1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
6 ================================
8 Unicode-related changes
9 -----------------------
11 The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
12 old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
13 in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
16 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
17 either "const wxString&" if they should accept both Unicode or ANSI strings
18 and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
21 - Some structure fields have been changed from "wxChar *" to "char *" too:
22 e.g. wxCmdLineEntryDesc fields.
25 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
28 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
29 need to update your code if you access these files directly.
31 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
32 necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
33 with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
35 - Generating wxNavigationKeyEvent events doesn't work any more under wxGTK (and
36 other platforms in the future), use wxWindow::Navigate() or NavigateIn()
39 - Sizers distribute only the extra space between the stretchable items
40 according to their proportions and not all available space. We believe the
41 new behaviour corresponds better to user expectations but if you did rely
42 on the old behaviour you will have to update your code to set the minimal
43 sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
44 proportions to return to the old behaviour.
46 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
47 -----------------------------------------------------------
49 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
50 you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
52 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
53 longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
54 in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
55 code that depends on the result being wxChar.
57 - The value returned by wxString::c_str() cannot be casted to non-const char*
58 or wchar_t* anymore. The solution is to use newly added wxString methods
59 char_str() (which returns a buffer convertible to char*) or wchar_str()
60 (which returns a buffer convertible to wchar_t*). These methods are
61 available in wxWidgets 2.8 series beginning with 2.8.4 as well.
63 - The value returned by wxString::operator[] or wxString::iterator cannot be
64 used in switch statements anymore, because it's a class instance. Code like
66 switch (str[i]) { ... }
67 and has to be replaced with this:
68 switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
70 - Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
71 const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
72 const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
73 convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
74 don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
75 compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
77 wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
79 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
80 build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
82 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
83 wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
84 conversion ambiguity in expressions such as this:
85 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); *p; ++p )
86 This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
87 for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
89 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
91 - Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
92 are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
95 - wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
98 - Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
100 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
101 wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
104 Deprecated methods and their replacements
105 -----------------------------------------
107 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
108 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
109 or wxStringBufferLength instead.
110 - wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
111 specified so this style should simply be removed
112 - wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
113 wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
115 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
116 terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
117 "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
120 Major new features in this release
121 ----------------------------------
129 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
130 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
131 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
132 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
133 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
134 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
135 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
136 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
137 - Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
138 - Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
139 - Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
140 - Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
141 - wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
142 wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
143 - Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
144 - Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
148 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
152 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
153 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
154 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
155 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
156 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
157 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi)..
158 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi)..
159 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
160 - Slovak translation added.
161 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
162 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
163 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
164 - Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
165 - Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
166 - Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
167 - Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
168 - Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
169 - Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
170 - Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
171 - Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
172 - Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
173 - Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
174 - Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper)
175 - Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy()
176 - Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents)
180 - Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
181 - Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
182 - Native keyboard navigation implementation.
183 - Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
184 - Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
185 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
186 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
187 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
188 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
189 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
190 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
191 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
195 - Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
196 - Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
197 - Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
198 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
199 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
203 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
204 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
205 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
209 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
210 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
218 - Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
219 - Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
220 - Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
221 enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
222 - Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
223 embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
224 - Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
225 - Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
226 invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
227 - Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
231 - Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
232 - Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
233 - Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
234 - Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
235 - Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
236 - Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
237 - Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
241 - Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
242 - More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
243 - Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
244 - Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
245 - Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
246 - Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
247 - Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
248 - Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
249 - Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
250 - Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
258 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
259 - Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
260 overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
261 - Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
265 - Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
269 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
270 - Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
271 - Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
272 - wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
276 - Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
277 it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
278 - Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
279 - Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
280 - Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
281 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
282 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
283 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
284 - Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
288 - Fix infinite loop when adding a wxStaticText control to a toolbar
289 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
290 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
294 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
298 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
299 - Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
300 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background
308 - Shut down the sockets gracefully (Sergio Aguayo)
309 - Fix extra indentation in wxHTML_ALIGN_JUSTIFY display (Chacal)
313 - Corrected top border size for wxStaticBox with empty label (nusi)
317 - Fixed wxFileName::GetSize() for large files
321 - Fixed handling of accelerators using PageUp/Down keys
329 - Added wxSizerFlags::Shaped() and FixedMinSize() methods.
330 - Added wxCSConv::IsOk() (Manuel Martin).
331 - Added wxDateTime::GetDateOnly().
332 - Made wxTextFile work with unseekable files again (David Hart).
333 - Added wxCONFIG_USE_SUBDIR flag to wxFileConfig (Giuseppe Bilotta).
334 - Added wxSearchCtrl::[Get|Set]DescriptiveText.
335 - Fixed detection of number of processors under Linux 2.6
336 - Fixed Base64 computation in wxHTTP (p_michalczyk)
337 - Fix handling of wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR in wxDatagramSocket (troelsk)
341 - Fixed crash in wxGetUserName() in Unicode build
345 - Fix lack of spin control update event when control lost focus.
346 - Corrected drawing of bitmaps for disabled menu items.
350 - Fix hang on startup when using GTK+ options in Unicode build
354 - Fix position of the centered windows (didn't take menu bar size into account)
355 - Added support for the wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style.
359 - Don't crash in wxWindow dtor if the window hadn't been really Create()d.
363 - Fixed wxComboBox always sorted.
371 - Fix compilation with wxUSE_STL=1.
372 - wxGrid::GetBestSize() returns same size the grid would have after AutoSize().
373 - Added wxTreeCtrl::CollapseAll[Children]() and IsEmpty() (Francesco Montorsi).
374 - Several RTL-related positioning fixes (Diaa Sami).
375 - Fix wxConfig::DeleteGroup() for arguments with trailing slash (David Hart).
376 - Fix memory leak in wxGrid::ShowCellEditControl() (Christian Sturmlechner).
380 - Fixed compilation with Borland C++ in Unicode mode but without MSLU.
381 - Show taskbar icon menu on right button release, not press.
385 - Don't crash if command line is not valid UTF-8 (Unicode build only).
389 - It is now possible to set background colour of wxStaticText.
397 - Added wxSearchCtrl (Vince Harron).
398 - wxCSConv("UTF-16/32") now behaves correctly, i.e. same as wxMBConvUTF16/32.
399 - wxArrayString::Alloc() now works as reserve() and doesn't clear array contents.
400 - Fixed long standing bug in wxFileConfig groups renaming (Antti Koivisto).
401 - New option wxFS_READ | wxFS_SEEKABLE for wxFileSystem::OpenFile() to return
402 a stream that is seekable.
403 - Fixed bug in wxCalendarCtrl::HitTest() when clicking on month change arrows.
404 - Added wxWindow::GetWindowBorderSize() and corrected wxTreeCtrl::GetBestSize().
405 for a control with borders (Tim Kosse).
409 - Fixed version script problems when using configure with cygwin/mingw32.
410 - Use system default paper size for printing instead of A4.
411 - Fix (harmless) assert in virtual list control under Vista.
412 - Fix colours when converting wxBitmap with alpha to wxImage (nusi).
416 - Allow dynamically changing most of text control styles.
417 - Enable use of libgnomeprintui by default in configure.
425 - Added wxFFile overload to wxFileName::CreateTemporaryFileName().
426 - Added GetTempDir() to wxFileName and wxStandardPaths.
427 - Added wxTar streams.
428 - Added wxFilterFSHandler and wxArchiveFSHandler.
429 - Added wxString::ToLongLong() and ToULongLong().
433 - wxMemoryDC constructor now optionally accepts a wxBitmap parameter,
434 calling SelectObject itself if a valid bitmap is passed.
435 - Reverted wxBuffered[Paint]DC to pre 2.7.1 state, added
436 wxAutoBufferedPaintDC and wxAutoBufferedPaintDCFactory.
437 - Renamed wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() to just Pulse().
438 - Added wxCollapsiblePane (Francesco Montorsi).
439 - Added wxSimpleHtmlListBox (Francesco Montorsi).
440 - Printing framework fixes by Robert J. Lang. Bugs fixed,
441 wxPrinterDC::GetPaperRect() and other functions added to allow
442 easier printing implementation, and the documentation updated.
443 - Many enhancements to wxRichTextCtrl including URL support,
444 formatting and symbol dialogs, print/preview, and better list
446 - Support for loading TGA files added (Seth Jackson).
447 - Added wxTB_RIGHT style for right-aligned toolbars (Igor Korot).
448 - wxHtmlWindow now generates events on link clicks (Francesco Montorsi).
449 - wxHtmlWindow now also generates wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY event.
453 - Added autopackage for wxGTK and an example of using autopackage for a wx
454 program (Francesco Montorsi).
459 - Support wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB.
460 - Speed up MIME types loading. Only the GNOME database should be loaded under
461 GNOME etc. For this, the code queries the X11 session protocol.
462 - wxCaret redraw problem during scrolling fixed.
470 - Added wxDir::FindFirst() (Francesco Montorsi).
471 - Added wxPlatformInfo class (Francesco Montorsi).
472 - Added wxLocale::IsAvailable() (Creighton).
473 - Added Malay translations (Mahrazi Mohd Kamal).
474 - Added reference counting for wxVariant.
475 - For consistency, all classes having Ok() method now also have IsOk() one, use
476 of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't been deprecated yet.
477 - Added wxFileName::Is(Dir|File)(Writ|Read|Execut)able() (Francesco Montorsi).
478 - Added wxFileName::GetSize() and GetHumanReadableSize() (Francesco Montorsi).
479 - Added wxSizer::Replace (Francesco Montorsi).
480 - wxXmlDocument can now optionally preserve whitespace (Francesco Montorsi).
481 - Added wxBookCtrl::ChangeSelection() and wxTextCtrl::ChangeValue() to provide
482 event-free alternatives to SetSelection() and SetValue() functions; see the
483 "Events generated by the user vs programmatically generated events" paragraph
484 in the "Event handling overview" topic for more info.
488 - Support for right-to-left text layout (started by Diaa Sami during Google Summer of
489 Code, with a lot of help from Tim Kosse and others).
490 - wxAnimationCtrl added (Francesco Montorsi).
491 - Added wxAboutBox() function for displaying the standard about dialog.
492 - Added wxID_PAGE_SETUP standard id.
493 - Added wxSize::IncBy() and DecBy() methods.
494 - Added wxTextCtrl::IsEmpty().
495 - Added file type parameter to wxTextCtrl::LoadFile, wxTextCtrl::SaveFile for
496 consistency with wxRichTextCtrl.
497 - wxRichTextCtrl: fixed range out-by-one bug to be consistent with wxTextCtrl API,
498 fixed some attribute bugs and added wxRichTextStyleComboCtrl.
499 - Added wxWindow::IsDoubleBuffered().
500 - Added wxHL_ALIGN_* flags to wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
501 - Added wxGauge::Pulse() and wxProgressDialog::UpdatePulse() (Francesco Montorsi).
505 - Implemented wxComboBox::SetEditable().
506 - wxSemaphore::Post() returns wxSEMA_OVERFLOW as documented (Christian Walther)
507 - Fixed a bug whereby static controls didn't use the correct text colour if the
508 parent's background colour had been set (most noticeable when switching to a
509 high-contrast theme).
510 - Respect wxBU_EXACTFIT style in wxToggleButton (Alexander Borovsky).
514 - Add parameter to the --enable-universal_binary configure option for the path
519 - Automatically use stock items for menu items with standard ids.
520 - Setting cursor now works for all controls.
521 - Implemented right-to-left support.
522 - Implemented left indentation and tab stops support in wxTextCtrl (Tim Kosse).
523 - Fixed wxHTML rendering of underlined text of multiple words (Mart Raudsepp).
527 - Added wxTLW::UseNativeDecorations() and UseNativeDecorationsByDefault().
535 - Added positional parameters support to wxVsnprintf() (Francesco Montorsi).
536 - wx(F)File, wxTextFile and wxInputStreams recognize Unicode BOM now.
537 - Many fixes for UTF-16/32 handling in Unicode builds.
538 - wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now supports wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW flag.
539 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetResourcesDir() and GetLocalizedResourcesDir()
540 - Added wxStandardPaths::GetDocumentsDir() (Ken Thomases).
541 - Added wxStringTokenizer::GetLastDelimiter(); improved documentation.
542 - Fixed wxTextFile in Unicode build.
543 - Added possibility to specify dependencies for a wxModule.
544 - Speed improvements to wxRegEx when matching is done in a loop such as
545 during a search and replace.
546 - Fix regerror and regfree name conficts when built-in regex and system regex
547 are both used in the same program.
548 - Basic authentication supported added to wxHTTP.
549 - wxCondition::WaitTimeout() now returns correct value when timeout occurs.
550 - Fixed occasional wxThread cleanup crash.
551 - Bug in wxLogStream::DoLogString in Unicode builds fixed.
552 - Added support for memo fields to wxODBC.
553 - Fixed Unicode builds using SunPro compiler by defining__WCHAR_TYPE__.
554 - wxFileName now also looks for TMPDIR on Unix.
555 - Fixed build error in list.h with VC++ 2005.
556 - Fixed wxODBC buffer overflow problem in Unicode builds.
557 - Fixed wxSocketBase::InterruptWait on wxBase.
558 - Important code cleanup (Paul Cornett).
559 - Added support for wxLongLong in wx stream classes (Mark Junker).
560 - wxSOCKET_REUSEADDR can be used with wxSocketClient.
561 - Overloaded Connect() and SetLocal() methods for binding to local address/port.
562 - Albanian translation added (Besnik Bleta).
563 - Assert messages now show the function in which assert failed.
564 - wxApp::OnAssertFailure() should now be used instead the old wxApp::OnAssert().
565 - Fixed several bugs in wxDateTime::ParseDate().
566 - The WXK*PRIOR and WXK*NEXT constants are now aliases for WXK*PAGEUP
567 and WXK*PAGEDOWN. If you have switch statements that use both
568 constants from a set then you need to remove the PRIOR/NEXT
569 versions in order to eliminate compiler errors.
570 - Fixed bug where wxDateTime::Now() would sometimes return an incorrect value
571 the first time it was called.
572 - Added wxString::rbegin() and rend().
573 - Added wxString::EndsWith().
574 - wxSocket::_Read continues reading from socket after exhausting pushback buffer.
575 Previously, only the buffer would be returned, even if more data was requested.
576 - Added wxPowerEvent (currently MSW-only).
577 - Make wx-config compatible with Bourne shells.
578 - Fixed wxDb::Open(wxDbConnectInf) when using connection string (Hellwolf Misty).
579 - Fixed crash in wxDb::Open() in Unicode build (Massimiliano Marretta).
580 - Fixed wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative time spans.
581 - Optionally count repeating wxLog messages instead of logging all (Lauri Nurmi).
585 - New AUI (Advanced User Interface) library for docking windows and much more.
586 - Added wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox (Jaakko Salli).
587 - Added wxTreebook (uses a wxTreeCtrl to control pages).
588 - Added wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls (Francesco Montorsi).
589 - Added wxDC::GradientFillLinear/Concentric().
590 - Added wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
591 - Added clipboard events (wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_COPY/CUT/PASTE).
592 - Allow to reorder wxGrid columns by drag-and-drop (Santiago Palacios).
593 - Added wxRadioBox::SetItemToolTip().
594 - Added support for CMYK JPEG images loading (Robert Wruck).
595 - Added wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() and subitem hit testing (Agron Selimaj).
596 - Added wxKeyEvent::GetModifiers().
597 - Added wxDialog::SetEscapeId().
598 - wxItemContainerImmutable::FindString unified (affects wxRadioBox, wxListBox,
599 wxComboBox and wxChoice).
600 - wxWindow::Fit() now works correctly for frames and dialogs too.
601 - Added access to the border size between pages and controller in book
602 based controls (wxBookCtrlBase::Get/SetInternalBorder).
603 - Added initial wxRichTextCtrl implementation.
604 - All book based controls (notebook, treebook etc.) share now the same
605 options for orientation (wxBK_TOP, wxBK_DEFAULT, ...) instead of duplicated
606 wxLB_TOP, wxNB_TOP, wxCHB_TOP, wxTBK_TOP.
607 - Added parent window parameter to wxHelpController constructor
608 and added SetParentWindow/GetParentWindow.
609 - wxMultiChoiceDialog uses now wxCheckListBox if possible, wxListBox if not.
610 - Added wxBitmapButton::SetHoverBitmap().
611 - Access to titles through Get/SetTitle is available now only for top level
612 windows (wxDialog, wxFrame).
613 - Fixed memory leak of pending events in wxEvtHandler.
614 - Added wxRadioBox::IsItemEnabled/Shown().
615 - Added space after list item number in wxHTML.
616 - Implemented <sub> and <sup> handling in wxHTML (based on patch
618 - Added caption parameter to wxGetFontFromUser and wxGetColourFromUser.
619 - Added wxGetMouseState function.
620 - Added wxHtmlHelpWindow, wxHtmlHelpDialog and wxHtmlModalHelp classes,
621 allowing HTML help to be embedded in an application.
622 - wxCalendarCtrl positioning and hit-testing fixes for dimensions other than
624 - wxCalendarCtrl colour schema changed and adjusted to system settings.
625 - wxImage::Mirror() and GetSubBitmap() now support alpha (Mickey Rose).
626 - More checking of image validity before loading into wxImage.
627 - Added wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale.
628 - Added ability to use templates with static event tables
629 with BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE_TEMPLATEn() macros.
630 - Added play, pause, and state change events to wxMediaCtrl.
631 - Added double-buffering to wxVListBox and fixed a scrolling issue.
632 - Added wxToolbook (uses a wxToolBar to control pages).
633 - Added SetSheetStyle to wxPropertySheetDialog and allowed it to
634 behave like a Mac OS X settings dialog.
635 - Added <disabled> XRC tag for wxToolBar elements and <bg> for wxToolBar itself.
636 - Fixed centering of top level windows on secondary displays.
637 - Implemented wxDisplay::GetFromWindow() for platforms other than MSW.
638 - UpdateUI handler can now show/hide the window too (Ronald Weiss).
639 - More than one filter allowed in in wxDocTemplate filter.
640 - Added wxListBox::HitTest().
641 - Added wxDisplay::GetClientArea().
642 - Indices and counts in wxControlWithItems derived API are unsigned.
643 - Added support for links to wxHtmlListBox; use code has to override
644 wxHtmlListBox::OnLinkClicked() to take advantage of it.
645 - Added an easier to use wxMenu::AppendSubMenu().
646 - wxString <-> wxColour conversions in wxColour class (Francesco Montorsi).
647 - Fixed bug with ignoring blank lines in multiline wxGrid cell labels.
648 - Added wxTextAttr::Merge() (Marcin Simonides).
649 - Added wxTB_NO_TOOLTIPS style (Igor Korot).
650 - Added wxGenericDirCtrl::CollapsePath() (Christian Buhtz).
651 - Added wxTreeCtrl::ExpandAllChildren() (Christian Buhtz)
652 - Fixed 64-bit issue in wxNotebook causing segfaults on Tru64 Unix.
653 - Made it possible to associate context help to a region of a window.
654 - Added support for tabs in wxRichTextCtrl (Ashish More).
655 - Fixed problem with zoom setting in print preview.
656 - Moved wxRichTextCtrl from the advanced library to its own.
657 - wxNB_HITTEST_* flags renamed to wxBK_HITTEST_* to serve all book controls.
658 - Added wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent and CanSetTransparent, with
659 implementations (so far) for wxMSW and wxMac.
660 - Allow customizing individual grid lines appearance (Søren Lassen).
661 - Fixed middle click events generation in generic wxTreeCtrl (Olly Betts).
662 - Added wxEVT_MOUSE_CAPTURE_LOST event that must be handled by all windows
663 that CaptureMouse() is called on.
667 - Fixed crash with ownerdrawn menu items accelerators (Perry Miller).
668 - wxFileDialog respects absence of wxCHANGE_DIR flag under NT (Brad Anderson).
669 - Switching page of a hidden notebook doesn't lose focus (Jamie Gadd).
670 - Removed wxImageList *GetImageList(int) const.
671 - Fixed MDI context menu problem.
672 - Removed __WIN95__ define.
673 - Create msw/rcdefs.h in setup.h's directory, which can be included by
674 resource files. It containts platform/compiler specific defines (such as
675 target cpu) which can be used in #ifs in .rc files.
676 - Add support for Win64 manifests and VC++ 8 automatic manifests (see the
677 wxMSW faq for details).
678 - New TARGET_CPU=amd64 (or 'ia64') option for the makefile.vc files which
679 puts 64-bit builds in their own directory and adds /machine:amd64 or ia64
681 - wxStatusBar::GetFieldRect now returns correct values under XP.
682 - wxStatusBar no longer corrupts surrounding windows on resize.
683 - Enable wxListCtrl in report mode to be able to use images in other
684 columns, if ComCtl32 >= 470.
685 - Fixed problem where using SetValue and wxTE_RICH2 would cause control to
687 - Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys.
688 - Fixed GDI leak in wxStaticBitmap when setting images after
689 initial construction.
690 - Menu codes now stripped before measuring control labels.
691 - MFC sample now compiles in Unicode mode.
692 - Fixed SetScrollbar thumb size setting bug (set orientation before triggering
694 - Fixed icon to cursor conversion problem for bitmaps with masks.
695 - Fixed wxToolBar background colour problem for some video cards.
696 - wxGenericDirCtrl now shows volume name.
697 - Added XP theme support for DrawHeaderButton, DrawTreeItemButton.
698 - Made the wxActiveXContainer class public and documentated.
699 - Added a Windows Media Player 9/10 backend for wxMediaCtrl.
700 - Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
701 correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
702 - Fixed a crash when dismissing wxPrintDialog under VC++ 7.1.
703 - Fixed out by one error in wxTextCtrl::GetStyle.
704 - Fixed problem with getting input in universal/unicode build of wxMSW.
705 - Link oleacc.lib conditionally.
706 - Drag and drop now works inside static boxes.
707 - Fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation not available.
708 - wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl now resize their standard font if the user
709 changes the system font.
710 - wxDisplay doesn't require multimon.h now and is enabled by default (Olly Betts).
711 - Fixed wxChoice/wxComboBox slow appending and infinite recursion
712 if its size is set within a paint handler (for example when embedded in a
713 wxHtmlWindow). [Now reverted due to problems in W2K and below.]
714 - wxDC::GetTextExtent() width calculation is more precise for italics fonts now.
715 - Warning fixes for VC++ 5.0 (Igor Korot).
719 - Fixed handling of font encoding in non-Unicode build
720 - wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE and wxEVT_MENU_OPENED for popup menus are now generated.
721 - Implemented wxCURSOR_BLANK support.
722 - wxSlider generates all scroll events now and not only wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK.
723 - Fixed a host of bugs in wxMediaCtrl as well as added a GStreamer 0.10
725 - Improved configure checks for GStreamer. You may also now specify
726 --enable-gstreamer8 to force configure to check for GStreamer 0.8.
727 - Fixed problem with choice editor in wxGrid whereby the editor
728 lost focus when the combobox menu was shown.
729 - Fixed focusing with mnemonic accelerator keys on wxStaticText which
730 is now able to focus on wxComboBox and possibly other controls
731 previously unable to be focused before.
732 - Enabled mnemonics and the corresponding accelerator keys for
733 wxStaticBox and wxRadioBox.
734 - Fixed problem trying to print from a preview, whereby wrong printer
736 - Worked around pango crashes in strncmp on Solaris 10.
737 - Polygon and line drawing speeded up if there is no scaling.
738 - Fixed problems with CJK input method.
739 - Implemented ScrollLines/Pages() for all windows (Paul Cornett).
740 - Support underlined fonts in wxTextCtrl.
741 - Support all border styles; wxListBox honours the borders now.
742 - wxWindow and wxScrolledWindow now generate line, page and thumb-release scroll events.
743 - Added file preview support in file dialogs.
744 - Implemented SetLineSize and GetLineSize for wxSlider.
748 - Fixed problem with clipboard support for custom data flavors.
749 - Fixed focus handling for generic controls in carbon-cfm.
750 - Fixed a printing crash bug, for example using File->Print and changing
751 Popup from 'Copies & Pages' to e.g. 'Layout'.
752 - Improved support for help and application menu items.
753 - Added default implementations for wxTextCtrl::Replace and wxTextCtrl::Remove.
754 - Added support for 10.4 context menu.
755 - Added support for wxFRAME_EX_METAL and wxDIALOG_EX_METAL styles.
756 - Added wxNotebook::HitTest support.
757 - Corrected idle wake-up.
758 - Corrected wxExecute.
759 - Now makes use of full printer resolution.
760 - Corrected CGImage handling in wxBitmap.
761 - Now uses simple hide/show transition for top-level windows.
762 - Uses reasonable temporary path for wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
763 - Added support for default key handling (escape, enter, command-period) even
764 if there is no control on the frame or dialog that has the focus.
765 - Fixed joystick bugs including a link error and a crash if no joysticks
767 - Removed an errorneous assertion from wxDir.
768 - Uses CoreFoundation based and thread-safe implementation for message boxes
770 - wxBitmapButton is created as a content icon if wxBORDER_NONE is
771 specified, otherwise as a bevel button.
772 - Mouse event ids set correctly (fixing problems with Connect in particular).
773 - Fixed wxZipInputStream read error on wxSocketInputStream which signals the
774 end of file with an error.
775 - Xcode wxWidgets and minimal sample project files updated to create Universal
777 - Fix for setting wxMenuBar more than once.
778 - wxListBox minimum size bug fixed.
779 - Fixed wxNotebook off-by-one bug in HitTest.
780 - Fixed joystick GetXMin/Max bug.
781 - Fixed Unix domain socket problem in wxIPC.
782 - Fixed non-detection of process termination on Intel Macs by
783 polling for process termination in a separate thread.
787 - wxDirDialog is now native (Hiroyuki Nakamura).
791 - Pressing build-in joystick on WinCE phones fires wxEVT_JOY_BUTTON_DOWN event.
792 - Native wxCheckListBox implementation.
793 - All wxTopLevelWindows resizes accordingly to SIP visibility.
794 - ::wxGetUserName() implemented.
795 - wxDisplay enumeration support.
796 - Fixed wxFileDialog breakage on WinCE due to incorrect structure size.
797 - New wxSystemOption "wince.dialog.real-ok-cancel" to switch between WinCE
798 guidelines with Ok-only dialogs and dialogs using wxButtons.
799 - Checkable items in wxToolMenuBarTool supported.
800 - Fixed date formatting and mktime.
801 - Fixed getting standard folder paths on WinCE.
802 - Support for backspace key on Smartphone.
803 - Made both windows wxMediaCtrl Windows backends compilable with wxWinCE - it
804 is recommended that you use wxMEDIABACKEND_WMP10 on this platform
806 - Added support for the context menu event (wxContextMenuEvent)
807 and added platform-specific wxWindow::EnableContextMenu.
808 - Fixed wxGenericFileDialog to work with WinCE.
809 - Fixed compilation and menubar disappearance on Windows Mobile 5.
810 - Fixed wxDatePickerCtrl usage.
814 - Send wxEVT_SCROLL_XXX events from wxSlider (Danny Raynor).
815 - Implemented wxToggleButton (David Bjorkevik).
816 - Label in Toolbar tools implemented (Danny Raynor).
820 - Invisible text problem fixed.
821 - Bitmap clipping with masks and scaling improved.
822 - Fixed a crash bug in the generic timer.
823 - Implemented child process termination notifications (David Björkevik)
827 - NO_GCC_PRAGMA is not used any more, remove checks for it if you used it.
831 - Fixed NUM_LOCK having no effect.
832 - Fixed wxFileExists (affecting wxImage::LoadFile).
840 - Fixed wxScopeGuard to work with VC++, documented it.
841 - Fixed proxy handling in wxURL.
842 - Added wxEVT_MEDIA_LOADED event for wxMediaCtrl.
843 - Added new methods to wxMediaCtrl (wxURI version of Load, ShowPlayerControls).
844 - Added wxZipFSHandler::Cleanup() (Stas Sergeev).
845 - Added wxImage::RotateHue() and RGB <-> HSV conversions (John Anderson).
846 - Fixed compilation with IBM xlC compiler.
847 - wxABI_VERSION, see 'Backward Compatibility' topic overview in the manual.
848 - Added wxLongLong::ToDouble().
849 - Added wxDateTime::[Make]FromTimezone(), fixed several TZ-related bugs.
850 - Fixed bug in wxStreamBuffer::Read(wxStreamBuffer *) (Paul Cornett).
851 - Fixed wxListbook and wxChoicebook internal layout.
855 - Added wxStaticText::Wrap()
856 - wxChoice and wxComboBox::GetSelection() now returns completed selection,
857 added a new GetCurrentSelection() function having the old behaviour.
858 - Added wxXmlResource::Unload().
859 - Possibility of modeless wxWizard dialog (with presentation in sample).
860 - Fixed a rare crash due to malformed HTML in wxHTML (Xavier Nodet).
861 - Ctrl+mouse wheel changes zoom factor in print preview (Zbigniew Zagórski).
862 - Cross-compile now supported for wxGTK, wxX11 and wxMotif.
863 - Cygwin compilation of wxX11, wxGTK and wxMotif now supported.
864 - Now reads "help" parameter for all windows (context help text).
865 - wxWizard adapts to PDA-sized screens.
866 - Unicode fixes for IPC and a new IPC sample (Jurgen Doornik).
870 - wxMSW now builds with (beta of) MSVC 8 (a.k.a. 2005).
871 - Separators are now correctly shown in the toolbars under Windows XP.
872 - Fixed multiline tooltips handling.
873 - Fixed wxSlider::GetSelEnd() (Atilim Cetin).
874 - Fixed accelerators of menu items added to already attached submenus.
875 - Position of wxEVT_MOUSEWHEEL events is now in client, not screen, coordinates.
876 - Handle absence of wxListCtrl column image better (Zbigniew Zagórski).
877 - Fixed asynchronous playback of large sound files in wxSound.
878 - Added wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbolAorW().
879 - Fixed default size of wxStaticText controls with border being too small.
880 - Fixed bugs with wxStatusBar positioning (with or withour sizers) (Jamie Gadd).
881 - Mouse move events are now generated for all static controls (Jamie Gadd).
882 - Fixed nested static box display and splitter sash on some themes (Jamie Gadd).
883 - Made wxJoystick::GetProductName() more useful (John Ratliff).
884 - Native spline drawing implementation (Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba).
888 - ShowFullScreen() shows the window if it was still hidden (rpedroso).
889 - Implemented wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention() (Mart Raudsepp).
890 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
891 - wxTextCtrl::XYToPosition, PositionToXY and GetLineLength calls are now
892 instantaneous in case of GTK 2.x multi-line controls (Mart Raudsepp).
893 - Added support for left, centre and right text alignment attributes under
894 GTK+2 multi-line text controls (Mart Raudsepp).
895 - Various wxFont improvements for GTK 2.x builds (Mart Raudsepp).
896 - Changed order of child deletion in window destructor and
897 removed focus handlers to avoid spurious events (David Surovell).
898 - Fixed domain socket handling.
902 - First implementation of native HIToolbar support.
903 - Added text control context menu (ported from wxMSW).
904 - More CoreGraphics implementation improvements.
905 - Various text control bug fixes.
906 - Automatic menu management improved.
907 - Fixed crash when wxRadioButton is deleted from a group of radio buttons,
908 due to dangling cycle pointers.
909 - Native spline drawing implementation for CoreGraphics (Robert J. Lang).
910 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
915 - Adjustments for building with Open Watcom C++.
919 - Window creation now honours wxVSCROLL.
920 - Standalone scrollbars generate events of correct type (Jochen Roemmler).
924 - Base library is now binary compatible when built with wxGTK and wxMotif.
925 - wxMotif can now display Japanese text under Japanese locale.
926 - Fixed button size in common dialogs.
927 - Made wxFileDialog translatable.
928 - All top level windows should now have a border unless the wxNO_BORDER
929 flag has been specified.
930 - Improved wxNotebook support for sizers. It requires the wxNotebook to
931 be created with a "sensible" initial width.
932 - Made wxDialog::IsModal meaning the same as other ports (true only when
937 - Fixed crash on exit.
938 - Fixed drawing problems when windows are resized.
942 - Various wxFont improvements for unicode builds (Mart Raudsepp).
950 - Added wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.
951 - Added wxPLURAL() macro in addition to _() (Jonas Rydberg)
955 - Fixed potential infinite loop when adjusting wxScrolledWindow scrollbars.
956 - Radio in menus do not send menu event for selections of already selected item.
957 - Fixed wrong positioning of marks and enumerations in lists of wxHTML.
958 - wxImage::Rotate90 respects alpha channel.
959 - Added wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED as synonym for wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL.
960 - Replaced artwork for some cursors, icons and toolbar buttons.
961 - Fixed sizing problem in generic wxCalendarCtrl for short day abbreviations.
962 - Fixed wxWindow::DoGetBestSize to keep original best size.
963 - PNM now supports ASCII and raw grey formats.
964 - wxGrid focus and edit key improvements.
968 - Fixed erroneous selection of content in wxComboBox when within a wxStaticBox
969 (checking for selection caused by WM_STYLECHANGED).
970 - Added deferred positioning to wxRadioBox, wxSlider and wxSpinCtrl and thereby
971 eliminated some refresh glitches when resizing.
972 - Eliminated further refresh glitches caused by wxRadioBox (to nearby controls)
973 by refreshing parent when the radio box moves.
974 - Added ability set the system option "msw.staticbox.optimized-paint" to 0 to
975 allow a panel to paint graphics around controls within a static box.
976 - Refresh exposed areas when resizing, using WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED.
977 - Worked around an apparent bug in deferred window positioning (moving a
978 window from (x, y) to (a, b) and back to (x, y) misses the last step) by
979 checking window positions against corresponding sizer state, if any.
980 - A control's text colour now reflects the system colour setting.
981 - Fixed wxFileName::GetLongPath() to behave correctly during the first call too.
982 - Fixed alpha blitting to take into account source position.
983 - Setting foreground colour for wxCheckBox now works when using XP themes too.
984 - wxStaticBox label can use custom foreground colour.
985 - Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.
986 - Compiles again with WIN64.
987 - Winelib compilation now works.
988 - When converting a wxIcon to a bitmap check if the icon has an alpha
989 channel and set the bitmap to use it.
990 - wxSlider now also sends wxEVT_SCROLL_CHANGED when using mouse wheel
991 - Miscellaneous wxMediaCtrl improvements.
992 - wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen logic error fixed.
993 - Fixed wxScrollBar background colour bug.
994 - Fixed problems with paper sizes being ignored.
995 - wxNotebook refresh problem fixed.
996 - DDE fixed for Unicode.
997 - Fixed ownerdrawn multiline buttons.
998 - wxCheckListBox item background fixed.
999 - Fixed error when trying to read a value from key not accessible for writing.
1000 - Fixed keyboard cue visibility issues under Windows 2000/XP
1004 - Fixed wxFileName::CreateTempFileName.
1008 - Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).
1009 - Fixed wxTextCtrl::SetStyle for overlapping calls.
1010 - Fixed scrollbar border colour.
1011 - Added bitmap support in menus.
1015 - Added support for launching 'APPL' bundles with wxExecute (usually they have a
1016 .app extension and are the ones that reside in the Applications folder).
1017 - Fixed a bug in wxGetKeyState where shift and some other keys were returning an
1019 - Fixed toolbar colour bug on Tiger.
1020 - Fixed visual problems caused by removal of About menu item.
1021 - Window menu now added automatically.
1022 - Configure fixed for wxBase compilation.
1023 - Modified function key support fixed.
1024 - wxTopLevelWindow::Maximize improvements.
1028 - Menu problems fixed.
1029 - wxScrolledWindow scrolls any child windows.
1030 - Fixed a font memory leak.
1031 - Multiple wxTimers now work correctly.
1039 - wxPathExists deprecated, use wxDirExists instead.
1040 - Configure: --enable-std_iostreams, --enable-std_string are now the default.
1044 - Fixed ~wxStatusBar and ~wxToolBar which tried to check
1045 non-existent wxFrameBase RTTI, causing a crash if not in a frame.
1049 - Fixed static box border when the label is empty.
1050 - Fixed SetBackgroundColour() to change only label background, not entire box.
1051 - wxHelpController is now aliased to wxCHMHelpController.
1055 - Fixed device origin setting and clipping region setting.
1058 - New configure syntax for specifying the GTK+ version.
1059 --with-gtk Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1060 --with-gtk=1 Use GTK 1.2, no fallback
1061 --with-gtk=2 Use GTK 2.x, no fallback
1062 --with-gtk=any Use any available GTK
1063 - wxMenuItem::SetText() takes care of hotkeys, too.
1064 - Reworked text wrapping for wxStaticText.
1067 - Implemented most of the wxFileType and wxMimeTypesManager functions
1074 - wxURI::GetUser() only returns the user name now, use GetUserInfo() to get
1075 user and password as in 2.5.4; wxURI::GetPassword() added.
1076 - Added wxDebugReport class.
1077 - Added wxTempFileOutputStream by Stas Sergeev.
1078 - Fixed wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(Sun, Monday_First).
1079 - Added WXK_SPECIAL keycodes for special hardware buttons.
1080 - Fixed bug with wxFile::Seek(-1, wxFromCurrent).
1081 - Added wxString/C array constructors to wxArrayString.
1082 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxMemoryOutputStream&) constructor (Stas Sergeev)
1086 - Added GetIcon, GetBitmap to wxImageList. wxGenericImageList's original
1087 GetBitmap is renamed GetBitmapPtr.
1088 - Added XPM data constructor to wxImage.
1089 - Added style parameter to wxBufferedDC to allow buffering just the client, or
1090 the whole virtual area.
1091 - Restored ability to set a custom splitter sash size with SetSashSize.
1092 - Fixed wxScrolledWindow sizer behaviour so that the virtual size
1093 isn't used to set the window size.
1094 - Added wxTE_BESTWRAP (based on patch by Mart Raudsepp).
1095 - wxEVT_COMMAND_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED is now only sent once at the end of
1096 splitter dragging and not after each CHANGING event (Jacobo Vilella Vilahur).
1097 - Added wxImage::IsTransparent().
1101 - Fixed build on Linux/AMD64.
1105 - Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile().
1106 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available.
1107 - fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert).
1108 - wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well.
1109 - Improved static box and radio box refresh and background colour
1110 handling (Jamie Gadd).
1114 - Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11 (Mart Raudsepp).
1115 - Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
1116 - Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
1117 - Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
1118 - Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
1119 - Added support for more wrapping styles (Mart Raudsepp).
1120 - GTK2.4+ wxFileDialog reimplemented to support non-modal usage better,
1121 and fix all known bugs (Mart Raudsepp).
1125 - Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
1129 - Native wxRadioBox implementation.
1133 - Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
1134 - Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
1135 You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
1136 - Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
1137 - Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
1138 - wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
1139 with correct titlebar style.
1140 - Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
1142 - Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
1143 - Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
1144 - Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
1145 - Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
1146 - Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
1147 - wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
1148 to the dialog's toolbar.
1155 - wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
1156 use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
1157 - new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
1158 - large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
1159 - classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1160 - Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
1161 - wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
1162 - added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
1163 - added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
1164 - added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
1165 - changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
1166 - implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
1167 - added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
1168 - Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
1169 - A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
1170 SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
1171 behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
1172 - BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
1173 - use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
1174 - wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
1175 - XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
1176 - Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
1177 - Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
1178 print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
1179 printing stuff in the GTK port.
1180 - Deprecated print setup dialog.
1181 - Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
1182 - The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
1183 datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
1184 - added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
1185 - wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
1186 - wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
1187 wxSystemSettings::Get*()
1188 - wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
1189 the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
1190 client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
1191 to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
1192 - Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
1193 due to a rounding error.
1194 - Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
1195 SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
1196 - Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
1197 mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
1198 - "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
1199 - wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
1200 - wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
1201 - added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
1207 - added wxDatePickerCtrl
1208 - wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
1209 - wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
1210 - recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
1211 - wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
1212 - wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
1213 item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
1214 - wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
1215 book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
1216 Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
1217 - new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
1218 - wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
1219 - wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
1220 of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
1221 - wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
1222 in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
1223 - added wxImage::InitAlpha()
1227 - wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
1231 - Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
1232 now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
1233 if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
1234 code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
1235 - Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
1236 - fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
1237 - native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
1238 - implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
1239 is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
1240 after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
1241 - Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
1242 runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
1243 are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
1245 - wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
1246 - Added wxRawBitmap support
1247 - Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
1248 interaction with wxWidgets' events.
1249 - wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
1253 - Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
1254 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
1255 - wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
1256 - wxJoystick now works on OSX
1260 - fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
1261 - wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
1262 - fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
1263 - pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
1264 - added wxRegKey::Export(file)
1267 - Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
1268 but not mentioned anywhere.
1269 - Added (preliminary) support for sockets
1273 - wxBU_... button align flags support
1274 - vertical notebook orientation support
1275 - 3rd state support for checkboxes
1276 - wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
1280 - William Osborne has won and new port was born
1281 (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
1282 - polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
1283 all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
1284 - enumeration of available volumes
1285 - native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
1286 - native wxProgressDialog implementation
1287 - native wxColourDialog implementation
1288 - native wxSystemSettings colours
1289 - native wxButton implementation
1290 - native wxCheckBox implementation
1291 - native wxSlider implementation
1292 - native wxToggleButton implementation
1293 - native wxRadioButton implementation
1294 - native wxStaticText implementation
1295 - native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
1303 - support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
1304 - number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
1305 - fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1306 - fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
1307 - fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
1308 - support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
1309 (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
1310 - added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
1311 - basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
1312 - fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
1313 - deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
1314 - active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
1315 - sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
1316 - added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
1317 - added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
1318 - fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
1322 - added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
1323 - added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
1324 of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
1326 - added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
1327 - added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
1328 - wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
1329 - added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
1330 - added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
1331 - implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
1332 - added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
1333 - added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
1334 wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
1335 - added samples/splash
1336 - added support for stock buttons
1337 - added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
1338 - support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
1339 - recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
1340 - added wxChoicebook control
1341 - smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
1342 - the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
1343 - wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
1344 - it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
1345 - added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
1346 - wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
1347 supported, instead of zero.
1348 - IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
1352 - wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
1353 - security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
1354 - wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
1355 builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
1356 - wx-config has new --version-full option
1360 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1361 - fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
1362 - Tooltips now supported
1363 - wxSound now supported
1364 - wxDisplay now supported
1365 - Some stock cursors now supported
1369 - fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
1370 - added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
1371 - added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
1372 - wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
1376 - wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
1377 configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
1378 - fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
1379 - implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
1380 - implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
1381 - implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
1382 - wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
1383 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
1384 - implemented text underlining under GTK2
1385 - implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
1386 - implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
1387 in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
1388 - implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
1389 freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
1390 - wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
1391 - implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
1392 - added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
1393 icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
1394 - fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
1398 - added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
1402 - fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
1403 - set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
1404 - support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
1405 - wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
1406 - restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
1407 - fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
1408 - fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
1409 - fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
1410 - wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
1411 - fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
1412 - don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
1413 - implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
1414 - fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
1415 - fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
1419 - fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
1423 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
1424 - added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
1425 - added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
1426 - fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
1430 - added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
1431 than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
1439 - Hindi translation added (Dhananjaya Sharma)
1440 - Brazilian Portuguese translation added (E. A. Tacao)
1441 - wxDynamicCast() now uses static_cast<wxObject *> internally and so using it
1442 with anything not deriving from wxObject will fail at compile time (instead
1444 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 and STL provides quasi-standard hash_map/hash_set,
1445 wxHashMap/wxHashSet are just typedefs for them. This makes impossible
1446 to forward declare these classes.
1450 - wxHtmlWindow now delays image scaling until rendering,
1451 resulting in much better display of scaled images
1452 - Added UpdateSize to wxSplitterWindow to allow layout while hidden
1453 - implemented Freeze/Thaw() for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Kevin Hock)
1454 - support for KOI8-U encoding added (Yuriy Tkachenko)
1455 - The old wxADJUST_MINSIZE behaviour is now the default behaviour for
1456 sizer items that are windows. This means that GetAdjustedBestSize
1457 will now be called by default to determine the minimum size that a
1458 window in a sizer should have. If you want to still use the initial
1459 size (and not the BestSize) then use the wxFIXED_MINSIZE flag. When
1460 windows are added to a sizer their initial size is made the window's
1461 min size using SetSizeHints, and calls to wxSizer::SetItemMinSize
1462 are also forwarded to SetSizeHints for window items.
1463 - added wxRegEx::GetMatchCount()
1464 - it is now possible to display images in wxHtmlListBox
1468 - wxWindow::Freeze()/Thaw() can now be nested
1469 - Added wxSP_NO_XP_THEME style to wxSplitterWindow to switch off
1470 XP theming (some applications look bad without 3D borders)
1471 - wxMenuBar::GetLabelTop() doesn't include '&'s in the label any more
1472 - wxRegConf couldn't read global settings without admin privileges and didn't
1473 even try to do it by default -- now it does
1474 - wxTaskBarIcon must be explicitly destroyed now, otherwise the application
1475 won't exit even though there are no top level windows
1476 - wxFileName::GetModificationTime() works with opened files too now
1477 - wxDC::GetClippingBox() now works even for clipping regions created by Windows
1478 - fixed wxFileDataObject in Unicode build (Alex D)
1479 - subindented paragraphs support (Tim Kosse)
1483 - added support for wxTE_RIGHT and wxTE_CENTRE styles under GTK2 (Mart Raudsepp)
1487 - removed wxMenuItem::DeleteSubMenu()
1488 - wxButtons use Motif default size, which is smaller than it used to be
1489 and closer to wxMSW/wxGTK look. This can be disabled by setting
1490 motif.largebuttons system option to 1 (see wxSystemOptions).
1494 - implemented DrawRoundedRectangle() (clawghoul)
1498 - improved tables and lists layout algorithms (Tim Kosse)
1499 - <div> handling fix (Xavier Nodet)
1503 - fixed priorities of mailcap entries (David Hart)
1504 - added "wx-config --libs=std,<extra>" syntax (i.e. support for "std")
1508 - Full Unicode support is now available
1509 - BLOB support is working
1517 - event table macros now do some minimal type safety checks (Michael Sögtrop)
1518 - added wxGzipInput/OutputStream, bug fixes in wxZlibStreams (M.J.Wetherell)
1519 - wxDateTime::ParseDateTime() implemented (Linus McCabe)
1520 - wxHTTP::GetResponse() added (David Nock)
1521 - added conversions to/from UTF 16/32 LE/BE (Andreas Pflug)
1522 - added wxTextInputStream::ReadChar() (M.J.Wetherell)
1523 - added translation to Afrikaans (Petri Jooste)
1524 - Spanish translations updated (Javier San Jose)
1525 - added gettext plural forms support to wxLocale (Michael N. Filippov)
1526 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ALL) doesn't lower filename case any more
1527 - wxFileName::Normalize(wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS) now works
1528 - check if file exists in wxFileConfig::DeleteFile() (Christian Sturmlechner)
1529 - when wxUSE_STL == 1 wxHashTable will not be implemented using wxHashMap
1531 - added some extra convenience functions to wxRect such as
1532 GetBottomRight (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1533 - changed built-in regex library to a Unicode-compatible version based
1534 on TCL sources (Ryan Norton, M. J. Wetherell)
1535 - added extra convenience functions to wxPoint for adding a
1536 wxSize (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1537 - intermediate wxIPaddress class added to prepare for
1538 wxIPV6address (Ray Gilbert)
1539 - added overloaded constructors and Create() methods taking wxArrayString
1540 for wxChoice, wxComboBox, wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxCheckListBox,
1541 wxSingleChoiceDialog, wxMultipleChoiceDialog
1542 - renamed wxWave class to wxSound
1546 - added 3-state checkboxes for MSW/Mac (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1547 - added some support for C++ exceptions in the library (do read the manual!)
1548 - added wxListCtrl::GetViewRect()
1549 - added wxTextCtrl::MarkDirty()
1550 - wxToolBar::ToggleTool() now works for radio buttons (Dag Ã…gren)
1551 - wxListCtrl now sends an END_LABEL event if editing was cancelled, too
1552 - bug in wxRect ctor from two [out of order] wxPoints fixed (Steve Cornett)
1553 - status text is now restored after wxMenu help is shown in it
1554 - bug in wxWindow::RemoveEventHandler() fixed (Yingjun Zhang)
1555 - make it possible to use wxRTTI macros with namespaces (Benjamin I. Williams)
1556 - wxColourDatabase API now uses objects instead of pointers
1557 - added resolution option to JPEG image handler (Jeff Burton)
1558 - added wxCalendarEvent::SetDate, wxCalendarEvent::SetWeekDay
1559 - wxGenericDirCtrl now accepts multiple wildcards
1560 - added focus event forwarding to wxGrid (Peter Laufenberg)
1561 - fixed scrollbar problem in wxGrid (not showing scrollbars
1562 when sizing smaller) (Shane Harper)
1563 - dbbrowse demo fixed for Unicode (Wlodzimierz Skiba)
1564 - added wxStatusBar support to XRC (Brian Ravnsgaard Riis)
1565 - wxMenu::Append and etc. return a pointer to the wxMenuItem that was
1566 added or inserted, or NULL on failure.
1567 - using a -1 (wxID_ANY) for menu or toolbar item IDs will now generate new id
1568 - added option to generate C++ headers to wxrc utility (Eduardo Marques)
1569 - added wxDC::DrawPolyPolygon() for MSW/PS (Carl-Friedrich Braun)
1570 - wxBufferedDC now allows to preserve the background and is documented
1571 - added wxDC::GetPartialTextExtents
1575 - wxWidgets now builds under Win64
1576 - fixed DDE memory leaks
1577 - fixed wxTE_*WRAP styles handling
1578 - wxTextCtrl::GetValue() works with text in non default encoding
1579 - changed wxCrashReport to generate minidumps instead of text files
1580 - wxRadioButtons are now checked when they get focus (standard behaviour)
1581 - several fixes to owner drawn menu items (Christian Sturmlechner)
1582 - wxGauge now supports full 32 bit range (Miroslav Rajcic)
1583 - make it possible to give focus to the notebook tabs (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1584 - MDI child frames are not always resizeable any more (Andrei Fortuna)
1585 - fixed enumerating of entries/groups under '/' in wxRegConfig
1586 - added wxSYS_ICONTITLE_FONT (Andreas Pflug)
1587 - added wxPATH_NORM_SHORTCUT to wxFileName
1588 - wxComboBox::GetValue within a wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_UPDATED event
1589 should now pass the correct value even if the handler for
1590 wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_SELECTED changed the selection
1591 - wxFileDialog now returns correct filter index for multiple-file dialogs
1592 - added wxTextCtrl::HitTest()
1593 - experimental wxURL implementation using WinInet functions (Hajo Kirchhoff)
1594 - fixed several bugs in wxNotebook with wxNB_MULTILINE style
1595 - accelerators are now initially hidden if appropriate (Peter Nielsen)
1596 - background colour of a wxComboBox may now be set
1597 - fixed wxListCtrl::GetItemText/BackgroundColour()
1598 - Esc can now be used to close menus in the dialogs (Hartmut Honisch)
1599 - Added msw.remap system option so colourful toolbar buttons
1600 aren't mangled if you set it to 0. The default is 1
1601 - Toolbar buttons are now centred if the bitmap size is smaller
1602 than the specified default size
1603 - Fixed a bug in wxSpinCtrl::DoGetBestSize that would make wxSpinCtrl too tall
1607 - fixes to wxTextCtrl scrolling under GTK2 (Nerijus Baliunas)
1608 - fix for crash when using user-dashed lines (Chris Borgolte)
1609 - fixed wxChoice::Delete() in presence of client data
1610 - allow calling wxWindow::SetFont if window not yet created
1611 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1612 - fixed mouse wheel handling under GTK2 (Hugh Fisher)
1613 - wxNotebook::HitTest() implemented (Daniel Lundqvist)
1614 - memory leaks fixes in wxFileDialog (John Labenski)
1615 - don't drop click events from triple clicks (Frode Solheim)
1619 - use same average character width as other ports when calculating dialog units
1620 - implemented handling of mouse wheel
1621 - fix for long file names (longer than 32 characters) in file dialogs
1622 - use Unix sockets for Mach-o builds
1626 - look for Motif 2.1 headers before Motif 1.2 ones in configure
1630 - wxHtmlHelpController now supports compressed MS HTML Help files (*.chm)
1631 on Unix (Markus Sinner)
1635 - added XFree86 resolution changing using xf86vidmode extensions (Ryan Norton)
1636 - implemented asynchronous playback in wxSound and added SDL backend in
1637 addition to existing OSS one
1638 - it is now possible to send PostScript to any output stream (Zoltan Kovacs)
1646 - It is now possible to build several smaller libraries instead of single
1647 huge wxWidgets library; wxBase is now dependency of GUI ports rather then
1648 separately compiled library
1649 - added wxDateSpan::operator==() and !=() (Lukasz Michalski)
1650 - added wxFileName::GetForbiddenChars() (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1651 - use true/false throughout the library instead of TRUE/FALSE
1652 - wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
1653 - added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
1654 - added wxArray::SetCount()
1655 - wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
1656 by default in Unicode mode
1657 - bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
1658 - added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
1659 - added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
1660 - added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
1661 - fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
1662 - chkconf.h now includes platform-specific versions (for MSW
1663 and Mac) which contain some tests that were in setup.h
1664 - added event sink argument to wxEvtHandler::Connect()
1665 - added support for POST method and alt ports to wxHTTP (Roger Chickering)
1666 - added wxSocket::IPAddress() (Chris Mellon)
1667 - wxDataStreams can read/write many elements at once (Mickael Gilabert)
1668 - added wxRecursionGuard class
1669 - added wxThreadHelper class (Daniel Howard)
1670 - Added STL support (--enable-stl for configure, wxUSE_STL in setup.h).
1671 When enabled, wxString will derive from std::string, wxArray from,
1672 std::vector, wxList from std::list. In addition wxHashTable will be
1673 implemented in terms of wxHashMap.
1674 - Added wxList::compatibility_iterator. Can be used like wxNode* (except
1675 it can't be delete()d). It permits writing code which will work
1676 both with wxUSE_STL==1 and wxUSE_STL==0.
1680 - added Watcom makefiles
1681 - fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
1685 - added wxVScrolledWindow, wxVListBox and wxHtmlLbox classes
1686 - added wxListbook control
1687 - added alpha channel support to wxImage
1688 - added wxRenderer class allowing to customize the drawing of generic controls
1689 - added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
1690 - added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
1691 - wxWizard is now sizer-friendly and may be made resizeable (Robert Vazan)
1692 - added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
1693 - added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
1694 - implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
1695 - improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
1696 - fixed handling of URLs and filenames in wxFileSystem
1697 - implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
1698 - support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
1699 - added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
1700 - added wxTB_HORZ_TEXT style for MSW and GTK (Axel Schlueter)
1701 - fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
1702 - WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
1703 - it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
1704 by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
1705 - Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so far)
1706 - FL: removed const from EnableTool parameters
1707 - FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
1708 - In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
1709 wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
1710 - Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
1711 - Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
1712 delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
1713 a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
1714 the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
1715 default extension for the template
1716 - sped up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
1717 - Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
1718 - wxWizard now validates when pressing Back or Next
1719 - Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
1720 - Added FindItemByPosition to wxMenu
1721 - wxTimer now derives from wxEvtHandler and is its own owner object by default
1722 - Extended wxTextAttr and added wxTextCtrl::GetStyle stub
1723 to allow better rich text support.
1724 - implemented wxFlexGridSizer::Show() (Wade Brainerd)
1725 - Added m_ prefix to wxColourData and wxFontData members
1726 - Added wxHtmlPrintout::AddFilter so HTML printing can be subject to
1727 custom filters as well as HTML viewing.
1728 - Moved wxApp::SendIdleEvents and wxApp::ProcessIdle into common code.
1729 - wxWindow::OnInternalIdle is now used in all ports, and ensures that
1730 user OnIdle events do not interfere with crucial internal processing.
1731 - wxWindow::UpdateWindowUI is now a documented function that
1732 sends wxUpdateUIEvents, and can be overridden. It has a helper function
1733 DoUpdateWindowUI for taking appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent action.
1734 - Added functions to wxUpdateUIEvent: Set/GetMode, Set/GetUpdateInterval,
1735 CanUpdate, to assist with optimising update event frequency.
1736 - Added functions to wxIdleEvent: Set/GetMode, CanSend, to
1737 determine whether a window should receive idle events.
1738 - Added wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE, wxWS_EX_PROCESS_UI_UPDATES window
1739 styles for use with conservative idle and update event modes.
1740 - send menu update events only when a menu is about to be used (MSW/GTK)
1741 - improved event processing performance (Hans Van Leemputten)
1742 - added wxMirrorDC class
1743 - printing improvements: GetPageInfo() gets called after the DC has
1744 been set and after OnPreparePrinting() has been called so it can
1745 report the number of pages accurately; doesn't try to set
1746 number of pages in print dialog, in common with other Windows apps;
1747 wxHTML easy printing's preview shows number of pages
1748 correctly; preview scrollbars are set correctly; keyboard navigation
1753 - fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
1754 - fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
1755 - added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
1756 - added support for GNU/Hurd in configure
1757 - wxLocale::Init now tries to set .utf8 locale in Unicode mode (Andreas Pflug)
1761 - implemented wxListCtrl::Refresh() (Norbert Berzen)
1762 - support adding/removing columns dynamically (Donald C. Taylor)
1763 - wxToolBarSimple, property list classes, wxTreeLayout moved
1764 to contrib/src/deprecated
1768 - added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
1769 - added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
1770 - fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
1771 - made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
1772 - fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
1773 window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
1774 - added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
1775 - fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
1776 be appended to filenames with no extension
1777 - added wxTextCtrl::SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
1778 - fixed wxTextCtrl::IsEditable() for GTK+ 2
1779 - fixed wxStaticText alignment for GTK+ 2 (Kevin Hock)
1780 - don't consume 100% CPU when showing a popup menu
1784 - generate wxEVT_SCROLL_THUMBRELEASE and wxEVT_SCROLLWIN_THUMBRELEASE events
1785 - generate wxEVT_MENU_OPEN and wxEVT_MENU_CLOSE events
1789 - possibility to use DIBs for wxBitmap implementation (Derry Bryson)
1790 - added wxCrashReport
1791 - wxStaticBitmap doesn't stretch its bitmap any longer (like other ports)
1792 - support for accelerator keys in the owner drawn menus (Derry Bryson)
1793 - wxCaret::SetSize() doesn't hide the caret any longer as it used to
1794 - wxCheckListBox::Check() doesn't send CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLE event any more
1795 - fixed bugs in wxThread::Wait() and IsAlive()
1796 - fixed bug with wxTR_EDIT_LABELS not working with wxTR_MULTIPLE
1797 - fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom and DigitalMars compilers
1798 - fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
1799 - fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
1800 - added wxNotebook::HitTest() (Otto Wyss)
1801 - libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix (MinGW/Cygwin)
1802 - when using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported
1803 - fixed problem with wxEvtHandler object not removed from wxPendingEvents
1804 - Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer necessary
1805 to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
1806 - wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
1807 or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
1808 - improved border handling under Windows XP
1809 - partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
1810 enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
1811 wxWidgets to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
1812 - disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles under Windows XP
1813 - fixed release mode build with VC 7.x (Martin Ecker)
1814 - added support for wxALWAYS_SHOW_SB style
1815 - you don't need to add opengl32.lib when using VC++ now (David Falkinder)
1819 - made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
1820 does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
1821 documentation for a detailed explanation
1822 - implemented wxWakeUpIdle
1823 - for Motif 2.0, used the native combobox widget instead of the GPL'd
1824 xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
1825 with Motif 1.x compatibility
1826 - implemented wxToggleButton
1827 - wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
1828 instead of a sunken border
1829 - implemented wxBitmapDataObject
1830 - finished wxClipboard implementation
1834 - controls in toolbars now supported
1838 - added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
1839 - added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
1840 - it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
1841 <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
1842 - wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
1848 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
1849 ================================
1851 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
1852 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
1853 with '!' in the first column.
1855 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
1856 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
1857 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
1858 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
1861 NB: if you want to build your program with different major versions
1862 of wxWidgets you will probably find the wxCHECK_VERSION() macro
1863 (see the documentation) useful.
1868 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
1869 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
1872 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
1873 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
1874 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
1875 arrays containing non-pointers.
1877 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
1878 simply don't make sense for all objects
1880 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
1881 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
1882 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
1884 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
1886 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
1887 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
1888 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
1889 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
1890 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
1892 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
1893 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
1894 the default assert handling.
1898 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
1899 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
1900 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
1902 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
1903 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
1906 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
1907 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
1908 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
1910 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
1911 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
1912 you want to get OnChar() as well
1914 - in general, the key events sent for the various non ASCII key combinations
1915 have been changed to make them consistent over all supported platforms,
1916 please see the wxKeyEvent documentation for details
1918 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
1919 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
1920 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
1921 will *NOT* work any longer:
1923 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
1924 ... do something ...
1925 if ( flags & wxYES )
1926 ... do something else ...
1928 - static wxWizard::Create() doesn't exist any more, the wizards are created
1929 in the same way as all the other wxWindow objects, i.e. by directly using
1932 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
1934 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
1935 if you derived any classes from it
1937 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
1938 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
1940 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
1941 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
1943 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
1944 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
1946 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
1947 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
1950 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
1951 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
1952 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
1954 - wxCmdLineParser does not use wxLog to output messages anymore.
1955 to obtain the previous behaviour, add
1956 wxMessageOutput::Set(new wxMessageOutputLog); to your program
1957 (you will need to #include <wx/msgout.h>)
1961 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
1962 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx
1963 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
1964 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
1965 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
1966 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
1967 make/project files. Finally, the library names have changed as well and now
1968 use the following consistent naming convention: wxmsw[ver][u][d].(lib|dll)
1969 where 'u' appears for Unicode version, 'd' -- for the debug one and version
1970 is only present for the DLLs builds.
1972 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
1975 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
1976 previously selected one instead of replacing it
1978 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
1979 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
1980 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
1982 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
1983 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
1988 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
1989 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
1990 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
1991 to compile pure C files.
1994 wxThread and related classes:
1996 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
1997 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
1998 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
1999 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
2001 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
2002 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
2003 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
2004 (i.e. absence of race conditions) using the old API.
2006 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
2007 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
2008 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
2010 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
2011 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
2022 - fixed loss of client data in wxChoice::SetString()
2029 - added (partial) Indonesian translations (Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.)
2030 - added wxSizer::Show()/Hide() (Carl Godkin)
2031 - fixed bugs in wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay()/GetWeek()
2035 - minor OpenBSD compilation/linking fixes, now builds OOB under OpenBSD 3.1
2036 - don't include -I/usr/include nor -I/usr/local/include in wx-config output
2037 - shared library symbols are now versioned on platforms that support it (Linux)
2040 - Further work for GTK 2.0 and Unicode support.
2041 - Addition of native frame site grip.
2044 - Unicode support through Pango library.
2048 - fixed crashes in wxListCtrl under XP
2049 - added context menu for rich edit wxTextCtrl
2053 - fixed wxHTML to work in Unicode build
2060 - building wxBase with Borland C++ is now supported (Michael Fieldings)
2061 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
2062 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
2063 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
2064 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
2065 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
2066 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
2067 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
2068 after (non standard) STL hash_map
2069 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
2070 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
2071 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
2072 - added wxEXPLICIT macro
2073 - IPC classes improved and memory leaks fixed (Michael Fielding).
2074 Global buffer removed, duplication in docs removed
2075 - debug new/free implementations made thread-safe
2079 - wxWidgets may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
2080 programs and not only GNU make
2081 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
2082 - wxWidgets may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
2083 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
2084 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
2085 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
2089 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
2090 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
2091 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
2092 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
2093 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
2095 - significantly improved native font support
2096 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
2098 - added IFF image handler
2099 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
2100 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage
2101 (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
2102 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2103 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
2104 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
2105 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
2106 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
2107 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
2108 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
2109 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
2110 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
2111 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
2112 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
2113 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
2114 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
2115 - wxMessageOutput class added
2116 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
2117 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
2119 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
2120 - Added wxView::OnClosingDocument so the application can do cleanup.
2121 - generic wxListCtrl renamed to wxGenericListCtrl, wxImageList
2122 renamed to wxGenericImageList, so they can be used on wxMSW
2124 - Added wxTreeEvent::IsEditCancelled so the application can tell
2125 whether a label edit was cancelled.
2126 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor
2130 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
2131 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
2132 - fixed multiple bugs in wxExecute() with IO redirection
2133 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
2134 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
2135 - changing wxWidgets styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
2136 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
2137 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
2138 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
2139 - improvements to wxWidgets applications behaviour when the system colours
2141 - choose implicit parent for the dialog boxes better
2142 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
2143 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
2144 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
2145 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
2146 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
2147 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
2149 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
2150 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
2151 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
2152 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
2153 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
2154 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supported (simply use "\n" in the label)
2155 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
2156 has the capture before release it.
2157 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
2158 - default button handling is now closer to expected
2159 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
2160 - disabling a parent window also disables all of its children (as in wxGTK)
2161 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
2162 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
2163 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
2164 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during message/event processing
2165 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
2166 - don't fail to register remaining window classes if one fails to register
2167 - wxFontDialog effects only turned on if a valid colour was
2168 provided in wxFontData
2169 - Added wxTE_LEFT, wxTE_CENTRE and wxTE_RIGHT flags for text control alignment.
2170 - Bitmap printing uses 24 bits now, not 8.
2174 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
2175 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
2176 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
2177 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
2178 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
2179 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
2180 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
2181 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
2182 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
2183 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
2184 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
2185 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
2186 - added GTK+ 2 and Unicode support
2190 - improved colour settings return values (Ian Brown)
2191 - improved border style handling for wxStaticText (Ian Brown)
2192 - improved toolbar control alignment
2193 - implemented wxSpinButton
2194 - implemented wxCheckListBox
2195 - fixed wxSpinCtrl and wxStaticLine when used with sizers
2196 - wxStaticBitmap now shows transparent icons correctly
2200 - added generic MDI implementation (Hans Van Leemputten)
2201 - first cut at wxSocket support (not yet working)
2209 - First alpha-quality release
2213 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
2214 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
2215 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
2216 - fixed alignment handling in tables
2217 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
2222 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
2226 - wxRegEx class added
2227 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
2228 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
2229 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
2230 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
2231 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
2235 - support for virtual list control added
2236 - column images in report mode of the list control
2237 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
2238 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
2239 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
2240 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
2241 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
2242 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2243 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
2244 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
2245 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
2246 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
2247 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
2248 - improvements to wxDragImage (Chuck Messenger)
2252 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
2253 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
2258 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
2259 - fixed the edit function for wxListCtrl (Chuck Messenger)
2260 - fixed the key-hitting events for wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl, so they
2261 correctly return the key which was pressed (Chuck Messenger)
2265 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
2270 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
2272 - added support for animated GIFs
2280 - Fixed new charset detection code
2281 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
2282 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
2283 - Added wxDir::Traverse
2284 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
2285 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
2286 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
2290 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
2291 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
2292 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
2293 push on a custom event handler for example)
2294 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
2295 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
2296 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
2297 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
2298 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
2299 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
2301 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
2302 - Various wxXML enhancements
2303 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
2304 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
2305 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
2307 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
2308 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
2312 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
2313 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
2314 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
2315 alt or shift) now work
2316 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
2317 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
2318 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
2319 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
2320 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
2321 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
2322 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
2323 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
2324 - We now send iconize events
2325 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
2326 - Added mousewheel processing
2327 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
2328 wxWidgets at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
2330 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
2331 child frame styles are honoured
2335 - Fixed slider rounding bug
2336 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
2337 - We now send iconize events
2338 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
2339 GetSelection() results
2346 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
2347 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
2348 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
2349 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
2350 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
2351 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
2352 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
2353 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
2354 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
2355 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
2359 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
2360 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
2361 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
2362 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
2363 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
2364 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
2365 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
2366 wxImage methods and ctor)
2367 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
2368 - ODBC documentation complete!!
2369 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
2370 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
2371 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
2372 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
2376 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
2377 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
2378 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
2379 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
2383 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
2387 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
2388 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
2395 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
2396 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
2397 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
2398 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
2399 - Completed Czech translations
2400 - Some stream corrections
2401 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
2402 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
2403 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
2404 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
2408 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
2409 flicker-free dragging is now possible
2410 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
2411 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
2412 - Paper names now translated
2414 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
2415 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
2416 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
2417 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
2419 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
2420 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
2422 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
2423 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
2424 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
2425 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
2429 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
2430 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
2431 backward compatibility, please set
2432 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
2433 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
2434 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
2435 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
2436 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
2437 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
2438 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
2439 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
2440 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
2441 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
2442 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
2443 - wxFrame restores focus better
2444 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
2445 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
2446 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
2447 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
2448 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
2449 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
2450 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
2451 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
2452 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
2453 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
2457 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
2461 - Small compilation fixes
2465 - wxCaret documented
2477 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
2478 files. This works under VC++ only
2479 - Modal dialog handling improved
2480 - Printer dialog now modal
2495 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
2499 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
2500 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
2505 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
2506 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
2507 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
2508 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
2509 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
2510 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
2511 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
2512 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
2513 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
2515 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
2516 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
2517 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
2518 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
2519 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
2520 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
2522 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
2526 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
2527 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
2528 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
2529 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
2530 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
2531 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
2532 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
2533 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
2535 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
2536 MIME types if available (Unix only)
2537 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
2538 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
2539 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
2540 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
2541 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
2542 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
2543 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
2544 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
2545 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
2546 - wxDragImage class added
2547 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
2548 controllers, as well as native help
2549 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
2553 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
2554 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
2555 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
2556 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
2557 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
2558 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
2559 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
2560 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
2561 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
2562 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
2564 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
2565 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
2566 - wxSetCursorEvent added
2570 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
2571 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
2572 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
2576 - wxMenu::Enable works
2577 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
2578 - OGL samples made to work again
2582 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
2583 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
2584 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
2585 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
2586 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
2587 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
2588 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
2589 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
2590 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
2591 - improved HTML printing
2592 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions ( etc.)
2593 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
2594 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
2595 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
2598 NOTE: for changes after wxWidgets 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
2601 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
2602 -----------------------
2606 - JPEG support added.
2607 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
2611 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
2613 - JPEG support added.
2614 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
2615 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
2616 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
2623 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
2626 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
2627 -------------------------------
2632 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
2636 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
2637 - Fixed window cursor setting.
2638 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
2639 - Some makefile fixes.
2647 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
2648 - More topic overviews.
2649 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
2650 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
2651 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
2654 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
2655 --------------------------
2659 - wxExecute improved.
2663 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
2665 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
2666 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
2667 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
2668 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
2669 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
2670 - Fixed focus-related crash.
2674 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
2675 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
2679 - wxLocale documented.
2680 - Added include filenames to class reference.
2681 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
2682 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
2683 (though doesn't display help yet).
2685 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
2686 --------------------------
2690 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2694 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
2696 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWidgets as DLL.
2700 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
2701 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
2702 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
2703 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
2704 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
2705 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
2706 crashes for some reason).
2707 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
2708 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
2712 - Further doc improvements.
2713 - wxGenericValidator added.
2714 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
2717 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
2718 -------------------------
2722 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
2723 - wxToolTip class added.
2724 - Miscellaneous fixes.
2728 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
2729 - Makefiles for more compilers.
2730 - TWIN32 support added.
2731 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
2732 factored out program/library settings.
2733 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
2737 - A few more colour fixes.
2738 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
2739 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
2740 - wxChoice crash fix.
2741 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
2745 - wxBusyCursor class added.
2746 - Added samples/dde.
2747 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
2749 Beta 2, January 1999
2750 --------------------
2756 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
2760 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
2762 - Cured some widget table clashes.
2763 - Added thread support (Robert).
2764 - wxPoem sample now works.
2768 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
2769 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
2770 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
2772 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
2773 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
2775 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
2777 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
2778 --------------------------
2784 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
2787 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
2788 ----------------------------
2792 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
2793 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
2794 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
2795 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
2796 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
2798 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
2799 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
2804 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
2805 without (permanently) resizing the window.
2806 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
2807 that disabled scrollbar paging.
2808 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
2810 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
2811 when any button was pressed.
2812 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
2813 have a white background.
2814 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
2815 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
2816 they have sensible colours by default.
2817 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
2818 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
2819 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
2820 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
2821 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
2823 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
2824 ----------------------------
2828 - More documentation updates, especially for
2829 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
2830 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
2832 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
2833 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
2834 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
2836 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
2840 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
2841 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
2843 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
2844 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
2845 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
2846 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
2847 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
2848 the debugging implementation.
2849 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
2850 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
2851 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
2852 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
2853 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
2854 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
2855 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
2857 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
2859 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
2860 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
2861 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
2862 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
2863 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
2864 - wxNotebook almost done.
2865 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
2866 to vertical toolbars).
2870 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
2872 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
2873 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
2874 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
2876 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
2877 ----------------------------
2881 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
2883 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
2884 - A few more makefiles added.
2885 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
2886 - Further doc updates.
2887 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
2891 - First start at Motif port.
2892 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
2893 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
2894 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
2895 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
2897 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
2898 --------------------------
2902 - wxBitmap debugged.
2903 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
2904 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
2905 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
2906 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
2907 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
2908 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
2909 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
2911 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
2912 ------------------------
2916 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
2917 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
2918 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
2919 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
2920 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
2921 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
2922 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
2923 changes, wxNotebook.
2924 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
2926 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
2927 -----------------------
2931 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
2932 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
2933 Windows functions, for efficiency.
2934 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
2935 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
2937 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
2938 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
2940 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
2941 -----------------------
2945 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
2946 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
2948 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
2949 -----------------------
2953 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
2954 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
2956 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
2957 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
2958 wxMenuItem accessors.
2959 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
2960 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
2961 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
2962 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
2963 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
2964 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
2965 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
2966 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
2967 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
2968 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
2969 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
2970 first, then doing the assignment.
2971 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
2972 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
2976 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
2977 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
2979 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
2980 ----------------------
2984 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
2985 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
2986 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
2987 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
2988 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
2989 require application-supplied positioning code though.
2990 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
2991 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
2992 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
2994 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
2995 ------------------------
2999 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
3001 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3002 compilation and pragmas.
3003 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
3004 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
3008 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
3009 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
3010 compilation and pragmas.
3011 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
3013 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
3014 ------------------------
3018 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
3019 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
3021 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
3022 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
3023 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
3024 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWidgets
3026 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
3027 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
3028 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
3030 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
3031 compatibility functions.
3032 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
3033 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
3034 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
3035 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
3036 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
3037 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
3038 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
3042 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
3043 - Added samples/png.
3044 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
3045 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
3047 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
3049 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
3050 ------------------------
3054 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3055 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
3056 cleaned up properly before exit.
3057 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
3059 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
3060 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
3061 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
3063 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
3064 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
3066 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWidgets in the same
3067 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
3068 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
3069 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
3073 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
3074 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
3075 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
3076 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
3077 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
3078 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
3079 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
3080 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
3081 allow better control of memory.
3082 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
3084 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
3085 float to long in wxToolBar files.
3087 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
3088 ------------------------
3092 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
3093 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
3094 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
3095 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
3096 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
3097 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
3098 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
3099 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
3100 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
3101 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
3102 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
3103 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
3105 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
3106 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
3107 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
3108 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
3109 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
3110 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
3111 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
3112 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
3113 internal implementation.
3114 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
3115 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
3116 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
3120 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
3121 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
3122 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
3123 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
3124 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
3126 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
3127 --------------------------
3131 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3132 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3133 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
3135 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
3136 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
3137 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
3138 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
3140 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
3141 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
3146 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
3147 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
3148 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
3150 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
3151 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
3153 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
3154 created dynamically, not as a global object.
3155 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
3156 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
3157 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
3158 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
3159 - Added gcc pragmas.
3160 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
3161 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
3162 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
3163 added a few references to wxTransString.
3164 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
3165 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
3166 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
3167 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
3168 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
3169 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
3170 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
3171 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
3172 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
3175 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
3176 --------------------------
3180 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
3181 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
3182 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
3183 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
3184 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
3185 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
3186 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
3187 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
3188 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
3189 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
3190 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
3192 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
3193 to help printing with multiple pages.
3194 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
3195 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
3196 implementation updated to use these base classes.
3197 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
3198 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
3199 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
3200 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
3201 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
3202 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
3203 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
3204 New files from Vadim:
3210 src\common\string.cpp
3214 No longer use GNU wxString files.
3215 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
3216 src\common\filefn.cpp.
3217 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
3218 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
3219 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
3220 including changes to defs.h.
3221 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
3223 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
3225 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
3226 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
3228 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
3230 Alpha 3, September 1997
3231 -----------------------
3235 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
3236 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
3237 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
3238 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
3239 - Started documentation.
3241 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
3242 ------------------------
3246 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
3247 with MetroWerks compiler.
3248 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
3249 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
3250 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
3251 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
3252 for testing purposes.
3253 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
3255 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
3256 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
3258 - Added back wxRadioBox.
3259 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
3262 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
3263 -----------------------
3267 At this point, the following has been achieved:
3269 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
3270 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
3271 wxString instead of char *.
3272 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
3273 old system event system) and code size reduced.
3274 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
3275 as wxbWindow now removed.
3276 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
3277 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
3279 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
3280 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
3281 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
3283 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
3284 settings mucho rationalised.
3285 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
3286 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
3288 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
3289 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
3290 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
3291 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
3292 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
3293 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
3295 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
3296 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
3298 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
3299 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95)
3300 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
3301 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
3302 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
3303 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
3304 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
3305 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
3306 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
3307 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
3309 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
3310 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
3312 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
3313 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
3314 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
3315 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
3316 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
3317 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
3319 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
3320 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
3321 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
3322 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
3323 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
3324 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).