starship.python.net:9673/crew/da/Code/PyOpenGL.
2924 Added some missing EVT functions.
2926 Added Dirk Holtwic's editor classes to the wxPython.lib.editor
2929 Changed all the "LIST" parameter names to "choices" to match the docs.
2931 More fixes for the wxFloatBar, and it now works on wxGTK even better
2932 than wxMSW! (The feat is accomplished by using the wxTB_DOCKABLE
2933 style flag instead of trying to float it ourselves.)
2938 What's new in 2.1.11
2939 --------------------
2942 Skipped a few version numbers so wxMSW, wxGTK and wxPython are all
2945 wxImage.SetData now makes a copy of the image data before giving it to
2946 wxImage. I mistakenly thought that wxImage would copy the data
2949 Fixed wxMSW's notebook so the pages get their size set as they are
2950 being added. This should remove the need for our
2951 wxNotebook.ResizeChildren hack.
2953 wxPanels now support AutoLayout, and wxNotebooks and wxSplitterWindows
2954 no longer tell their children to Layout() themselves. This will
2955 probably only effect you if you have a wxWindow with AutoLayout inside
2956 a notebook or splitter. If so, either change it to a wxPanel or add
2957 an EVT_SIZE handler that calls Layout().
2959 Fixed deadlock problem that happened when using threads.
2961 Added new HTML printing classes.
2963 Added wxWindow.GetHandle
2965 Apparently wxMouseEvent.Position has been deprecated in wxWindows as
2966 it is no longer available by default. You can use GetPositionTuple
2967 (returning a tuple with x,y) instead, or GetPosition (returning a
2970 Added wxPostEvent function that allows events to be posted and then
2971 processed later. This is a thread-safe way to interact with the GUI
2972 thread from other threads.
2974 Added Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop classes.
2976 Added wxFontEnumerator.
2978 Many updates to wxMenu, wxMenuBar.
2980 wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent derived classes now give you the actual
2981 Python object in the event handler instead of a new shadow.
2983 Added a Calendar widget from Lorne White to the library.
2985 Made some fixes to the wxFloatbar. It still has some troubles on
2988 Added an MVC tree control from Bryn Keller to the library.
2997 This is a quick bug-fix release to take care of a few nasties that
2998 crept in at the last minute before 2.1.4 was called done. No new
3007 This release is NOT syncronized with a snapshot release of wxGTK or
3008 wxMSW. For MSW this isn't much of a problem since you can get the
3009 binaries from the web site. For other platforms you'll have to build
3010 wxGTK from CVS. (See http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/cvs.htm)
3011 To get the same set of sources from CVS that I used, checkout using
3014 Now back to what's new...
3016 Much more support for event-less callbacks and add-on modules.
3018 Created add-on module with wxOGL classes.
3020 Added wxWindow.GetChildren(). Be careful of this. It returns a *copy*
3021 of the list of the window's children. While you are using the list if
3022 anything changes in the real list (a child is deleted, etc.) then the
3023 list you are holding will suddenly have window references to garbage
3024 memory and your app will likely crash. But if you are careful it works
3027 Added a bunch of new and missing methods to wxTreeCrtl. The
3028 SortChildren method is now supported, but currently only for the
3031 Added typemaps for wxSize, wxPoint, wxRealPoint, and wxRect that allow
3032 either the actual objects or Python sequence values to be used. For
3033 example, the following are equivallent::
3035 win = wxWindow(parent, size = wxSize(100, 100))
3036 win = wxWindow(parent, size = (100, 100))
3038 Super-charged the wxHtml module. You can now create your own tag
3039 handlers and also have access to the parser and cell classes. There
3040 is a tag handler in the library at wxPython.lib.wxpTag that
3041 understands the WXP tag and is able to place wxPython windows on HTML
3042 pages. See the demo for an example.
3044 A bunch of the methods of wxMenuBar were previously ifdef'd out for
3045 wxGTK. Added them back in since the methods exist now.
3047 Wrapped the wxHtmlHelpController and related classes.
3049 Wrapped the C++ versions of wxSizer and friends. The Python-only
3050 versions are still in the library, but deprecated. (You will get a
3051 warning message if you try to use them, but the warning can be
3052 disabled.) The usage of the C++ versions is slightly different, and
3053 the functionality of wxBorderSizer is now part of wxBoxSizer. I have
3054 added a few methods to wxSizer to try and make the transition as
3055 smooth as possible, I combined all Add methods into a single method
3056 that handles all cases, added an AddMany method, etc. One step I did
3057 not take was to make the default value of flag in the Add method be
3058 wxGROW. This would have made it more backward compatible, but less
3059 portable to and from wxWin C++ code. Please see the docs and demo for
3062 Added wxPyEvent and wxPyCommandEvent classes, derived from wxEvent and
3063 wxCommandEvent. Each of them has SetPyData and GetPyData methods that
3064 accept or return a single Python object. You can use these classes
3065 directly or derive from them to create your own types of event objects
3066 that can pass through the wxWindows event system without loosing their
3067 Python parts (as long as they are stored with SetPyData.) Stay tuned
3068 for more info and examples in future releases.
3070 Added wxPython.lib.grids as an example of how to derive a new sizer
3071 from the C++ sizers. In this module you will find wxGridSizer and
3072 wxFlexGridSizer. wxGridSizer arrainges its items in a grid in which
3073 all the widths and heights are the same. wxFlexgridSizer allows
3074 different widths and heights, and you can also specify rows and/or
3075 columns that are growable. See the demo for a couple examples for how
3078 Added the wxValidator class, and created a class named wxPyValidator
3079 that should be used for the base class of any Python validators. See
3080 the demo for an example. Please note that you MUST implement a Clone
3081 method in your validator classes because of the way some things work
3082 in the underlying C++ library. I did not add wxTextValidator because
3083 of some issues of how it transfers data to and from a wxString, which
3084 in wxPython is automatically translated to and from Python strings, so
3085 there would never be a concrete wxString that would hang around long
3086 enough for the validator to do its job. On the other hand, it should
3087 be real easy to duplicate the functionality of wxTextValidator in a
3088 pure Python class derived from wxPyValidator.
3090 I've finally added a feature that has been on my list for close to two
3091 years! Ever wondered what that zero is for when you create your app
3092 object? Well now you can leave it out or explicitly set it to a true
3093 value. This value now controls what is to be done with sys.stdout and
3094 sys.stderr. A false value leaves them alone, and a true value sets
3095 them to an instance of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow. (On windows the
3096 default is true, on unix platforms the default is false.) This class
3097 creates a frame containing a wxTextCtrl as soon as anything is written
3098 to sys.stdout or sys.stderr. If you close the window it will come
3099 back again the next time something is written. (You can call
3100 app.RestoreStdio to turn this off.) If you would rather that the stdio be
3101 redirected to a file, you can provide a second parameter to your app
3102 object's constructor that is a filename. If you want to use your own
3103 class instead of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow you can either implement
3104 RedirectStdio() in you app class or change the value of
3105 wxApp.outputWindowClass like this::
3108 outputWindowClass = MyClass
3112 self.SetTopWindow(frame)
3115 Please see the implementation of wxPyOnDemandOutputWindow and wxApp in
3116 wx.py for more details. A few words of caution: if you are running
3117 your app in a debugger, changing sys.stdout and sys.stderr is likely
3118 to really screw things up.
3120 Added wxCaret. Unfortunately it's author has still not documented it
3121 in the wxWindows docs...
3123 Some new 3rd party contributions in wxPython.lib. PyShell, in
3124 shell.py is an interesting implementaion of an interactive Python
3125 shell in wxWindows. floatbar.py has a class derived from wxToolBar
3126 that can sense mouse drags and then reparent itself into another
3127 frame. Moving the new frame close to where it came from puts the tool
3128 bar back into the original parent. (Unfortunately there is currently
3129 a bug in wxGTK's wxFrame.SetToolBar so the FloatBar has some
3136 --------------------
3139 This release is syncronized with release 2.1 snapshot 9 of wxWindows.
3141 Switched to using SWIG from CVS (see http://swig.cs.uchicago.edu/cvs.html)
3142 for some of the new features and such. Also they have encorporated my
3143 patches so there is really no reason to stick with the current (very
3144 old) release... This version of SWIG gives the following new
3147 1. Keyword arguments. You no longer have to specify all the
3148 parameters with defaults to a method just to specify a
3149 non-default value on the end. You can now do this instead:
3151 win = wxWindow(parent, -1, style = mystyle)
3153 2. There is now an an equivalence between Python's None and C++'s
3154 NULL. This means that any methods that might return NULL will
3155 now return None and you can use none where wxWindows might be
3156 expecting NULL. This makes things much more snake-ish.
3159 There is a new build system based on a new Python program instead of
3160 raw makefiles. Now wxPython builds are virtually the same on MSW or
3161 Unix systems. See the end of this file for new build instructions and
3162 see distrib/build.py for more details.
3164 wxDC.Bilt now includes the useMask parameter, and has been split into
3165 two different versions. wxDC.BlitXY is like what was there before and
3166 takes raw coordinants and sizes, and the new wxDC.Blit is for the new
3167 interface using wxPoints and a wxSize.
3177 Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.
3179 Made a new change in SWIG (update your patches everybody) that
3180 provides a fix for global shadow objects that get an exception in
3181 their __del__ when their extension module has already been deleted.
3182 It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at about
3183 line 496 if you want to do it by hand.
3185 It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
3186 process. The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
3187 prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
3188 is being unloaded by Python.
3190 I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
3191 make wxPython look bad.
3193 wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of x,y. Added
3194 wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.
3196 Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.
3198 You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method. See
3199 wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.
3201 Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
3202 code to show how to use it.
3204 Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
3207 Added wxGrid.GetCells
3209 Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
3210 wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.
3212 Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been deprecated in
3213 wxWindows. Use wxMenu and events instead.
3215 Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
3216 wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)
3218 Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
3219 objects of one type into shadow objects of another type. (Like doing
3220 a down-cast.) See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.
3222 Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
3225 Added access methods to wxGridEvent.
3227 New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
3230 Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.
3232 SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
3243 Fixed wxComboBox.SetSelection so that it actually sets the selected
3244 item. (Actually just removed it from wxPython and let it default to
3245 wxChoice.SetSelection which was already doing the right thing.)
3247 Added the Printing Framework.
3249 Switched back to using the wxWindows DLL for the pre-built Win32
3250 version. The problem was needing to reinitialize static class info
3251 data after loading each extension module.
3253 Lots of little tweaks and additions to reflect changes to various
3256 Fixed a bug with attaching objects to tree items. Actually was a
3257 symptom of a larger problem with not obtaining the interpreter lock
3258 when doing any Py_DECREFs.
3260 wxSizer and friends. Sizers are layout tools that manage a colection
3261 of windows and sizers. Different types of sizers apply different
3262 types of layout algorithms. You saw it here first! These classes are
3263 not even in the wxWindows C++ library yet!
3271 Bug fix for ListCtrl in test4.py (Was a missing file... DSM!)
3273 Bug fix for occassional GPF on Win32 systems upon termination of a
3274 wxPython application.
3276 Added wxListBox.GetSelections returning selections as a Tuple.
3278 Added a wxTreeItemData that is able to hold any Python object and be
3279 associated with items in a wxTreeCtrl. Added test pytree.py to show
3282 Added wxSafeYield function.
3284 OpenGL Canvas can be optionally compiled in to wxPython.
3286 Awesome new Demo Framework for showing off wxPython and for learning
3289 The pre-built Win32 version is no longer distributing the wxWindows
3290 DLL. It is statically linked with the wxWindows library instead.
3292 Added a couple missing items from the docs.
3294 Added wxImage, wxImageHandler, wxPNGHandler, wxJPEGHandler,
3295 wxGIFHandler and wxBMPHandler.
3297 Added new methods to wxTextCtrl.
3299 Fixed some problems with how SWIG was wrapping some wxTreeCtrl
3308 Support for using Python threads in wxPython apps.
3310 Several missing methods from various classes.
3320 Added DLG_PNT and DLG_SZE convienience methods to wxWindow class.
3322 Added missing constructor and other methods for wxMenuItem.
3330 Just a quickie update to fix the self-installer to be compatible with
3331 Python 1.5.2b2's Registry settings.
3338 Well obviously the numbering scheme has changed. I did this to
3339 reflect the fact that this truly is the second major revision of
3340 wxPython, (well the third actually if you count the one I did for
3341 wxWindows 1.68 and then threw away...) and also that it is associated
3342 with the 2.0 version of wxWindows.
3344 I have finally started documenting wxPython. There are several pages
3345 in the wxWindows documentation tree specifically about wxPython, and I
3346 have added notes within the class references about where and how wxPython
3347 diverges from wxWindows.
3349 Added wxWindow_FromHWND(hWnd) for wxMSW to construct a wxWindow from a
3350 window handle. If you can get the window handle into the python code,
3351 it should just work... More news on this later.
3353 Added wxImageList, wxToolTip.
3355 Re-enabled wxConfig.DeleteAll() since it is reportedly fixed for the
3358 As usual, some bug fixes, tweaks, etc.
3366 Added wxSashWindow, wxSashEvent, wxLayoutAlgorithm, etc.
3368 Various cleanup, tweaks, minor additions, etc. to maintain
3369 compatibility with the current wxWindows.
3375 Changed the import semantics from ``"from wxPython import *"`` to
3376 ``"from wxPython.wx import *"`` This is for people who are worried about
3377 namespace pollution, they can use "from wxPython import wx" and then
3378 prefix all the wxPython identifiers with "wx."
3380 Added wxTaskbarIcon for wxMSW.
3382 Made the events work for wxGrid.
3386 Added wxMiniFrame for wxGTK.
3388 Changed many of the args and return values that were pointers to gdi
3389 objects to references to reflect changes in the wxWindows API.
3391 Other assorted fixes and additions.
3400 wxPython on wxGTK works!!! Both dynamic and static on Linux and
3401 static on Solaris have been tested. Many thanks go to Harm van der
3402 Heijden for his astute detective work on tracking down a nasty DECREF
3403 bug. Okay so I have to confess that it was just a DSM (Dumb Stupid
3404 Mistake) on my part but it was nasty none the less because the
3405 behavior was so different on different platforms.
3407 The dynamicly loaded module on Solaris is still segfaulting, so it
3408 must have been a different issue all along...
3416 1. Worked on wxGTK compatibility. It is partially working. On a
3417 Solaris/Sparc box wxPython is working but only when it is statically
3418 linked with the Python interpreter. When built as a dyamically loaded
3419 extension module, things start acting weirdly and it soon seg-faults.
3420 And on Linux both the statically linked and the dynamically linked
3421 version segfault shortly after starting up.
3423 2. Added Toolbar, StatusBar and SplitterWindow classes.
3425 3. Varioius bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
3434 The first "modern" version of wxPython. See
3435 http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/WxPythonHistory