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