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