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1 wxWindows 2 Change Log
2 ----------------------
3
4 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.2.x
5 ================================
6
7 Please take a few minutes to read the following list, especially
8 paying attention to the most important changes which are marked
9 with '!' in the first column.
10
11 Also please note that you should ensure that WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
12 is defined to 1 if you wish to retain maximal compatibility with 2.2
13 series -- however you are also strongly encouraged to try to compile
14 your code without this define as it won't be default any longer in
15 2.6 release.
16
17
18 wxBase:
19
20 ! wxArray<T>::Remove(size_t) has been removed to fix compilation problems
21 under 64 bit architectures, please replace it with RemoveAt() in your
22 code.
23
24 ! wxArray<T> macros have been changed to fix runtime problems under 64 bit
25 architectures and as a side effect of this WX_DEFINE_ARRAY() can only be
26 used now for the pointer types, WX_DEFINE_ARRAY_INT should be used for the
27 arrays containing non-pointers.
28
29 - wxObject::CopyObject() and Clone() methods were removed because they
30 simply don't make sense for all objects
31
32 - wxEvent now has a pure virtual Clone() method which must be implemented
33 by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
34 add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
35
36 - small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
37
38 - unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
39 from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
40 could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
41 a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
42 is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
43
44 - another minor change: wxApp::OnAssert() has a new "cond" argument, you
45 must modify YourApp::OnAssert() signature if you were using it to override
46 the default assert handling.
47
48
49 All (GUI):
50
51 ! the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
52 allocated during run-time which means that they can't be used as case labels
53 in the switch()es, you must rewrite them to use if()s instead
54
55 You may also define WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_EVENT_TYPES to get the old behaviour
56 but this is strongly discouraged, please consider changing your code
57 instead!
58
59 ! wxDialog does not derive from wxPanel any longer - if you were using it in
60 your code, please update it. The quick fix for the most cases is to replace
61 the occurrences of wxPanel with wxWindow.
62
63 ! if you handle (and don't skip) EVT_KEY_DOWN, the EVT_CHAR event is not
64 generated at all, so you must call event.Skip() in your OnKeyDown() if
65 you want to get OnChar() as well
66
67 - wxYES_NO is now wxYES | wxNO and the manifest values of both wxYES and wxNO
68 have changed (to fix some unfortunate clashes), please check your code to
69 ensure that no tests for wxYES or wxNO are broken: for example, the following
70 will *NOT* work any longer:
71
72 if ( flags & wxYES_NO )
73 ... do something ...
74 if ( flags & wxYES )
75 ... do something else ...
76
77 - wxGLCanvas now derives directly from wxWindow, not wxScrolledWindow
78
79 - wxGridCellAttrProvider class API changed, you will need to update your code
80 if you derived any classes from it
81
82 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram()'s signature changed to
83 unsigned long ComputeHistogram(wxImageHistogram&) const
84
85 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
86 now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
87
88 - WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
89 they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
90
91 - the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
92 parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
93 from happening
94
95 - several obsolete synonyms are only retained in WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2 mode:
96 for example, use wxScrolledWindow::GetViewStart() now instead of ViewStart()
97 and GetCount() instead of Number() in many classes
98
99
100 wxMSW:
101
102 ! build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
103 but is created as part of the build process under lib/<toolkit>/wx/include
104 where <toolkit> is of the form (msw|univ)[dll][u][d]. You'll need to update
105 the include path in your make/project files appropriately. Furthermore,
106 xpm.lib is no longer used by wxMSW, it was superseded by the wxXPMDecoder
107 class. You'll need to remove all references to xpm.lib from your
108 make/project files.
109
110 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
111 style to avoid it
112
113 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
114 previously selected one instead of replacing it
115
116 - wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
117 return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
118 never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
119
120 - wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
121 anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
122
123
124 Unix ports:
125
126 ! You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
127 `wx-config --cflags` for compiling C++ files. CXXFLAGS contains CFLAGS
128 and the compiler flags for C++ files only, CFLAGS should still be used
129 to compile pure C files.
130
131
132 wxThread and related classes:
133
134 - The thread-related classes have been heavily changed since 2.2.x versions
135 as the old code had many serious problems. This could have resulted in
136 semantical changes other than those mentioned here, please review use of
137 wxThread, wxMutex and wxCondition classes in your code.
138
139 ! wxCondition now *must* be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
140 documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
141 unfortunately needed as it was impossible to ensure the correct behaviour
142 (i.e. absense of race conditions) using the old API.
143
144 - wxMutex is not recursive any more in POSIX implementation (it hasn't been
145 recursive in 2.2.x but was in 2.3.1 and 2.3.2), please refer to the class
146 documentation for the discussion of the recursive mutexes.
147
148 - wxMutex::IsLocked() doesn't exist any more and should have never existed:
149 this is was unique example of a thread-unsafe-by-design method.
150
151
152 OTHER CHANGES
153 =============
154
155 2.3.3
156 -----
157
158 wxBase:
159
160 - wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
161 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
162 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
163 (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
164 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
165 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
166 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
167 after (non standard) STL hash_map
168 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
169 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
170 - fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
171 - added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
172 deprecated)
173 - added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
174
175 Unix (Base/GUI):
176
177 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
178 programs and not only GNU make
179 - wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
180 - wxWindows may be built as a dynamic shared library under Darwin / Mac OS X
181 lazy linking issues have been solved by linking a single module (.o) into
182 the shared library (two step link using distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh)
183 - fixed thread priority setting under Linux
184
185 All (GUI):
186
187 - it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
188 small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
189 - implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
190 - added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
191 - added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
192 wxWindows dialogs
193 - significantly improved native font support
194 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
195 wxHashTable
196 - added IFF image handler
197 - fixed using custom renderers in wxGrid which was broken in 2.3.2
198 - support for multiple images in one file added to wxImage (TIFF, GIF and ICO formats)
199 - support for CUR and ANI files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
200 - wxTextCtrl::GetRange() added
201 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
202 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
203 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
204 - added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
205 - added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
206 for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
207 - added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
208 - added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
209 - Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
210 - Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
211 - wxTreeCtrl now supports incremental keyboard search
212 - wxHelpProvider::RemoveHelp added and called from ~wxWindowBase
213 so that erroneous help strings are no longer found as the hash
214 table fills up
215 - updated libpng from 1.0.3 to 1.2.4
216
217 wxMSW:
218
219 - small appearance fixes for native look under Windows XP
220 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
221 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
222 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
223 - wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
224 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
225 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
226 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
227 are changed
228 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
229 - wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
230 of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
231 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
232 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
233 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
234 recursion any more
235 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
236 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
237 - wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
238 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
239 - Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
240 - Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
241 - Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
242 has the capture before release it.
243 - fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
244 - default button handling is now closer to expected
245 - setting tooltips for wxSlider now works
246 - multiple events avoided in wxComboBox
247 - tooltip asserts avoided for read-only wxComboBox
248 - fixed a race condition during a thread exit and a join
249 - fixed a condition where a thread can hang during
250 message/event processing
251 - increased space between wxRadioBox label and first radio button
252
253 wxGTK:
254
255 - wxDirDialog now presents the file system in standard Unix way
256 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
257 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
258 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
259 - new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh.
260 Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
261 - support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
262 - fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
263 - implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
264 - implemented wxChoice::Delete()
265 - fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
266 - made internal GC pool dynamically growable
267
268 wxHTML:
269
270 - fixed wxHtmlHelpController's cache files handling on big endian machines
271 - added blocking and redirecting capabilities to wxHtmlWindow via
272 wxHtmlWindow::OnOpeningURL()
273 - fixed alignment handling in tables
274 - fixed <font face="..."> handling to be case insensitive
275
276 2.3.2
277 -----
278
279 New port: wxUniv for Win32/GTK+ is now included in the distribution.
280
281 wxBase:
282
283 - wxRegEx class added
284 - wxGetDiskSpace() function added (Jonothan Farr, Markus Fieber)
285 - wxTextBuffer and wxTextFile(wxStream) added (Morten Hanssen)
286 - more fixes to wxMBConv classes. Conversion to and from wchar_t now works with
287 glibc 2.2 as well as with glibc 2.1. Unix version now checks for iconv()'s
288 capabilities at runtime instead of in the configure script.
289
290 All (GUI):
291
292 - support for virtual list control added
293 - column images in report mode of the list control
294 - wxFindReplaceDialog added (based on work of Markus Greither)
295 - wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength() added (wxMSW/wxGTK)
296 - polygon support in wxRegion (Klaas Holwerda)
297 - wxStreamToTextRedirector to allow easily redirect cout to wxTextCtrl added
298 - fixed bug with using wxExecute() to capture huge amounts of output
299 - new wxCalendarCtrl styles added (Søren Erland Vestø)
300 - wxWizard changes: loading from WXR support, help button (Robert Cavanaugh)
301 - wxDirSelector() added (Paul A. Thiessen)
302 - wxGrid cell editing veto support (Roger Gammans)
303 - wxListCtrl ITEM_FOCUSED event added
304 - support for ICO files in wxImage added (Chris Elliott)
305
306 wxMSW:
307
308 - support for the DBCS fonts (CP 932, 936, 949, 950) (Nathan Cook)
309 - new library naming convention under VC++ -- please change your application
310 project files
311
312 wxGTK:
313
314 - fixed popup menu positioning bug
315
316 wxMac:
317
318 - support for configuration and build under Mac OS X using the Apple Developer
319 Tools
320
321 wxHTML:
322
323 - new HTML parser with correct parsing of character entities and fixes
324 to tags parsing
325 - added support for animated GIFs
326
327 2.3.1
328 -----
329
330 wxBase:
331
332 - Fixes for gcc 3.0
333 - Fixed new charset detection code
334 - ODBC Informix fixes (submitted by Roger Gammans)
335 - Added ODBC date support to wxVariant
336 - Added wxDir::Traverse
337 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker class
338 - Removed redundant wxDebugContext functions using C++ streams,
339 so now standard stream usage should be unnecessary
340
341 All (GUI):
342
343 - Added wxDbGrid class for displaying ODBC tables
344 - Added EVT_GRID_EDITOR_CREATED and wxGridEditorCreatedEvent so the
345 user code can get access to the edit control when it is created, (to
346 push on a custom event handler for example)
347 - Added wxTextAttr class and SetStyle, SetDefaultStyle and
348 GetDefaultStyle methods to wxTextCtrl
349 - Added wxSingleInstanceChecker
350 - Improvements to Tex2RTF
351 - Added Paul and Roger Gammans' grid controls
352 - Bug in wxDocument::Save logic corrected, whereby Save didn't save when not
353 first-time saved
354 - Fixed memory leak in textcmn.cpp
355 - Various wxXML enhancements
356 - Removed wxCLIP_CHILDREN style from wxSplitterWindow
357 - Fixed memory leak in DoPrint, htmprint.cpp
358 - Fixed calendar sample bug with using wxCommandEvent::GetInt()
359 instead of GetId()
360 - Added wxDbGrid combining wxODBC classes with wxGrid
361 - Added more makefiles and project files for contrib hierarchy
362
363 wxMSW:
364
365 - Fixed wxApp::ProcessMessage so controls don't lose their
366 accelerators when the accelerators are redefined elsewhere
367 - Accelerators consisting of simple keystrokes (without control,
368 alt or shift) now work
369 - Compile fixes for Watcom C++ added
370 - Compile fixes for Cygwin 1.0 added
371 - Use SetForegroundWindow() in wxWindow::Raise() instead of BringWindowToTop()
372 - Replaced wxYield() call in PopupMenu() by a much safer
373 wxYieldForCommandsOnly() - fixes tree ctrl popup menu bug and other ones
374 - Enter processing in wxSpinCtrl fixed
375 - Fixed bug in determining the best listbox size
376 - Fix for wxFrame's last focus bug
377 - We now send iconize events
378 - Fixed wxFrame::SetClientSize() with toolbar bug
379 - Added mousewheel processing
380 - Added wxSystemSettings::Get/SetOption so we can configure
381 wxWindows at run time; used this to implement no-maskblt option
382 in wxDC
383 - Fixed bug when using MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES style: so now MDI
384 child frame styles are honoured
385
386 wxGTK:
387
388 - Fixed slider rounding bug
389 - Added code to set wxFont's default encoding to wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding()
390 - We now send iconize events
391 - Fix for discrepancies between wxNotebookEvent and wxNotebook
392 GetSelection() results
393
394 2.3.0
395 -----
396
397 wxBase:
398
399 - fixed problem with wxURL when using static version of the library
400 - wxZipFSHandler::FindFirst() and FindNext() now correctly list directories
401 - wxMimeTypesManager now can create file associations too (Chris Elliott)
402 - wxCopyFile() respects the file permissions (Roland Scholz)
403 - wxFTP::GetFileSize() added (Søren Erland Vestø)
404 - wxDateTime::IsSameDate() bug fixed
405 - wxTimeSpan::Format() now behaves more as expected, see docs
406 - wxLocale now provides much more convenient API for setting language and
407 detecting current system language. New API is more abstracted and truly
408 cross-platform, independent of underlying C runtime library.
409
410 All (GUI):
411
412 - new wxToggleButton class (John Norris, Axel Schlueter)
413 - wxCalendarCtrl not highlighting the date with time part bug fixed
414 - wxADJUST_MINSIZE sizer flag added
415 - FindOrCreateBrush/Pen() bug fix for invalid colour values
416 - new wxXPMHandler for reading and writing XPM images
417 - added new (now recommended) API for conversion between wxImage and wxBitmap
418 (wxBitmap::ConvertToImage() and wxBitmap::wxBitmap(wxImage&) instead of
419 wxImage methods and ctor)
420 - ODBC classes now support DB2, Interbase, and Pervasive SQL
421 - ODBC documentation complete!!
422 - ODBC classes have much Unicode support added, but not complete
423 - ODBC experimental BLOB support added, but not completely tested
424 - ODBC NULL column support completed (Roger/Paul Gammans)
425 - ODBC All "char *" and char arrays removed and replaced with wxString use
426
427 wxMSW:
428
429 - threads: bug in wxCondition::Broadcast fixed (Pieter van der Meulen)
430 - fixed bug in MDI children flags (mis)handling
431 - it is possible to compile wxCHMHelpController with compilers
432 other than Visual C++ now and hhctrl.ocx is loaded at runtime
433
434 wxGTK:
435
436 - added support for wchar_t (wxUSE_WCHAR_T) under Unix
437
438 wxHTML:
439
440 - mew feature, wxHtmlProcessor for on-the-fly modification of HTML markup
441 - visual enhancements to contents panel of wxHtmlHelpController
442
443 2.2.0
444 -----
445
446 wxBase:
447
448 - Fixed bug with directories with trailing (back)slashes in wxPathExists
449 - wxString: added wxArrayString::operator==() and !=()
450 - Fixes for wxCmdLineParser
451 - Added wxGetLocalTimeMillis
452 - Completed Czech translations
453 - Some stream corrections
454 - added missing consts to wxPoint operators
455 - wxDateTime ParseFormat fixes
456 - wxFile::Open(write_append) will create file if it doesn't exist
457 - small fixes to MIME mailcap test command handling, more MIME tests in the sample
458
459 All (GUI):
460
461 - wxGenericDragImage now allows virtual image drawing, and
462 flicker-free dragging is now possible
463 - Added wxPrinter::GetLastError
464 - Fixed wxLogGui reentrancy problem
465 - Paper names now translated
466 - wxGrid fixes
467 - Generic validator now caters for more cases (integers in
468 wxTextCtrl, strings in wxChoice, wxComboBox)
469 - Fixed crash when docview On... functions return FALSE. Show
470 error message when an non-existent filename is typed into the Open
471 File dialog.
472 - Corrected Baltic font encoding handling
473 - wxImage: enhanced TIFF code, added new platform-independent BMP
474 writing code
475 - wxKeyEvent::GetKeyCode() and HasModifiers() added and documented
476 - Fixed wxPropertyForm crashes in sample
477 - wxWizard now calls TransferDataFromWindow() before calling
478 wxWizardPage::GetNext() fixing an obvious bug
479
480 wxMSW:
481
482 - wxWindow::GetCharWidth/Height now calculated accurately.
483 This will affect all .wxr dialog resources, so for
484 backward compatibility, please set
485 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY to 1 in setup.h
486 - wxListCtrl: set item text in LIST_ITEM_ACTIVATED events
487 - wxTextCtrl: implemented setting colours for rich edit controls
488 - wxColour now accepts both grey and gray
489 - BC++ DLL compilation fixed
490 - Watcom C++ makefiles improved for JPEG and TIFF compilation
491 - Fixed submenu accelerator bug
492 - Fixed dialog focus bug (crash if the previous window to have
493 the focus was destroyed before the dialog closed)
494 - Too-small default wxTextCtrl height fixed
495 - fixed "missing" initial resize of wxMDIChildFrame
496 - wxFrame restores focus better
497 - Now ignore wxTHICK_FRAME in wxWindow constructor: only relevant to
498 frames and dialogs, interferes with other window styles otherwise
499 (sometimes you'd get a thick frame in a subwindow)
500 - wxTextCtrl insertion point set to the beginning of the control by SetValue
501 - Fix so wxMDIParentFrame is actually shown when Show(TRUE) is called.
502 - wxFileDialog: adjusts struct size if there's an error (struct
503 sizes can be different on different versions of Windows)
504 - wxImageList::GetSize() documented and added to wxMSW
505 - fixed default dialog style to make them non resizeable again
506 - fixed wxFrame::IsShown() which always returned TRUE before
507
508 wxGTK:
509
510 - Please see docs/gtk/changes.txt.
511
512 wxMotif:
513
514 - Small compilation fixes
515
516 Documentation:
517
518 - wxCaret documented
519
520 2.1.16
521 ------
522
523 wxBase:
524
525 All (GUI):
526
527 wxMSW:
528
529 - Various bug fixes
530 - Added wxCHMHelpController, for invoking MS HTML Help
531 files. This works under VC++ only
532 - Modal dialog handling improved
533 - Printer dialog now modal
534
535 wxGTK:
536
537 - Various bug fixes
538
539 wxMotif:
540
541 - Various bug fixes
542
543 2.1.15
544 ------
545
546 Documentation:
547
548 - Added docs/tech for technical notes
549
550 File hierarchy:
551
552 - Started new contrib hierarchy that mirrors
553 the main lib structure; moved OGL and MMedia into it
554
555 wxBase:
556
557 - wxSocket support
558 - wxDateTime replaces and extends old wxDate and wxTime classes (still
559 available but strongly deprecated) with many new features
560 - wxLongLong class provides support for (signed) 64 bit integers
561 - wxCmdLineParser class for parsing the command line (supporting short and
562 long options, switches and parameters of different types)
563 - it is now possible to build wxBase under Win32 (using VC++ only so far)
564 and BeOS (without thread support yet)
565 - wxThread class modified to support both detached and joinable threads, also
566 added new GetCPUCount() and SetConcurrency() functions (useful under Solaris
567 only so far)
568 - wxDir class for enumerating files in a directory
569 - wxLog functions are now (more) MT-safe
570 - wxStopWatch class, timer functions have more chances to return correct
571 results for your platform (use ANSI functions where available)
572 - wxString::ToLong, ToULong, ToDouble methods and Format() static one added
573 - buffer overflows in wxString and wxLog classes fixed (if snprintf() function
574 is available)
575 - wxArray::RemoveAt() replaces deprecated wxArray::Remove(index)
576
577 all (GUI):
578
579 - Added wxImage::Rotate.
580 - new wxCalendarCtrl class for picking a date interactively
581 - wxMenu(Bar)::Insert() and Remove() functions for dynamic menu management
582 - wxToolBar supports arbitrary controls (not only buttons) and can be
583 dynamically changed (Delete/Insert functions)
584 - vertical toolbars supported by MSW and GTK native wxToolBar classes
585 - wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl allow setting colour/fonts for individual items
586 - "file open" dialog allows selecting multiple files at once (contributed by
587 John Norris)
588 - wxMimeTypesManager uses GNOME/KDE MIME database to get the icons for the
589 MIME types if available (Unix only)
590 - wxDC::DrawRotatedText() (based on contribution by Hans-Joachim Baader)
591 - TIFF support added (libtiff required and included in the distribution)
592 - PCX files can now be written (256 and 24 bits)
593 - validators may work recursively if wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY is set
594 - wxScrolledWindow now has keyboard interface
595 - wxTextEntryDialog may be used for entering passwords (supports wxTE_PASSWORD)
596 - added wxEncodingConverter and improved wxFontMapper
597 for dealing with conversions between different encodings,
598 charsets support in wxLocale and wxHTML
599 - wxDragImage class added
600 - samples/help improved to show standard and advanced HTML help
601 controllers, as well as native help
602 - moved wxTreeLayout class to main lib
603
604 wxMSW:
605
606 - wxFrame::MakeFullScreen added.
607 - support for enhanced metafiles added, support for copying/pasting metafiles
608 (WMF and enhanced ones) fixed/added.
609 - implemented setting colours for push buttons
610 - wxStatusBar95 may be now used in dialogs, panels (not only frames) and can be
611 positioned along the top of the screen and not only at the bottom
612 - wxTreeCtrl::IsVisible() bug fixed (thanks to Gary Chessun)
613 - loading/saving big (> 32K) files in wxTextCtrl works
614 - tooltips work with wxRadioBox
615 - wxBitmap/wxIcon may be constructed from XPM included into a program, as in
616 Unix ports
617 - returning FALSE from OnPrintPage() aborts printing
618 - VC++ makefiles and project files made (mostly) consistent
619 - wxSetCursorEvent added
620
621 wxGTK:
622
623 - wxFontMapper endless recursion bug (on some systems) fixed
624 - wxGTK synthesizes wxActivateEvents
625 - UpdateUI handlers may be used with wxTextCtrl
626
627 wxMotif:
628
629 - wxMenu::Enable works
630 - wxToolBar bugs fixed
631 - OGL samples made to work again
632
633 wxHTML:
634
635 - almost complete rewrite of wxHtmlHelpController,
636 including faster search, bookmarks, printing, setup dialog
637 and cross-platform binary compatible .cached files for faster
638 loading of large helpbooks, case insensitive search
639 split into 3 parts: wxHtmlHelpData, Frame and Controller
640 - added support for charsets and <meta> tag
641 - added support for font faces and justified paragraphs,
642 taken some steps to prepare wxHTML for frames
643 - added dynamic pushing/popping of wxHtmlParser tag handlers
644 - improved HTML printing
645 - added extensive table of HTML characters substitutions (&nbsp; etc.)
646 - fixed wxHtmlWindow flickering, several minor bugfixes
647 - added some tags: <address>, <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <small>, <big>,
648 fixed handling of relative and absolute font sizes in <font size>
649
650
651 NOTE: for changes after wxWindows 2.1.0 b4, please see the CVS
652 change log.
653
654 2.1.0, b4, May 9th 1999
655 -----------------------
656
657 wxGTK:
658
659 - JPEG support added.
660 - Many fixes and changes not thought worth mentioning in this file :-)
661
662 wxMSW:
663
664 - wxNotebook changes: can add image only; wxNB_FIXEDWIDTH added;
665 SetTabSize added.
666 - JPEG support added.
667 - Fixes for Cygwin compilation.
668 - Added wxGA_SMOOTH and wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT styles.
669 - Many fixes people didn't tell this file about.
670
671 wxMotif:
672
673
674 General:
675
676 - Some changes for Unicode support, including wxchar.h/cpp.
677
678
679 2.0.1 (release), March 1st 1999
680 -------------------------------
681
682 wxGTK:
683
684 - wxGLCanvas fixes.
685 - Slider/spinbutton fixes.
686
687 wxMSW:
688
689 - Fixed problems with <return> in dialogs/panels.
690 - Fixed window cursor setting.
691 - Fixed toolbar sizing and edge-clipping problems.
692 - Some makefile fixes.
693
694 wxMotif:
695
696 - None.
697
698 General:
699
700 - Added wxUSE_SOCKETS.
701 - More topic overviews.
702 - Put wxPrintPaperType, wxPrintPaperDatabase into
703 prntbase.h/cpp for use in non-PostScript situations
704 (e.g. Win16 wxPageSetupDialog).
705
706
707 Beta 5, February 18th 1999
708 --------------------------
709
710 wxGTK:
711
712 - wxExecute improved.
713
714 wxMSW:
715
716 - Fixed wxWindow::IsShown (::IsWindowVisible doesn't behave as
717 expected).
718 - Changed VC++ makefiles (.vc) so that it's possible to have
719 debug/release/DLL versions of the library available simultaneously,
720 with names wx.lib, wx_d.lib, wx200.lib(dll), wx200_d.lib(dll).
721 - Added BC++ 5 IDE files and instructions.
722 - Fixed wxChoice, wxComboBox constructor bugs (m_noStrings initialisation).
723 - Fixed focus-related crash.
724
725 wxMotif:
726
727 - Cured asynchronous wxExecute crash.
728 - Added repaint event handlers to wxFrame, wxMDIChildFrame.
729
730 General:
731
732 - wxLocale documented.
733 - Added include filenames to class reference.
734 - wxHelpController API changed: SetBrowser becomes SetViewer,
735 DisplaySection works for WinHelp, help sample compiles under Windows
736 (though doesn't display help yet).
737
738 Beta 4, February 12th 1999
739 --------------------------
740
741 wxGTK:
742
743 - Miscellaneous fixes.
744
745 wxMSW:
746
747 - Makefiles for more compilers and samples; Cygwin makefiles
748 rationalised.
749 - Added VC++ project file for compiling wxWindows as DLL.
750
751 wxMotif:
752
753 - Added OnEraseBackground invocation.
754 - Added wxRETAINED implementation for wxScrolledWindow.
755 - Cured scrolling display problem by adding XmUpdateDisplay.
756 - Tried to make lex-ing in the makefile more generic (command line
757 syntax should apply to both lex and flex).
758 - Changed file selector colours for consistency (except for buttons:
759 crashes for some reason).
760 - Fixed wxMotif version of wxImage::ConvertToBitmap (used new instead
761 of malloc, which causes memory problems).
762
763 General:
764
765 - Further doc improvements.
766 - wxGenericValidator added.
767 - Added wxImageModule to image.cpp, so adds/cleans up standard handlers
768 automatically.
769
770 Beta 3, January 31st 1999
771 -------------------------
772
773 wxGTK:
774
775 - wxClipboard/DnD API changes (still in progress).
776 - wxToolTip class added.
777 - Miscellaneous fixes.
778
779 wxMSW:
780
781 - wxRegConfig DeleteAll bug fixed.
782 - Makefiles for more compilers.
783 - TWIN32 support added.
784 - Renamed VC++ makefiles from .nt to .vc, and
785 factored out program/library settings.
786 - Fixed wxIniConfig bug.
787
788 wxMotif:
789
790 - A few more colour fixes.
791 - wxGLCanvas and OpenGL samples working.
792 - Some compiler warnings fixed.
793 - wxChoice crash fix.
794 - Dialog Editor starting to work on Motif.
795
796 General:
797
798 - wxBusyCursor class added.
799 - Added samples/dde.
800 - More doc improvements, incl. expanding docs/html/index.htm.
801
802 Beta 2, January 1999
803 --------------------
804
805 wxGTK:
806
807 wxMSW:
808
809 - 16-bit BC++ compilation/linking works albeit without the resource system.
810
811 wxMotif:
812
813 - Cured wxScreenDC origin problem so e.g. sash window sash is drawn at
814 the right place.
815 - Cured some widget table clashes.
816 - Added thread support (Robert).
817 - wxPoem sample now works.
818
819 General:
820
821 - Rearranged documentation a bit.
822 - Sash window uses area of first frame/dialog to paint over when drawing
823 the dragged sash, not just the sash window itself (it clipped to the right
824 or below).
825 - Made resource sample use the correct Cancel button id.
826 - Moved wxProp to main library (generic directory), created proplist
827 sample.
828 - Added bombs and fractal samples.
829
830 Beta 1, December 24th 1998
831 --------------------------
832
833 wxGTK:
834
835 - Various
836
837 wxMSW, wxMotif: not in sync with this release.
838
839
840 Alpha 18, December 29th 1998
841 ----------------------------
842
843 wxMSW:
844
845 - Win16 support working again (VC++ 1.5)
846 - Win16 now uses generic wxNotebook, wxListCtrl,
847 wxTreeCtrl -- more or less working now, although
848 a little work on wxNotebook is still needed.
849 Under 16-bit Windows, get assertion when you click
850 on a tab.
851 - Wrote 16-bit BC++ makefiles: samples don't yet link.
852 - Added CodeWarrior support to distribution courtesy
853 of Stefan Csomor.
854
855 wxMotif:
856
857 - Cured scrolling problem: scrollbars now show/hide themselves
858 without (permanently) resizing the window.
859 - Removed some commented-out lines in wxScrolledWindow::AdjustScrollbars
860 that disabled scrollbar paging.
861 - Set background colour of drawing area in wxWindow, so e.g. wxListCtrl
862 colours correctly.
863 - Removed major bug whereby dialogs were unmanaged automatically
864 when any button was pressed.
865 - Fixed colours of wxWindow scrollbars, made list and text controls
866 have a white background.
867 - Fixed dialog colour setting.
868 - Added settable fonts and colours for wxMenu/wxMenuBar. Now
869 they have sensible colours by default.
870 - Fixed a bug in wxStaticBox.
871 - Cured wxTreeCtrl bug: now works pretty well!
872 - Debugged DrawEllipticArc (a ! in the wrong place).
873 - Added SetClippingRegion( const wxRegion& region ).
874 - Added wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect versions of SetSize etc.
875
876 Alpha 17, November 22nd 1998
877 ----------------------------
878
879 wxMSW:
880
881 - More documentation updates, especially for
882 wxLayoutWindow classes and debugging facilities.
883 - Changed wxDebugContext to use wxDebugLog instead
884 of wxTrace.
885 - Now supports VC++ 6.0, and hopefully BC++ 5.0.
886 However, DLL support may be broken for BC++ since
887 VC++ 6 required changing of WXDLLEXPORT keyword
888 position.
889 - Numerous miscellaneous changes.
890
891 wxMotif:
892
893 - Reimplemented MDI using wxNotebook instead of the MDI widgets, which
894 were too buggy (probably not design for dynamic addition/removal of
895 child frames).
896 - Some improvements to the wxNotebook implementation.
897 - wxToolBar now uses a bulletin board instead of a form, in an attempt
898 to make it possible to add ordinary wxControls to a toolbar.
899 - Cured problem with not being able to use global memory operators,
900 by defining two more global operators, so that the delete will match
901 the debugging implementation.
902 - Added wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS so we can distinguish between using
903 global memory operators (usually OK) and #defining new to be
904 WXDEBUG_NEW (sometimes it might not be OK).
905 - Added time.cpp to makefile; set wxUSE_DATETIME to 1.
906 - Added a parent-existence check to popup menu code to make it not crash.
907 - Added some optimization in wxWindow::SetSize to produce less flicker.
908 It remains to be seen whether this produces any resize bugs.
909
910 It's a long time since I updated this file. Previously done:
911
912 - wxFrame, wxDialog done.
913 - wxScrolledWindow done (but backing pixmap not used at present).
914 - wxBitmap done though could be tidied it up at some point.
915 - Most basic controls are there, if not rigorously tested.
916 - Some MDI support (menus appear on child frames at present).
917 - wxNotebook almost done.
918 - wxToolBar done (horizontal only, which would be easy to extend
919 to vertical toolbars).
920
921 More recently:
922
923 - Colour and font changing done (question mark over what happens
924 to scrollbars).
925 - Accelerators done (for menu items and buttons). Also event loop
926 tidied up in wxApp so that events are filtered through ProcessXEvent.
927 - wxWindow::GetUpdateRegion should now work.
928
929 Alpha 16, September 8th 1998
930 ----------------------------
931
932 wxMSW:
933
934 - Added wxSashWindow, wxSashLayoutWindow classes, and sashtest
935 sample.
936 - Guilhem's socket classes added, plus wxsocket sample.
937 - A few more makefiles added.
938 - GnuWin32/BC++ compatibility mods.
939 - Further doc updates.
940 - wxProp updates for correct working with wxGTK.
941
942 wxMotif:
943
944 - First start at Motif port.
945 - Made makefiles for wxMotif source directory and minimal sample.
946 - First go at wxApp, wxWindow, wxDialog, wxPen, wxBrush, wxFont,
947 wxColour, wxButton, wxCheckBox, wxTextCtrl, wxStaticText,
948 wxMenu, wxMenuItem, wxMenuBar
949
950 Alpha 15, August 31st 1998
951 --------------------------
952
953 wxMSW:
954
955 - wxBitmap debugged.
956 - wxDC::GetDepth added.
957 - Contribution added whereby wxBitmap will be
958 converted to DC depth if they don't match.
959 - wxConfig API improved, documentation updated.
960 - Printing classes name conventions cleaned up.
961 - wxUpdateUIEvent now derives from wxCommandEvent
962 so event can travel up the window hierarchy.
963
964 Alpha 14, July 31st 1998
965 ------------------------
966
967 wxMSW:
968
969 - Toolbar API has been simplified, and now
970 wxFrame::GetClientArea returns the available client
971 area when toolbar, status bar etc. have been accounted for.
972 wxFrame::CreateToolBar added in line with CreateStatusBar.
973 - Documentation updates, incl. for wxToolBar.
974 - New wxAcceleratorTable class plus wxFrame::SetAcceleratorTable.
975 - Various additions from other folk, e.g. streams, wxConfig
976 changes, wxNotebook.
977 - Added wxDocMDIParentFrame, wxDocMDIChildFrame for doc/view.
978
979 Alpha 13, July 8th 1998
980 -----------------------
981
982 wxMSW:
983
984 - Implemented wxPoint as identical to POINT on Windows, and
985 altered wxDC wxPoint functions to use wxPoint directly in
986 Windows functions, for efficiency.
987 - Cured wxASSERT bug in wxStatusBar95.
988 - #ifdefed out some bits in oleutils.cpp for compilers that
989 don't support it.
990 - Added some operators to wxPoint, wxSize.
991 - Added inline wxDC functions using wxPoint, wxSize, wxRect.
992
993 Alpha 12, July 7th 1998
994 -----------------------
995
996 wxMSW:
997
998 - Added wxApp::GetComCtl32Version, and wxTB_FLAT style, so can
999 have flat toolbars on Win98 or Win95 with IE >= 3 installed.
1000
1001 Alpha 11, July 3rd 1998
1002 -----------------------
1003
1004 wxMSW:
1005
1006 - Added thread.h, thread.cpp.
1007 - Changed Enabled, Checked to IsEnabled, IsChecked in wxMenu,
1008 wxMenuBar.
1009 - Changed wxMenuItem::SetBackColor to SetBackgroundColour,
1010 SetTextColor to SetTextColour, and added or made public several
1011 wxMenuItem accessors.
1012 - Added two overloads to wxRegion::Contains. Added
1013 wxRegion::IsEmpty for a more consistent naming convention.
1014 - Added Vadim's wxDataObject and wxDropSource.
1015 - ENTER/LEAVE events now work.
1016 - Cured wxMemoryDC bug where the DC wasn't being deleted.
1017 - Cured wxGauge SetSize major bugginess.
1018 - Cured problem where if a GDI object was created on the stack,
1019 then went out of scope, then another object was selected into
1020 the DC, GDI objects would leak. This is because the assignment
1021 to e.g. wxDC::m_pen would delete the GDI object without it first
1022 being selected out of the DC. Cured by selecting the old DC object
1023 first, then doing the assignment.
1024 - Split up wxGaugeMSW, wxGauge95, wxSliderMSW, wxSlider95
1025 - Various other bug fixes and additions.
1026
1027 Generic:
1028
1029 - Major work on Dialog Editor (still plenty to go).
1030 - Expanded documentation a bit more.
1031
1032 Alpha 10, May 7th 1998
1033 ----------------------
1034
1035 wxMSW:
1036
1037 - Added desiredWidth, desiredHeight parameters to wxBitmapHandler
1038 and wxIcon functions so that you can specify what size of
1039 icon should be loaded. Probably will remain a Windows-specific thing.
1040 - wxStatusBar95 now works for MDI frames.
1041 - Toolbars in MDI frames now behave normally. They still
1042 require application-supplied positioning code though.
1043 - Changed installation instructions, makefiles and batch files
1044 for compiling with Gnu-Win32/Mingw32/EGCS. Also timercmn.cpp
1045 change to support Mingw32/EGCS. Bison now used by default.
1046
1047 Alpha 9, April 27th 1998
1048 ------------------------
1049
1050 wxMSW:
1051
1052 - Cured bug in wxStatusBar95 that caused a crash if multiple
1053 fields were used.
1054 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1055 compilation and pragmas.
1056 - Cured wxMenu bug introduced in alpha 8 - didn't respond to
1057 commands because VZ changed the id setting in wxMenu::MSWCommand.
1058
1059 Generic:
1060
1061 - Corrected some bugs, such as the wxModule compilation problem.
1062 - Added Gnu-Win32 b19/Mingw32 support by changing resource
1063 compilation and pragmas.
1064 - Changed SIZEOF to WXSIZEOF.
1065
1066 Alpha 8, April 17th 1998
1067 ------------------------
1068
1069 wxMSW:
1070
1071 - Added IsNull to wxGDIObject to check if the ref data is present or not.
1072 - Added PNG handler and sample - doesn't work for 16-bit PNGs for
1073 some reason :-(
1074 - Added wxJoystick class and event handling, and simple demo.
1075 - Added simple wxWave class. Needs Stop() function.
1076 - Added wxModule (module.h/module.cpp) to allow definition
1077 of modules to be initialized and cleaned up on wxWindows
1078 startup/exit.
1079 - Start of Mingw32 compatibility (see minimal and dialogs samples
1080 makefile.m95 files, and install.txt).
1081 - Note: Windows printing has stopped working... will investigate.
1082 VADIM'S CHANGES:
1083 - Updated wxString: bug fixes, added wxArrayString, some
1084 compatibility functions.
1085 - Updated log.h/cpp, added wxApp::CreateLogTarget.
1086 - file.h: new wxTempFile class.
1087 - defs.h: added wxSB_SIZE_GRIP for wxStatusBar95
1088 - statbr95: wxStatusBar95 control.
1089 - registry.h/cpp: wxRegKey class for Win95 registry.
1090 - listbox.cpp: corrected some bugs with owner-drawn listboxes.
1091 - wxConfig and wxFileConfig classes.
1092
1093 Generic:
1094
1095 - Added src/other/png, src/other/zlib directories.
1096 - Added samples/png.
1097 - IMPORTANT: Changed 'no id' number from 0 to -1, in wxEVT_ macros.
1098 Porters, please check particularly your wxTreeCtrl and wxListCtrl
1099 header files.
1100 - Added modules.h/cpp, config.cpp, fileconf.cpp, textfile.cpp/h.
1101
1102 Alpha 7, March 30th 1998
1103 ------------------------
1104
1105 wxMSW:
1106
1107 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1108 - Now can return FALSE from OnInit and windows will be
1109 cleaned up properly before exit.
1110 - Improved border handling so panels don't get borders
1111 automatically.
1112 - Debugged MDI activation from Window menu.
1113 - Changes to memory debug handling, including checking for
1114 memory leaks on application exit - but see issues.txt for
1115 unresolved issues.
1116 - Added wxTaskBarIcon (taskbar.cpp/h, plus samples/taskbar)
1117 to allow maintenance of an icon in the Windows 95 taskbar
1118 tray area.
1119 - Got MFC sample working (MFC and wxWindows in the same
1120 application), partly by tweaking ntwxwin.mak settings.
1121 - Got DLL compilation working again (VC++).
1122 - Changed wxProp/Dialog Editor filenames.
1123
1124 Generic:
1125
1126 - Added tab classes, tab sample.
1127 - Revised memory.cpp, memory.h slightly; memory.h now #defines
1128 new to WXDEBUG_NEW in DEBUG mode. Windows implementation app.cpp
1129 now checks for leaks on exit. Added memcheck sample.
1130 See src/msw/issues.txt for more details.
1131 - resource.h, resource.cpp changed to make wxDefaultResourceTable
1132 a pointer. Now initialize resource system with
1133 wxInitializeResourceSystem and wxCleanUpResourceSystem, to
1134 allow better control of memory.
1135 - wxString now derives from wxObject, to enable memory leak
1136 checking.
1137 - Added some #include fixes in various files, plus changed
1138 float to long in wxToolBar files.
1139
1140 Alpha 6, March 10th 1998
1141 ------------------------
1142
1143 wxMSW:
1144
1145 - Found stack error bug - stopped unwanted OnIdle recursion.
1146 - Removed bug in wxTreeCtrl::InsertItem I added in alpha 5.
1147 - Changed exit behaviour in wxApp/wxFrame/wxDialog. Now will
1148 check if the number of top-level windows is zero before
1149 exiting. Also, wxApp::GetTopWindow will return either
1150 m_topWindow or the first member of wxTopLevelWindows, so you
1151 don't have to call wxApp::SetTopWindow.
1152 - Added dynarray.h/dynarray.cpp (from Vadim).
1153 - Added first cut at OLE drag and drop (from Vadim). dnd sample
1154 added. Drop target only at this stage. See src/msw/ole/*.cpp,
1155 wx/include/msw/ole/*.h. WIN32 only because of UUID usage.
1156 Doesn't work with GnuWin32 - no appropriate headers e.g. for
1157 IUnknown.
1158 Doesn't work with BC++ either - crashes on program startup.
1159 - Added Vadim's owner-draw modifications - will probably remain
1160 Windows-only. This enhances wxMenu, wxListBox. See ownerdrw sample.
1161 - Added wxLB_OWNERDRAW for owner-draw listboxes.
1162 - Vadim's wxCheckListBox derives from wxListBox. See checklst sample.
1163 Doesn't entirely work for WIN16.
1164 - Vadim has added wxMenuItem as a separate file menuitem.cpp. It
1165 can also be used as an argument to wxMenu::Append, not just for
1166 internal implementation.
1167 - Some #ifdefs done for MINGW32 compilation (just alter OPTIONS
1168 in makeg95.env, together with mingw32.bat). However, resource
1169 binding is not working yet so most apps with dialogs crash.
1170
1171 Generic:
1172
1173 - Added Vadim's dynarray.h, dynarray.cpp.
1174 - Added Vadim's menuitem.cpp.
1175 - Added Windows-specific wxCheckListBox,
1176 owner-draw wxListBox, and drag-and-drop
1177 (see docs/msw/changes.txt).
1178
1179 Alpha 5, 14th February 1998
1180 --------------------------
1181
1182 wxMSW:
1183
1184 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1185 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1186 the Windows-specific code only. See docs/changes.txt for generic
1187 changes.
1188 - Removed Windows-specific reference counting system (GDI
1189 resources were cleaned up in idle time) - minimal
1190 advantages now we have a wxWin reference counting system.
1191 - Added missing WXDLLEXPORT keywords so DLL compilation works
1192 again.
1193 - Removed most warnings for GnuWin32 compilation.
1194 - Added wxRegion/wxRegionIterator, but haven't yet used it in
1195 e.g. wxDC.
1196
1197 Generic:
1198
1199 - GENERIC AND MSW-SPECIFIC CODE NOW TREATED AS TWO SEPARATE
1200 DISTRIBUTIONS. This change log will therefore now refer to
1201 the generic code only. See docs/msw/changes.txt for Windows-specific
1202 changes.
1203 - Readmes, change logs and installation files now go in
1204 platform-specific directories under docs, e.g. docs/msw,
1205 docs/gtk.
1206 - Added DECLARE_APP and IMPLEMENT_APP macros so wxApp object gets
1207 created dynamically, not as a global object.
1208 - Put wxColour into wx/msw/colour.h, src/msw/colour.cpp.
1209 - Changed names of some include/wx/generic headers to be
1210 consistent and to conform to gcc pragma conventions. Also
1211 changed choicesg.cpp to choicdgg.cpp.
1212 - Added gcc pragmas.
1213 - Added gtk inclusion in include/wx headers.
1214 - Added consistent file headings to source and headers.
1215 - Removed lang.cpp, lang.h and references to wxSTR_... variables;
1216 added a few references to wxTransString.
1217 - Added operator to wxTransString that converts automatically
1218 to wxString, so we can say e.g. wxMessageBox(wxTransString("Hello"), ...).
1219 - samples/internat now works (minimally).
1220 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetPosition and
1221 wxMouseEvent::GetLogicalPosition, both returning wxPoints.
1222 - Made wxSize and wxRect contain longs not ints.
1223 - Cured some memory leaks (thanks Vadim).
1224 - Tidied up OnIdle and introduced RequestMore/MoreRequested so
1225 will only keep processing OnIdle if it returns TRUE from
1226 MoreRequested.
1227
1228 Alpha 4, 31st January 1998
1229 --------------------------
1230
1231 All:
1232
1233 - Changed wxDC functions to take longs instead of floats. GetSize now takes
1234 integer pointers, plus a version that returns a wxSize.
1235 - const keyword added to various wxDC functions.
1236 - Under Windows, wxDC no longer has any knowledge of whether
1237 an associated window is scrolled or not. Instead, the device
1238 origin is set by wxScrolledWindow in wxScrolledWindow::PrepareDC.
1239 - wxScrolledWindow applications can optionally override the virtual OnDraw
1240 function instead of using the OnPaint event handler. The wxDC passed to
1241 OnDraw will be translated by PrepareDC to reflect scrolling.
1242 When drawing outside of OnDraw, must call PrepareDC explicitly.
1243 - wxToolBarBase/wxToolBarSimple similarly changed to allow for
1244 scrolling toolbars.
1245 - Integrated wxPostScriptDC patches for 1.xx by Chris Breeze,
1246 to help printing with multiple pages.
1247 - IPC classes given base classes (wxConnectionBase etc.) which
1248 define the API used by different implementations. DDE
1249 implementation updated to use these base classes.
1250 - wxHelpInstance now separated into wxHelpControllerBase (base
1251 for all implementations), wxWinHelpController (uses standard
1252 WinHelp), wxXLPHelpController (talks to wxHelp by DDE or
1253 TCP/IP). There will be others eventually, such as
1254 wxHTMLHelpController for Microsoft (and Netscape?) HTML Help.
1255 - Added Vadim Zeitlin's wxString class plus
1256 internationalization code (gettext simulation, wxLocale, etc.).
1257 New files from Vadim:
1258 include\wx\string.h
1259 include\wx\debug.h
1260 include\wx\file.h
1261 include\wx\log.h
1262 include\wx\intl.h
1263 src\common\string.cpp
1264 src\common\log.cpp
1265 src\common\intl.cpp
1266 src\common\file.cpp
1267 No longer use GNU wxString files.
1268 - Split off file-related functions into include\wx\filefn.h and
1269 src\common\filefn.cpp.
1270 - Borland C++ support (WIN32) for main library and
1271 samples, using makefile.b32 files.
1272 - Preparation done for allowing BC++ to compile wxWin as a DLL,
1273 including changes to defs.h.
1274 - wxIntPoint removed, wxPoint is now int, and wxRealPoint
1275 introduced.
1276 - Added wxShowEvent (generated when window is being shown or
1277 hidden).
1278 - Got minimal, docview, mdi samples working for 16-bit VC++ and
1279 cured 16-bit problem with wxTextCtrl (removed global memory
1280 trick).
1281 - Updated GnuWin32 makefiles, checked minimal, mdi, docview samples.
1282
1283 Alpha 3, September 1997
1284 -----------------------
1285
1286 All:
1287
1288 - wxListCtrl, wxTreeCtrl, wxImageList classes done.
1289 - Instigated new file hierarchy, split files and classes up more logically.
1290 - PrologIO and some other utils now put into core library.
1291 - Revamped print/preview classes, added wxPageSetupDialog.
1292 - Started documentation.
1293
1294 Alpha 2, 30th April 1997
1295 ------------------------
1296
1297 All:
1298
1299 - EVT_... macros now have at least one argument, for conformance
1300 with MetroWerks compiler.
1301 - Added ids to .wxr file format.
1302 - Got Dialog Editor compiled and running again but need
1303 to extend functionality to be in line with new controls.
1304 Added dialoged\test app to allow dynamic loading of .wxr files
1305 for testing purposes.
1306 - Rewrote wxBitmap to allow installable file type
1307 handlers.
1308 - Rewrote wxBitmapButton, wxStaticBitmap to not use Fafa.
1309 - Wrote most of wxTreeCtrl and sample (need wxImageList to implement it
1310 fully).
1311 - Added back wxRadioBox.
1312 - Tidied up wx_main.cpp, wxApp class, putting PenWin code in
1313 a separate file.
1314
1315 Alpha 1, 5th April 1997
1316 -----------------------
1317
1318 Generic:
1319
1320 At this point, the following has been achieved:
1321
1322 - A lot, but not all, of the code has been revamped for better
1323 naming conventions, protection of data members, and use of
1324 wxString instead of char *.
1325 - Obsolete functionality deleted (e.g. default wxPanel layout,
1326 old system event system) and code size reduced.
1327 - Class hierarchy changed (see design doc) - base classes such
1328 as wxbWindow now removed.
1329 - No longer includes windows.h in wxWin headers, by using stand-in
1330 Windows types where needed e.g. WXHWND.
1331 - PrologIO revised.
1332 - wxScrolledWindow, wxStatusBar and new MDI classes added.
1333 MDI is now achieved using separate classes, not window styles.
1334 - wxSystemSettings added, and made use of to reflect standard
1335 Windows settings.
1336 - SetButtonFont/SetLabelFont replaced by SetFont; font and colour
1337 settings mucho rationalised.
1338 - All windows are now subclassed with the same window proc to make
1339 event handling far more consistent. Old internal wxWnd and derived
1340 classes removed.
1341 - API for controls revised, in particular addition of
1342 wxValidator parameters and removal of labels for some controls.
1343 - 1 validator written: see examples/validate.
1344 - Event table system introduced (see most samples and
1345 wx_event.cpp/ProcessEvent, wx_event.h). wxEvtHandler
1346 made more flexible, with Push/PopEventHandler allowing a chain
1347 of event handlers.
1348 - wxRadioBox removed - will be added back soon.
1349 - Toolbar class hierarchy revised:
1350 wxToolBarBase
1351 wxToolBarSimple (= old wxToolBar)
1352 wxToolBar95 (= old wxButtonBar under Win95
1353 wxToolBarMSW (= old wxButtonBar under WIN16/WIN32)
1354 - Constraint system debugged somewhat (sizers now work properly).
1355 - wxFileDialog, wxDirDialog added; other common dialogs now
1356 have class equivalents. Generic colour and font dialogs
1357 rewritten to not need obsolete panel layout.
1358 - .wxr resource system partially reinstated, though needs
1359 an integer ID for controls. Hopefully the resource system
1360 will be replaced by something better and more efficient
1361 in the future.
1362 - Device contexts no longer stored with window and accessed
1363 with GetDC - use wxClientDC, wxPaintDC, wxWindowDC stack
1364 variables instead.
1365 - wxSlider uses trackbar class under Win95, and wxSL_LABELS flag
1366 determines whether labels are shown. Other Win95-specific flags
1367 introduced, e.g. for showing ticks.
1368 - Styles introduced for dealing with 3D effects per window, for
1369 any window: all Win95 3D effects supported, plus transparent windows.
1370 - Major change to allow 3D effect support without CTL3D, under
1371 Win95.
1372 - Bitmap versions of button and checkbox separated out into new
1373 classes, but unimplemented as yet because I intend to remove
1374 the need for Fafa - it apparently causes GPFs in Win95 OSR 2.
1375 - utils/wxprop classes working (except maybe wxPropertyFormView)
1376 in preparation for use in Dialog Editor.
1377 - GNU-WIN32 compilation verified (a month or so ago).
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