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